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  • The Historian 116: Devon's Militia and the Spanish Armada Crisis

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial 6 The Fall Of Singapore 1942 - Ted Green (Read Article) 11 The President's Column - Jackie Eales 12 My Favourite History Place: All Saints' Church, Harewood - Ian Dawson (Read Article) 13 1066 and all that in ten tweets - Paula Kitching 14 News from...
    The Historian 116: Devon's Militia and the Spanish Armada Crisis

  • The National Insurance Act 1911: three perspectives, one policy

      Historian article
    Sandwiched between the Parliament Act and the Home Rule Act, the National Insurance Act 1911 is easily overlooked and often forgotten. Yet, as Gilbert has pointed out, it was critical both of itself and as the foundation for social legislation up to current times. It came into force on 15...
    The National Insurance Act 1911: three perspectives, one policy

  • Teaching History 149: In Search of the Question

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial  03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Ed Podesta - Helping Year 7 put some flesh on Roman bones (Read article) 18 Diana Laffin - Marr: magpie or marsh harrier? The quest for the common characteristics of the genus ‘historian' with 16- to 19-year-olds (Read article) 26 Cunning...
    Teaching History 149: In Search of the Question

  • How damaging to the Nazis was the Shetland Bus between 1940 and 1944?

      Historian article
    The Shetland Bus operation may be considered successful in that it supplied Norwegian resistance movements with weapons and took many refugees from Norway to Shetland, and that it managed to bind just shy of 300,000 German troops in Norway. However, because of this operation, forty-four men lost their lives, and...
    How damaging to the Nazis was the Shetland Bus between 1940 and 1944?

  • '...trying to count the stars': using the story of Bergen-Belsen to teach the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Maria Osowiecki's search for the right questions to frame her students' study of the Holocaust was driven initially by the proximity of her school to the site of Bergen-Belsen, and the particular interests and concerns of her students as members of British Forces families. But, as this article richly demonstrates,...
    '...trying to count the stars': using the story of Bergen-Belsen to teach the Holocaust

  • Case Study: Hit the net!

      Primary History case study
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Primary History's editorial team set me the challenge of seeing how useful ICT would be in my teaching. The challenge was timely, as I recently inherited a Year Six History class with its unit of work "Life in Britain since the 1930s"....
    Case Study: Hit the net!

  • Cunning Plan 149.2: Exploring the Migration experience

      Teaching History feature
    Teaching a class of newly arrived immigrant teenagers from various backgrounds and ethnicities poses many interesting challenges: varied levels of schooling, varied levels of mastery in a new language, no common frame of reference, varied ways of understanding and making sense of the world and very varied ways of making...
    Cunning Plan 149.2: Exploring the Migration experience

  • Polychronicon 149: Interpreting the Persian Wars

      Teaching History feature
    Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. So begins Robert Graves' poem, The Persian Version. The conceit of the poem is to invert the standard narrative of the Persian war of the early fifth century BC - a narrative drawn from Greek sources such as...
    Polychronicon 149: Interpreting the Persian Wars

  • The Origins of the Second Great War

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet provides a detailed account of  the events leading up to the outbreak of war in 1939, covering the various factors that played a role in the outbreak of war such as tension over Poland and the Spanish Civil War, as well as the nature and effect of diplomatic...
    The Origins of the Second Great War

  • Out and About in Halifax 1863-2013

      Historian feature
    The 150th anniversary of Halifax Town Hall in 2013 provides an opportunity to explore the rich heritage of this Pennine town as did its first British royal visitor in 1863. It was unusual for the national press to descend on Halifax, as they did on 3 and 4 August 1863,...
    Out and About in Halifax 1863-2013

  • Co-ordinators' concerns: ICT and OFSTED

      Primary History feature
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. There is an expectation that we extensively use information technology across the curriculum. I don't mind this but I've always felt a bit uncomfortable. Using it with history always seems to compromise the quality of the history. I am worried though...
    Co-ordinators' concerns: ICT and OFSTED

  • My Favourite History Place - All Saint's Church, Harewood

      Historian feature
    Harewood House, a few miles north of Leeds, attracts many historically-minded visitors to enjoy the work of Adam, Chippendale and Capability Brown but to my mind the real treasures of Harewood lie elsewhere. After negotiating the payment booths take the path immediately on your right, leading to the redundant church...
    My Favourite History Place - All Saint's Church, Harewood

  • 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

  • The Interactive Whiteboard or Smart Board

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The interactive whiteboard [smartboard] has opened a pathway to explore sources and develop historical interest for children of all ages. It can be used in varied ways that allow a teacher to customise activities to match their intended outcomes. Support for this...
    The Interactive Whiteboard or Smart Board

  • History, ICT and the digital age

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Three things are important 1.Don't fall for the hype You are not a bad teacher if you are not using a lot of technology in history or any other area! Research evidence does not support many of the claims made about...
    History, ICT and the digital age

  • Case Study: Effectively using the census in the classroom

      Primary History case study
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The British government introduced the census in 1801 to count every man, woman and child in the UK. The Census has been repeated, with increasing detail, every 10 years, with the exception of 1941, since then. This gives us an amazing...
    Case Study: Effectively using the census in the classroom

  • The International Journal Volume 3 Number 2

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 3 Number 2 July 2003 ISSN 1472 - 9466 Editorial Keith Crawford - The Role and Purpose of Textbooks   Articles Jason Nicholls  - Methods in School Textbook Research   Penelope Harnett - History in the Primary School: the Contribution of...
    The International Journal Volume 3 Number 2

  • The International Journal Volume 3 Number 1

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Teaching, Learning and Research Volume 3 Number 1 January 2003 Editorial British Island Stories: History, Schools and Nationhood - Robert Phillips   Articles School History, National History and the Issue of National Identity - Ann Low-Beer   Nationalism and the Origins of Prejudice - Cedric Cullingford  ...
    The International Journal Volume 3 Number 1

  • The International Journal Volume 2 Number 2

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 2, Number 2 July 2002 Letting the Past Speak Contributor John Fines (1938-1999) An obituary by Jon Nichol 3 Introduction 5 1 History In Schools 1. What is History for in Schools? 6 2. The Respect that is Owed to the...
    The International Journal Volume 2 Number 2

  • The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

      Journal
    Editorial  - History and the History Curriculum Articles Isabel Barca - Prospective teachers' ideas about assessing different accounts    Keith Barton - Primary children's understanding of the role of historical evidence: Comparisons between the United States and Northern Ireland    Carley Dalvarez - The Contribution of History to Citizenship Education ...
    The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

  • Move Me On 149: how to provide appropriate support for particular students

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Helen Troy is uncertain how to provide appropriate support for certain students without restricting what they can achieve. Helen showed considerable determination in securing her teacher training place. Her own education had been within a highly selective school system and her first application was unsuccessful because of...
    Move Me On 149: how to provide appropriate support for particular students

  • English Heritage's Heritage Explorer

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. [THINK BUBBLE, has burst, r.i.p... Diogenes, a curmudgeonly Ancient Greek cynic, has taken its place. The original Grumpy Old Man Diogenes typically looks back to a mythical golden age] Introduction Unfortunately I'm old enough to remember a time when primary school...
    English Heritage's Heritage Explorer

  • Designing an enquiry in a challenging setting

      Teaching History article
    The Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR) is a Cyprus-based organization that works to foster dialogue among history teachers and other educators across the divide in Cyprus. In one of their UN-funded projects, ADHR members worked with UK colleagues to shape a lesson sequence and resources on the Ottoman period...
    Designing an enquiry in a challenging setting

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 149: Getting pupils to argue about causes

      Teaching History feature
    Every problem you're wrestling with in the history classroom, other history teachers have wrestled with too. This page is for all those new to the published writings of history teachers in Teaching History. It shows how to make a start in understanding how others have explored and discussed common and...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 149: Getting pupils to argue about causes

  • Competition and counterfactuals without confusion

      Teaching History article
    Paula Worth was searching not only for a rigorous question, capable of engendering genuine debate, but also for an engaging and enjoyable activity that would secure GCSE students' substantive knowledge. The answer - or rather the question - lay in counterfactual thinking: a carefully crafted game that she devised, based...
    Competition and counterfactuals without confusion