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  • Building memory and meaning

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Sarah Gadd attempted to re-think her department's usual approach to the two-year Key Stage 3. Concerned that a thematic approach might not be securing the overview perspective it was designed to achieve, she decided instead...
    Building memory and meaning

  • Young Quills reviews 2025

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    The Young Quills books for each year must be published for the first time in English in the year preceding the competition – so 2024 for this year’s selection. Divided by age suitability the books are given to schools on the condition that the children and young people there write...
    Young Quills reviews 2025

  • 'Don't worry, Mr. Trimble. We can handle it' Balancing the rationale and the emotional in teaching of contentious topics

      Teaching History article
    A common line amongst teachers and policy-makers seeking to theorise a workable relationship between history and the new subject of citizenship is to say that there must be a link with the present. This is harder than it sounds. If the implication is that the study of the past should...
    'Don't worry, Mr. Trimble. We can handle it' Balancing the rationale and the emotional in teaching of contentious topics

  • Lions of the Great War: How are Sikh soldiers of the First World War seen today?

      Key Stage Three History scheme of work
    This Key Stage Three History scheme of work focuses in depth on the contribution of Sikh soldiers from the Indian subcontinent fighting on behalf of the UK between 1914 and 1918. It is designed to follow on from a focus on the First World War, probably in Year Nine and...
    Lions of the Great War: How are Sikh soldiers of the First World War seen today?

  • Move Me On 141: Teaching the Holocaust

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Marion Hartog is wondering how to approach teaching the Holocaust, especially with her ‘difficult' Year 9.
    Move Me On 141: Teaching the Holocaust

  • Nutshell 141 - HEDP

      Teaching History feature
    Why has the Institute of Education in London set up their  ‘Holocaust Education Development Programme': isn't there already an awful lot of attention given to the Holocaust in schools? It is true that the Holocaust has become ‘probably the most talked about and oft-represented event of the twentieth century' and...
    Nutshell 141 - HEDP

  • Polychronicon 141: Adolf Eichmann

      Teaching History feature
    Almost 60 years ago Adolf Eichmann went on trial for crimes committed against the Jews while he was in the service of the Nazi regime. His capture by the Israeli secret service and his abduction from Argentina triggered a number of journalistic books that portrayed him as a pathological monster...
    Polychronicon 141: Adolf Eichmann

  • Investigating students' prior understandings of the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Students make sense of new learning on the basis of their prior understandings: we cannot move our students' thinking on unless we understand what they already know. In this article, Edwards and O'Dowd report how they set out to scope a group of Y ear 8  students' prior learning and...
    Investigating students' prior understandings of the Holocaust

  • A question of attribution: working with ghetto photographs

      Teaching History article
    Holocaust imagery is very familiar, clichéd even. How can we get pupils thinking about it in novel ways and seeing differently? Phillips reports work completed with his PGCE students, proposes a scaffold of questions with which to deconstruct images and applies it to  archive images and to Hollywood representations. Images...
    A question of attribution: working with ghetto photographs

  • Camels, diamonds and counterfactuals: a model for teaching causal reasoning

      Teaching History article
    In the last edition of Teaching History, Arthur Chapman described how he uses ICT to develop sixth form students’ conceptual understanding of interpretations, significance and change. In this article, he turns his attention to causal reasoning and analysis. Drawing on the work of historians such as Evans and Carr, he...
    Camels, diamonds and counterfactuals: a model for teaching causal reasoning

  • Young Quills winners and reviews 2024

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    The Young Quills winners and highly commended have been announced for his year. This competition for historical fiction for children is a way of celebrating and recognising those authors who are continuing the long tradition of creative writing about the past for children. All of the books are reviewed by...
    Young Quills winners and reviews 2024

  • Thinking from the inside: je suis le roi

      Teaching History article
    Dale Banham and Ian Dawson show how active learning deepens students’ understanding of attitudes and reactions to the Norman Conquest. At the same time they build a bold argument for active learning, including a direct strike at the two most common objections to it. Many teachers still see it as...
    Thinking from the inside: je suis le roi

  • Seeing double: how one period visualises another

      Teaching History article
    When pupils study interpretations or representations of the past which are neither from their own period nor from the period being interpreted/represented, they are having to employ sophisticated knowledge and skill. Jane Card describes this as ‘double vision’: the pupils must think about the period depicted (in this case the...
    Seeing double: how one period visualises another

  • The Life & Significance of Alan Turing

      The History of Science
    In this podcast, Dr Tommy Dickinson of the University of Manchester, discusses the life and significance of Alan Turing.
    The Life & Significance of Alan Turing

  • 'If Jesus Christ were amongst them, they would deceive Him'

      Teaching History article
    During discussions about planning, Tim Kemp and Charlotte Bickmore recently concluded that despite the name they give to their major Year 8 unit (The Making of the United Kingdom), they tend mainly to focus on England, and even more especially, on London. They have a good point. Ask an average...
    'If Jesus Christ were amongst them, they would deceive Him'

  • Young Quills winners and reviews 2023

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    It is with great pleasure that the HA is able to announce the winners of the Young Quills for Historical Fiction for 2023: Young readers category Winner: Tony Bradman for Bruno and Frida (Barrington Stoke)Highly Commended: Judith Eagle for Accidental Stowaway (Faber) Intermediate category Winner: Tom Palmer for Resist (Barrington Stoke)Highly Commended: Lesley Parr for When the...
    Young Quills winners and reviews 2023

  • Picturing place: what you get may be more than what you see

      Teaching History article
    Pictures abound in history classrooms and teachers use them in many different ways. They add - often literally - some colour to the past, helping us to imagine what different worlds were like. Pictures can be used quite legitimately in this way to fire imagination and stimulate interest. But we...
    Picturing place: what you get may be more than what you see

  • Move Me On 139: teaching about change and continuity

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Debbie Samson is finding it difficult to teach about change and continuity in meaningful ways.
    Move Me On 139: teaching about change and continuity

  • Polychronicon 139: Civic denouncer: The lives of Pavlik Morozov

      Teaching History feature
    Germaine Greer (in the context of the Pirelli Calendar) once commented that the defining feature of a legend was that almost nothing said and believed about it was true. Pavlik Morozov, notorious both inside Russia and internationally for having denounced his father, almost certainly never did so. In September 1932, local...
    Polychronicon 139: Civic denouncer: The lives of Pavlik Morozov

  • Do Mention the War' : the impact of a National Curriculum study unit upon pupils' perceptions of contemporary German people

      Teaching History article
    What preconceptions do your pupils hold about the Second World War and about German people? How far have these been influenced by home background, by personal experience, by film, by sport, by the Key Stage 2 history curriculum? Paul Coman argues that the last of these deserves greater attention, at...
    Do Mention the War' : the impact of a National Curriculum study unit upon pupils' perceptions of contemporary German people

  • Move Me On 137: Regards PGCE assignments as unhelpful distractions

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Ellen Wilkinson regards her PGCE assignments as an unhelpful distraction from the real business of learning to teach. Ellen has just had her first PGCE assignment returned to her by her tutor and is furious about the comments she has received and the indicative Masters level mark it...
    Move Me On 137: Regards PGCE assignments as unhelpful distractions

  • 'Please send socks': How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War?

      Teaching History article
    This was an opportunity all good historians dream about. A large box crammed with artefacts about a soldier who fought in the First World War, just begging to be read, studied, sorted and organised. Being faced with such a wealth of uncatalogued primary evidence could have proved daunting enough without...
    'Please send socks': How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War?

  • Move Me On 136: Struggling to teach elite politics/international relations

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Ernest Briggs, who wants pupils to engage with the real lives of ordinary people in the past, is struggling to learn to teach courses that he thinks are too narrowly focused on elite politics and international relations. Ernest, initially one of the most animated and enthusiastic trainees on...
    Move Me On 136: Struggling to teach elite politics/international relations

  • Telling tales: Developing students' own thematic and synoptic understandings at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Ed Brooker is as concerned as the other authors within this edition that students should be able to see and make meaning out of ‘big pictures' of the past. He is acutely aware, however, that...
    Telling tales: Developing students' own thematic and synoptic understandings at Key Stage 3

  • Nutshell 135: The challenge of analysing 'difference'

      Teaching History feature
    Hello Nutshell. What's all this stuff in the NC Attainment Target about ‘nature', ‘extent' and ‘interplay' of diversity? The trick is to look behind the word ‘diversity'. Then it all makes sense...
    Nutshell 135: The challenge of analysing 'difference'