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  • Right up my street: the knowledge needed to plan a local history enquiry

      Journal article
    Inspired by the claim that local history can be taught effectively ‘Any time, any place, anywhere’, Katharine Burn and Jason Todd took up the challenge of planning Key Stage 3 enquiries related to an unusual and diverse, but frequently neglected and often despised, corner of Oxford. They sought not merely...
    Right up my street: the knowledge needed to plan a local history enquiry

  • A Local History Toolkit

      Article
    IntroductionIn this short paper you will discover some of the tools for ‘doing' local history. They are based on where I live: you can get similar types of sources from where you live, work or teach. Your main source will be a local library or record office, but there is...
    A Local History Toolkit

  • Relevant, rigorous and revisited: using local history to make meaning of historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The idea of engaging pupils with the relevance of local memorials is becoming commonplace in the history classroom. In Teaching History 109, Examining History  Edition, Dale Banham's pupils used First World War memorials to assess...
    Relevant, rigorous and revisited: using local history to make meaning of historical significance

  • Using oral history to enhance a local history partnership

      Teaching History article
    Eliza West and Emily Toettcher explain how a partnership between school and museum has evolved into a four-year enquiry into local history. The article focuses on the successful introduction of an oral history element in the GCSE syllabus and how the investigation into ‘remembered’ history helps students to appreciate the complexities of truth...
    Using oral history to enhance a local history partnership

  • Triumphs Show 170: making a place for fieldwork in history lessons

      Journal article
    Why ‘do’ local history? The new (grades 9–1) GCSE specifications place a lot of importance on the local environment. The rationale for this is to get students to situate a site in its historical context, and to examine the relationship between local and national developments. Initially this change was the...
    Triumphs Show 170: making a place for fieldwork in history lessons

  • 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

  • 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

  • Liaising with Others - Quick Links

      List of Articles
    Liasing with Others (Links) Liaising with an historian: ‘Miss, did this really happen here?' Exploring big overviews through local depthLiaising with the community: Teaching the very recent past: ‘Miriam's Vision' and the London bombingsLiaising with the academy: Using time-lines in assessmentLiaising with an historian: Taking new historical research into the...
    Liaising with Others - Quick Links

  • English Heritage and Historical Association Local Heritage Project

      Article
    One year ago (2011), the south eastern branch of English Heritage and the Historical Association came together to see what we could do better in partnership. The outcome was the Local Heritage Partnership Project. The vision was to work together to provide access to and inspiration to carry out local...
    English Heritage and Historical Association Local Heritage Project

  • Guidance Pack: Building a Local Teacher Network

      Information
    We know that it is difficult for teachers to get to events too far from school. As a national charity, the HA recognises the importance and need to build strong regional networks for the history teaching community. Many of these are already existing or organically growing across the country at...
    Guidance Pack: Building a Local Teacher Network

  • Can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention?

      Teaching History article
    Patterns of genocide: can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention? Alison Stephen, who has wrestled for many years with the challenges of teaching emotional and controversial history within a multiethnic school setting, relished the opportunity to link her school's teaching of the Holocaust with a comparative study of other genocides....
    Can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention?

  • What about history? Lessons from seven years with project-based learning

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Alternative curriculum models can take many forms. Some seem to be imposed on reluctant history teachers with little opportunity for planning. Other teachers are given the opportunity to really embed and revise models that might...
    What about history? Lessons from seven years with project-based learning

  • Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar

      Article
    Connecting Classrooms: bringing together Bradford and Peshawar, primary and secondary schools, history and English In this article, Dianne Excell shares her experience of a crossphase, collaborative project funded by the British Council that brought together teachers and pupils from three schools in Bradford and five schools in Peshawar, Pakistan. Although...
    Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar

  • Teaching about heritage through a cross-curricular enquiry

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What should we do with our brightest and best? Neal Watkin and Johannes Ahrenfelt suggest an enquiry for a very high ability Year 8 group which is both challenging and genuinely historical. The enquiry itself...
    Teaching about heritage through a cross-curricular enquiry

  • History and Mathematics or History with Mathematics: does it add up?

      Teaching History article
    Ian Phillips expresses some frustration with the way the Numeracy across the Curriculum strand of England’s Key Stage 3 Strategy is sometimes presented. He argues that the acid test of cross-curricular numeracy is the value of mathematical understanding in aiding historical thinking and imagination. He criticises attempts to plant numeracy...
    History and Mathematics or History with Mathematics: does it add up?

  • History's secret weapon: the enquiry of a disciplined mind

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. As a local authority adviser, Andrew Wrenn's advice has often been sought by history departments, both those seeking to resist ill-conceived and potentially damaging cross-curricular initiatives and those keen to exploit new opportunities for meaningful...
    History's secret weapon: the enquiry of a disciplined mind

  • Interdisciplinary forays within the history classroom

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. How might history and art mutually enrich each other and enhance pupil experience? The short answer, and there is much more to be said as Liz Dawes Duraisingh and Veronica Boix Mansilla show, is by...
    Interdisciplinary forays within the history classroom

  • Placing history: territory, story, identity - and historical consciousness

      Teaching History article
    How do we relate to the past? Does it tell us who we are? Is it a source of examples to follow and mistakes to avoid? Or can we go beyond that to something genuinely historical? Arthur Chapman and Jane Facey argue that as history teachers we have a responsibility...
    Placing history: territory, story, identity - and historical consciousness

  • Teaching History 138: Enriching History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Alf Wilkinson: Making cross-curricular links in history: some ways forward (Read article) 08 James Woodcock: Disciplining cross-curricularity? Cottenham Village College history department's inter-disciplinary projects: an evaluation (Read article) 13 Michael Monaghan: Having ‘Great Expectations' of Year 9 Inter-disciplinary work between English and history...
    Teaching History 138: Enriching History

  • Enrichment Opportunities

      Briefing Pack
    Background History can be used to enrich students' experience of education in many ways.  Everything has a history and links can be made with, and support given to most other subjects.  Opportunities can be provided to classes, whole year groups, across year groups, or to individuals. Enrichment can be as...
    Enrichment Opportunities

  • Firing enthusiasm for history through international conversation

      Teaching History article
    Richard Kerridge and Sacha Cinnamond explain how their history department built a culture of international dialogue and collaboration that enriches their students' historical learning. Videoconferencing is at the centre of these activities. Their story begins with an initial, moving encounter with the First World War battlefields that soon turned into...
    Firing enthusiasm for history through international conversation

  • The mechanics of history: interpretations and claim construction processes

      Teaching History article
    Holly Hiscox was concerned that many of her A-level students – asked to evaluate three different historical interpretations for their non-examined assessment task – still tended to hold unhelpful misconceptions about the nature of interpretations. In this article she explains how she created an introductory scheme of work to help them understand...
    The mechanics of history: interpretations and claim construction processes

  • Making cross-curricular links in history

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Alf Wilkinson has been working as ‘National Subject Lead' for History, co-ordinating a programme of support for schools, funded by the DCSF and delivered in partnership with the Historical Association and the CfBT. Here he...
    Making cross-curricular links in history

  • School History Scene: the unique contribution of theatre to history teaching

      Teaching History article
    The study of history has to be vibrant. It is about real people, real dramas, real narrative, real human dilemmas. It is not surprising that, despite manifold structural pressures working against us, take-up for GCSE history is once again buoyant. There are all manner of reasons for this - is...
    School History Scene: the unique contribution of theatre to history teaching

  • Hosting teacher development at historical sites: the benefits for classroom teaching

      Journal article
    Many previous contributors to Teaching History have demonstrated the power of site visits to stimulate young people’s engagement and enrich their understanding of history. It is usually assumed, however, that the young people themselves will have the opportunity to visit the site in question – an assumption that cannot always...
    Hosting teacher development at historical sites: the benefits for classroom teaching