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  • Knowledge-rich approaches to history

      Primary History article
    In recent years, there has been growing support from policy makers in England for knowledge-rich curricula which view subjects like history as having cultural capital that all pupils should have access to regardless of background. The work of E.D. Hirsch has been particularly influential in arguing that a lack of...
    Knowledge-rich approaches to history

  • The 2024 Primary History survey: what are the implications for what it revealed?

      Primary History article
    This article is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today The 2024 Primary Survey follows a series of earlier biennial surveys...
    The 2024 Primary History survey: what are the implications for what it revealed?

  • Writing in Primary History edition 1 and 100: has there been a dramatic shift?

      Primary History article
    This article is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today Tim Lomas was astounded and partly horrified that he was...
    Writing in Primary History edition 1 and 100: has there been a dramatic shift?

  • Recorded Webinar: Philip IV

      Decline, decadence and the end of the Golden Age
    Decline, decadence, crisis, stagnation, and adversity are terms powerfully associated with the reign of Spain’s Planet King; sombre tones that contrast sharply with the glittering cultural and artistic achievements (enhanced by his patronage) that led the period to be dubbed ‘the’ Golden Age, a label consciously competing with France’s later...
    Recorded Webinar: Philip IV

  • Recorded webinar: John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War

      An enduring counterfactual
    Would US President John F. Kennedy have avoided the catastrophe that became the Vietnam War if Lee Harvey Oswald had not assassinated him in Dallas on that fateful day of 22 November 1963? This question – or a version of it – has animated discussions of the Vietnam War for...
    Recorded webinar: John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War

  • Ideas on the Shape, Size and Movements of the Earth - Pamphlet

      Classic Pamphlet
    This classic pamphlet takes you through some of the key ideas on the shape, size and movements of the Earth as they changed over time from classical cosmology to the work of Galileo and Isaac Newton.
    Ideas on the Shape, Size and Movements of the Earth - Pamphlet

  • On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with historical interpretations in primary history

      Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
    Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history Session 3: Avoiding confusion with historical interpretations in primary history This practical webinar will identify what confuses pupils in the teaching of the disciplinary concept of historical interpretations and will show how such confusion and misconceptions can be avoided and challenged. Examples...
    On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with historical interpretations in primary history

  • On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with cause and consequence in primary history

      Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
    Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history Session 2: Avoiding confusion with cause and consequence in primary history This practical webinar will identify what confuses pupils in the teaching of the disciplinary concept of cause and consequence and will show how such confusion and misconceptions can be avoided and...
    On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with cause and consequence in primary history

  • Using Horrible History to develop primary literacy and history

      Primary History article
    When I started planning for my Key Stage 2 literacy lessons last year, I wanted to link them to my history topic, the Tudors, and I also needed them to cover a significant amount of non-fiction English objectives, having focused on fiction and poetry texts in the previous term. One...
    Using Horrible History to develop primary literacy and history

  • The Bigger Picture: The Wider World

      HA Primary Subject Leader Area
    Perhaps the most important part of the History National Curriculum is the very first paragraph – the Purpose of Study Statement. A crucial part of this section is the very first sentence: ‘A high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that...
    The Bigger Picture: The Wider World

  • How diverse is your history curriculum?

      Article
    The past was full of diverse people and our students are entitled to learn about this diverse past. History lessons should enable students to see their connection to the past and to understand the world today. Here are a list of questions for history teachers to use to support a...
    How diverse is your history curriculum?

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 70

      Alternative sources for the Romans, and a variety of Enquiry questions
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 70

  • Recorded webinar: Avoiding confusion with chronology and change in primary history

      Webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
    Webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history Session 1: Avoiding confusion with chronology and change in primary history This practical webinar will identify what confuses pupils in the teaching of chronology and the disciplinary concept of change and continuity and will show how such confusion and misconceptions...
    Recorded webinar: Avoiding confusion with chronology and change in primary history

  • Using classic fiction to support the study of childhood in Victorian times

      Primary History article
    Please note: This article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. Classic fiction provides useful sources of information for investigating the lives, beliefs and values of people in the past. In this article Ann Cowling describes activities undertaken with student teachers which may also serve as models...
    Using classic fiction to support the study of childhood in Victorian times

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 69

      Britain and World timeline 4000-2000BC, and key primary historical terms
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 69

  • Primary History at Key Stage 1

      Primary Expert Podcasts
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum In this series of podcasts Dr Penelope Harnett, UWE and Sarah Whitehouse Senior Primary Lecturer at University of the West of England examine good history at Key Stage 1.  1. Chronology  2. What should history at Key Stage 1 do? Local History 3....
    Primary History at Key Stage 1

  • Primary History at Key Stage 2

      Primary Expert Podcasts
    In this series of podcasts Karin Doull, Principal Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator (Primary History Education) at the University of Roehampton examines good history at Key Stage 2. 1. What makes a good primary history curriculum? 2. What makes a good history curriculum at Key Stage 2?3. Personalisation and local links4. The...
    Primary History at Key Stage 2

  • Teaching local history in primary schools: learning about effective practice

      Primary History article
    Rachel Bruce and Susannah Russell were two of the six primary teachers on the recent Local History Teacher Fellowship. Here they outline the activities they were engaged in and how they produced two very different local history enquiries – one based in York and the other in Wrecclesham, Surrey. They...
    Teaching local history in primary schools: learning about effective practice

  • Young Historian Awards 2024 – the winners

      16th September 2024
    Spirit of Normandy Trust Senior Vivaan Davda – The Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai Spirit of Normandy Trust Key Stage 3 Joshua Broadbent – Royal Grammar School, Guildford Spirit of Normandy Trust Primary Salisbury Cathedral School Best School History Magazine [sponsored by the Mid-Trent and Mercia Branch] St Alban’s School Stockport...
    Young Historian Awards 2024 – the winners

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68

      Britain and World timeline 2000BC to 0BC; The Dark Ages
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68

  • Vikings: who were they?

      Lesson Plan (KS2)
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here. This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free...
    Vikings: who were they?

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 67

      Britain and World timeline, 0BC to present
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 67

  • Mini Scaffolds: Charts, Concept webs, Diagrams, Mini-Frames

      Primary History article
    The language of History develops subject content knowledge and associated vocabulary & phraseology, p. 30. Pupils can record, extend and develop their historical language through using a range of mini-scaffolds or frameworks that they flesh out with teacher guidance and support. A class can build upon basic historical vocabulary through questioning,...
    Mini Scaffolds: Charts, Concept webs, Diagrams, Mini-Frames

  • Multi-modality and writing history

      Primary History article
    We all now live in the digital age. The smart phone, kindle, i-pad and computer mean children are immersed and interact in a digital world of moving, still and spoken images. They are also able to communicate digitally socially: for example, Twitter and Facebook. Social media facilitate social as well...
    Multi-modality and writing history

  • Churches as a local historical source

      Primary History Article
    At Key Stage 1 children should learn about significant events, (e.g. the Great Fire of London) and about people and places in their locality. At Key Stage 2 they should learn about British settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots (e.g. Anglo-Saxon art and culture) and do a local history study (e.g....
    Churches as a local historical source