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  • Building local history into the curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Neil Bates and Robert Bowry have chosen to tackle the issue of curriculum coherence by including local history, both as starting point for new students joining the school in Year 7 and as a golden thread running throughout their Key Stage 3 curriculum. In this article they explain the rationale...
    Building local history into the curriculum

  • Unnatural and essential: the nature of historical thinking

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Sam Wineburg's work, in particular his groundbreaking Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts (2001), has a great deal to teach us about the discipline of history, the nature of historical education, and the specific cognitive framework...
    Unnatural and essential: the nature of historical thinking

  • Ofsted research report into history 2021

      14th July 2021
    Ofsted writes: The study of history can bring pupils into a rich dialogue with the past and with the traditions of historical enquiry. In this report, Ofsted have: outlined the national context in relation to history considered curriculum progression in history, pedagogy, assessment and the impact of school leaders’ decisions on provision...
    Ofsted research report into history 2021

  • Unravelling the complexity of the causes of British abolition with Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Elizabeth Marsay wanted to ensure that her students were not hindered in their causal explanations of the abolition of slavery by being exposed to overly categorical, simplistic, and monocausal narratives in the classroom. By drawing on both English and Canadian theorisation about causation, Marsay outlines how her introduction of competing...
    Unravelling the complexity of the causes of British abolition with Year 8

  • What’s The Wisdom On... history assessment?

      Teaching History feature
    Between 1991 and 1995, secondary history teachers in England and Wales had something of a collective awakening about assessment. It followed a huge policy shift in history education: history’s first National Curriculum, rolled out in 1991. What's the Wisdom On... is a short guide providing new history teachers with an overview...
    What’s The Wisdom On... history assessment?

  • Using oral history in the classroom

      Multipage Article
    The Oral History Society has kindly agreed to produce two new films aimed at history teachers who are new to carrying out or using oral histories either in their teaching or with students. These two films will equip teachers with the essential tools and knowledge for using and devising effective...
    Using oral history in the classroom

  • Podcast Series: The Women's Movement

      Multipage Article
    In Part 2 of our series on Social and Political Change in the UK 1800-present we look at the Women's Movement in the UK from its early origins through to the end of the 20th century Part 2 features Dr Anne Logan, Professor June Hannam and Ms Jean Spence. Also...
    Podcast Series: The Women's Movement

  • What’s The Wisdom On... Extended writing

      Teaching History feature
    Writing history is hard! But the things that make it challenging are the things that make it worth doing. They are also the key to enabling all students to write, to embrace the challenge and to enjoy its rewards enough to keep going. A big mistake is to kid ourselves...
    What’s The Wisdom On... Extended writing

  • Historical and interdisciplinary enquiry into the sinking of the Mary Rose

      Teaching History article
    The raising of Henry VIII’s warship, the Mary Rose, from the sea bed set in train an extraordinary programme of interdisciplinary research, relentlessly pursuing the clues to Tudor life and death provided by the remains of the ship, its cargo and crew. In this article Clare Barnes offers fascinating insights...
    Historical and interdisciplinary enquiry into the sinking of the Mary Rose

  • Film: Inequalities in the teaching and practice of history in the UK

      Discussion: Response to the RHS report
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of history teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today This film (above) recorded in March 2019 features a discussion between Jatinder...
    Film: Inequalities in the teaching and practice of history in the UK

  • The Versailles Peace Settlement

      Classic Pamphlet
    This classic pamphlet takes you through the Paris Peace Conference and the 'German Question', Peacemaking and the Treaty of Versailles, Europe and the German question after Versailles.
    The Versailles Peace Settlement

  • What’s The Wisdom On... Extended Reading

      Teaching History feature
    Why, in a history lesson (or out of a history lesson; let’s say, for a homework perhaps) might we want pupils to read more than a paragraph, to stay with the text, to actually read? We don’t mean plucking facts from information boxes, nor ploughing through four comprehension questions. We...
    What’s The Wisdom On... Extended Reading

  • Teaching Year 8 pupils to take seriously the ideas of ordinary people from the past

      Teaching History article
    Jacob Olivey wanted Year 8 to know that ordinary people in the nineteenth century constructed their own identities. In this reflection on how his practice developed in his training year, Olivey illustrates the importance of using historical scholarship in choosing foundational knowledge to teach. He shows how he used that...
    Teaching Year 8 pupils to take seriously the ideas of ordinary people from the past

  • Diversifying the curriculum: one department’s holistic approach

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Theo Woods shares the experience of one history department as they embarked on a substantial process of curriculum review and development. The department sought to address concerns that the range of history taught in their school, across the full seven years of students’ secondary experience, was too ‘traditional,...
    Diversifying the curriculum: one department’s holistic approach

  • Using narratives and big pictures to address the challenges of a 2-year KS3 curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Faced with cutting her Key Stage 3 curriculum to two years, Natalie Kesterton and her department were determined to do more with less. Not only did they want to ensure that their pupils developed a secure, wide-ranging knowledge of British and world history, they also wanted to address deficits in pupils’...
    Using narratives and big pictures to address the challenges of a 2-year KS3 curriculum

  • Recorded webinar series: The Olympic Games

      Culture and political impact across the twentieth century
    2024 was an Olympic Games year. Held every four years (with the exception of during the World Wars and Covid-19 restrictions), the modern Olympics is the largest international sporting event in the world. However, historically it has not always been just the sports that are played and the athletes’ performances...
    Recorded webinar series: The Olympic Games

  • Film: Choosing the migration unit for GCSE

      A Departmental Journey
    When the first revised GCSE specifications were launched in 2016, Sharon Aninakwa and her team at the Convent of Jesus and Mary Language College in North London made the decision to change their thematic unit to a study of migration. Some years later, they have a chance to reflect upon...
    Film: Choosing the migration unit for GCSE

  • Teaching Year 9 to take on the challenge of structure in narrative

      Teaching History article
    Reflecting on challenges that had surfaced in their own and others’ efforts to get pupils to write historical narratives, Rachel Foster and Kath Goudie went back to the drawing board to consider the disciplinary purposes of narrative. They used both historical scholarship and theoretical works by historians on narrative construction....
    Teaching Year 9 to take on the challenge of structure in narrative

  • The dialogic dimensions of knowing and understanding the Norman legacy in Chester

      Teaching History article
    Michael Bird and Thomas Wilson focus their attention directly on the voices of pupils, in dialogue with their teacher and with each other, as they draw inferences from differing sources about the Norman legacy in Chester. By carefully examining dialogue stimulated by these sources, Bird and Wilson demonstrate not only...
    The dialogic dimensions of knowing and understanding the Norman legacy in Chester

  • Podcast Series: The Byzantine Empire

      Byzantium
    In this podcast Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos of King's College London looks at the history of the Byzantine Empire from its origins in the Roman Empire to the fall of Constantinople.
    Podcast Series: The Byzantine Empire

  • A portrait of the teaching of the British Empire, migration and belonging in English secondary schools

      A research project from IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society and the University of Oxford’s Department of Education
    If you work – or have recently worked – in an English secondary education setting, the research team at A portrait of the teaching of the British Empire, migration and belonging in English secondary schools wants to hear from you. They are conducting a national survey, the first of its...
    A portrait of the teaching of the British Empire, migration and belonging in English secondary schools

  • Pedagogy, politics and the profession

      Teaching History article
    History curriculum reform proposals and debates are a persistent feature of the contemporary educational landscape in England and, very probably, a ‘sign of the times' that can reveal a great deal about contemporary predicaments and concerns. History curriculum controversy is also a global phenomenon and one that can fruitfully -and,...
    Pedagogy, politics and the profession

  • Interpreting Agincourt: KS3 Scheme of Work

      Scheme of Work
    2015 was a year of anniversaries. As part of our funded commemoration projects surrounding the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, we commissioned this scheme of work looking at interpretations of the battle and period, particularly aimed at pupils in Key Stage 3. It comes with a complete resource...
    Interpreting Agincourt: KS3 Scheme of Work

  • Exploring the importance of local visits in developing wider narratives of change and continuity

      Rethinking religious rollercoasters
    The authors of this article take a well-known structural framework for students’ thinking about the Reformation and give it a twist. Their Tudor religious rollercoaster is informed by local visits in their setting in Guernsey – an area where the local picture was not quite the same as the national...
    Exploring the importance of local visits in developing wider narratives of change and continuity

  • Triumphs Show: Making their historical writing explode

      Teaching History feature
    ‘Who hates PEE paragraphs?’ A collective groan resounds around my classroom. ‘Today, Year 10 we are going to master PEE  paragraphs, and make our written historical explanations explode.’ I always remember one deflated Year 10 student who said, ‘Miss, I just don’t get PEE paragraphs. I couldn’t do them in Year 7, and I still...
    Triumphs Show: Making their historical writing explode