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  • Case Study: Historical information and the local community

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The ICT revolution A paper register, a pink-lined A4 mark book and a written school log book are surely historical artefacts? The transition from paper to digital technology continues, changing the world of the classroom teacher whose working life like mine,...
    Case Study: Historical information and the local community

  • Is teaching about the Holocaust suitable for primary aged children?

      Primary History case study
    Editorial note: While this is a valuable paper, we must point out that the normal ethical procedures concerning such a sensitive, emotional subject must be followed in relation to pupils, their parents/carers and the wider community, i.e. the protocols for permission and clearance to teach such topics must be followed....
    Is teaching about the Holocaust suitable for primary aged children?

  • A museum in the classroom: Learning history from objects

      Primary History article
    I teach history education at the University of Minho, in Portugal. The writing of English researchers about the role of objects and of class museums in teaching history to young children inspired me to undertake similar research in Portugal, which is outlined in this article. Several researchers have highlighted the...
    A museum in the classroom: Learning history from objects

  • Podcast: Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr?

      Podcast
    2012 Annual Conference Presidential Lecture Charles I: The People's Martyr? Jackie Eales, HA President and Professor of Early Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University Charles I was renowned for his distrust of ‘popularity'. Yet during the 1640s he was forced to appeal to his people for support and in...
    Podcast: Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr?

  • The Bloody Code - Early Modern Crime and Punishment

      Podcast
    Between circa 1690 and 1820 the number of crimes punishable by the death penalty grew from 50 to over 200. This short podcast will help to explain why this trend developed.
    The Bloody Code - Early Modern Crime and Punishment

  • History through Drama, A Teachers' Guide - Revisited

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. It is now some seventeen years since the publication of our original pamphlet by the Historical Association [HA] as part of the Teaching of History Series (Wilson and Woodhouse, 1990). This article offers a personal review...
    History through Drama, A Teachers' Guide - Revisited

  • Drama and history: a theory for learning

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. When I visit primary schools these days it heartens me to see how often drama is used in classroom teaching. Looking back over my own career, drama and role play have always been...
    Drama and history: a theory for learning

  • Primary history in the 21st century: Back to the past?

      Primary History article
    During my teaching of history I have been amazed by the asinine questions that children and adults ask about the subject matter. For example, a child once asked, ‘Sir, if Queen Cleopatra hadn't been bitten by the asp would she still be alive today?'. This question suggests that despite comprehensive...
    Primary history in the 21st century: Back to the past?

  • Supporting initial teacher trainees to think about chronology

      Primary History article
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. As a teacher trainer I am very conscious that many prospective primary teachers' formal history education stops at the age of 14. As a consequence their knowledge and understanding of history and sense...
    Supporting initial teacher trainees to think about chronology

  • Enhancing temporal cognition: Practical activities for the primary classroom

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Research during the last ninety years has suggested that ‘time' concepts, such as chronology, duration and the usage of dating systems are difficult for children to assimilate. However, my research suggests that temporal concepts can be...
    Enhancing temporal cognition: Practical activities for the primary classroom

  • Investigating the ancient Olympic games: A Case Study

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In a 10-week unit on Ancient Greece, we gave the fourth lesson over to the ancient Olympic Games. The class was a delight: 32 enthusiastic Year 6 children in an urban county primary school. We knew...
    Investigating the ancient Olympic games: A Case Study

  • Story, myth and legend: The Story of Atalanta

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Time and change in stories Everyone loves a story and stories have always been at the heart of early years education. Children can relate their own experiences of time to stories in picture books about other...
    Story, myth and legend: The Story of Atalanta

  • Ancient Greeks: The Olympics' War Games - Teaching through Drama

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. When I was a boy the Greek Olympics was one of the perennials of the primary history curriculum, alongside the Battle of Hastings and the execution of Charles I. I have memories of an old text...
    Ancient Greeks: The Olympics' War Games - Teaching through Drama

  • Ancient Greece: Birthplace of the Olympics - Teacher Briefing

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Editorial note: Below is a one-page outline of a wonderful briefing replete with visual and textual sources and teaching ideas from The Cambridge Schools  Classics Project (CSC P). The outline below consists of the full introduction...
    Ancient Greece: Birthplace of the Olympics - Teacher Briefing

  • Success with primary history: overcoming the challenges

      Article
    Primary history seems to be a curious mixture of the successful and successful.    On the one hand most children seem to love it and many teachers claim to enjoy teaching it.    There is certainly no shortage of good practice in many schools and exciting and stimulating resources are plentiful.  On...
    Success with primary history: overcoming the challenges

  • Coroners, communities, and the Crown: mapping death and justice in late medieval England

      Historian article
    Life in medieval cities could be violent and dangerous, and the records generated by state officials charged with regulating that violence offer invaluable insight into everyday life. Stephanie Emma Brown takes us behind the scenes of the recently launched Medieval Murder Map project, which was based on coroners’ rolls, to...
    Coroners, communities, and the Crown: mapping death and justice in late medieval England

  • Mercurial justice: a Jesuit chaplain’s view of life in the prisons of sixteenth-century Seville

      Historian article
    Justice in the early modern period was discretionary, which meant it could be both violent and deeply unfair. Elites often escaped the most severe punishments inflicted on the poor and minoritised groups. Clare Burgess shows how a Jesuit chaplain in sixteenth- century Seville used his spiritual discretion and zealous belief...
    Mercurial justice: a Jesuit chaplain’s view of life in the prisons of sixteenth-century Seville

  • Schools of Vice: how a medical scandal led to the dismantling of Britain’s last prison hulks

      Historian article
    Hulks – former naval ships used as prisons for those convicted of serious crime and sentenced to transportation – were intended to be a temporary solution to a penal crisis caused by the American Revolutionary Wars. These ‘schools of vice’, or ‘floating hells’ lasted 80 years, casting a shadow over...
    Schools of Vice: how a medical scandal led to the dismantling of Britain’s last prison hulks

  • Finding Bad Bridget: the lives and crimes of Irish immigrant women in America

      Historian article
    From the early nineteenth century until the First World War, millions of Irish women emigrated to North America in search of better lives. Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, co-leads for the AHRC-funded Bad Bridget research project, tell us how poverty, discrimination, isolation from family as well as greed and opportunism...
    Finding Bad Bridget: the lives and crimes of Irish immigrant women in America

  • Imperial spaces of a ‘miniature world’: the case of Rugby School, c.1828–1850

      Historian article
    English public schools in the nineteenth century were training grounds not just for society’s elites but also for careers in Britain’s imperial service. In this article, Holly Hiscox explores the ways in which schools such as Rugby provided pupils with a miniature world of domestic and professional life which prepared...
    Imperial spaces of a ‘miniature world’: the case of Rugby School, c.1828–1850

  • Real Lives: A German captain’s perspective on the end of WWI

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected sto greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: A German captain’s perspective on the end of WWI

  • Doing history: Contemporary narratives and the legacy of the Dagenham Ford Factory Strike of 1968

      Historian feature
    In this article, Zubin Burley looks at how a visit to the local archive can transform our understanding of an important event in British social history...
    Doing history: Contemporary narratives and the legacy of the Dagenham Ford Factory Strike of 1968

  • ‘Nothing was easy’: Viewing war, empire and racism through the eyes of a local Windrush migrant

      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 Andrew Wrenn shares examples from a fascinating project with which...
    ‘Nothing was easy’: Viewing war, empire and racism through the eyes of a local Windrush migrant

  • 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?

  • A revolution in primary history teaching, quietly consolidated over the past 35 years

      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 In my 38 years in history education, the most profound...
    A revolution in primary history teaching, quietly consolidated over the past 35 years