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  • Thematic or sequential analysis in causal explanations

      Teaching History article
    Struck by what he saw as the complexity, artistry and cognitive achievement of historians' narrative accounts, Robin Kemp decided to explore ways of teaching his pupils to write narrative and to analyse the role of such writing in developing various kinds of historical thinking. Working with Year 8 and Year...
    Thematic or sequential analysis in causal explanations
  • Cunning Plan 165: Helping lower-attaining students

      Teaching History feature
    My GCSE students were about to embark on their controlled assessment, which asked them to weigh up conflicting views on the British military’s contribution to the D-Day landings. Students were asked to engage  with a range of historians’ views and textbooks as well as some contemporary source material to assess...
    Cunning Plan 165: Helping lower-attaining students
  • The English Domestic Servant in English History

      Classic Pamphlet
    The history of domestic service in England has yet to be written. Hewers of wood and drawers of water there have always been, but historians have usually been little concerned with them. The material for their history is scattered and difficult to assess; even the word ‘servant' is not easy...
    The English Domestic Servant in English History
  • Tracking the health of history in England’s secondary schools

      Teaching History article
    In 2009 the Historical Association conducted the first of what has become an annual survey of history teachers in England. Its aim was to get beyond bare statistics relating to subject uptake and examination success to examine the reality of history teaching across all kinds of schools and to map...
    Tracking the health of history in England’s secondary schools
  • Verdun: the endless battle

      Historian article
    Most can agree that the battle of Verdun started 100 years ago, on 21 February 1916, when the Germans began attacking French positions north and east of the old fortress town on the Meuse river. Few can agree on when it ended. The Germans might draw a line under it...
    Verdun: the endless battle
  • The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1

      Journal
    The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education. Articles included in this edition:  Editorial: History Education, Identity and Citizenship in the 21st Century, Bahri Ata The Turkish prospective History teachers' understanding of analogy in History education, Isabel...
    The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1
  • Stories, sources and new formats: Digitising Archives

      Historian article
    In the last two decades or so there has been a movement towards digitising large collections of original sources. These projects have had a range of purposes, approaches and target audiences but there can be little doubt that they have had a profound impact on the practice of history in...
    Stories, sources and new formats: Digitising Archives
  • Out and About: Charles Darwin, a voyage of discovery

      Historian feature
    Dave Martin follows Charles Darwin’s journey from university back to his birthplace, Shrewsbury. Cambridge The bronze statue of Darwin as a young man perches elegantly on the arm of a garden bench in the grounds of Christ’s College, Cambridge where he was a student from 1829 to 1831. Of this...
    Out and About: Charles Darwin, a voyage of discovery
  • Film: Yeltsin and the West

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film, Dr Edwin Bacon (University of Lincoln), looks how the positive relationship established between Mikhail Gorbachev and President Reagan and his successor President Bush continued with the ascension of Yeltsin to the presidency of Russia. Dr Bacon discusses how Russian perceptions of the West changed with the expansion...
    Film: Yeltsin and the West
  • Film: Yeltsin's agenda

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film, Dr Edwin Bacon (University of Lincoln), discusses the emergence of Russia as a democratic country and its nascent capitalist economy. He outlines how the issues Yeltsin faced in government such as the 1993 constitutional crisis, followed by the shelling by tanks in Moscow led to Yeltsin rewriting...
    Film: Yeltsin's agenda
  • The Olympics: Origins to Paris 2024

      History journal blog
    Dr Paul Cartledge, A.G. Leventis Senior Research Fellow, Clare College and Emeritus A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture, talks to Richard Marranca about the ancient and modern Olympic Games.   What do the ancient Olympics have in common with the upcoming Olympics in Paris? Sadly, very little indeed – beyond the striving for...
    The Olympics: Origins to Paris 2024
  • Vive la France! A comparison of French and British history teaching, with practical suggestions from across La Manche

      Teaching History article
    It is possible for teachers to learn a great deal within their own classrooms, departments and schools. However, stepping outside that daily experience, whether by reading a journal, contributing to a web debate or attending a conference, can always provide refreshing ideas. Evelyn Sweerts takes the concept of sharing good...
    Vive la France! A comparison of French and British history teaching, with practical suggestions from across La Manche
  • Getting Year 7 to set their own questions about the Islamic Empire, 600-1600

      Teaching History article
    Sometimes particular problems can lead to unexpected solutions. In this case, Sally Burnham decided to solve a problem that she had identified among her Year 12 students by changing the way in which she teaches Year 7. Her Year 12s were finding it difficult to set appropriate questions for their...
    Getting Year 7 to set their own questions about the Islamic Empire, 600-1600
  • How can students' use of historical evidence be enhanced?

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What role does knowledge play in the interpretation of documentary materials? How do history students use what they know? What kind of knowledge really ‘makes the difference' and which ways of using knowledge make the...
    How can students' use of historical evidence be enhanced?
  • From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7. Henry II & Becket

      Teaching History article
    Tim Jenner was working on a causation enquiry with his Year 7 students when he noticed that weak conceptions of change were limiting their ability to produce powerful and period-sensitive arguments. He therefore decided to digress into a temporary but explicit focus on analysing historical change. He created a deceptively...
    From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7. Henry II & Becket
  • Pupil Perceptions and History

      E-CPD Resource
    A PowerPoint presentation by Alison Kitson dealing with Pupil Perceptions and History.
    Pupil Perceptions and History
  • Teaching for beginners

      Multipage Article
    This section is divided into three sub-sections: 2.1 What is history in schools?2.2 Historical knowledge2.3 History classroom practice An introduction to the discipline of history in schools is covered in ‘What is history in schools?’ Beginning teachers need to learn and think about the nature and purposes of history in the school classroom...
    Teaching for beginners
  • The International Journal Volume 3 Number 2

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 3 Number 2 July 2003 ISSN 1472 - 9466 Editorial Keith Crawford - The Role and Purpose of Textbooks   Articles Jason Nicholls  - Methods in School Textbook Research   Penelope Harnett - History in the Primary School: the Contribution of...
    The International Journal Volume 3 Number 2
  • The First Crusade: Eastern Sources and Different Interpretations

      Medieval World History
    In this podcast Professor Peter Frankopan, University of Oxford, looks at the causes of the First Crusade through Eastern sources (Greek, Syriac, Armenian, Arabic and Hebrew), rather than Western (Latin) sources. Professor Frankopan discusses the different interpretations these sources provide and highlights the key role of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and the rapid...
    The First Crusade: Eastern Sources and Different Interpretations
  • The International Journal Volume 3 Number 1

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Teaching, Learning and Research Volume 3 Number 1 January 2003 Editorial British Island Stories: History, Schools and Nationhood - Robert Phillips   Articles School History, National History and the Issue of National Identity - Ann Low-Beer   Nationalism and the Origins of Prejudice - Cedric Cullingford  ...
    The International Journal Volume 3 Number 1
  • Film: What a strange place to be buried

      Virtual Branch Film
    Anna Cusack joined the HA Virtual Branch to discuss unique burial locations in London c.1600-1800. Anna recently completed a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London on the marginal dead of seventeenth and eighteenth-century London, focusing specifically on suicides, executed criminals, Quakers, and Jews and the treatment of their bodily remains...
    Film: What a strange place to be buried
  • Nazi Policy: From persecution to extermination

      20th Century German History
    In this podcast Sir Ian Kershaw examines how Nazi policy on the Jews progressed from persecution to extermination.
    Nazi Policy: From persecution to extermination
  • What they think they know: the impact of pupils' preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Robin Conway suspected that his students’ concepts of the significance of different aspects of historical periods was affected by the preconceptions that they brought to his lessons. These preconceptions were leading his students into making unhistorical judgments, without any real understanding on their part of what had affected their thinking....
    What they think they know: the impact of pupils' preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance
  • The International Journal Volume 2 Number 2

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 2, Number 2 July 2002 Letting the Past Speak Contributor John Fines (1938-1999) An obituary by Jon Nichol 3 Introduction 5 1 History In Schools 1. What is History for in Schools? 6 2. The Respect that is Owed to the...
    The International Journal Volume 2 Number 2
  • New Interpretations of the Bible

      The History of Christianity
    In this podcast Professor Miri Rubin of Queen Mary University of London examines the impact of new translations of the bible into the vernacular and the printing press.
    New Interpretations of the Bible