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Teaching History 68
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
9 History Teaching and Economic Awareness: A Sample Topic - P. J. Rogers
14 A Land Fit for Heroes: Recreating the Past through Drama - Kate Fleming
17 Holt Hall, 1940: A Residential 'Living History' Project - Alan Childs and Mike Pond
20 History and Computers in Dorset - Dave Martin
26 Clear...
Teaching History 68
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Teaching History 69
Journal
Editorial 2
News 3
Articles:
Young Children's Thinking in History Hilary Cooper 8
The Magnificent Seven: Reasons for Teaching about Prehistory Peter Stone 13
National Curriculum History, Schemes of Work and the Primary School Child Brian Scott 19
Delivering the Primary History Curriculum Keith Crawford and Graham Rogers 22
The...
Teaching History 69
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Curriculum planning: How to write a new scheme of work for history
Primary History article
Please note: this article was originally written in early 2014 for schools needing to prepare schemes of work for the new National Curriculum coming into effect that September.
The implementation from September 2014 of the new national curriculum programme of study for history gives you a time-scale for reviewing, refreshing and resourcing your new scheme...
Curriculum planning: How to write a new scheme of work for history
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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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New Universities of the 60s
Historian article
New Universities of the 60s: One professor's recollections: glad confident morning and after
Living history
How long do professional historians wait before writing about their own personal involvement in episodes of lasting significance in history? If they wait too long they are dead, and their evidence is lost. A striking recent...
New Universities of the 60s
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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
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Primary History 66
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial
05 The National Curriculum For History From September 2014: The View From Ofsted - Michael Maddison HMI
08 HA Primary News
09 Ideas for Assemblies - Polly Tucknott and Helen Maddison (Read article)
10 Early years foundation stage - Hilary Cooper (Read article)
12 Curriculum planning: How to...
Primary History 66
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Churches as a local historical source
Primary History Article
At Key Stage 1 children should learn about significant events, (e.g. the Great Fire of London) and about people and places in their locality. At Key Stage 2 they should learn about British settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots (e.g. Anglo-Saxon art and culture) and do a local history study (e.g....
Churches as a local historical source
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Stone Age to Iron Age - overview and depth
Primary History article
Stone Age to Iron Age covers around 10,000 years, between the last Ice Age and the coming of the Romans. Such a long period is difficult for children to imagine, but putting the children into a living time-line across the classroom might help. In one sense not a lot happens...
Stone Age to Iron Age - overview and depth
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Ideas for Assemblies: historical events
Article
Here are a few suggestions for assemblies over the next few months (March-June); each idea is linked to a specific historical event from that month...
Ideas for Assemblies: historical events
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Strange Journey: the life of Dorothy Eckersley
Historian article
Meeting in Berlin
Three days before the outbreak of the Second World War, William Joyce, the leader of the British Nazi group, the National Socialist League, was in Berlin. He and his wife, Margaret, had fled there fearing internment by the British government if war broke out. Yet as war...
Strange Journey: the life of Dorothy Eckersley
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Woodcraft Youth: the interwar alternative to scouting
Historian article
‘We should recognize once and for all', exclaimed ‘White Fox', a rebel London Scout leader, ‘that the ideas and ideals which may have fitted fairly well into the social fabric of 1908 [year Scouts formed] may be very ill-fitting "reach-medowns" in 1920'. During the First World War, the enthusiastic support...
Woodcraft Youth: the interwar alternative to scouting
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Teaching History 71
The HA's journal for history teachers
10 Bridge that Gap! Are There Opportunities within the National Curriculum to Promote Co-operative Work between History and English? - Ian Davies and Mary Bousted
15 The National Oracy Project - Hilary Kemeny
17 Oral History: Working with Children - Inge Cramer
20 Historically Speaking - Pauline Loader
23 Skilful...
Teaching History 71
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Teaching History 73
The HA's journal for history teachers
9 Articles: What Is Bias? - Sean Lang
14 Facing some of the Dilemmas of History-teacher Education in South Africa - Rosemary Mulholland and Helen Ludlow
19 Have I Got a Witness? A Consideration of the Use of Historical Witnesses in the Primary Classroom - Peter Vass
25 Teaching Chronology...
Teaching History 73
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Teaching History 74
The HA's journal for history teachers
7 The Aims of School History - John White
10 Beyond the Old Dichotomies: Some Reflections on Hayden White - Keith Jenkins
17 Teaching Post-Modern History: A Rational Proposition for the Classroom? - Peter Brickley
23 What is the Future for the History National Curriculum? - Frances M. Connelly
27...
Teaching History 74
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Adam Smith
Classic Pamphlet
Adam Smith 1723-1790
Adam Smith was so pre-eminently one of the master minds of the eighteenth century and so obviously one of the dominating influences of the nineteenth, in his own country and in the world at large, that is somewhat surprising that we are so ill-informed regarding the details...
Adam Smith
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Teaching History 76
The HA's journal for history teachers
6 I Thought It Was For Picking Bones Out Of Soup ... Using Artefacts In The Primary School - Liz Smith and Cathie Holden
10 Understanding Ethnocentrism: History Teachers Talking - Janet Maw
17 Critical History? - Rob Isaac
19 Language Use and Problem Solving in Primary History - Patricia Hoodless...
Teaching History 76
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Teaching History 78
The HA's journal for history teachers
5 Using History to Develop Citizenship Education in the National Curriculum - Peter John and Ian Davies
8 Developing a Multicultural Perspective Within Key Stage 3 National Curriculum History - Paul Bracey
11 History Education in a Democratic South Africa- Peter Kallaway
17 History Teaching and the Council of Europe -...
Teaching History 78
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The Romanov Tercentenary: nostalgia versus history on the eve of the Great War
Historian article
The spring of 2013 was unusually significant for devotees of the Romanov dynasty. Though there was little international recognition of the fact, the season marked the 400th anniversary of the accession of Russia's first Romanov tsar. Historically, the story was a most dramatic one, for Mikhail Fedorovich had not seized...
The Romanov Tercentenary: nostalgia versus history on the eve of the Great War
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Teaching History 84
The HA's journal for history teachers
4 Viewpoint - Grant Bage
6 Great Britons? An Appraisal of Some Historical Personalities in Key Stage 2 - Peter Vass
10 History and Technology at Key Stage Two: A Practical Partnership- Paul Taylor
15 From Collingwood to the Teaching of Historical Thinking- Teresa Maclsaac
19 'A Concept Quite Alien'?...
Teaching History 84
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Teaching History 86
The HA's journal for history teachers
6 Our History or Your History? - Gillian Wilson
8 The Constructive Use of Role Play at Key Stage 3 - Edwin Towil!
14 Why and how we teach history in schools: the case of the Roman soldier - Terry Haydn
16 In Search of the Missing Railway - Dave Welbourne...
Teaching History 86
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The world in 1913: friendly societies
Historian article
Friendly societies were designed to help members to cope with the illness, death or unemployment of a household's breadwinner. Each month members, mostly men, paid into the society, often at a meeting in a pub and in return payments from the pooled funds were made to ill members and to...
The world in 1913: friendly societies
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Teaching History 87
The HA's journal for history teachers
6 Reading the Bickersteth Diaries - John Bickersteth
8 History at Home - Rob David
14 Nuffield Primary Project (Part I) - John Fines
21 Our History or Your History? (Part 2) - Gillian Wilson
24 Key Stage 2 Multi Cultural Issues (Part I) - Marika Sherwood
27 Primary School...
Teaching History 87
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The Historian 115: The Long Winding Road to the White House
The magazine of the Historical Association
5 Editorial
6 The Long Winding Road to the White House: caucuses, primaries and national party conventions in the history of American presidential elections - Michael Dunne (Read Article)
13 The President's Column - Jackie Eales
14 Focus on Asa Briggs - Donald Read
16 My Favourite History Place -...
The Historian 115: The Long Winding Road to the White House
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Four faces of nursing and the First World War
Historian article
With the centenary approaching, article after article will appear on battles, the men who fought, those who refused, those that died, those who returned and those that made the decisions. There will be articles on the home front and the women that stepped into the men's shoes often to be...
Four faces of nursing and the First World War
