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  • Planning for historical understanding a conceptual framework

      Article
    Planning for historical understanding a conceptual framework: Responding To The Rose Report Through The Lens Of The Cambridge Review. Introduction At last we have Children, Their World, Their Education: Final Report and Recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review, (Alexander 2009). This is an independent study funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Trust,...
    Planning for historical understanding a conceptual framework

  • Towards a new primary curriculum: The Cambridge Primary Review 2009

      Primary History article
    Towards a new primary curriculum: Cambridge Primary Review Part 1, Past and Present, Part 2, The Future - An editorial response to the Cambridge Primary Review.  Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Introduction The Cambridge Primary Review, director Robin Alexander, is the...
    Towards a new primary curriculum: The Cambridge Primary Review 2009

  • Using Local Buildings

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Whilst there are many obvious historical buildings - castles, Roman Villas and Abbeys these often involve transport costs which may be beyond a school budget. Turner-Bisset suggests: There is also history in ordinary, everyday sites,...
    Using Local Buildings

  • The view from the classroom

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. As teachers we are all responsible, with our pupils, for the environment within our classrooms. Together we create calm and order, challenge and activity. The environment beyond is of infinite variety. The view from my...
    The view from the classroom

  • Hearts, Hamsters and Historic Education

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. This is a reflection on a project, set up with a variety of different thoughts about education in its widest sense. Or, to put it another way, a primary school teacher's record of a unique...
    Hearts, Hamsters and Historic Education

  • History in the Urban Environment

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. A study of the local environment can make a vital contribution to children's sense of identity, their sense of place and the community in which they live. More importantly, a local study can enable children...
    History in the Urban Environment

  • Planning for history and environmental education

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. As a headteacher, I want my teachers to plan high quality learning experiences for children. By ensuring that lessons are vibrant and exciting, and that stimulate that ‘inbuilt curiosity', we make sure that children encounter...
    Planning for history and environmental education

  • Building learning places

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The built environment is hugely important to all of us, allowing us to live our lives in particular ways, and perhaps even constraining our lives in ways we don't yet recognise or understand. The buildings...
    Building learning places

  • Learning what a place does and what we do for it

      Primary History article
    Please note: This article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. Why teach children about architecture and the built environment? Because they shape the future and because they already change our architecture and define the public realm everyday through their actions. Learning about architecture and the built...
    Learning what a place does and what we do for it

  • Cleopatra Podcast

      Branch Lecture Podcast
    This pod-cast was recorded at the Central London Branch of the Historical Association on Saturday 20th February 2010, at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London.   We were pleased to welcome cultural historian Lucy Hughes-Hallet to the branch to speak on ‘Cleopatra'.   Lucy Hughes-Hallet detailed how fact and legend about Cleopatra had been intertwined through history in...
    Cleopatra Podcast

  • History: Using Stories

      HA Quick Guides
    ‘Making the past present and bringing the distant near' Thomas Babington Macaulay 1828 Smollett's constitutional HistoryAs a teacher covering some area of primary history such as Florence Nightingale or Victorian Britain have you ever heard the dreaded words from a child ‘So what?' This can actually be a front for...
    History: Using Stories

  • Extended Writing in History

      Transition Training Session 3
    This is the third of 5 sessions arising from the 2005 KS2-KS3 History Transitions Project: Transition training session 1: Historical Enquiries & Interpretations Transition training session 2: Using ICT in the teaching of history Transition training session 3: Extended writing in history Transition training session 4: Joan of Arc - Saint, Witch...
    Extended Writing in History

  • Evidenced based history teaching - teacher as researcher

      Article
    Introduction Systematic, sustained provision of in-service courses has virtually disappeared. Increasingly, teachers' main source of professional development is the Internet. There is, however, a huge difference between reading about new approaches and skills and transforming that information, that understanding, into new ways of thinking, planning and teaching. This is where...
    Evidenced based history teaching - teacher as researcher

  • Teaching Slavery

      HA Guide
    Please note: this guide was written in 2010 and some links may no longer work. For more recent guidance, see:  Teaching sensitive subjects: slavery and Britain’s role in the trade (2019) Slavery in Britain (2013) Sarah Forbes Bonetta - scheme of work (2015) Diversity guidance for primary teachers and subject leaders (2019) Teaching Slavery...
    Teaching Slavery

  • The British Association for Local History (BALH)

      History Network
    The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serves local historians. Its purpose is to encourage and assist the study of local history as an academic discipline and as a rewarding leisure pursuit for both individuals and groups. Local history enriches our lives...
    The British Association for Local History (BALH)

  • The impact of World War II on British children's gendered perceptions of contemporary Germany

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. This article reports some surprising gender-based trends indicated by a small scale piece of classroom research looking into incidental responses of Year 6 pupils to the teaching of Study Unit 11b (Britain Since...
    The impact of World War II on British children's gendered perceptions of contemporary Germany

  • Questions you have always wanted to ask about...Using photographs as sources of evidence

      Primary History article
    Alan Hodkinson answers questions about using photographs as sources of evidence.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about...Using photographs as sources of evidence

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

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Pat Hoodless answers questions about history and written sources.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about... History and written sources

  • Primary History 52: Education and the Environment

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    03 Editorial 04 In my view: Education and the built environment – Dominic Balmforth 06 In my view: Primary history and Engaging Places – Rochelle Whitty 08 In my view: Engaging Pupils: An A Level student describes her experience of collaborative working with Key Stage 2 – Bernice Waghorn 09...
    Primary History 52: Education and the Environment

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

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Don Henson answers questions about history and archaeology.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about... History and archaeology

  • Questions you have always wanted to ask about... Accessing Archive Sources

      Primary History article
    Mary Mills answers questions about accessing archive sources. Please note: this article dates from 2003 and some of the sources and services referenced may no longer be available.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about... Accessing Archive Sources

  • Questions you have always wanted to ask about...Using historical maps in the primary classroom

      Primary History article
    Anna Disney and Peter Hammond answer questions about historical maps.
    Questions you have always wanted to ask about...Using historical maps in the primary classroom

  • 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

  • Asking the right questions. A study of the ability of KS2 children to devise and use questions as part of their own research

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Enquiry is an essential part of teaching history in the primary classroom. Asking and answering questions and selecting information relevant to the focus of an enquiry are important skills for young historians. Children often have much experience in answering questions in history...
    Asking the right questions. A study of the ability of KS2 children to devise and use questions as part of their own research

  • The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings

      Historian article
    How did King Harold II die at the Battle of Hastings? The question is simple enough and the answer is apparently well known. Harold was killed by an arrow which struck him in the eye. His death is depicted clearly on the Bayeux Tapestry in one of its most famous...
    The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of legitimacy in the aftermath of the Battle of Hastings