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  • The American Diplomatic Tradition

      Classic Pamphlet
    Indisputably, the United States of America has been and continues to be the leading power of the twentieth century. No country or people, however large or small, has been immune from American influence. A succession of American presidents have become international celebrities whose personal strengths and weaknesses are discussed and disssected...
    The American Diplomatic Tradition
  • Nazism and Stalinism

      Classic Pamphlet
    Is it legitimate to compare the Nazi and Stalinist regimes? There might seem little room for doubt. It is often taken as self-evident that the two regimes were variations of a common type. They are bracketed together in school and university courses, as well as text books, under labels such...
    Nazism and Stalinism
  • Analytic and Discursive Writing at Key Stage 3

      HA Guide
    Christine Counsell's core message is that, because analytical and discursive writing is seen as difficult, it is often considered impossible. Instead, those very difficulties should be the focus of continuous professional analysis by all history teachers. Counsell argues that only a thorough analysis of those difficulties will yield suitable creative...
    Analytic and Discursive Writing at Key Stage 3
  • Does scaffolding make them fall? Reflecting on strategies for developing causal argument in Years 8 and 11

      Teaching History article
    Jennifer Evans and Gemma Pate, history teachers in two Essex schools, had noticed that sometimes a writing frame did the opposite of what was intended. Sometimes a card sort fostered rich discussion and ownership; sometimes it led the students down a reductive rather than mind-opening path. Sometimes modelling of paragraphs...
    Does scaffolding make them fall? Reflecting on strategies for developing causal argument in Years 8 and 11
  • Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime: using external support, local history and a group project to challenge the most able

      Teaching History article
    The most able can be challenged in a variety of ways and at a number of levels, from the extension question for the individual child to the extended enquiry for the most able class. In a Leading Edge History project, Guy Woolnough and his colleagues took the concept of challenge...
    Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime: using external support, local history and a group project to challenge the most able
  • History and the perils of multiculturalism in 1990s Britain

      Teaching History article
    Ian Grosvenor's article points both to dangers and to positive potential in the National Curriculum for history. Critical of the published proposals for history in the current curriculum review, he points not only at the continuing narrowness of the perspectives enshrined by the proposed curriculum but at the reasons why...
    History and the perils of multiculturalism in 1990s Britain
  • Polychronicon 127: The Crusades

      Teaching History feature
    Modern research on the crusades has concentrated on three basic questions. What were they? How were they justified? What motivated the crusaders? The first of these questions became controversial twenty-five years ago, when historians with a traditional approach to the subject, who took into consideration only those expeditions launched to...
    Polychronicon 127: The Crusades
  • Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion

      Teaching History article
    How do we help pupils to write better paragraphs without actually doing it for them? How do we break down the process of essay writing into smaller steps without taking away pupils’ sense of the essay as a whole? How do we give lower-attaining pupils models, structures and frames without...
    Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion
  • Christopher Hill: Marxism and Methodism

      Historian article
    Christopher Hill, the eminent historian of seventeenth century England, was a convinced Marxist throughout most of his long and productive life (1912-2003). He embraced this secular world-view when he was a young History student at Oxford in the polemical 1930s and never lost his ideological commitment, even though he resigned...
    Christopher Hill: Marxism and Methodism
  • Getting ready for the Grand Prix: Learning how to build a substantial argument in year 7

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Dale Banham’s Grand Prix race has helped many history teachers in Suffolk to think freshly about metaphors and images that will inspire and enable pupils (especially underachieving boys) to write analytically and at length. In...
    Getting ready for the Grand Prix: Learning how to build a substantial argument in year 7
  • Steering your OFSTED inspector into the long-term reasons for classroom success

      Teaching History article
    Sue Dove describes a short but action-packed activity sequence that was designed explicitly to show the OFSTED inspector the impact of the department's professional thinking and long-term planning. An integrated approach to thinking and writing at Key Stage 3 and much training of pupils to adopt a disciplined and creative...
    Steering your OFSTED inspector into the long-term reasons for classroom success
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Introducing students to historical interpretation

      Historian article
    High school history teacher Brent Dyck is one of our Canadian readers. He has offered this item to The Historian as a contribution to our commitment to explore the historical approaches and values that we are seeking to convey to young people and the wider public. We hope that you may...
    Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Introducing students to historical interpretation
  • Three lessons about a funeral: Second World War cemeteries and twenty years of curriculum change

      Article
    Mike Murray analyses the way in which curriculum development has broadened and strengthened our conceptions of high standards in historical learning for school students. He pays tribute to ground-breaking new theoretical principles from the Schools History Project and from new emphases upon contextual knowledge and ‘interpretations' in the first National...
    Three lessons about a funeral: Second World War cemeteries and twenty years of curriculum change
  • A team-taught conspiracy: Year 8 are caught up in a genuine historical debate

      Teaching History article
    Are top sets always our top priority? Of course, we know that every child matters (should that now have capital letters?) but those of us who teach in an ability-setted context also know that a bottom set left unable to access the curriculum is likely to pose bigger problems than...
    A team-taught conspiracy: Year 8 are caught up in a genuine historical debate
  • Why Gerry likes history now: the power of the word processor

      Article
    Ben Walsh argues that many teachers of history completely miss the point of the word processor. Criticising those who use it merely for 'typing up' he reminds us that the purpose of the word processor, as with any other resource, is to teach good history. He analyses the types of...
    Why Gerry likes history now: the power of the word processor
  • Move Me On 93: Not making progress in use of ICT

      The problem page for history mentors
    Millie Marvel, PGCE Student is not making use of ICT to teach history in the classroom Problem: Millie Marvel, student history teacher, is in Term 2 of her PGCE year. She enjoys using ICT and is highly competent in her use of several applications. However, lessons in which she has chosen...
    Move Me On 93: Not making progress in use of ICT
  • Practical classroom approaches to the iconography of Irish history or: how far back do we really have to go?

      Teaching History article
    Ben Walsh presents a structured practical activity for teaching pupils about Northern Ireland through the use of murals. The activity can be carried out in Year 9 as part of a study on the twentieth-century world, or as part of a GCSE course. He stresses the importance of an informed...
    Practical classroom approaches to the iconography of Irish history or: how far back do we really have to go?
  • Cunning Plan 93: Study Unit 3: 'The Making of the United Kingdom 1500-1750'

      Article
    This unit contains complex concepts. It is distant from twentieth century life. The challenge is to understand power struggles between King and Parliament, a changing society and a religious upheaval. How do we interest students in religion when they live in a society in which religion takes a back seat?
    Cunning Plan 93: Study Unit 3: 'The Making of the United Kingdom 1500-1750'
  • Manifesto for learning outside the classroom

      Article
    the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto – launched a few months ago - is intended to be a ‘movement’, the purpose of which is to canvas support for education beyond the school walls. It grew out of the education and skills select Committee’s report of 2005 which acknowledged the challenges...
    Manifesto for learning outside the classroom
  • Cunning Plan 126: What can Berlin tell us about Germany in the 20th century?

      Teaching History feature
    Berlin is a microcosm of twentieth century European history; a city that still bears many of the signs and scars of its experiences and upheavals. It is a must for any history department teaching the Modern World, taking history out of the textbooks and breathing life into it. All pupils...
    Cunning Plan 126: What can Berlin tell us about Germany in the 20th century?
  • Being ambitious with the causes of the First World War: interrogating inevitability

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Gary Howells asks hard questions about typical teaching and assessment of historical causation at Key Stage 3. Popular activities that may be helpful in addressing particular learning areas, or in teaching pupils to use the...
    Being ambitious with the causes of the First World War: interrogating inevitability
  • How do we get better at going on trips: Planning for progression outside the classroom

      Teaching History article
    School trips are, it seems, always in the news. They are under threat, or vital, or the preserve of wealthier students, or a forum for poor behaviour, or a day out of the classroom to build relationships, or a fantastic learning experience where students learn important life skills (such as...
    How do we get better at going on trips: Planning for progression outside the classroom
  • Denis Shemilt's four stages of adolescent ideas about historical methods in a nutshell

      Article
    Denis Shemilt's four stages of adolescent ideas about historical methods in a nutshell.
    Denis Shemilt's four stages of adolescent ideas about historical methods in a nutshell
  • The return of King John: using depth to strengthen overview in the teaching of political change

      Teaching History article
    Dale Banham's article in Teaching History 92, ‘Getting ready for the Grand Prix: learning to build a substantiated argument in Year 7' has influenced much debate about extended writing. It has been influential way beyond the history education community. It also raised new questions about the management of historical content....
    The return of King John: using depth to strengthen overview in the teaching of political change
  • A hankering for the blank spaces: enabling the very able to explore the limits of GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Many of us would love to have the problems encountered by Oliver Knight at his previous school. His students were simply doing too well - leaving him wondering how to stretch them to the limit...
    A hankering for the blank spaces: enabling the very able to explore the limits of GCSE