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  • A Beginner's Guide to using visual image in primary schools

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. The employment of the visual image is a fascinating and exciting way to enable children to gain a glimpse into the past. It is problematic, however, in that such imagery is often an...
    A Beginner's Guide to using visual image in primary schools

  • Think Bubble 49: Frozen moments

      Primary History article
    Whenever I look at an old sepia photograph or one of those amazing 19th century genre pictures like William Powell Frith's Ramsgate Sands, it is not the immediate images that grab my attention. Although the detail is often remarkable, in the case of Ramsgate Sands the attentive mother gently introducing...
    Think Bubble 49: Frozen moments

  • In my view: Using Pictures

      Primary History article
    Children grow up surrounded by pictures - moving pictures on the TV, still advertisements on hoardings, pictures in newspapers and magazines and comic books. ‘The media' are ever present, and so we assume that our children are visually literate - wise eyed. When we see them flicking through books ‘looking...
    In my view: Using Pictures

  • Think Bubble 48: Lighting fires

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. I have a very old photo in my ‘archive' taken in the 1970s of a much-younger me dressed in, what can only be described as, a vague suggestion of 18th Century costume - thread-bare jacket, a...
    Think Bubble 48: Lighting fires

  • Drama - Choosing an approach

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. There is a range of drama strategies that we use all the time. The important point is to select a strategy with which you feel confident. For example, the collective making of a map by the...
    Drama - Choosing an approach

  • Recorded Webinar: New Approaches to Classical Sparta

      Article
    This webinar starts with a basic overview of the city-states of Classical Greece (roughly 500 to 350 BC) and Sparta’s place within their geography and history. It then looks at some common myths about the nature of Spartan society and politics, focusing on areas where recent research has transformed our...
    Recorded Webinar: New Approaches to Classical Sparta

  • Primary Teaching Methods

      Teaching Methods
    Please note: this guide was written before the 2014 National Curriculum and some of the advice may no longer be relevant.  This resource 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...
    Primary Teaching Methods

  • Case Study 1: The Mr Men mystery of the missing cake

      Primary History article
    [Editorial note: this Case Study was an element in a yearlong Gifted and Talented Intervention Strategy that was the outcome of a NAGTY Developing Expertise Award teacher scholarship. There were seven ‘interventions’: the Mr Men Case Study and Case Study 2 were two of these. Full details of the DEA...
    Case Study 1: The Mr Men mystery of the missing cake

  • In my view: Why we need a national talent search to identify and nurture our most able children

      Primary History article
    [Editorial note: Sir Cyril Taylor provides an overview of the challenge for the maintained sector that the education of Gifted and Talented pupils presents. In relation to the primary phase reliable data is not available: but there is no evidence that G&T provision is any better for 3-11 year olds...
    In my view: Why we need a national talent search to identify and nurture our most able children

  • Podcast Series: The Anglo-Saxons

      The Anglo-Saxons
    In this HA Podcast Series Professor Joanna Story of the University of Leicester looks at the history of the Anglo-Saxons.
    Podcast Series: The Anglo-Saxons

  • Engaging with controversial issues through drama

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The idea of children actively participating in their own education continues to be central to drama education. This same idea is also fundamental to the underlying ethos of citizenship education.There is a side to drama...
    Engaging with controversial issues through drama

  • Teaching about racism, fairness and justice through key people

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Our school has no uniform. You can’t predict what most children or teachers will wear from one day to the next. So the children were rather surprised one day in July 1996 when most of...
    Teaching about racism, fairness and justice through key people

  • Recorded webinar: Ask the Primary Committee – Learning from Lockdown

      Webinar
    The first in a series of new termly webinars, this session offered a discussion with Sue Temple and Chris Trevor from our primary committee about what we can learn from lockdown in terms of History teaching, and ideas about what we could/should do now to help our children going forward. 
    Recorded webinar: Ask the Primary Committee – Learning from Lockdown

  • Primary Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions

      Teacher Fellowship Programme 2018
    The 2018 Teacher Fellowship Programme was the first to include a dedicated strand for primary teaching, led by Karin Doull. It looked at developing teaching of the Age of Revolutions (1755-1848) and was fully funded by the Age of Revolution education legacy project. It focused on improving the teaching of...
    Primary Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions

  • Local study: Fulwell Windmill

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: This article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. The lesson formed part of a local study of Fulwell and Fulwell Windmill in Sunderland. It could also be taught as part of the Victorian Britain Study Unit. The children had already looked at maps and...
    Local study: Fulwell Windmill

  • Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare

      Presidential Lecture - Annual Conference 2014
    In Twelfth Night Shakespeare gently mocked the Puritans, who objected to stage plays and other entertainments. Yet within four decades, the Puritans had closed the London theatres and were about to seize power from Charles I. Among their many reforms were the banning of Christmas celebrations and of Twelfth Night itself....
    Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare

  • A Load of Rubbish: Using Victorian throwaways in the classroom

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. There are many effective ways of using artefacts and resources for the Victorians, but how many teachers have considered using the rubbish that the Victorians literally threw away? This material can cost nothing or be...
    A Load of Rubbish: Using Victorian throwaways in the classroom

  • Primary Quality Mark: meet our assessors

      Multipage Article
    Being assessed can be scary – but inviting your QM assessor into school shouldn't feel like this! Our assessors, made up of carefully selected experienced history education professionals from across the primary and secondary sector, are keen to help schools celebrate what they do well and to share the good...
    Primary Quality Mark: meet our assessors

  • Grace O' Malley, alias Granuaile, pirate & politician, c. 1530-1603

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The Northamptonshire Inspection & Advisory Service (NIAS) can confirm Paul Bracey’s view of the way Ireland’s rich stories help to provide a ‘sounder map of the past’ and increase ‘choice, range and fun in our...
    Grace O' Malley, alias Granuaile, pirate & politician, c. 1530-1603

  • Using children's literature to look at bias and stereotyping

      Primary History article
    We have come to understand that modern children's literature often provides a way of examining a range of social and moral issues, affording educators the opportunity to discuss issues such as bias and stereotyping. Many adults have seen the possibilities here to contextualise classroom incidents differently, or to explore themes...
    Using children's literature to look at bias and stereotyping

  • Podcast Series: Women in Ancient Greece & Rome

      Multipage Article
    In this series of podcasts Dr Richard Hawley of Royal Holloway, University of London looks at the history of women in Ancient Greece and Rome.
    Podcast Series: Women in Ancient Greece & Rome

  • Making the Modern World: The shock of the real at the science museum

      Primary History article
    Making the Modern World is a vast, exuberant exposition of the real deal. From Arkwright's textile machines that kick-started the industrial revolution to the first Apple computer; from a pair of patented genetically-modified mice to the Apollo 10 command module that orbited the Moon - ons of the industrialised world...
    Making the Modern World: The shock of the real at the science museum

  • 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

  • Podcast Series: Goths, Huns and the fall of the Roman Empire

      Multipage Article
    In this series of podcasts Professor Peter Heather of King's College London looks at the history of the Goths, the Huns, the division of the Roman Empire and the fall of the Roman Empire.
    Podcast Series: Goths, Huns and the fall of the Roman Empire

  • 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