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  • Cunning Plan 177: teaching about life in Elizabethan England by looking at death

      Teaching History feature
    ‘We already did the Tudors in primary school’ was the most frequent comment made by students about our Year 7 scheme of learning in our annual review. Students reported covering the Tudors at least once, sometimes twice, before reaching secondary school and they had clearly not faced extensive further study...
    Cunning Plan 177: teaching about life in Elizabethan England by looking at death

  • Primary History 16

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    4 A Good Place for an Investigation - Diana Knapp  7 Primary Conference Report - Russell Carter  8 How a Little Hollywood Can Help History - Vincent Jones 10 Historical Fiction and Museum Objects - Neil Curtis, Janet Goolnick, Kate Hopkins  12 Primary Update  13 Young National Trust Theatre - Sally Littlefair ...
    Primary History 16

  • History 356

      The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 103, Issue 356
    All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:  1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.   NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new window or tab. Articles Access the full edition online...
    History 356

  • Teaching History 176: Widening Vistas

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update: thinking beyond boundaries – Jason Todd (Read article for free) 10 Visions of America: using historical discourse to find narrative coherence in the GCSE period study – Alex Ford (Read article) 22 What’s The Wisdom On... evidence and sources (Read article)...
    Teaching History 176: Widening Vistas

  • Reuse of the Past: A Case Study from the Ancient Maya

      Historian article
    The ruins of ancient settlements are dramatic and dominant features of the landscape today, and abandoned architecture and monuments were also significant features of the landscape in the ancient past. How did people interact with remnants of architecture and monuments built during earlier times? What meaningful information about the economic,...
    Reuse of the Past: A Case Study from the Ancient Maya

  • My Favourite History Place and Out & About

      Historian regular features
    'My Favourite History Place' and 'Out and About' are two of the regular features in The Historian magazine. 'My Favourite History Place' showcases a location of particular historical interest selected by history experts and enthusiasts, and 'Out and About' describes an actual visit to a historical site. All the places that...
    My Favourite History Place and Out & About

  • What does the future hold for Archives and what do the archives hold for you?

      Historian article
    Most people would accept that our Society is changing at a rate, and in ways, with which our predecessors have never had to deal. The old stabilities and certainties seem to have disappeared from our modern day lives. Perhaps this is why so many people seem to be interested in...
    What does the future hold for Archives and what do the archives hold for you?

  • The Casket Letters

      Article
    In May 1568 Mary Queen of Scots was riding in fear for her life to the wilds of Galloway. She crossed the Solway confident that she would receive the help which her cousin Queen Elizabeth had promised her, but instead found herself a prisoner. In the subsequent months a series...
    The Casket Letters

  • Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime: using external support, local history and a group project to challenge the most able

      Teaching History article
    The most able can be challenged in a variety of ways and at a number of levels, from the extension question for the individual child to the extended enquiry for the most able class. In a Leading Edge History project, Guy Woolnough and his colleagues took the concept of challenge...
    Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime: using external support, local history and a group project to challenge the most able

  • Brazil and the two World Wars

      Article
    Brazil and the outbreak of the First World War At the beginning of the twentieth century Brazil was on the periphery of a world order that revolved around decisions made by the great European powers. Although it was the largest and most populated nation in South America, Brazil possessed an...
    Brazil and the two World Wars

  • History 352

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:  1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.   NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new window or tab. Access the full edition online Clerical...
    History 352

  • Tony Blair, the Iraq War, and a sense of history

      Historian article
    Blair the war leader provided historians with countless opportunities to get their names in the newspapers, let alone voice their opinions across the airwaves. The usual suspects were lined up (Eric Hobsbawm and Ben Pimlott in the Guardian, Andrew Roberts and John Keegan in the Telegraph, Niall Ferguson in The...
    Tony Blair, the Iraq War, and a sense of history

  • Telling and suggesting in the Conwy Valley

      Teaching History article
    Thelma Wiltshire applies a ‘telling' and ‘suggesting' strategy to an enquiry involving an historical site. Getting beyond more simplistic approaches to ‘fact' and ‘opinion', she describes how a pack of curriculum materials was designed to give pupils a precise language to talk about layers of certainty and uncertainty in their...
    Telling and suggesting in the Conwy Valley

  • History Abridged: the Acropolis

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. Think Horrible Histories for grownups (without the songs and music). See all History Abridged articles The Acropolis of Athens is...
    History Abridged: the Acropolis

  • ‘Its ultimate pattern was greater than its parts’

      Teaching History journal article
    Identifying the challenges his students faced both with recall and analysis of the content they had learned for their GCSE course, Ed Durbin devised a solution which focused not on exam skills and revision lessons, but on using Key Stage 3 to build the ‘hinterland’ of contextual knowledge and causal...
    ‘Its ultimate pattern was greater than its parts’

  • Using museum and heritage sites to promote higher-level learning at KS2

      Primary History article
    The Key Stage 2 Primary History Curriculum sets ambitious challenges for pupils: "…They should regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance. They should construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of relevant historical information. They should understand how our knowledge...
    Using museum and heritage sites to promote higher-level learning at KS2

  • Daniel Defoe, public opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union

      Historian article
    There is a tendency to represent Daniel Defoe as a novelist and satirical journalist who was at one point placed in the London stocks as a punishment. Ted Vallance's article broadens our perspective to appreciate Defoe's activities as a propagandist in both England and Scotland... The September 2014 referendum on...
    Daniel Defoe, public opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union

  • Good Evening Sweetheart

      Historian article
    The talk given by Sue and Pete Mowforth to the Glasgow Branch, reading from a selection of their parents’ war-time letters, resulted in a flurry of media interest from the national press and radio, including an appearance on the BBC’s The One Show in February 2017. Olga and Cyril Mowforth married in June...
    Good Evening Sweetheart

  • Teaching History 170: Historians

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update – make a ‘connecting with historical Scholarship’ resolution! 08 Myths and Monty Python: using the witch-hunts to introduce students to significance – Kerry Apps (Read article) 16 ‘This extract is no good, miss!’ Helping post-16 students to make judgements...
    Teaching History 170: Historians

  • The International Journal Volume 12, Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial Sweden Ethical Values and History: a mutual relationship? Niklas Ammert, Linnaeus University (Kalmar)   Australia  Teaching History Using Feature Films: practitioner acuity and cognitive neuroscientific validation Debra Donnelly, University of Newcastle   Greece  The Difficult Relationship Between the History of the Present and School History in Greece: cinema as...
    The International Journal Volume 12, Number 1

  • Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical approach to 'layers of inference' for Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Claire Riley explains how she developed and improved the ‘layers of inference' diagram-already a popular device since Hilary Cooper's work-as a way of getting pupils fascinated by challenging texts and pictures. Working with the whole ability range in Year 9 she analyses her successes and failures, offering many practical suggestions...
    Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical approach to 'layers of inference' for Key Stage 3

  • Social Studies Teachers’ Resistance to Teaching Francophone Perspectives in Alberta

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 15, Number 1 – Autumn/Winter 2017ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract It is increasingly common for social studies programs to call for the teaching of multiple perspectives on past and current issues. Within the Canadian context, the province of Alberta’s social studies program mandates...
    Social Studies Teachers’ Resistance to Teaching Francophone Perspectives in Alberta

  • Academic Critical Thinking, Research Literacy and Undergraduate History

      Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 15, Number 1 – Autumn/Winter 2017ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract The concept of critical thinking is pivotal in academia. Many see it as the very core of intellectual thought and the primary learning outcome of higher education. In addition to its universal merits,...
    Academic Critical Thinking, Research Literacy and Undergraduate History

  • ‘It’s More Complex Than I Assumed’

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 15, Number 1 – Autumn/Winter 2017ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract As with many nations, the teaching of history in Australian schools is often contested. Two prevailing standpoints can be identified, the first of which, in broad terms, emphasises the acquisition of historical knowledge....
    ‘It’s More Complex Than I Assumed’

  • Analysing Anne Frank: a case study in the teaching of thinking skills

      Teaching History article
    For those lucky history departments in and around Newcastle this article will not be news. Peter Fisher alludes to the quasi-religious atmosphere that is often discernible amongst history teachers who have been working with the Thinking Skills groups linked to University of Newcastle Department of Education. He is not exaggerating...
    Analysing Anne Frank: a case study in the teaching of thinking skills