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The Historian 66: Shakespeare's Glendower and Owain Glyn Dwr
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
4 The Value of Biography in History - Antonia Fraser (Read Article)
10 Cholera and the fight for Public Health Reform in mid-Victorian England - Dr Geoff Gill MA, MSc, MD, FRCP (Read Article)
17 Ottawa: Canada's evolving capital - John Talyor
22 Shakespeare's Glendower and Owain Glyn Dwr...
The Historian 66: Shakespeare's Glendower and Owain Glyn Dwr
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The Historian 71: The English Historian's Role
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
16 The Rainbow Circle and the New Liberalism - Mark Rathbone (Read article)
22 A Social History of the Welsh Language - Geraint H. Jenkins (Read article)
29 Gallipoli Memorial, Eltham - Sarah Newman (Read article)
The Historian 71: The English Historian's Role
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On the frontlines of teaching the history of the First World War
Teaching History article
It is very common for people in politics and the media to make assumptions about what happens in history classrooms. Too often these preconceptions are based on little more than anecdote, examples from the Internet or memories of what someone experienced at school themselves.
In this article, Catriona Pennell reports...
On the frontlines of teaching the history of the First World War
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The Vikings: ruthless killers or peaceful settlers?
Primary History article
This article outlines how one Year 4 teacher approached the topic of the Vikings. The teaching of The Vikings allows for a range of historical concepts to be explored such as:
Chronological understanding – how long did Viking influence last? Where does it appear on the timeline of Britain? What...
The Vikings: ruthless killers or peaceful settlers?
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Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Historian article
Much research has been devoted in recent years to Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People (EH), completed in 731 at the joint monastery of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow; but in one crucial respect little progress has been made: the editing of the text. The excellent edition published by Charles Plummer in 1896...
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front
Teaching History article
Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front to help pupils take a more critical approach to what they encounter
The first year of the government's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme is now under way, allowing increasing numbers of students from across Britain...
Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front
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Putting Catlin in his place?
Teaching History article
Jess Landy’s desire to introduce her pupils to a more complex narrative of the American West led her to the life story and work of a remarkable individual, George Catlin.
In this article she shows how she used this unusual micro-narrative in order to challenge pupils’ ideas not just about the bigger narrative of which it is a part, but about the...
Putting Catlin in his place?
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Move Me On 165: Capturing student interest vs. sense of period
Teaching History feature
This issue’s problem: In her concern to capture students’ interest Jennet Preston tends to present people in the past as weird and wonderful aliens...
Jennet Preston has come into teaching as a second career, following a break to look after her young children. She is enthusiastic and full of ideas for...
Move Me On 165: Capturing student interest vs. sense of period
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Teaching History 153 Supplement: Curriculum Evolution
Secondary journal supplement
A special supplement to Teaching History to support the 2014 National Curriculum.
1) Thinking about how the HA can support your department
2) Jamie Byrom: Alive ... and kicking? Personal reflections on the revised National Curriculum and what we might do with it
3) Michael Fordham: O Brave New World,...
Teaching History 153 Supplement: Curriculum Evolution
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Choosing a topic
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Choosing a topic, creating teaching approaches and choosing resources for historical understanding
The Rose Report places history in the sphere of ‘Historical, Geographical and Social Understanding'. This allows for a more flexible approach to study, especially...
Choosing a topic
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My Favourite History Place: Sutton Hoo
Historian feature
A Secret Uncovered, A Mystery Unsolved
Sutton Hoo is a sandy heathland overlooking the estuary of the River Deben in Suffolk. In Old English a ‘hoo' is a promontory, ‘sutton' is southern, and ‘tun' is a settlement. Historians have known for years that the fields were farmed in the Iron...
My Favourite History Place: Sutton Hoo
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The Historian 108: Alexandra and Rasputin
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Editorial
5 The London Charterhouse - Stephen Green (Read Article)
10 The President's Column - Anne Curry
11 Alexandra and Rasputin: Has the role of Alexandra and Rasputin in the downfall of the Romanovs been exaggerated out of all proportion? - Sarah Newman (Read Article)
15 Diagrams in History - A. D. Harvey...
The Historian 108: Alexandra and Rasputin
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Little coins, big histories
Primary History article
In this article, Damienne Clarke examines how coins can be used as a focus for history teaching and learning in Key Stage One. She describes the emergence of coins from older systems of bartering, as well as their role as tokens of commemoration for significant people and events. This article provides...
Little coins, big histories
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Creating Stories For Teaching Primary History
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated.
With primary history contributing to writing, some research by Sandra Dunsmuir and Peter Blatchford into pupils aged 4-7 has relevance to history teaching. The findings were published in the "British Journal of Educational Psychology", edition...
Creating Stories For Teaching Primary History
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History, music and law: commemorative cross-curricularity
Teaching History article
James Woodcock continues his theme from Teaching History 138 about the difference between superficial, thematic cross-curricularity and much more rigorous interdisciplinarity. His concern is to retain rather than compromise the integrity of the subject disciplines. Woodcock argues that interdisciplinary working adds value to learning only when the knowledge and the distinctive...
History, music and law: commemorative cross-curricularity
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The Uses of History in the Twenty First Century
Historian article
During the last century or so there has developed a new ‘public role’ for history: the past as personal history, a vital element in the nourishing of people in society. During the past decades a new perception of what history is has manifested itself on two levels: first a shift of...
The Uses of History in the Twenty First Century
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The co-ordinator's role and the 2014 national curriculum for history
Primary History article
Co-ordinator's dilemma:
I have seen the new requirements and know that I have a bit of time before things start, but I don't want to leave everything to the last minute. Without feeling that I have to get everything done now, are there some things I can be getting on...
The co-ordinator's role and the 2014 national curriculum for history
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The Historian 153: Out now
The magazine of the Historical Association
Read The Historian 153: The Baltic
It once seemed natural for anyone leaving Britain to go south, rather than north. There were practical reasons for this. British tourists understandably wanted sunshine, and a sea they could swim in without first taking a deep breath: the Mediterranean provided both. If they...
The Historian 153: Out now
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Creativity, Imagination, and Fun in Primary History
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content, references and links are outdated.
Tim Lomas describes a variety of learning activities that primary schools children enjoy.
Creativity, Imagination, and Fun in Primary History
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The knowledge illusion
Teaching History article
Focusing on students’ attempts to explain the relative significance of different factors in Hitler’s rise to power, Catherine McCrory explores the vexed question of why students who seem able to express necessary historical knowledge on one occasion cannot effectively reproduce it on another. Drawing on a detailed analysis of what...
The knowledge illusion
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The Historian 169: Visual Arts
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Ask The Historian and Letters
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 To see the witch: understanding fear, accusation, and brutality during the European witch craze through visual art – Natasha Brockman (Read article)
12 The Lady and the Unicorn: unravelling the symbolic threads of sixteenth-century tapestries – Damien Dessane (Read...
The Historian 169: Visual Arts
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Local history and literacy using written (and other) sources
Primary History article
Jo Barkham shows how creative and challenging teaching can stimulate and engage even the youngest pupils in the reading of written, printed and multi-modal sources...
Local history and literacy using written (and other) sources
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Folkestone in World War One
Historian article
Grahame Jones contributes to our determination to explore the wider involvement of the community in responding to the challenges of the Great War, in this case two inspirational women who provided refreshments for soldiers en route through Folkestone harbour.
A fading Edwardian resort and handy for that trip through the...
Folkestone in World War One
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A hankering for the blank spaces: enabling the very able to explore the limits of GCSE
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Many of us would love to have the problems encountered by Oliver Knight at his previous school. His students were simply doing too well - leaving him wondering how to stretch them to the limit...
A hankering for the blank spaces: enabling the very able to explore the limits of GCSE
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ICT and Students with Special Educational Needs
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum.
Turner writing in 1998 acknowledged that there was insufficient research into teaching history to pupils with SEN. He believed that this was one reason why there was little to challenge Wilson's declaration that ‘history as the term is generally understood, cannot...
ICT and Students with Special Educational Needs
