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  • The Dilemma of Senator Williams

      IJHLTR Article
    Abstract The titled “Senator Williams, Do You Vote For or Against on the Diego Resolution before Senate” encourages students to engage in historical empathy and critical inquiry on the possible military intervention in the small hypothetical country of Ersatz. The Diego Resolution asks the Senate to endorse the President’s plan to move a...
    The Dilemma of Senator Williams

  • A tale of two Turings

      Historian article
    Among the posthumous attempts to celebrate his scientific importance, alongside recognition of the unwarranted injustices to which he was subjected, two important statues to Alan Turing are highlighted by Dave Martin.
    A tale of two Turings

  • Triumphs Show 167: Keeping the 1960s complicated

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    During her PGCE year, it became evident to Rachel Coleman just how much pupils struggled with the complicated nature of history. They were troubled in particular by the lack of definitive answers, by the range of perspectives that might be held at the time of a particular event or development...
    Triumphs Show 167: Keeping the 1960s complicated

  • History Teaching in Belarus: Between Europe and Russia

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 15, Number 1 – Autumn/Winter 2017 ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract This paper is devoted to social uses of history teaching and history textbooks. It analyses, first, how the history of the lands of Belarus, at the crossroads between Europe and Eurasia, was...
    History Teaching in Belarus: Between Europe and Russia

  • An Investigation into Finding Effective Ways of Presenting a Written Source to Students

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 15, Number 1 – Autumn/Winter 2017ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract Written historical sources can be quite challenging for students to analyse in secondary school. They are sometimes long and tedious to read as well as containing difficult and awkward text. The presentation of...
    An Investigation into Finding Effective Ways of Presenting a Written Source to Students

  • 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

  • Investigating Narrative Forms of History Pedagogy in Primary Initial Teacher Education in England

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 15, Number 1 – Autumn/Winter 2017 ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract Narrative forms of history may have a controversial status amongst professional historians, but the evidence for using narrative approaches in primary history is principally based on educational psychology and research into pedagogy....
    Investigating Narrative Forms of History Pedagogy in Primary Initial Teacher Education in England

  • Cunning Plan 167: teaching the industrial revolution

      Teaching History article
    ‘Disastrous and terrible.’ For Arnold Toynbee, the historian who gave us the phrase ‘industrial revolution’, these three words sum up the period of dramatic technological change that took place in Britain across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. We may not habitually use Toynbee’s description in the classroom, but it is...
    Cunning Plan 167: teaching the industrial revolution

  • Making the children work for the information!

      Primary History article
    Your local museum is often a rich but sometimes overlooked resource. Images, documents and maps show a broad range of history but one that also relates to the children’s own local area. This allows children to see the connection with their own past, providing them with examples that they can...
    Making the children work for the information!

  • Narrating “Histories of Spain”

      Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 15, Number 1 – Autumn/Winter 2017 ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract This study analyses the role of Spanish teacher training students as narrators of what they consider to be the history of Spain. Results of this empirical study are based on a random...
    Narrating “Histories of Spain”

  • Overground, underground and across the sea

      Primary History article
    Communication is at the heart of what it is to be human, and the British postal service has helped to shape the modern world as we know it today. From cryptic Victorian Valentine cards to a lion encountered on Salisbury Plain, there is nothing ordinary about the story of the post! The British postal service...
    Overground, underground and across the sea

  • ‘It’s a great big ship!’: Teaching the Titanic at Key Stage 1

      Article
    Edith Haisman, a 15-year-old passenger on the Titanic, exclaimed, ‘It’s a great big ship!’ when she first caught sight of it. Similar excitement could be generated among your pupils by incorporating a study of the Titanic into your curriculum. If you are tired of teaching about the Great Fire of...
    ‘It’s a great big ship!’: Teaching the Titanic at Key Stage 1

  • Is There a Place for The Holocaust in the Primary Curriculum?

      Article
    The Holocaust – the murder of approximately six million Jewish men, women and children by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during the Second World War – is possibly the most difficult event that any history teacher will ever have to teach. Most obviously, it can be deeply upsetting, for educators...
    Is There a Place for The Holocaust in the Primary Curriculum?

  • The gall nuts and lapis trail

      Primary History article
    We are used to images of monks copying out texts in a very ornate manner. Books such as the Lindisfarne Gospels still absolutely amaze us with their colour, style and appearance. It must have taken hours and hours to copy out a text like that. But how was it done? And how did the monks make the inks they...
    The gall nuts and lapis trail

  • Early Years: Learning about the Past through 'People Who Help Us'

      Article
    'People who help us’ is a popular learning theme in the Foundation Stage. It helps children develop their knowledge of the world around them and understand how they are part of a local and wider community. Aspects of this theme can also provide opportunities for children to develop their understanding...
    Early Years: Learning about the Past through 'People Who Help Us'

  • History 354

      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 ‘Give...
    History 354

  • My Favourite History Place: Lord Street, Southport

      Historian feature
    Trevor James introduces an international dimension to local history, revealing how a future French Emperor interpreted his affection for Southport’s Lord Street into the extensive redesign of Parisian streets.
    My Favourite History Place: Lord Street, Southport

  • Move Me On 169: Planning a local history enquiry

      The problem page for history mentors
    This feature of Teaching History is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an...
    Move Me On 169: Planning a local history enquiry

  • Learning from the Aftermath of the Holocaust

      Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 14, Number 2 – Spring/Summer 2017 ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract In this article I seek to encourage those involved in Holocaust education in schools to engage not just with the Holocaust but also with its aftermath. I conceptualise the latter in terms of two...
    Learning from the Aftermath of the Holocaust

  • Polychronicon 169: Herodotus

      Journal article
    You can buy a cheap flight to Bodrum (south-west Turkey), now a popular package holiday tourist destination and in antiquity named Halicarnassus, and visit ancient Greek temples and a theatre dating back more than 2,000 years. In Bodrum’s incomparable Underwater Archaeology Museum, you can admire the extraordinary Phoenician, Carian, Cypriot,...
    Polychronicon 169: Herodotus

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 169: Developing a sense of place

      Journal article
    This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Each problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don’t exist. But in others’ writing, you’ll soon find something better: conversations in which other history teachers have debated or tackled your problems – conversations any history...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 169: Developing a sense of place

  • Thinking about… the Partition of British India in August 1947

      Teaching History article
    Shortly before midnight on 14 August 1947 Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian National Congress (the main nationalist organisation in British India), rose in India’s Constituent Assembly in New Delhi to deliver his famous ‘Tryst with Destiny’ speech that marked the end of 200 years of British rule in the...
    Thinking about… the Partition of British India in August 1947

  • Inverting the telescope: investigating sources from a different perspective

      Teaching History article
    As historians, we are dependent on evidence, which comes in many varieties. Rosalind Stirzaker here introduces a project which she ran two years ago to encourage her students to think about artefacts in a different way. They have examined randomly preserved artefacts such as those of Pompeii, and sets of...
    Inverting the telescope: investigating sources from a different perspective

  • From temple to forum: teaching final-year history students to become critical museum visitors

      Journal article
    Across the globe, the centenary of World War I has prompted the creation of new exhibitions devoted to its commemoration. In New Zealand, Michael Harcourt wanted to explore whether teaching strategies intended to help students to engage critically with such exhibitions would have any lasting impact on the young people’s...
    From temple to forum: teaching final-year history students to become critical museum visitors

  • 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