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  • D-Day, Commemorations - the last big year to remember?

      Historian article
    This year it was the 70th anniversary of D-Day. The world's politicians and media went into overdrive about it. The BBC dedicated a whole day to the coverage, mainly live from Normandy while small events took place around the UK. For a whole day the upcoming centenary of the First...
    D-Day, Commemorations - the last big year to remember?

  • Moving Year 9 towards more complex causal explanations of Holocaust perpetration

      Teaching History article
    Building on research by the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education, Matthew Duncan was concerned that his students were drawn to simplistic explanations of Holocaust perpetrators’ actions. As well as the UCL Centre’s research, Duncan drew on history education research from Canada and history teachers’ theorisation in England for inspiration in...
    Moving Year 9 towards more complex causal explanations of Holocaust perpetration

  • Helping Year 9 evaluate explanations for the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    ‘It made my brain hurt, but in a good way': helping Year 9 learn to make and to evaluate explanations for the Holocaust Why genocides occur is a perplexing and complex question. Leanne Judson reports a strategy designed to help students think about perpetration and evaluate and propose explanations for...
    Helping Year 9 evaluate explanations for the Holocaust

  • What’s the wisdom on… Interpretations of the past

      Teaching History feature
    How often do your pupils actually look at the products of historians – their scholarly writing, their debates, their to-and-fro of argument? What's the Wisdom On... is a short guide providing new history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of...
    What’s the wisdom on… Interpretations of the past

  • Polychronicon 152: Changing interpretations of the workhouse?

      Teaching History feature
    The workhouse has long held a negative reputation in the popular imagination as the dreaded destination of the destitute, an institution guaranteed to strike fear into the hearts of the Victorian poor. This is partly owing to its design under the New Poor Law of 1834 as an explicit punishment...
    Polychronicon 152: Changing interpretations of the workhouse?

  • Including the Muslim Contribution in the National Curriculum for History

      Article
    History education has a key role to play in creating the informed, critical attachment of young people to the nation and in creating the feeling that young people belong and can participate in national life. The Curriculum for Cohesion Team, comprising Muslim and non-Muslim academics and community leaders, believes that...
    Including the Muslim Contribution in the National Curriculum for History

  • The International Journal Volume 11, Number 2

      Journal
    Content  Editorial History teaching, pedagogy, curriculum and politics: dialogues and debates in regional, national, transnational, international and supranational settings Robert Guyver, University of St Mark & St John, Plymouth   Australia Scarcely an Immaculate Conception: new professionalism encounters old politics in the formation of the Australian National History Curriculum Tony...
    The International Journal Volume 11, Number 2

  • National distinctions entirely laid aside?

      Historian article
    Bethan M. Jenkins considers why it was important to Lewis Morris and others to have the distinctive Welsh contribution to British history and culture properly acknowledged.
    National distinctions entirely laid aside?

  • The British soldier in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars

      Historian article
    Scum of the earth – or fine fellows? Carole Divall asks whether the men of the British Army really were ‘the scum of the earth’, as often asserted, or willing soldiers who earned the respect of the French. ‘Soldiers were regarded as day labourers engaged in unsavoury business; a money...
    The British soldier in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars

  • Into the Key Stage 3 history garden: choosing and planting your enquiry questions

      Teaching History article
    Drawing upon a range of practice, Michael Riley analyses the characteristics of a good enquiry question. He explores the importance of careful wording of the question if it is genuinely to help the teacher to integrate areas of content into a purposeful learning journey and without distortion.He then moves on...
    Into the Key Stage 3 history garden: choosing and planting your enquiry questions

  • The International Journal Volume 11, Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial Articles Eleni Apostolidou Teaching and Discussing Historical Significance with 15 year-old students in Greece Manuela Carvalho and Isabel Barca Students' Use of Historical Evidence in European Countries P. Checkley and C. Checkley ‘Future Teachers of the Past' - An initial analysis of Initial Teacher Training students and their preparation...
    The International Journal Volume 11, Number 1

  • IJHLTR International Journal Volume 15, Number 1

      The International Journal of History Learning and Teaching
    Editorial pp. 5–7Editorial: Identity, Nationalism And Thinking Historically France pp. 8–23Anna Zadora, University of Strasbourg, FranceHistory Teaching In Belarus: Between Europe And Asia Brazil pp. 24–33 Maria Auxiliadora Schmidt, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil The History Of Afro-Brazilian People: A Theme Of The Burdening History Of Brazil Canada pp....
    IJHLTR International Journal Volume 15, Number 1

  • Designing end-of-year exams: trials and tribulations

      Teaching History article
    Since the decline of the National Curriculum Level Descriptions, schools in England have been asked to design their own forms of assessment at Key Stage 3. This had led to a great deal of creativity, but also a number of challenges. In this article Matt Stanford reflects on his department’s...
    Designing end-of-year exams: trials and tribulations

  • The International Journal Volume 14, Number 2

      IJHLTR
    Editorial and Editorial Review pp. 5–28 Editorial pp. 5–6 Editorial Review pp. 7–28 Jon Nichol, The Historical Association of Great Britain, United Kingdom – England Hilary Cooper, University of Cumbria, United Kingdom – England Austria pp. 29–39 Are Historical Thinking Skills Important To History Teachers? Some Findings From A Qualitative...
    The International Journal Volume 14, Number 2

  • Using the back cover image: Exploring the collections of Victorian naturalists

      Primary History feature
    Many museums around the country house natural history collections that offer children the opportunity to engage with a wide variety of species from around the world. Using the collections of Victorian explorers and naturalists offers children a historical perspective with a cross-curricular approach which has a great appeal. Yet for...
    Using the back cover image: Exploring the collections of Victorian naturalists

  • Cunning Plan 155: interpreting WW1 events

      Teaching History feature
    Enquiry Question: What's worth knowing about the First World War? At the end of our scheme of work on the First World War, I asked myself how I might encourage my Year 9 pupils to reflect on the historical significance of the events we had studied. I was particularly interested...
    Cunning Plan 155: interpreting WW1 events

  • The International Journal Volume 10 Number 2

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 10, Number 2- Spring 2012.     Marcelo Fronza and Maria Auxiliadora Moreira dos Santos The Conceptions of Objective Historical Knowledge of Young Students in Brazilian High Schools   Olga Magalhaes Historical Narratives of Young Portuguese Students   Rita de Cassia Goncalves Pacheco...
    The International Journal Volume 10 Number 2

  • Nurturing aspirations for Oxbridge

      Teaching History article
    An exploration of the impact of university preparation classes on sixth-form historians Frustrated by the low numbers of students from her comprehensive state school who expressed any interest in applying to Oxford or Cambridge to study history, Lucy Hemsley set out to explore ways in which she might both inspire...
    Nurturing aspirations for Oxbridge

  • 'Victims of history': Challenging students’ perceptions of women in history

      Teaching History article
    As postgraduate historians with teaching responsibilities at the University of York, Bridget Lockyer and Abigail Tazzyman were concerned to tackle some of the challenges reported by their students who had generally only encountered women’s history in a disconnected way through stand-alone topics or modules. Their response was to create a...
    'Victims of history': Challenging students’ perceptions of women in history

  • The International Journal Volume 13, Number 2

      IJHLTR
    Editorial pp 3 Editorial Review pp 4–13 Australia pp 14–15 Review of: R. G. Collingwood: A Research Companion, James Connelly, Peter Johnson and Stephen Leach, London: Bloomsbury, Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Australian National University Britain pp 16–22 The Relevance Of George Orwell: Reflections On The Teaching And Learning Of History In A...
    The International Journal Volume 13, Number 2

  • Effective essay introductions

      Teaching History article
    Struck by the dullness of some of her students’ essay introductions, Paula Worth reflected on the fact that she had never focused specifically on introductions. After surveying existing work by history teachers on essay structure in general and introductions in particular, she turns to the work of historians. Drawing on...
    Effective essay introductions

  • Triumphs Show 164: interpretations at A Level

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    Julia Huber and Katherine Turner found that their A-level students struggled to identify the line of argument in a passage of historical scholarship, an essential prerequisite for answering their coursework question. They devised an activity that helped students to unpick and visually contrast historians’ interpretations of the relative importance of...
    Triumphs Show 164: interpretations at A Level

  • The International Journal Volume 13, Number 1

      IJHLTR
    Editorial Croatia: Achieving The Objectives Of The European Dimension Through History: An Analysis Of Croatian And Bosnian-Herzegovinian Fourth Grade Gymnasium History Textbooks - Rona Bušljeta, University of Zagreb Slovenia Learning from History Textbooks - is it challenging for gifted students. An International Comparative Analysis of Questions and Tasks - Mojca...
    The International Journal Volume 13, Number 1

  • The International Journal Volume 10 Number 1

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 10, Number 1 - Summer 2011. Editorial    Jean Pierre Charland, Marc-Andre Ethier,Jean Francois Cardin  History Written on Walls: a study of Quebec High School Students' historical consciousness   Michelle J. Bellino and Robert L. Selman High School Students' Understanding of Personal Betrayal...
    The International Journal Volume 10 Number 1

  • What can pupil voice tell us about perceptions of history?

      Primary History article
    This article is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today Salma Begum and Rachel Bruce explore the use of pupil...
    What can pupil voice tell us about perceptions of history?