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Primary History 7
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
4 Editorial
5 News
6 Post-Dearing History-Missed Opportunities: Muddle and Fudge? A look at the new curriculum - Paul Noble
9 History in the Primary Curriculum: Interpreting the Vikings - Keith Crawford
12 Deconstruction or Reconstruction - Peter Vass
14 A Victorian Case Study: Simulating Aspects of Victorian Life in...
Primary History 7
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The Historian 152: Built Environment
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article)
8 The Great Spa Towns of Europe: a UNESCO World Heritage Site – Catherine Lloyd (Read article)
16 Out and About in Wheathampstead – Dianne Payne (Read article)
20 The last days of Lord Londonderry – Richard A. Gaunt (Read article)
25 Reviews
26 Civilian expertise...
The Historian 152: Built Environment
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Should empathy come out of the closet?
Teaching History article
What is historical empathy and why is it important? What has gone wrong and what had gone right in past attempts to develop students' empathetic understanding? What does progression look like in this area of historical thinking and what are the preconceptions that can act as barriers to progression? Lee...
Should empathy come out of the closet?
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What’s in a narrative? Unpicking Year 9 narratives of change in Stalin’s Russia
Teaching History article
Is it structure or the selection of knowledge that makes writing historical narrative so difficult? Where does a conceptual focus on change, or causation, come in? James Ellis set out to explore the challenges his Year 9 pupils faced in writing historical narratives about change. Inspired by the work of...
What’s in a narrative? Unpicking Year 9 narratives of change in Stalin’s Russia
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'How our area used to be back then': An oral history project in an east London school
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
How can oral history enquiries engage students with the study of history and help them connect their learning about the past to their present lives? How can oral history engage and develop students' understanding of...
'How our area used to be back then': An oral history project in an east London school
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Mini Scaffolds: Charts, Concept webs, Diagrams, Mini-Frames
Primary History article
The language of History develops subject content knowledge and associated vocabulary & phraseology, p. 30. Pupils can record, extend and develop their historical language through using a range of mini-scaffolds or frameworks that they flesh out with teacher guidance and support.
A class can build upon basic historical vocabulary through questioning,...
Mini Scaffolds: Charts, Concept webs, Diagrams, Mini-Frames
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The Historian 162: Environment
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Letters
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 Environmental history and the challenges of the present – Amanda Power (Read article)
12 Art and ecology: making connections across museum collections to educate people about the Earth Crisis – Carla Benzan and Samuel Shaw (Read article)
18 Glacier Tours in the Northern Playground – Christian...
The Historian 162: Environment
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The International Journal Volume 9 Number 2
IJHLTR
International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 9, Number 2 - Autumn/Winter 2010
ISSN 1472-9466
1. Editorial Hilary Cooper and Jon Nichol. 04
2. Articles
Eleni Apostolidou 06
Oscillating Between the Recent Past and the Remote Past: The Perceptions of the Past and the Discipline
of History...
The International Journal Volume 9 Number 2
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Teaching History 87
The HA's journal for history teachers
6 Reading the Bickersteth Diaries - John Bickersteth
8 History at Home - Rob David
14 Nuffield Primary Project (Part I) - John Fines
21 Our History or Your History? (Part 2) - Gillian Wilson
24 Key Stage 2 Multi Cultural Issues (Part I) - Marika Sherwood
27 Primary School...
Teaching History 87
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Move Me On 167: Frames of reference
Teaching History feature
This feature is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development.
This issue’s problem: Eleanor Franks doesn’t really understand her students’ frames of reference and the difficulties that many of them have in making sense of the particular historical phenomena she is teaching them about.
Eleanor Franks,...
Move Me On 167: Frames of reference
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Knowledge and the Draft NC
Teaching History article
Silk purse from a sow's ear? Why knowledge matters and why the draft History NC will not improve it
Katie Hall and Christine Counsell attempt to construct a Key Stage 3 scheme of work out of the draft National Curriculum for history that was released for consultation in England in...
Knowledge and the Draft NC
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The Historian 156
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article - open access)
6 Secular acts and sacred practices in the Italian Renaissance church interior – Joanne Allen (Read article)
11 Philip Larkin: appreciating parish churches – Trevor James (Read article)
14 Joan Vaux: a remarkable Tudor lady – Joanna Hickson (Read article)
20 Vera Ignatievna...
The Historian 156
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Primary History 6
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
4 Guest Editorial - No Nonsense! - John Fines
6 News
7 Inspections Tim Lomas
9 Seven Inspectors Inspecting Paul Bish
10 Changes in the National Curriculum Paul Noble
11 History in the National Curriculum Assessment at Key Stage 1 - A Case Study Brian Scott
13 Was it worth...
Primary History 6
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Thinking Through History - Editorial
Primary History
‘We even had a collection to buy him some trousers, he was so scruffy’, trilled the elegant, be-pearled lady discussing the breaking of the Germans’ Enigma code that helped the Allies win the Second World War. The ‘He’ was a Grammar School boy from a poor single parent family living...
Thinking Through History - Editorial
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Leopold von Ranke - Pamphlet
Classic Pamphlet
Leopold von Ranke (21 December 1795 - 23 May 1886) was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history. According to Caroline Hoefferle, "Ranke was probably the most important historian to shape historical profession as it emerged in Europe and the United States in the late 19th century." ...
Leopold von Ranke - Pamphlet
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Teaching History 97: Visual History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical approach to ‘layers of inference’ for Key Stage 3 - Claire Riley (Read article)
How long before we need the US Cavalry? The Pittsburgh Conference on ‘Teaching, Knowing and Learning’. - Peter Lee and Ros Ashby (Read article)
Practical...
Teaching History 97: Visual History
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Placing history: territory, story, identity - and historical consciousness
Teaching History article
How do we relate to the past? Does it tell us who we are? Is it a source of examples to follow and mistakes to avoid? Or can we go beyond that to something genuinely historical? Arthur Chapman and Jane Facey argue that as history teachers we have a responsibility...
Placing history: territory, story, identity - and historical consciousness
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‘If you had told me before that these students were Russians, I would not have believed it’
Teaching History article
Bjorn Wansink and his co-authors have aligned their teaching of a recent and controversial historical issue – the Cold War – in the light of a contemporary incident.
This article demonstrates a means of ensuring that students understand that different cultures’ views of their shared past are nuanced, rather than monolithic – a different concept in philosophy as well as in...
‘If you had told me before that these students were Russians, I would not have believed it’
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Teaching History 124: Teaching the most able
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 Expertise in its development phase: planning for the needs of gifted adolescent historians – Deborah Eyre (Read article)
09 Duffy’s devices: teaching Year 13 to read and write – Rachel Ward (Read article)
17 Mussolini’s missing marbles: simulating history at GCSE – Arthur Chapman and James Woodcock (Read article)...
Teaching History 124: Teaching the most able
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Working with Historical Picture Books
Primary History article
For the majority of children a picture book is the first book that they enjoy and share with an adult. Picture books introduce children to different genres of writing, different themes and different artistic styles. As young children 'read' and explore picture books they take meaning from the text and...
Working with Historical Picture Books
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Triumphs Show 129: Holding a live debate around an historical theme
Teaching History feature
Beheading Headlines: Holding a live debate around an historical theme
Studying the events surrounding the execution of Charles I is exciting on many levels: the first English King to be executed by his ‘people', the gory public beheading and the controversy surrounding the trial and verdict... But studying the Civil...
Triumphs Show 129: Holding a live debate around an historical theme
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Teaching History 71
The HA's journal for history teachers
10 Bridge that Gap! Are There Opportunities within the National Curriculum to Promote Co-operative Work between History and English? - Ian Davies and Mary Bousted
15 The National Oracy Project - Hilary Kemeny
17 Oral History: Working with Children - Inge Cramer
20 Historically Speaking - Pauline Loader
23 Skilful...
Teaching History 71
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Cunning Plan 134: local history at KS3
Teaching History feature
Question: How can we plan to integrate local history into Key Stage 3 schemes of work so that pupils are engaged by the relevance of the subject across different periods of time?
Local history can come in all shapes and sizes, from a large-scale oral history project to the perusal...
Cunning Plan 134: local history at KS3
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Primary History 44: Boudicca
Journal
05 Editorial
08 In My View: music in the history curriculum — Rosie Turner-Bisset (Read article)
09 History is a hot potato or thinking through history — Hilary Cooper
12 Reflections on writing ‘The song remembers when’: writing family story, writing history — Hilary Claire (Read article)
14 Think Bubble...
Primary History 44: Boudicca
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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
