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  • Times of transition: supporting pupils with the idea of change in history

      Primary History article
    This article considers how to help children to understand about the layered process of change by considering transition points between the Iron Age, Roman settlement of Britain, and the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons. It suggests activities that will encourage children to explore the idea of long-term change. These could be...
    Times of transition: supporting pupils with the idea of change in history

  • Developing a love of history through historical fiction

      Primary History article
    In this article, Steven Kenyon reminds us of the importance of historical fiction as part of good primary history. He examines its current role and, in this National Year of Reading, identifies a few of the best examples that can enhance the teaching of history, covering EYFS right up to...
    Developing a love of history through historical fiction

  • Two Babies That Could Have Changed World History

      Historian article
    'At last have made wonderful discovery in Valley; a magnificent tomb with seals intact; re-covered same for your arrival. Congratulations.’ This telegram was sent from Luxor on the 6th November 1922 by Howard Carter to his coarchaeologist Lord Carnarvon in Britain. It started the Tut·ankh·Amen story which led to a...
    Two Babies That Could Have Changed World History

  • 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

  • The death of a hero: Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson

      Historian article
    Michael Crumplin comments on the injuries and illnesses that Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson suffered during his shortened career. His bold leadership style, much admired by his naval companions, inevitably led to a series of wounds. Using a combination of contemporary accounts and current clinical, anatomical and physiological interpretation, this article...
    The death of a hero: Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson

  • Blood and Iron: the violent birth of modern Germany

      Historian article
    Katja Hoyer discusses Germany’s unification 150 years ago: an event that cast a long shadow over the troubled young nation and would alter the course of European and world history. Shivering in the cold winter air that drifted in through the windows of his temporary residence in Paris, Wilhelm I, King...
    Blood and Iron: the violent birth of modern Germany

  • The International Journal Volume 4 Number 2

      Journal
    Jannet van Drie and Carla van BoxtelEnhancing Collaborative Historical Reasoning by Providing Representational Guidance   Nadine Fink  Pupils' Conceptions of History and History Teaching   Alan HodkinsonMaturation and the Assimilation of the Concepts of Historical Time: a Symbiotic Relationship, or Uneasy Bedfellows? An Examination of the Birth-Date Effect on Educational...
    The International Journal Volume 4 Number 2

  • The International Journal Volume 3 Number 2

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 3 Number 2 July 2003 ISSN 1472 - 9466 Editorial Keith Crawford - The Role and Purpose of Textbooks   Articles Jason Nicholls  - Methods in School Textbook Research   Penelope Harnett - History in the Primary School: the Contribution of...
    The International Journal Volume 3 Number 2

  • The International Journal Volume 2 Number 1

      IJHLTR
    Editorial  - Professionalism, Scholarship, Theory and Research   Ismail DemircioÄŸlu - Does the Teaching of History in Turkey Need Reform?   Terry Haydn - Subject Discipline Dimensions of ICT and Learning: History, a Case Study   Sonia Kerrigan - Creating a Community School Museum: Theory into Practice   Romero Morante...
    The International Journal Volume 2 Number 1

  • The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

      Journal
    Editorial  - History and the History Curriculum Articles Isabel Barca - Prospective teachers' ideas about assessing different accounts    Keith Barton - Primary children's understanding of the role of historical evidence: Comparisons between the United States and Northern Ireland    Carley Dalvarez - The Contribution of History to Citizenship Education ...
    The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

  • The Evacuee Letter Exchange Project: using audience-centred writing to improve progression from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Jenny Parsons' work in primary-secondary liaison in history is nationally acclaimed. She is often asked to share her department's practice at courses and conferences. Readers of Teaching History are already familiar with her work in another area: in the ‘Triumphs Show' of Teaching History 93 (the ICT edition in November...
    The Evacuee Letter Exchange Project: using audience-centred writing to improve progression from Key Stage 2 to Key Stage 3

  • Reading Sources Using Textbreaker

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Pages 8-9 detail how functional literacy's concept of genre resulted in the creation of Textbreaker to empower pupils to ‘read' all historical sources, but especially those previously thought too hard for them to tackle. Below is...
    Reading Sources Using Textbreaker

  • Polychronicon 140: Why did the Cold War End?

      Teaching History feature
    The end of the Cold War is a controversial subject. Contemporary analysts did not see it coming. Any explanation of its ending which seeks to build up a network of causation will therefore be forced to make arguments based on events whose significance was not  necessarily seen at the time....
    Polychronicon 140: Why did the Cold War End?

  • Primary History 102: Out now

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    Read Primary History 102 As the days lengthen and the first signs of spring begin to appear, there is a renewed sense of energy in our classrooms. Spring always feels like an invitation: to open the doors, to step outside, and to think differently about where and how history learning...
    Primary History 102: Out now

  • The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2

      Journal
    The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education. Articles in the edition: Erinc Erdal and Ruken Akar Vural Teaching History through Drama: the ‘Armenian Deportation' Terry Haydn and Richard Harris Children's ideas about what it means...
    The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2

  • Cunning Plan… for teaching the Haitian Revolution

      Teaching History feature
    One of my favourite parts of the curriculum I teach is the second half of Year 8 (for pupils aged 12–13). We look at early European empire, transatlantic slavery and the age of revolutions. Two books that I have read in the past two years have increased my enjoyment of...
    Cunning Plan… for teaching the Haitian Revolution

  • My grandfather's recollections of the invasion of Normandy

      Historian article
    16-year-old Daisy Black of Newcastle-under-Lyme School in Staffordshire was the Senior Award winner in the Spirit of Normandy Trust Young Historian competition in 2007. Having been judged the winner by the Young Historian panel, the Spirit of Normandy Trsutees were so taken with her entry that they gave her an...
    My grandfather's recollections of the invasion of Normandy

  • Two women linked across three thousand years of history

      Primary History article
    16 May 1976 – a warm sunny day as Zheng was to recall – began as a typical day on site and ended with a remarkable discovery. Zheng Zhenxiang was leading an archaeological team at Yinxu, Anyang in China looking for evidence of tombs from the Shang Dynasty period. This...
    Two women linked across three thousand years of history

  • Communities of inquiry: creating the conditions for meaningful collaboration

      Teaching History article
    When Will Bailey-Watson (a history ITE tutor) and Charlie Crouch (a history PhD student) worked together to improve a history undergraduate course at their university, they realised that the benefits of collaboration between teachers and historians can flow both ways. In this article they offer an account of how they sought...
    Communities of inquiry: creating the conditions for meaningful collaboration

  • Harriet Kettle, Victorian rebel

      Historian article
    Harriet Kettle had a remarkable life. She was on the receiving end of everything that the institutions of social control in Victorian England could throw at her, but resisted, survived and fought back. Harriet’s defiance earned her references in the records of a workhouse, two prisons, two asylums and, in...
    Harriet Kettle, Victorian rebel

  • Norman Barons

      Classic Pamphlet
    What I have done in preparing this lecture on the Norman Barons is to choose three or four important families, with one or two individuals. I shall try to describe their fortunes briefly to you, pick out what appear to be common characteristics and generalize them - not as conclusions,...
    Norman Barons

  • Primary History 10

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    4 Viewpoints - Penelope Harnett 5 Letters 6 Setting Activities at Historic Houses - Gail Durbin 9 Here Be Lions - Editorial Article 11 History at Key Stage 2: Looking to the Long Term - Keith Dickson 12 Planning for the New Orders History Key Stages 1 and 2 - David...
    Primary History 10

  • Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers

      Teaching History article
    Kate Hawkey and Helen Snelson, who have both worked for many years in initial teacher education, wanted to find ways of supporting recently qualified teachers in continuing to develop their practice. Working in two different parts of the country, they established different kinds of informal, but well-focused history-specific, support groups....
    Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers

  • Historical scholarship, archaeology and evidence in Year 7

      Teaching History article
    The stimulus for this article came from two developmental tasks that Barbara Trapani was set during the course of her initial teacher education programme: planning her first historical enquiry and bringing the work of an historian into the classroom. Trapani chose to tackle the two tasks together, using Susan Whitfield’s...
    Historical scholarship, archaeology and evidence in Year 7

  • My Favourite History Place: Petra

      Historian feature
    Ghislaine Headland-Vanni visits the ancient city of Petra, in Jordan. When you hear the word ‘Petra’ what images does the word conjure up for you? Maybe you have visited and know it already; if not, then like me you may not fully comprehend its size. I naively thought I could...
    My Favourite History Place: Petra