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  • 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    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Gary Howells asks hard questions about typical teaching and assessment of historical causation at Key Stage 3.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

  • 1851 by Asa Briggs

      Classic Pamphlet
    This classic pamphlet is being re-published in digital form to coincide with the special edition of The Historian devoted to the memory of Asa Briggs. He was one of the most illustrious members of the Historical Association and a devotedly loyal member all his life. One Historian has said that...
    1851 by Asa Briggs

  • Differentiation: Gifted and Talented

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Gifted and talented (G&T) education has a major focus upon differentiation: the identification and support of pupils who have the abilities to perform at the highest levels. The Autumn 2007 edition of Primary History 47 focused upon...
    Differentiation: Gifted and Talented

  • Diogenes: Creativity and the Primary Curriculum

      Primary History article
    Diogenes: WHITHER CREATIVITY?! A consideration of the article Creativity and the Primary Curriculum In June 2010 the journal Primary Headship included an article entitled Creativity and the Primary Curriculum which endeavoured to pull together a range of positions as to where the curriculum might be going in the immediate future. These...
    Diogenes: Creativity and the Primary Curriculum

  • Move Me On 154: Mixed Ability Groups

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem:Joe Priestley is having problems providing sufficient challenge for the higher attainers within his mixed ability groups Joe Priestley has settled into his training placement very well and has impressed other members of the history department with his lively and engaging ideas. In his early teaching he was...
    Move Me On 154: Mixed Ability Groups

  • The Irish in Britain 1815-1914

      Classic Pamphlet
    Irish migration to Britain has a long and chequered history, yet only in recent years have historians examined this subject in depth, through a growing body of local, regional and national studies which have supplemented the earlier pioneering research of J. E. Handley and J. A. Jackson. These studies have...
    The Irish in Britain 1815-1914

  • Helping pupils with Special Educational Needs to develop a lifelong curiosity for the past

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Pupils in England have an entitlement to study history or geography until the age of sixteen. However, increasingly, some pupils seem to be discouraged from taking up this opportunity as it can be seen as...
    Helping pupils with Special Educational Needs to develop a lifelong curiosity for the past

  • Edward the Confessor and the Norman Conquest

      Classic Pamphlet
    Nine hundred years have elapsed since the death of Edward the Confessor, the last English king descended directly from Cerdic, king of Wessex in the sixth century - and so from the pagan gods. Nine hundred years are a long time; and if Edward had been succeeded by a son,...
    Edward the Confessor and the Norman Conquest

  • The International Journal Volume 2 Number 1

      IJHLTR
    Editorial  - Professionalism, Scholarship, Theory and Research   Ismail DemircioÄŸlu - Does the Teaching of History in Turkey Need Reform?   Terry Haydn - Subject Discipline Dimensions of ICT and Learning: History, a Case Study   Sonia Kerrigan - Creating a Community School Museum: Theory into Practice   Romero Morante...
    The International Journal Volume 2 Number 1

  • A treasure trove of local history - how to use your local record office

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. In her article in Primary History No 21, Jayne Woodhouse highlighted that the study of history needn’t be all about national events. Essentially it is a series of stories, often about ordinary people and their ordinary lives, which can be built up...
    A treasure trove of local history - how to use your local record office

  • The British Museum: Creative ICT for Kids

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. With school budgets as they are it is amazing that any primary schools can fund history trips to the British Museum [BM]. The education department of the British Museum [BM] is well aware of these constraints and tries to meet the...
    The British Museum: Creative ICT for Kids

  • Literacy, text-genres and history: reading and learning from difficult and challenging texts

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. This paper examines the application of TEXT-BREAKER to a year 3 class being taught a history text in the Literacy hour. The context was the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in Britain Study Unit of the National Curriculum for History (DFE, 1995). Within...
    Literacy, text-genres and history: reading and learning from difficult and challenging texts

  • The Historian 32

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Aggressive but Unsuccessful: Louis XIV and the European Struggle - Jeremy Black 10 Update: The Reign of Richard II, 1377-1399 - Alison McHardy 13 Education Forum: National Curriculum History: A Framework for the Future - Sue Bennett 14 Forum: Archive Services in Danger - Rosemary Dunhill 14 Reconstructing...
    The Historian 32

  • Egyptians, Embalming and Experiences

      Primary History article
    I am a third year student currently studying on a 4 year degree course at Leeds Trinity University College training to be a primary school teacher. Last year, as part of our History module, we visited the Leeds City Museum and met Esther Amis-Hughes who was then its Learning and...
    Egyptians, Embalming and Experiences

  • King Charles I

      Classic Pamphlet
    The principles involved in the great religious and constitutional conflicts of the seventeenth century are so important to us today, that it seems desirable on the occasion of the present tercentenary to lay before the members of the Historical Association some means of examining and re-examining their views on the...
    King Charles I

  • Creating a school museum

      Primary History case study
    Using an artefacts loans service Within the UK there is a wealth of museums and heritage sites across the country, offering children, young people and teachers the chance to experience a hands on approach to history and telling the story of our past. However if you are unable to visit...
    Creating a school museum

  • The Historian 47

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: A Democratic Experiment: France in 1848 - Olena and Colin Heywood 10 Profile: Always Splendid and Never Isolated: Lord Salisbury and the Public Scene, 1830 to 1903 - Michael Hurst 15 Education Forum: Domesday Dearing? - Martin Light 16 Update: Sir Robert Walpole's Black Box - Philip Woodfine 19 Short Feature: 'Indispensible Yet...
    The Historian 47

  • Earth in vision: Enviromental Broadcasting

      Historian article
    Joe Smith, Kim Hammond and George Revill share some of the findings of their work examining what digital broadcast archives are available and which could be made available in future.  The BBC’s archives hold over a million hours of programmes, dating back to the 1930s (radio) and 1940s (television). It...
    Earth in vision: Enviromental Broadcasting

  • Enlightened Despotism

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet covers the often confused concept of Enlightened Despotism (also known as Enlightened Absolutism). The essential nature of Enlightened Despotism and its origin are discussed, as well as the development and character of Enlightened Despotism in various governments, followed by a judgement of its' achievements and significance. Catherine the Great,...
    Enlightened Despotism

  • Move Me On 107: Doesn't see point of teaching to those who find history difficult

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Brian, PGCE history student, doesn't see the point of teaching history to pupils who find it very difficult.
    Move Me On 107: Doesn't see point of teaching to those who find history difficult

  • The Long Winding Road to the White House

      Historian article
    The Long Winding Road to the White House: caucuses, primaries and national party conventions in the history of American presidential elections Almost the Last Hurrah At last we know officially. In late August at their 40th national convention in Tampa, Florida, the Republican party formally nominated its candidates to run...
    The Long Winding Road to the White House

  • Reinventing the Charter: from Sir Edward Coke to 'freeborn John'

      Historian article
    When was Magna Carta launched on its modern career as a symbol of freedom and liberty? Justin Champion looks at the role of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century lawyers and politicians in shaping how we see the Charter today. ‘For every person who knows what the contents of Magna Carta actually...
    Reinventing the Charter: from Sir Edward Coke to 'freeborn John'

  • Magna Carta: oblivion and revival

      Historian article
    Magna Carta was to go through a number of revisions before it finally took its place on the statute book. Nicholas Vincent takes us through the twists and turns of the tale of the Charter's death and revival after June 1215.   The Charter issued by King John at Runnymede is...
    Magna Carta: oblivion and revival

  • Teaching History 28

      Journal
    Editorial, page 2 Notes on Contributors, page 3 The Teaching History Imaginative Writing Competition 1980, page 3 Why History - the Teachers - Peter Carpenter, page 6 History 16-19, page 8 Profile: Peggy Bryant - Martin Booth, page 9 How I taught history - Sinclair Atkins, page 11 Practical Points...
    Teaching History 28

  • Unpicking the learning potential in creative approaches to studying World War II

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. ‘The biggest issue for school history is its limited place in the curriculum.' (Ofsted, 2007) This central concern of Ofsted's 2007 report, History in the balance, could equally apply to the teaching of drama in primary schools....
    Unpicking the learning potential in creative approaches to studying World War II