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  • Queen Victoria's visit to Wolverhampton, November 30 1866

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. When Prince Albert died in 1861 Queen Victoria went into deep mourning and ceased all public duties. By 1866 she had still not made any public appearances. Wolverhampton, like many other towns, raised a subscription to commission a statue in Albert’s memory....
    Queen Victoria's visit to Wolverhampton, November 30 1866

  • The Jill Grey collection and Hitchin British schools

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Jill Grey lived in Hitchin and over a period of 25 years, collected over 35,000 items. A11 of the material relates to the history of education and social history of childhood. I am still in the process of cataloguing the collection and...
    The Jill Grey collection and Hitchin British schools

  • Using school logbooks - Bishop Graham Memorial Ragged School, Chester

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Logbooks can be described as the diary of the headmaster. The contents can vary in interest depending on how diligent the headmaster was at recording events. Some merely record the delivery of coals, the attendance at the school or the visitors to...
    Using school logbooks - Bishop Graham Memorial Ragged School, Chester

  • History and the Literacy Hour

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Amid fears of history being lost from the Key Stage One curriculum, following suspension of the statutory orders, research which considered the use of historical story as part of the Literacy hour, was carried out by Paula Silvera, a final year BEd...
    History and the Literacy Hour

  • Case Study 4: Harry met Francis - The field of the cloth of gold, 1521 and inspirational and authentic context for teaching aspects of history, dance, drama, design and technology through french

      Article
    The Field of the Cloth of Gold is traditionally regarded as the province of A-level history study. However, this wonderful story (and the insights it can offer into: the lives of the rich and poor, the nature of the kings of both England and France, the ways in which alliances...
    Case Study 4: Harry met Francis - The field of the cloth of gold, 1521 and inspirational and authentic context for teaching aspects of history, dance, drama, design and technology through french

  • How can the use of spreadsheets enhance children's learning in history? A case study

      Article
    Ruth Noall describes the use of ICT (mainly spreadsheets) during her final year teaching practice of Key Stage 2.
    How can the use of spreadsheets enhance children's learning in history? A case study

  • Case Study 5: Local History - A pupil-led study with 9-10 year olds

      Article
    The National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth funded me to carry out an Action Research project with a focus upon personalised learning. This NAGTY Developing Expertise Award empowered four Year 5 girls to investigate the history of their local town. The pupils attended a school in a small market...
    Case Study 5: Local History - A pupil-led study with 9-10 year olds

  • Introducing history at Key Stage 1: a view from the classroom

      Article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. ‘What are we doing this for?’ I was asked this question as we entered the churchyard to look at the local War memorial. The curiosity and directness of a six year old child is guaranteed...
    Introducing history at Key Stage 1: a view from the classroom

  • Navigating the ‘imperial history wars’

      Teaching History article
    Concerned by the growing tendency of politicians and press to revive the moral balance-sheet approach to British imperial history and by some evidence of its resurgence in schools, Alex Benger set about devising a framework which would keep pupils’ analysis rigorously historical, rather than moral and politicised. In this article,...
    Navigating the ‘imperial history wars’

  • Storytelling: Socrates, Alcibiades, and Athenian democracy

      Lesson Plan
    Nigel Parker's Year 5 class had just made a start on the Ancient Greeks. In this lesson we began with Athenian democracy, where the free adult male citizens decided everything, even ostracizing generals they didn't like.The story of SocratesI told the children some of the story of Socrates, who taught...
    Storytelling: Socrates, Alcibiades, and Athenian democracy

  • Reading documents and simulation exemplar: Victorian trade directories

      Exemplar
    The Year 5 class was soon to visit a local museum where a Victorian parade of shops is recreated. We decided to use the 1857 trade directory for our town, Crediton in Devon, to bring its main shopping street to life before the visit. Trade directories, together with census returns...
    Reading documents and simulation exemplar: Victorian trade directories

  • Visual image and discussion exemplar: questioning a photograph

      Exemplar
    Almost more than any other source a photograph provides an incentive to dig, to burrow, to stretch, to tease out, to investigate and follow up leads. A good starter activity. We used a photo in this way to begin our Britain since 1930 unit with a mixed Year 5/6 class....
    Visual image and discussion exemplar: questioning a photograph

  • Film series: Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland, 1714–2010

      New HA film series
    From royal courts to radical protests, from industrial revolutions to global empires – this compelling new film series traces the dramatic evolution of power, rights, and freedom across three centuries of British and Irish history. We will trace Britain and Ireland’s transformation from 1714 to 2010, unpacking power struggles, social revolutions, and...
    Film series: Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland, 1714–2010

  • Podcast Series: Confronting Controversial History

      Podcast Series
    Controversial History formed the focus of the Historical Association’s report, Teaching Emotive and Controversial History 3-19 (TEACH). Published in 2007, it offered teachers invaluable guidance for teaching historical topics that can stir emotion and controversy. However, the authors noted how the nature of the sensitivity can be affected by ‘time, geography and...
    Podcast Series: Confronting Controversial History

  • The Tomb of Tutankhamun

      Lesson Plan
    How was Tutankhamun's tomb discovered? Using a photograph as a source of historical information. (These resources are attached below) The lesson aims were for children to: understand the circumstances surrounding the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb develop their skills in scanning, observing and focusing, and questioning use sources to find out...
    The Tomb of Tutankhamun

  • Theseus and the Minotaur

      Lesson Plan
    The year 5/6 lessons were planned around interpretations of history, incorporating myths and legends for a cross-curricular approach. The story of Theseus and the Minotaur formed an excellent starting point for an investigation of the Knossos palace, with a focus on the archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans' interpretation of the palace...
    Theseus and the Minotaur

  • Magellan at KS1

      Lesson Plan
    The Year 2 story of Magellan and his voyage round the world. The lessons provided part of the history and geography element in a wider topic on ‘Water'. (These resources are attached below) The teaching was done through the powerful medium of storytelling. The first session was taken up by...
    Magellan at KS1

  • Grace Darling

      Lesson Plan
    I taught a short history topic on Grace Darling, using a painting as the main focus, to encourage evidence-based learning. The painting depicts Grace and her father rowing towards the rocks where the remains of the Forfarshire are resting, with the lighthouse in the distance. The speaking and listening elements...
    Grace Darling

  • Recorded webinar: Mapping uncertainty - Holocaust Memorial Day 2025

      Retracing the trajectories of young survivors in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust
    Recorded webinar: Mapping uncertainty - Holocaust Memorial Day 2025

  • Film: Proto-feminism in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785

      Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714–2010
    In Episode 11, Dr Mary Jo MacDonald of the University of Jyväskylä explores how the end of the Licensing Act, sweeping political change, and a revolution in intellectual culture opened unprecedented opportunities for women to shape political, social, and intellectual life in Britain and Ireland. The film highlights major proto‑feminist thinkers...
    Film: Proto-feminism in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785

  • Film: Disability in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785

      Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
    In Episode 6, Dr Declan Kavanagh (University of Kent) discusses the development of ideas around, and responses to, disability in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century. Dr Kavanagh examines the definition given in Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary in 1755 and looks at the medical and charity models of responding to disability...
    Film: Disability in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785

  • Film: Power and freedom: Introduction – 1714 to 1785

      Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
    In Episode 1, Dr Robin Eagles (History of Parliament), discusses the development of power and freedom in Britain and Ireland from the reign of Queen Anne to the beginning of the Georgian Age. This was a period of strict hierarchy where the monarchy and aristocracy retained significant control over both...
    Film: Power and freedom: Introduction – 1714 to 1785

  • 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

  • The Historian 166: Crime and Punishment

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    This edition of The Historian is free to access for all HA members. Find out about membership here. Contents 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 Coroners, communities, and the Crown: mapping death and justice in late medieval England – Stephanie Emma Brown (Read article - open access) 11 Mercurial justice: a...
    The Historian 166: Crime and Punishment

  • Virtual Branch Recording: From Pirates to Princes: Normans in Eleventh Century Europe

      Article
    Normandy originated from a grant of land to Rollo, a Viking leader, in the early tenth century. By the end of that century Normans were to be found in southern Italy, then in Britain and, at the end of the eleventh century, in the near East on the First Crusade....
    Virtual Branch Recording: From Pirates to Princes: Normans in Eleventh Century Europe