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  • The Plague in Cumberland 1597-1598. Some documents used in the Cumbria Record Office (Carlisle) by Key Stage 2 pupils studying the Tudors

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Outbreaks of the plague were common in the 16th century and the north of England was badly affected in the 1590s. It is believed that the plague arrived in Cumberland from Newcastle about Michaelmas 1597 and continued for over a year. The...
    The Plague in Cumberland 1597-1598. Some documents used in the Cumbria Record Office (Carlisle) by Key Stage 2 pupils studying the Tudors

  • Questions you have always wanted to ask about...Citizenship and History

      Primary History article
    Please note: This article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. Hilary Claire answers questions about Citizenship and History.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about...Citizenship and History

  • What is good history? The criteria for effective primary school history

      Article
    This section attempts to identify the principles for good history in primary schools both in terms of knowledge, skills, and understanding and how the teaching might be organised.
    What is good history? The criteria for effective primary school history

  • How do we ensure really good local history in primary schools?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Primary History regularly contains articles from teachers who have taken some aspect of their locality and turned it into a really good activity. Hundreds of OFSTED reports as well, comment on really good practice in...
    How do we ensure really good local history in primary schools?

  • Refined, high-class and thrilling entertainment!

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. There is a huge range of moving image material that provides, or purports to provide, direct documentary coverage of many historical events over the last 105 years. You can access much that is suitable for primary children from television and the video...
    Refined, high-class and thrilling entertainment!

  • ‘No one else knows this’: Scottish primary schools using ICT to investigate local history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. John W Robertson explains how computer databases can be used by primary school children to investigate local history.
    ‘No one else knows this’: Scottish primary schools using ICT to investigate local history

  • Looking at buildings as a source for developing historical enquiries

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article was written before the the 2014 National Curriculum. The section on using computers in particular is now outdated.  Buildings offer a fascinating insight into history. We live, work and shop in buildings of various descriptions. Some of these buildings are very new, others are very old. Frequently...
    Looking at buildings as a source for developing historical enquiries

  • It's like they've gone up a year!' Gauging the impact of a history transition unit on teachers of primary and secondary

      Teaching History article
    Year 7 history teachers frequently bemoan the lack of historical learning in the primary sector. Pupils may be well versed in suffixes and similes, but their study of history can be limited. This group of history teachers decided that things could be different. Not only did they bring enquiry methods...
    It's like they've gone up a year!' Gauging the impact of a history transition unit on teachers of primary and secondary

  • Using school logbooks - Bishop Graham Memorial Ragged School, Chester

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Logbooks can be described as the diary of the headmaster. The contents can vary in interest depending on how diligent the headmaster was at recording events. Some merely record the delivery of coals, the attendance at the school or the visitors to...
    Using school logbooks - Bishop Graham Memorial Ragged School, Chester

  • Literacy, text-genres and history: reading and learning from difficult and challenging texts

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. This paper examines the application of TEXT-BREAKER to a year 3 class being taught a history text in the Literacy hour. The context was the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in Britain Study Unit of the National Curriculum for History (DFE, 1995). Within...
    Literacy, text-genres and history: reading and learning from difficult and challenging texts