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  • Teaching History 145: Narrative

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Lynda Abbott and Richard S Grayson - Community engagement in local history: a report on the Hemel at War project (Read article) 14 Paul Barrett - ‘My grandfather slammed the door in Winston Churchill's face!' using family history to provoke rigorous enquiry (Read...
    Teaching History 145: Narrative
  • Teaching History 81

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    7 Fiction, Empathy and Teaching History - Victoria Mills 10 History and Language - Sara Alston 11 Teaching Children About Time - Terry Haydn 13 Art History as an Historical Discipline - C.H. Kauffmann 14 Battling On: family history in the primary classroom - Elizabeth M. Corrigan 19 A Tudor Feast...
    Teaching History 81
  • Teaching History 35

      Journal
    Teaching History, February 1983 Number 35 In this issue: Editorial, 2 History in Danger - Margaret Parker, 3 Watching the Detectives: A Critique of the Schools Council's Analogy between the Historian and the Detective - John Plowright, 6 Teaching History Competition, 9 Microcomputers and Local History Work in a Primary...
    Teaching History 35
  • Teaching History 59

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    Articles: History and Economic Awareness in the National Curriculum - David Kerr Deconstruction to Reconstruction: Women's History through Local History - Dave Welbourne Keeping the Past under Review - Linda Vitagliano and Peter Lim History as Ethnography: a Pyschological Evaluation of a Theatre in Education Project - George Shand, Rosemary Linnell and Derek...
    Teaching History 59
  • Exploring big overviews through local depth

      Teaching History article
    Exploring big overviews through local depth Rachel Foster and Kath Goudie's search for a more rigorous and interesting way of teaching Year 7 the Norman Conquest was initially driven by a desire to incorporate local history in a more meaningful way in their Key Stage 3 schemes of work. This...
    Exploring big overviews through local depth
  • Writing Letchworth's war: developing a sense of the local within historical fiction through primary sources

      Teaching History article
    Writing Letchworth's war: developing a sense of the local within historical fiction through primary sources Local history, historical fiction, and one of the most significant events of the twentieth century come together in this article as Jon Grant and Dan Townsend suggest a way to enable students to produce better...
    Writing Letchworth's war: developing a sense of the local within historical fiction through primary sources
  • Teaching History 80

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    5 Re-Thinking Collingwood: a reply to Keith Jenkins's Re-thinking History - Mamie T.E. Hughes 9 Secondary History Teaching and the OFSTED Inspections: an analysis and discussion of history comments - Paul Bowen 14 The Re-appearance of a Cheshire Cat - teaching the history of Britain at key stage 3 -...
    Teaching History 80
  • Exploring diversity at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Having already reflected on ways of improving their students' understanding of historical diversity at Key Stage 3, Joanne Philpott and Daniel Guiney set themselves the challenge of extending this to post-14 students by means of fieldwork activities at First World War battlefields sites. In addition, they wanted to link the study...
    Exploring diversity at GCSE
  • Teaching History 168: Re-examining History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update – curriculum planning questions  08 Designing end-of-year exams: trials and tribulations – Matt Stanford (Read article) 16 Learning without limits: how not to leave some learners with a thin gruel of a curriculum – Richard Kerridge (Read article) 24 From...
    Teaching History 168: Re-examining History
  • Teaching History 21

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 2 Children's Inductive Historical Thought: an Interim Report from a Current Research Project - Martin Booth, 3 Classified Advertisements, 8 An Approach to Learning History in Primary Schools - R. N. Hallam, 9 Young Children and the Past - Joan Blyth, 15 Teaching the Varieties of...
    Teaching History 21
  • Teaching History 44

      Journal
    Editorial Grade Criteria: opportunity or impending disaster? - R. Ben Jones Domesday Book - past and present, John Fines and Jon Nichol An Appreciation of Joe Hunt Childwrite, Teresa Clark Computer Update The Teaching of Irish History in the Secondary School, Roger Swift The Contributors Town and Country in the...
    Teaching History 44
  • Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers

      Teaching History article
    Kate Hawkey and Helen Snelson, who have both worked for many years in initial teacher education, wanted to find ways of supporting recently qualified teachers in continuing to develop their practice. Working in two different parts of the country, they established different kinds of informal, but well-focused history-specific, support groups....
    Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers
  • Using sites for insights

      Teaching History article
    Working alongside local history teachers to prepare for the new GCSE specifications Steve Illingworth and Emma Manners were struck that many teachers were concerned about two issues in particular: the breadth and depth of knowledge demanded and new forms of assessment, especially the historic environment paper. In this article they...
    Using sites for insights
  • 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
  • Teaching History 169: A Time and a Place

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update – Teaching local history at Key Stage 3 08 From temple to forum: teaching final-year history students to become critical museum visitors – Michael Harcourt (Read article) 16 Triumphs Show: Using 360° VR technology with the GCSE Historic Environment study...
    Teaching History 169: A Time and a Place
  • Looking through the keyhole at Birkenhead from 1900 to 1950 with Year 7

      Journal article
    Matt Jones wanted to harness the power of local history to help his students understand the profound social changes experienced across Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. While he hoped that the personal stories of six families in Birkenhead would help to humanise abstract concepts such as...
    Looking through the keyhole at Birkenhead from 1900 to 1950 with Year 7
  • Teaching History 185: Missing stories

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article for free) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 10 Teaching Britain’s ‘civil rights’ history: activism and citizenship in context – Hannah Elias and Martin Spafford (Read article) 22 Illuminating the possibilities of the past: the role of representation in A-level curriculum planning – Claire Holliss (Read article)...
    Teaching History 185: Missing stories
  • Teaching History 182: A Sense of Period

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial: A Sense of Period (Read article for free) HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Exploring the ‘remembered’: using oral history to enhance a local history partnership – Emily Toettcher and Eliza West (Read article) 16 Triumphs Show: A public lecture series: a peek behind the scenes of...
    Teaching History 182: A Sense of Period
  • Teaching History 31

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 List of Historical Association Area Education Advisers, 3 The 'Records Road Show' or Documents in Essex Classrooms - Ian Mason, 4 Schooling the Local Historian - Gareth Elwyn Jones, 7 Local History Teaching and the Ordinary Child - R. D. Woodall, 10 Lincolnshire Teachers' Views on a 16...
    Teaching History 31
  • Teaching History 29

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 Notes on Contributors, 3 The Assassination of John F. Kennedy - Keith Hodgkinson and Michael Long, 3 Notes and news, 7 Primary School Children's Preception of Authenticity and Time in Historical Narrative Pictures - John West, 8 A Course in Local History Tonbridge and Kent - Andrew Reekes,...
    Teaching History 29
  • Seeing a different picture: exploring migration through the lens of history

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Rosie Sheldrake and Dale Banham here share the results of their desire to use the curriculum changes which are upon us to do something which they had intended for some time. Their modern world study...
    Seeing a different picture: exploring migration through the lens of history
  • 'How our area used to be back then': An oral history project in an east London school

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. How can oral history enquiries engage students with the study of history and help them connect their learning about the past to their present lives? How can oral history engage and develop students' understanding of...
    'How our area used to be back then': An oral history project in an east London school
  • Finding voices in the past: exploring identity through the biography of a house

      Teaching History article
    Heather De Silva, Jenny Smith and Jason Tranter outline a new study unit, planned jointly by their history and geography departments and designed specifically to meet the new requirements for local history required by England’s recently revised National Curriculum for history. They aimed to help pupils to capture a part...
    Finding voices in the past: exploring identity through the biography of a house
  • Teaching History 198: Curriculum Journeys

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 HA Update 08 Unpacking the enquiry puzzle – Ben Arscott (Read article) 16 ‘What’s the point of learning history?’ Establishing a dialogue with Year 9 about why environmental history matters – Alex Benger (Read article) 26 Cunning Plan… for using the story of Eunice Foote...
    Teaching History 198: Curriculum Journeys
  • Teaching History 201: Interpreting the Past

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 HA Update: SEND matters 08 Working 9–5: how painters, plumbers and programmers help our pupils understand the role of the historian – Jessie Phillips and Sarah Jackson-Buckley (Read article) 18 What use is the myth of Winston Churchill? Teaching Year 9...
    Teaching History 201: Interpreting the Past