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  • Teaching History 20

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 2 Residential Courses for Sixth Formers - Tony Taylor, 3 What is History? Two Conferences - Brian Scott, 5 Structured Sixth Form Study - David Killingray, 8 16+ Feasibility Study and Oral Assessment - John Hamer, 10 Comment, 13 Reports: Language and History Teaching, 15 History...
    Teaching History 20

  • Move Me On 132: Already the best teacher in the department

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Phyllis Wheatley already seems to be the most effective teacher in the department. How can her mentor ensure that she goes on learning? Phyllis Wheatley is several weeks into her second placement and her mentor, Selina, is acutely aware of how impressive her teaching is already. A degree in...
    Move Me On 132: Already the best teacher in the department

  • Polychronicon 113: slavery in 20th-century America

      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' is on 'Interpreting...
    Polychronicon 113: slavery in 20th-century America

  • Using a Local Museum, Fulham Palace, the Hidden Jewel of West London

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. ‘The 2,500 museums in the United Kingdom are a resource for public learning of exceptional educational, social, economic and spiritual value - a common wealth. This wealth is held in trust by museums for the...
    Using a Local Museum, Fulham Palace, the Hidden Jewel of West London

  • Case Study: Pictorial Recording

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. The innovative use of visual images as communication mode and stimulus to writing is provided by Jan, a teacher on one of the Nuffield courses. Children, and adults, have trouble in making effective...
    Case Study: Pictorial Recording

  • The Terror in the French Revolution

      Classic Pamphlet
    A natural reaction to the history of the French Revolution is to see it as a glorious movement for liberty which somehow ‘went wrong', ending in a nightmare of blood and chaos. This pamphlet explains what really happened, and why. It shows how the apparent achievements of the first two...
    The Terror in the French Revolution

  • The Historian 16

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Reflections on the Armada Campaign, A.N. Ryan 10 Europe: Adventure in Understanding, Frederic Delouche 11 Update: Women in America, Margaret Walsh 14 Education: History in Primary Schools, Ann Low-Beer 15 Eyewitness: Letters from Nuremberg, Ron Brooks
    The Historian 16

  • Democracy is not boring

      Teaching History article
    Seán Lang argues that whilst history teachers have expressed much support for the citizenship education proposals, and whilst their practice already addresses the skills of evidence-weighing, debate and argument, there are huge gaps in our coverage of relevant content. He argues that the freedom with which teachers may currently interpret...
    Democracy is not boring

  • Stories and National Identity

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. If you were asked to select just one story which you thought all children should know about British history, what would it be? Would it be Guy Fawkes or Florence Nightingale? The battle of Hastings...
    Stories and National Identity

  • Late Medieval Taxation Records

      Historian article
    There are more than 23,000 medieval taxation records from England and Wales in the Public Record Office alone. For many years the vast majority of them have lain undisturbed in their archive boxes, but recent work is showing the true value of some of these as historical sources and making...
    Late Medieval Taxation Records

  • Exploring change and continuity with Year 7

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. A great deal has been written about causation in the pages of Teaching History. From camels to linguistics, this is a second-order concept that teachers and pupils frequently deliberate. Departments balance the need for substantive knowledge with explicit...
    Exploring change and continuity with Year 7

  • Out and About: Charles Darwin, a voyage of discovery

      Historian feature
    Dave Martin follows Charles Darwin’s journey from university back to his birthplace, Shrewsbury. Cambridge The bronze statue of Darwin as a young man perches elegantly on the arm of a garden bench in the grounds of Christ’s College, Cambridge where he was a student from 1829 to 1831. Of this...
    Out and About: Charles Darwin, a voyage of discovery

  • Using this map and all your knowledge, become Bismarck

      Teaching History article
    Understanding the past is not an abstract exercise. Historical questions revolve around decisions made by real people under real pressure. As historians, we factor psychological pressure into our analysis. How, though, are we to enable our students to do the same? To study why Bismarck began a programme of overseas...
    Using this map and all your knowledge, become Bismarck

  • Polychronicon 112: The Angevin Empire

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its ownage. 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 the 'Polychronicon' concentrates on the...
    Polychronicon 112: The Angevin Empire

  • Henry VIII

      Classis Pamphlet
    What shall we think of Henry VIII? However that question has been or may be answered, one reply is apparently impossible. Not even the most resolute believer in deterministic interpretations of history seems able to escape the spell of that magnificent figure; I know of no book on the age...
    Henry VIII

  • Enhancing temporal cognition: practical activities for the primary classroom

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Research during the last eighty years has suggested that ‘time’ concepts, such as chronology, duration and the usage of dating systems are difficult for children to assimilate. However, my recent research would suggest that temporal concepts...
    Enhancing temporal cognition: practical activities for the primary classroom

  • Landowners and their motives for change at the Suffolk village of Culford between 1793 and 1903

      Historian article
    Isabel Jones from Thomas Mills High School at Framlingham was the winner of the Young Historian Award for Local History [16-19] in 2006. The Director of the Young Historian Project, Trevor James, has edited her winning essay. It has been shortened and the footnotes removed, to enable it to fit...
    Landowners and their motives for change at the Suffolk village of Culford between 1793 and 1903

  • The Historian 78: Protestantism and art in early modern England

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 6 Protestantism and art in early modern England - Keith Thomas (Medlicott Lecture to the Historical Association at the Wallace Collection, London, 5 April 2003) (Read article) 18 To what extent was the failure of denazification in Germany 1945-48 a result of the apathy of the allies? -...
    The Historian 78: Protestantism and art in early modern England

  • Exceptional performance at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    In the last edition of Teaching History (February 1999, Issue 94) Kate Hammond used her own planning and classroom practice to extract some principles for stretching the very able pupil at Key Stage 3. How should history teachers build on this at GCSE? One way of defining goals for such...
    Exceptional performance at GCSE

  • What’s in your pocket, Peg?

      Primary History article
    What’s in your pocket, Peg? is a story book about Jersey which experienced German occupation throughout most of World War II. We wanted to create a book that appealed to children across different primary age groups, helping them to imagine the first-hand life experiences of a child alive at that time. The...
    What’s in your pocket, Peg?

  • Conceptual awareness through categorising: using ICT to get Year 13 reading

      Teaching History article
    When presenting their practical approaches to post-16 teaching in Teaching History 103, both Richard Harris and Rachael Rudham argued that students need to ‘do’ things with information, to process it, play with it, classify it, if they are ever to understand or remember it. They made a case for not...
    Conceptual awareness through categorising: using ICT to get Year 13 reading

  • Move Me On 108: Reconciling sources and stories

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Indira is having problems reconciling sources and stories in teaching history. 
    Move Me On 108: Reconciling sources and stories

  • The London Charterhouse

      Historian article
    Four hundred years ago, in 1611, Thomas Sutton was reputed to be the wealthiest commoner in England but he was nearing the end of his life. He had been a financier and he was formerly the Master of Ordnance in the Northern Parts. He decided to take up good works...
    The London Charterhouse

  • Short cuts to deep knowledge

      Teaching History article
    Sam Pullan explains how a chance encounter has helped him to improve his introduction to the modern themes and founding documents of US politics. Working with a professional historian whom he met, by chance, over dinner, he was able to produce lessons at the cutting edge of subject knowledge to...
    Short cuts to deep knowledge

  • Teaching History 19

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 2 The Genesis of the History Teaching Film - B. J. Elliott, 3 Film and the History Teacher - J. Duckworth, 8 A Select List of Feature Films of use in the Teaching of History - T. Gwynn, 11 New Approaches to the Study and Teaching...
    Teaching History 19