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  • War memorials as a local history resource

      Primary History article
    War Memorials Trust (WMT) is the charity that works for the protection and conservation of war memorials in the UK. It defines a war memorial as ‘any physical object created, erected or installed to commemorate those involved in or affected by a conflict or war' (WMT 2009, ‘Definition of a...
    War memorials as a local history resource

  • Scheme of Work: Significant Individuals at Key Stage 1: Ibn Battuta

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 1 History (unresourced)
    The history programme of study for Key Stage 1 requires pupils to be taught about: 'The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements, some of whom should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods.' In this unit, children are...
    Scheme of Work: Significant Individuals at Key Stage 1: Ibn Battuta

  • Victorians

      Primary History article
    The Victorians is a much-loved unit of work in many schools and some teachers were disappointed to see it had been removed but there are still ways to continue to teach it under the 2014 National Curriculum. In many localities there will be a huge variety of Victorian buildings - including...
    Victorians

  • Eweka's story: Benin and Big Picture History

      Article
    The prospect of teaching Benin as a non-European Study within the time frame 900-1300 AD is challenging! Traditional oral evidence  suggests that the critical event during this period in Benin's past was a transition from the Ogiso to the Eweka Dynasty, named after its first Oba, which resulted in it...
    Eweka's story: Benin and Big Picture History

  • Teaching Ancient Egypt

      Article
    Editorial note: This paper has two sections: first, a background briefing about Ancient Egypt with a timeline and map that introduces the second section's three teaching activities on: building the Great Pyramid of Giza; Hatshepsut, Egypt's great woman pharaoh; and Akhenaten and his attempt to revolutionise Egyptian religion. ‘Hail to thee, O...
    Teaching Ancient Egypt

  • Primary History 67

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    04 Editorial 05 HA Primary News 06 Why stories? Hilary Cooper (Read article) 08 Chronology: developing a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain's past and of the wider world - Hilary Cooper (Read article) 16 Teaching ancient Egypt - Karin Doull (Read article) 22 Ideas for Assemblies: significant women in...
    Primary History 67

  • Chronology: Developing a coherent knowledge

      Article
    Chronology: Developing a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain's past and of the wider world First, this article considers the reasons why it is essential for children to develop a chronological framework. Next it considers ways in which this framework is necessary for the development of the time concepts set...
    Chronology: Developing a coherent knowledge

  • Obituaries: the first verdict in history

      Historian article
    Last year marked the deaths of two world-renowned historical figures - Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. Their obituaries reflected the marked contrast in the way the pair were viewed. Mandela ended up by being universally admired, while Thatcher was both adored and despised in seemingly equal measure. Writer Nigel Starck...
    Obituaries: the first verdict in history

  • Why stories?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article was written before the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and references may no longer be relevant. During the Early Years and Foundation Stage children should listen to stories, ask how and why and talk about the past (DfE 2012). Young children are comfortable with stories. Through...
    Why stories?

  • Move Me On 155: Historical Intepretation vs. Opinion

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Helena Swannick tends to treat differences between historical interpretations simply as matters of opinion. Helena Swannick is a career changer who has decided to come into teaching after many years' working in human resources and some time at home caring for two young children. Her degree was a...
    Move Me On 155: Historical Intepretation vs. Opinion

  • Triumphs Show 155: beyond trivial judgements of 'bias'

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    Towards victory in that battle... 10A were nearly a term into their GCSE history course, working on an 1890-1918 British history ‘depth study'. They had already completed work on the Liberal welfare reforms and on the women's suffrage movement, and they had been practising a range of source evaluation approaches....
    Triumphs Show 155: beyond trivial judgements of 'bias'

  • Cunning Plan 155: interpreting WW1 events

      Teaching History feature
    Enquiry Question: What's worth knowing about the First World War? At the end of our scheme of work on the First World War, I asked myself how I might encourage my Year 9 pupils to reflect on the historical significance of the events we had studied. I was particularly interested...
    Cunning Plan 155: interpreting WW1 events

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 155: Similarity & Difference

      Teaching History feature
    This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Every problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don't exist. But if you discover others' writing, you'll soon find - and want to join - something better: an international conversation in which...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 155: Similarity & Difference

  • Out and About - On the Track of Brunel

      Historian feature
    In ‘Brushstrokes', his essay on biography, Ben Pimlott wrote: ‘A good biography is like a good portrait: it captures the essence of the sitter by being much more than a likeness. A good portrait is about history, philosophy, milieu. It asks questions as well as answering them, brushstrokes are economical,...
    Out and About - On the Track of Brunel

  • Anne Herbert: A life in the Wars of the Roses

      Historian article
    May I introduce you to Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke? I'm very fond of this modern imagined portrait by Graham Turner, partly because of the colour and detail but chiefly because it conveys a respect for the people who lived in the past and especially for Anne herself. My interest...
    Anne Herbert: A life in the Wars of the Roses

  • Making sense of the eighteenth century

      Teaching History article
    Making sense of the eighteenth century Pressures on curriculum time force us all to make difficult choices about curriculum content, but the eighteenth century seems to have suffered particular neglect. Inspired by the tercentenary of the accession of the first Georgian king and the interest in the Acts of Union prompted...
    Making sense of the eighteenth century

  • My Favourite History Place - Sackville College, East Grinstead

      Historian feature
    Sackville College almshouse in East Grinstead, Sussex, was founded in 1609, by Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset, when he wrote his will. He died 17 days later without seeing one stone laid, yet the College still stands, providing affordable accommodation for local elderly people of limited means. It is...
    My Favourite History Place - Sackville College, East Grinstead

  • Combating a Cook-centric past through co-curricular learning

      Teaching History article
    Combating a Cook-centric past through co-curricular learning: Year 9 dig out maps and rulers to challenge generalisations about the Age of Discovery Paula Worth presents in this article a means of challenging students' tendency to generalise even when they know that they should not. How can we encourage our students...
    Combating a Cook-centric past through co-curricular learning

  • Cunning Plan 154: Who is buried in the box?

      Teaching History feature
    Question: Who is buried in the box? Seeking a new and exciting way to introduce my Year 7 students to history, I looked to a practical solution. Ian Dawson once used a Thinking History exercise where students looked at the idea of ‘layers of history'. It was useful in structuring...
    Cunning Plan 154: Who is buried in the box?

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 154: Using historical scholarship in the classroom

      Teaching History feature
    As another World Book Day goes past, you have been watching the English department wax lyrical about all of the wonderful books that pupils might read. You know that there is a wealth of well-written historical scholarship out there for pupils to dive into, yet you are not sure about...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 154: Using historical scholarship in the classroom

  • Radicalism and its Results, 1760-1837

      Classic Pamphlet
    Radicalism with a large "R", unlike Conservatism with a large "C" and Liberalism with a large "L", is not a historical term of even proximate precision. There was never a Radical Party with a national organization, local associations, or a treasury. But there were, and there are, "Radicals", generally qualified...
    Radicalism and its Results, 1760-1837

  • Using the back cover image: Windmill Hill

      Primary History feature
    The back cover image is a reconstruction of prehistoric life based on the English Heritage site Windmill Hill. Such images are of great value to the teacher in bringing the distant past to life, and in deepening pupil understanding of its historical significance. Using these sorts of illustrations can help...
    Using the back cover image: Windmill Hill

  • Local Authority Housing

      Classic Pamphlet
    Local authority housing has been a distinctive feature of the British housing system throughout the twentieth century. This pamphlet outlines the development of local authority housing in Britain from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the present day, focusing on the ways in which policy changes have affected...
    Local Authority Housing

  • Unpacking the suitcase and finding history: doing justice to the teaching of diverse histories in the classroom

      Teaching History article
    Unpacking the suitcase and finding history: doing justice to the teaching of diverse histories in the classroom It has become a truism that Britain is a multi-cultural society yet, as Mohamud and Whitburn argue, there is still a great deal of thinking to be done by history teachers in accounting...
    Unpacking the suitcase and finding history: doing justice to the teaching of diverse histories in the classroom

  • Teaching History 17

      Journal
    About the journal, 2 The Editors, 2 Islam in history, 3 Resources - Islam in history, 5 African history in the classroom, 7 History in Central Africa, 10 Review article - recently published books on African history, 13 The historian's method - a course for the 'A' level student, 15...
    Teaching History 17