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  • Triumphs Show 120.2: using role play to explain military history

      Teaching History feature
    Julian Critchley demonstrates how role play can be used to explain military history.
    Triumphs Show 120.2: using role play to explain military history

  • Polychronicon 160: Interpreting 'The Birth of a Nation'

      Teaching History feature
    Controversial from the first year of its release in 1915, 'The Birth of a Nation' has been hailed as both the greatest film ever made and the most racist. On 8 February 1915, it premiered in Los Angeles as 'The Clansman', the name of the novel and play upon which...
    Polychronicon 160: Interpreting 'The Birth of a Nation'

  • Polychronicon 169: Herodotus

      Journal article
    You can buy a cheap flight to Bodrum (south-west Turkey), now a popular package holiday tourist destination and in antiquity named Halicarnassus, and visit ancient Greek temples and a theatre dating back more than 2,000 years. In Bodrum’s incomparable Underwater Archaeology Museum, you can admire the extraordinary Phoenician, Carian, Cypriot,...
    Polychronicon 169: Herodotus

  • Historiography from below: how undergraduates remember learning history at school

      Teaching History article
    What do our students make of the history that we teach them? As part of an introductory module on historiography, Marcus Collins asked his undergraduate students to analyse the history that they had been taught at school and college using historiographic concepts. The results make for interesting reading. What do...
    Historiography from below: how undergraduates remember learning history at school

  • Triumphs Show 133: Little Miss Cold War

      Teaching History feature
    Students can find it hard to understand and remember the differing schools of interpretation that they encounter at A2. The process of studying differing historiographic claims can also seem rather dry and tedious. It is crucial that they grasp differences in interpretation if they are to succeed in their examinations,...
    Triumphs Show 133: Little Miss Cold War

  • Working with Boudicca texts - contemporary, juvenile and scholarly

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article was written before the the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may now be outdated. Robert Guyver describes a model for teaching Boudicca’s rebellion to pupils aged 7 to 13. Drawing on the tradition of critical source evaluation, he nonetheless shuns aspects of that tradition in favour of...
    Working with Boudicca texts - contemporary, juvenile and scholarly

  • Carr, Evans, Oakshott and Rudge: the benefits of AEA history

      Teaching History article
    Sometimes the only way to go beyond the exam is to take another, more difficult, test. For the top—the very top—A2 students, there is such a test available. The Advanced Extension Award [AEA] is a history paper which encourages students finishing their school careers to think about history in a...
    Carr, Evans, Oakshott and Rudge: the benefits of AEA history

  • Teaching History 100: Thinking and Feeling

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Exploring Values Through History, Rethinking roleplay, Gladstone spritual of Gladstone material? A rationale for using documents at AS and A2, Telling and suggesting in the Conwy Valley, NQT's, Confronting otherness: developing scrutiny and inference skills through drawing and much more... ‘I’ve been in the Reichstag’: rethinking roleplay - Ian Luff...
    Teaching History 100: Thinking and Feeling

  • The Power of Context: using a visual source

      Teaching History article
    Drawing on her wealth of experience and expertise in using visual sources in the classroom, in this article Jane Card explores how a single painting, a portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay and her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray, might form the basis for a sequence of lessons. Arguing that although highly...
    The Power of Context: using a visual source

  • Getting Year 10 to understand the value of precise factual knowledge

      Teaching History article
    Up until the early 1990s, historical knowledge sometimes had rather a bad press. Various developments, in National Curriculum, at GCSE and, importantly, in ordinary teachers’ practice and debate, then led to a much closer integration of what we once called ‘content’ and ‘skills’. Tony McAleavy examined changing perceptions of the...
    Getting Year 10 to understand the value of precise factual knowledge

  • Teaching History 194: Climate and Environment

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition of HA's Teaching History journal is free to download via the link at the bottom of the page (individual article links within the page are not free access unless otherwise stated). For a subscription to Teaching History (published quarterly), plus access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials...
    Teaching History 194: Climate and Environment

  • Teaching History 150: Enduring Principles

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 Letters 05 HA Secondary News 06 Mary Brown - From Muddleton Manor to Clarity Cathedral: improving Year 12's extended writing through an enhanced sense of the reader (Read article) 14 John Stanier ‘Much to learn you still have!' An attempt to make Year 9 Masters of Learning...
    Teaching History 150: Enduring Principles

  • Teaching History 171: Knowledge

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition of HA's Teaching History journal is free to download via the link at the bottom of the page (individual article links within the page are not free access unless otherwise stated). For a subscription to Teaching History (published quarterly), plus access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials...
    Teaching History 171: Knowledge

  • Triumphs Show 113: How to make the Elizabethan Religious Settlement sufficiently complicated for Year 8

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of the 'Triumphs Show' explains 'How to make the Elizabethan Religious Settlement sufficiently complicated for Year 8'.
    Triumphs Show 113: How to make the Elizabethan Religious Settlement sufficiently complicated for Year 8

  • Teaching History 172: Cause and consequence

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Teaching History is the UK’s leading professional journal for history teachers at secondary level.It is free to HA Secondary Members. Read an edition of Teaching History for free 02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 ‘Its ultimate pattern was greater than its parts’: using a patchwork quilt analogy...
    Teaching History 172: Cause and consequence

  • Using timelines in assessment

      Teaching History article
    Bridging a twenty-year gap in their practice, Elizabeth Carr and Christine Counsell bring out the similarities in their use of timelines in their planning, teaching and assessment. What they also have in common is the fact that their experimentation with timelines as a way of strengthening cumulative knowledge emerged in...
    Using timelines in assessment

  • Teaching History 133: Simulating History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Stories and their sources: the need for historical thinking in an information age – Ben Walsh (Read article) 10 How to make historical simulations adaptable, engaging and manageable – Dan Moorhouse (Read article) 17 Nutshell 18 ‘If everyone’s got to vote then, obviously…...
    Teaching History 133: Simulating History

  • Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society

      Teaching History article
    Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society Elizabeth Carr writes here about a new scheme of work she developed to teach students about diversity in Victorian society. When dealing with a concept such as diversity, it can be easy for students to slip into stereotypes based...
    Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society

  • A poodle with bite: Using ICT to make AS level more rigorous

      Teaching History article
    Diana Laffin describes two substantial ICT activities designed to strengthen both motivation and rigour in Year 12. In her first activity, she uses the power of ICT to develop a critical sense of audience. She shows how this can have a direct impact on improving performance in relation to examination...
    A poodle with bite: Using ICT to make AS level more rigorous

  • The 'structured enquiry' is not a contradiction in terms: focused teaching for independent learning

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Mike Gorman uses the language of the National Curriculum Order to describe and analyse his practice. Yet he throws down a challenge to those who use it uncritically rather than interpreting it to make their...
    The 'structured enquiry' is not a contradiction in terms: focused teaching for independent learning

  • No more mark schemes: manageable and meaningful assessment for Years 7–9

      Teaching History article
    In seeking to answer the question of how to make valid, reliable, and meaningful judgements about students’ work in history, Elizabeth Carr’s department abandoned criteria-based mark schemes and replaced them with a form of comparative judgement conducted in relation to a series of exemplars. In this article, Carr explains the...
    No more mark schemes: manageable and meaningful assessment for Years 7–9

  • Do we have to read all of this?' Encouraging students to read for understanding

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What’s the hardest part of history? Heads of Year 9 at options time seem depressingly clear - ‘Don’t do history, there’s too much writing.’ David Hellier and Helen Richards show that at The Green School...
    Do we have to read all of this?' Encouraging students to read for understanding

  • Stretching the straight jacket of assessment: use of role play and practical demonstration to enrich pupils' experience of history at GCSE and beyond

      Teaching History article
    As in his previous, popular and influential Teaching History articles, Ian Luff has once again provided us with a wide range of high-quality, practical activities informed by a rigorous and persuasive rationale. This time, he has turned his attention to the use of role play and active demonstration at GCSE...
    Stretching the straight jacket of assessment: use of role play and practical demonstration to enrich pupils' experience of history at GCSE and beyond

  • Power, authority and geography

      Teaching History article
    Dissatisfied by her previous enquiries on medieval kingship and inspired by Helen Castor’s 'She-Wolves', Elizabeth Carr sought to incorporate the stories of powerful medieval women such as Empress Matilda and Eleanor of Aquitaine into her Key Stage 3 curriculum. Carr used these stories to highlight to her pupils the crucial...
    Power, authority and geography

  • Unravelling the complexity of the causes of British abolition with Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Elizabeth Marsay wanted to ensure that her students were not hindered in their causal explanations of the abolition of slavery by being exposed to overly categorical, simplistic, and monocausal narratives in the classroom. By drawing on both English and Canadian theorisation about causation, Marsay outlines how her introduction of competing...
    Unravelling the complexity of the causes of British abolition with Year 8