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  • History in the Foundation Stage

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. In September 2000, the introduction of a foundation stage for children aged three to the end of the reception year was widely welcomed for the way in which it confirmed a distinct identity for the early years in education. The recent guidance...
    History in the Foundation Stage

  • The Duke of Wellington and the little man on the cob

      Article
    On 24th March, 1843, the painter, Benjamin Robert Haydon, wrote down an odd story, told to him earlier that evening by his friend, the sculptor, John Carew. The anecdote was already at least three removes from its original source, the Duke of Wellington, and concerned events that had taken place...
    The Duke of Wellington and the little man on the cob

  • 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

  • Polychronicon 115: historians and the Holocaust

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its own age. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' focuses on historians...
    Polychronicon 115: historians and the Holocaust

  • The Historian 58: Photography in Korea

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 2 Jawaharlal Nehru: the last viceroy? - Judtih M. Brown (Read article) 8 Travelling the 17th-century English Economy: a rediscovery of Celia Fiennes - Pam Sharpe (Read article) 12 War Plan Red: The American Plan for war with Britain - John Major (Read article) 15 Photography in Korea...
    The Historian 58: Photography in Korea

  • Triumphs Show 111: Recreating 1930s Europe with the help of Year 9

      Teaching History feature
    Sally Evans demonstrates how constructing a map of Europe can enhance pupils' understandings on the causations of World War Two.
    Triumphs Show 111: Recreating 1930s Europe with the help of Year 9

  • History and the National Primary Strategy

      Primary History article
    The Historical Association poses a series of questions to the Director of the Primary National Strategy, Kevan Collins.
    History and the National Primary Strategy

  • What are the reasons for linking art and history?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. Visual images, paintings, sculpture, photographs, cartoons from past times are important historical sources. Accordingly, Simon Schama embeds visual images and imagery in his historical oeuvre, not primarily as illustration but as a crucial...
    What are the reasons for linking art and history?

  • Teaching history through the use of story: Working with early years' practitioners

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. For more current and recent articles see Using stories to support history in the EYFS and Time for a story. In this article we argue that children in the Foundation Stage should be introduced to history as historical...
    Teaching history through the use of story: Working with early years' practitioners

  • Teaching history through photographs in the internet and digital age

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. Images allow us to step back in time and ask important historical questions such as ‘Were the Victorians just like us?' Growing digitisation and the spread of the internet allow teachers and learners...
    Teaching history through photographs in the internet and digital age

  • William Morris, Art and the Rise of the British Labour Movement

      Article
    Commenting in early 1934 at the University College, Hull, at the time of the centenary of William Morris’ birth and of a large exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the historian and active socialist, G.D.H. Cole commented, William Morris’ influence is very much alive today: but let us not...
    William Morris, Art and the Rise of the British Labour Movement

  • Using the back cover image: Sandbach Crosses - an Anglo-Saxon market cross

      Primary History feature
    This image is a reconstruction, or interpretation, by Peter Dunn, an artist, of what Sandbach Crosses might have looked like in the ninth century. They are one of the few remaining Anglo-Saxon stone crosses in the country. They stand in the market place in Sandbach, Cheshire. You can find a...
    Using the back cover image: Sandbach Crosses - an Anglo-Saxon market cross

  • Triumphs Show 109: strengthening the quality and popularity of post-16 history

      Teaching History feature
    Why is it, I wonder, that Rednock students enjoy their history so much and why have so many opted for the subject at ‘AS’ Level? This new course, designed to bridge the gap between GCSE and ‘A’ Level, has allowed a new calibre of student to enrol. The ability range,...
    Triumphs Show 109: strengthening the quality and popularity of post-16 history

  • The 2014 History National Curriculum: how to get the best from heritage

      Primary History article
    We all know that site visits are good for children - not least because they give a break from the normal school routine - and there are a plethora of heritage sites both local and national that are able to offer facilities for school visits. But we also know that...
    The 2014 History National Curriculum: how to get the best from heritage

  • Iconic Images of War: photographs that changed history

      Historian article
    The recent photographs taken of US troops apparently abusing Iraqi prisoners-of-war in Abu Ghraib Jail have attracted attention across the world. Although it is too early to say whether these images will come to represent the essential character of the current Iraq conflict, they have altered public perceptions, producing doubt...
    Iconic Images of War: photographs that changed history

  • Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion

      Teaching History article
    How do we help pupils to write better paragraphs without actually doing it for them? How do we break down the process of essay writing into smaller steps without taking away pupils’ sense of the essay as a whole? How do we give lower-attaining pupils models, structures and frames without...
    Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion

  • The Historian 92: Child Health and School meals

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: Iconic images of war - Edgar Jones (Read Article) Child health and school meals - Denise Amos (Read Article) Edo period Japanese art  Hungary 1956 - Ann Kneif (Read Article) Kilpeck church - John Hunt (Read Article)
    The Historian 92: Child Health and School meals

  • ‘What do they mean by that?’ Helping students to analyse academic writing from Key Stage 3 onwards

      Teaching History article
    Following her PGCE year, Alex Blelloch became concerned about the ways in which some of the students she observed struggled to engage with the complexities of texts written by historians. More broadly, she was also concerned about the limited opportunities younger students had to engage with historians’ works. In this...
    ‘What do they mean by that?’ Helping students to analyse academic writing from Key Stage 3 onwards

  • The Historian 55: Arthur, Prince of Wales and his training for kingship

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: Arthur Prince of Wales, Jane Austen: a Writer for all Seasons - Irene Collins (Read article) The Spanish Armada of...1597? - Graham Darby (Read article) From Disraeli to Callaghan, Britain 1879 to 1979 - A.J.P. Taylor (Read article) A New Route Into Teaching History - Hilary Bourdillon The...
    The Historian 55: Arthur, Prince of Wales and his training for kingship

  • Interpreting an early seventeenth-century cottage at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum

      Historian article
    The Weald & Downland Open Air Museum (WDOAM), which opened to the public in 1970, is one of the leading museums of historic buildings and rural life in the United Kingdom. It has a collection of nearly 50 historic buildings - domestic, agricultural and industrial - dating from the thirteenth...
    Interpreting an early seventeenth-century cottage at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum

  • Stepping into the past: using images to travel through time

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Pupils are eternally curious about their teachers. Do they really have lives outside the classroom? Could Miss Jones have once been a child? Does she have parents and grandparents and a past of her own?...
    Stepping into the past: using images to travel through time

  • Redrawing the Renaissance - non verbal assessment in Year 7

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Matt Stanford is not exactly fed up of marking essays, but he could do with a change. His pupils, he realises, could too. History assessments have often been based on words - either the written...
    Redrawing the Renaissance - non verbal assessment in Year 7

  • Using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War

      Teaching History article
    Teaching ‘the lesson of satire': using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War ‘Blackadder for real' is how the British journalist and broadcaster, Ian Hislop, characterised The Wipers Time, the newspaper published on the front line by members of the 12th Battalion Sherwood, and recently brought...
    Using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War

  • Move Me On 144: Defines GCSE teaching in terms of a diet of practice exam questions

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Roger Wendover has come to define GCSE teaching in terms of a diet of practice exam questions. Roger is a few weeks into his second placement and his mentor, John, has been taken aback by the rigid approach that he has adopted in teaching Year 10. John was...
    Move Me On 144: Defines GCSE teaching in terms of a diet of practice exam questions

  • Lyndon Johnson & Albert Gore: Southern New Dealers and the Modern South

      Historian article
    Lyndon Johnson and Albert Gore were elected to Congress within a year of each other in 1937-38. They were elected in the old style of patronage-oriented southern Democratic Party politics in which a plethora of candidates, with few issues to divide them, contested primary elections. Both circumvented the local county...
    Lyndon Johnson & Albert Gore: Southern New Dealers and the Modern South