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  • The 'structured enquiry' is not a contradiction in terms: focused teaching for independent learning

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Mike Gorman uses the language of the National Curriculum Order to describe and analyse his practice. Yet he throws down a challenge to those who use it uncritically rather than interpreting it to make their...
    The 'structured enquiry' is not a contradiction in terms: focused teaching for independent learning

  • Minimalist cause boxes for maximal learning: one approach to the Civil War in Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Ian Gibson and Susan McLelland describe their work using cause boxes. They identity the type of historical learning that they felt was taking place and the range of factors which they judged to be critical...
    Minimalist cause boxes for maximal learning: one approach to the Civil War in Year 8

  • Knowing what counts in history: historical understanding and the non-specialist teacher

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. If science graduates think that history teaching is not about questioning, that there is only ‘one answer' in history or that historical facts are unproblematic, does it matter? Should we care? Doug Newton and Lynn...
    Knowing what counts in history: historical understanding and the non-specialist teacher

  • Being ambitious with the causes of the First World War: interrogating inevitability

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Gary Howells asks hard questions about typical teaching and assessment of historical causation at Key Stage 3. Popular activities that may be helpful in addressing particular learning areas, or in teaching pupils to use the...
    Being ambitious with the causes of the First World War: interrogating inevitability

  • Triumphs Show 120.1 - Is music the answer to the Irish question in schools?

      Teaching History feature
    Ian Ollerenshaw shares with us a way to help GCSE pupils understand the complexities of the ‘Irish Question’ and start to empathise with diverse perspectives. He uses a medium – music – that is familiar to teenagers, beginning with their own music before moving on to songs specifically about Ireland.
    Triumphs Show 120.1 - Is music the answer to the Irish question in schools?

  • The Irish historians' role and the place of history in Irish national life

      Historian article
    The debate on the nation and its history is new to England; and there is, perhaps, a tendency to assume that what is new in England is new everywhere. In Ireland, the debate has been going on since the 1970s, fuelled by what is called ‘revisionism’; or rather, by a...
    The Irish historians' role and the place of history in Irish national life

  • Triumphs Show 119: bringing the big picture to life using a 3D rollercoaster

      Teaching History feature
    In this edition of 'Triumphs Show' Kate Dacey demonstrates the effectiveness of visual stimuli in improving pupils' historical understanding. Dacey achieved this by using a 3D wall display to depict the turbulent period of the Reformation.
    Triumphs Show 119: bringing the big picture to life using a 3D rollercoaster

  • Moral dilemmas: history teaching and the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    The new Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London has been very favourably received by the general public, and by teachers and their students. Initially controversial - was a war museum the ideal site for such an exhibition, for example? - it has since been widely praised for...
    Moral dilemmas: history teaching and the Holocaust

  • Working with sources: scepticism or cynicism? Putting the story back together again

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Many history teachers will remember the feature on Jamie Byrom's teaching in Times Educational Supplement of July 1996 where he attacked the recent fashion of history textbooks for encouraging only short (and usually formulaic) responses...
    Working with sources: scepticism or cynicism? Putting the story back together again

  • The use of sources in school history 1910-1998: a critical perspective

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The arrival of sources of evidence into secondary school history classrooms amounted to a small revolution. What began as a radical development is now establishment orthodoxy, with both GCSE and now National Curriculum in England...
    The use of sources in school history 1910-1998: a critical perspective

  • Interpretations of History: Issues for Teachers in the Development of Pupils' Understanding

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. This article is based on collaborative work between staff at a University department of educational studies and a comprehensive school. Ian Davies and Rob Williams reviews the status and meaning of interpretations in history education...
    Interpretations of History: Issues for Teachers in the Development of Pupils' Understanding

  • Frameworks for linking pupils' evidential understanding with growing skill in structured, written argument: the 'evidence sandwich'

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. History teachers are increasingly good at designing exercises which develop skill in evidence analysis. The ubiquitous ‘source' is invariably analysed for utility and reliability. But how do pupils integrate such understandings with extended written work?...
    Frameworks for linking pupils' evidential understanding with growing skill in structured, written argument: the 'evidence sandwich'

  • The Historian 67: William Morris, Art and the rise of the British Labour Movement

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 4 William Morris, art and the rise of the British Labour movement - Chris Wrigley (Read Article) 11 Czech Uranium and Stalin's Bomb - Z.A.B. Zeman (Read Article) 18 Bombing and the air war on the Italian Front 1915-1918 - A.D. Harvey (Read Article) 22 The reign of Edward VI:...
    The Historian 67: William Morris, Art and the rise of the British Labour Movement

  • Triumphs Show 116: A practical way of teaching the complexities of ‘The Troubles’ at GCSE

      Teaching History feature
    Helping pupils to understand sectarian divisions in Northern Ireland is not easy. For pupils to comprehend the origins and complexities of ‘the Troubles’ they need a big picture. That big picture could be viewed as the interaction of three concepts: time, place and identity. If pupils can at least glimpse...
    Triumphs Show 116: A practical way of teaching the complexities of ‘The Troubles’ at GCSE

  • Move Me On 115: the class already know all about WW1

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Vera is worried that her Year 9 class already know all about World War One. 
    Move Me On 115: the class already know all about WW1

  • The Historian 63: Why did People Choose Sides in the English Civil War?

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 4 Why did People Choose Sides in the English Civil War? - Professor The Earl Russell (Conrad Russell) (Read article) 10 What's new about 'New Labour'? - Andrew Thorpe (Read article) 16 1939 after sixty years - Patrick Finney (Read article) 22 Louis, John and William: The 'Dame Europa'...
    The Historian 63: Why did People Choose Sides in the English Civil War?

  • Making the Modern World: The shock of the real at the science museum

      Primary History article
    Making the Modern World is a vast, exuberant exposition of the real deal. From Arkwright's textile machines that kick-started the industrial revolution to the first Apple computer; from a pair of patented genetically-modified mice to the Apollo 10 command module that orbited the Moon - ons of the industrialised world...
    Making the Modern World: The shock of the real at the science museum

  • Beyond the classroom walls: museums and primary history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Apart from the difficulty of getting hold of a hard copy of the new National Curriculum framework, museum educators have little to worry about in the results of the curriculum review. The framework reveals few changes that will affect what museums have...
    Beyond the classroom walls: museums and primary history

  • The impact of World War II on British children's gendered perceptions of contemporary Germany

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. This article reports some surprising gender-based trends indicated by a small scale piece of classroom research looking into incidental responses of Year 6 pupils to the teaching of Study Unit 11b (Britain Since...
    The impact of World War II on British children's gendered perceptions of contemporary Germany

  • Parallel catastrophes? Uniqueness, redemption and the Shoah

      Teaching History article
    Nicolas Kinloch’s 1998 review of Michael Burleigh’s Ethics and Extermination in Teaching History, 93, sparked a debate amongst our readers about the teaching of the Holocaust, concerning both rationales and practical approaches. Citing the damage caused to pupils’ understanding by a Spielberg view of history, he emphasised that the rationale...
    Parallel catastrophes? Uniqueness, redemption and the Shoah

  • Move Me On 113: Getting pupils to really care about what happened in the past

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Ronnie Wedgewood is struggling to get pupils really to care about what happened in the past. 
    Move Me On 113: Getting pupils to really care about what happened in the past

  • Triumphs Show 113: How to make the Elizabethan Religious Settlement sufficiently complicated for Year 8

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of the 'Triumphs Show' explains 'How to make the Elizabethan Religious Settlement sufficiently complicated for Year 8'.
    Triumphs Show 113: How to make the Elizabethan Religious Settlement sufficiently complicated for Year 8

  • The Historian 61: The Press and the Public during the Boer War

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 4 Vichy France and the Jews - Julian Jackson (Read article) 10 The Press and the Public during the Boer War - Jacqueline Beaumont Hughes (Read article) 16 Cambridge - Elisabeth Leedham-Green (Read article) 21 The Vikings in Britain - Henry Loyn
    The Historian 61: The Press and the Public during the Boer War

  • Triumphs Show 112: William Bent and family: a personal timeline of the Plains Wars

      Article
    Using the experiences of William Bent and his family in the 1860s, this resource was designed to develop different kinds of historical thinking. For example, it highlights what a turning point the Sand Creek massacre proved to be.
    Triumphs Show 112: William Bent and family: a personal timeline of the Plains Wars

  • 'The Mouth of Hell': Religious Discord at Brailes, Warwickshire, C.1660-c.1800

      Article
    Colin Haydon explores religious intolerance and conflict in an English village. In recent years, many historians have explored the subject of religious intolerance, and particularly anti-Catholic sentiment, in early modern and modern England. The political allegiance of ‘Papists’ was suspect: was not their allegiance to the Pope – to ‘another...
    'The Mouth of Hell': Religious Discord at Brailes, Warwickshire, C.1660-c.1800