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On-demand webinar: Responding to historical questions and engaging in extended writing at A-level
Webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level
Webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level
Session 2: Responding to historical questions and engaging in extended writing
This second session will consider how teachers have helped their students to develop coherent explanations of historical processes and to form judgments in response to historical questions. The session will then engage with...
On-demand webinar: Responding to historical questions and engaging in extended writing at A-level
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On-demand webinar: Building different types of historical knowledge
Webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level
Webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level
Session 1: Building different types of historical knowledge
This first session will focus on building students’ knowledge of the particular periods they are studying. It will also consider the different methods teachers have used to help their students to apply their knowledge to...
On-demand webinar: Building different types of historical knowledge
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On-demand webinar: Teaching language directly
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Session 6: Teaching language directly
In this sixth and final session, Jacob and Mike will explain how history teachers can teach words and phrases very directly to their pupils. They will suggest that 'drill and thrill' – rather than laminated word mats – can make the language...
On-demand webinar: Teaching language directly
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On-demand webinar: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: sources
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Session 5: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: sources
In this fifth session, Jacob and Mike will argue that 'source work' often doesn’t work. They will suggest that common classroom approaches to sources are often ineffective and inaccessible. Instead, they will share examples of lessons that teach pupils very...
On-demand webinar: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: sources
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On-demand webinar: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: interpretations
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Session 4: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: interpretations
In this fourth session, Jacob and Mike will explore how history teachers can teach disciplinary knowledge (how we know about the past) directly – specifically, historical interpretations. They will share examples of lessons that directly teach pupils how historians (and...
On-demand webinar: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: interpretations
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On-demand webinar: Teaching the whole class
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Session 3: Teaching the whole class
In this third session, Jacob and Mike will argue that a history teacher should always be a sage on the stage – and not a guide on the side. They will share strategies that allow history teachers to drive learning...
On-demand webinar: Teaching the whole class
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On-demand webinar: Teaching substantive knowledge directly
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Session 2: Teaching substantive knowledge directly
In this second session, Jacob and Mike will share how history teachers can teach substantive knowledge (what we know about the past) in more direct ways – whilst still challenging and engaging pupils. They will share ideas about using lean...
On-demand webinar: Teaching substantive knowledge directly
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On-demand webinar: Why teach history directly?
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Session 1: Why teach history directly?
In this opening session, Jacob and Mike will outline what they mean by direct history teaching. They will explain how this differs from some methods that have become common in history teaching – and why a more direct approach can be...
On-demand webinar: Why teach history directly?
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Recorded webinar: Revisiting the witch trials
Article
The East Anglian witch hunt under Matthew Hopkins, self-appointed Witchfinder General, has garnered a great deal of popular and historical interest over the years. An image has developed of a zealous, misogynistic young man serving crazed 'justice' against supposed witches, whipping up panic and turning neighbours against each other in...
Recorded webinar: Revisiting the witch trials
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Virtual Branch Recording: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
Article
This talk explored the struggle for liberation from the perspective of the enslaved, wherever possible in their own words. Dr Sudhir Hazareesingh shines a light on the lives of revolutionaries like Toussaint Louverture, José Antonio Aponte, Nat Turner, and the pregnant rebel Solitude; touching on the stories of the freed...
Virtual Branch Recording: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
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Virtual Branch Recording: Magna Carta
Article
This month at the Virtual Branch, renowned medieval historian David Carpenter will delve into the enduring legacy of Magna Carta. Drawing on his recent work uncovering and authenticating a Magna Carta document in the United States, Carpenter will explore why both the dating and the content of this foundational charter...
Virtual Branch Recording: Magna Carta
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Recorded webinar: Natural disasters in medieval Britain
Article
Natural disasters frequently affected medieval populations. This webinar explores some examples of what happened when meteorological hazards struck medieval communities, how they reacted and what steps they took to protect themselves against future risks. Through archaeological and historical sources of evidence, Peter Brown explores the diverse impacts unleashed by disasters...
Recorded webinar: Natural disasters in medieval Britain
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On-demand webinar: Making history accessible: review and reflection
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Session 5: Making history accessible: review and reflection
In this session, participants will be encouraged to review their action research projects. Coaching conversations will encourage reflection, allowing participants to share their actions and insights. Additionally, they will begin developing a strategic plan to outline next...
On-demand webinar: Making history accessible: review and reflection
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On-demand webinar: Showcasing history teaching and learning in special schools
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Session 4: Showcasing history teaching and learning in special schools
From a special school perspective, Sally Lonsdale and Lucy Bennett explore how history is encountered at their school. With secondary students working at Key Stage 1 age related expectations, history is seen as an ‘enriching...
On-demand webinar: Showcasing history teaching and learning in special schools
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On-demand webinar: Teaching neurodivergent students to succeed at GCSE History and beyond
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Session 3: Teaching neurodivergent students to succeed at GCSE History and beyond
This session will offer practical strategies teachers can use to support and challenge neurodivergent students at GCSE. Covering the importance of scaffolding and Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development, Kate Wright will offer a...
On-demand webinar: Teaching neurodivergent students to succeed at GCSE History and beyond
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On-demand webinar: Mastering the memory challenge at GCSE
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Session 2: Mastering the memory challenge: running successful interventions with students who are struggling to remember at GCSE
This webinar will explore a range of proven strategies for helping students remember more at GCSE. This includes:
How to avoid cognitive overload by maintaining an explicit...
On-demand webinar: Mastering the memory challenge at GCSE
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Virtual Branch Recording: The Lines we Draw
Article
In this Virtual Branch Tim Franks, acclaimed BBC Journalist, talks about his personal history and identity drawing on his new biography The Lines we Draw: The Journalist, The Jew and an argument about identity.
We will delve into Tim's experiences as a journalist in some of the world's major conflict zones,...
Virtual Branch Recording: The Lines we Draw
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Recorded webinar: Indian Suffragettes: women's activism in South Asia and beyond
Article
Between 1917 and 1947, women in the Indian subcontinent were engaged in active debates and noteworthy demonstrations for the vote, building up a national suffrage movement. In this talk Professor Sumita Mukherjee discusses the activities of Indian suffragettes in this period, showing how they were connected with British and other...
Recorded webinar: Indian Suffragettes: women's activism in South Asia and beyond
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Virtual Branch: Birds and British History
Article
In his recent book The Cuckoo's Lea Michael J Warren provides a exploration of how birds are entwined with British history, particularly in our place names.
Join us for an exclusive Q&A with the author to weave together literature, history and ornithology and discover a fascinating heritage that matters deeply now when so...
Virtual Branch: Birds and British History
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Virtual Branch Recording: Food and drink in the medieval monastery
Article
In his recent book The Monastic World, Andrew Jotischky looks at how from the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe. The history of monasticism is defined by the fierce and passionate abandonment of the ordinary comforts of life, the most striking being food and drink....
Virtual Branch Recording: Food and drink in the medieval monastery
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Recorded webinar: The post-emancipation Caribbean and the meanings of freedom
Article
This webinar examines the era of ‘post-emancipation’ in the Caribbean from around the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It interrogates the notion of ‘emancipation’ and asks what kind of ‘freedom’ did abolition bring to the formerly enslaved? How did colonial states and other authorities seek to regulate the lives of...
Recorded webinar: The post-emancipation Caribbean and the meanings of freedom
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Virtual Branch Recording: Women and the Reformations
Article
The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of men. But women were central to the transformations that took place in Europe and beyond. What was life like for them in this turbulent period? How did their actions and ideas shape Christianity and influence societies around the world? ...
Virtual Branch Recording: Women and the Reformations
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Recorded webinar: Researching the history of migration and refugees in Europe
When the present informs the past
Research on the history of migration continues to flourish and grow, but scholarship is also becoming increasingly splintered, often focusing on particular settings or population groups. Migration is often used as a way to discuss questions of national identity or diverse religious, ethnic, religious and local identities in the UK,...
Recorded webinar: Researching the history of migration and refugees in Europe
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Recorded webinar: Ottoman trade with Europe in the early modern era
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For European states in the early modern era the Ottoman empire represented a huge trading bloc, stretching at its height from Hungary in the west to Iran in the east, from Ukraine in the north to Egypt in the south, and along the southern shores of the Mediterranean to the...
Recorded webinar: Ottoman trade with Europe in the early modern era
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On-demand webinar: 'Move Me On’ skills practice for mentors
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Session 5: 'Move Me On’ skills practice
This final webinar of the series brings together the strands of mentoring through a ‘Move Me On’ style case-studies workshop, with participants tackling common mentoring quandaries together.
Release date: Tuesday 22 April 2025Expiry...
On-demand webinar: 'Move Me On’ skills practice for mentors
