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  • Building Key Stage 5 students’ analysis of interpretations

      Article
    Students of A-level history are required to analyse and evaluate historical interpretations. Samuel Head found limitations in his Year 13 students’ understanding of how and why historians arrive at differing interpretations, which impeded their ability to analyse them. He set about tackling this with carefully sequenced planning and a processual model...
    Building Key Stage 5 students’ analysis of interpretations

  • Case Study: Historical information and the local community

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The ICT revolution A paper register, a pink-lined A4 mark book and a written school log book are surely historical artefacts? The transition from paper to digital technology continues, changing the world of the classroom teacher whose working life like mine,...
    Case Study: Historical information and the local community

  • Move Me On 91: work with historical sources lacks focus

      The problem page for history mentors
    Problem: Mike Jones, student history teacher, is half-way through his PGCE year. He is making unusually good progress in his knowledge, understanding and practice with regard to the use of sources in history. He also appears to have no difficulty with classroom management and relationships with pupils. He easily creates...
    Move Me On 91: work with historical sources lacks focus

  • Rethinking progression in historical interpretations through the British Empire

      Teaching History article
    Let’s stop saying sorry for the Empire! Thus Mastin and Wallace introduce one of their lessons on interpretations of the British Empire. They develop Gary Howells’s ideas from the previous edition of Teaching History to demonstrate exactly what we might get our students to do with interpretations of the past....
    Rethinking progression in historical interpretations through the British Empire

  • The National Curriculum Attainment Target (from 2008)

      HITT Resource
    Level 4 Pupils show their knowledge and understanding of local, national and international history by describing some of the main events, people and periods they have studied, and by identifying where these fit within a chronological framework. They describe characteristic features of past societies and periods to identify change and...
    The National Curriculum Attainment Target (from 2008)

  • What’s The Wisdom On… using material culture in the classroom?

      Teaching History feature
    How often do you refer to objects in the classroom? When did you last explore with your pupils the materiality of past lives? The ‘material turn’ in historical research and scholarship opens up different lines of enquiry and different kinds of history from those revealed by documentary evidence. It can...
    What’s The Wisdom On… using material culture in the classroom?

  • On-demand webinar: Developing formative and extended writing in primary history

      Webinar series: History and literacy: better together
    History and literacy: better together Session 5: Developing formative and extended writing in primary history This webinar will demonstrate how giving pupils opportunities to write formatively can capture their understanding at given points in a learning episode, helping them to structure their developing thinking and supporting teachers in spotting and...
    On-demand webinar: Developing formative and extended writing in primary history

  • Transforming historical understanding through scripted drama

      Teaching History article
    An article on scripted drama might seem an unlikely choice for an edition devoted to getting students talking. Surely the point about a script is that the words used are chosen and prescribed by others. However, the examples presented here by Helen Snelson, Ruth Lingard and Kate Brennan demonstrate how...
    Transforming historical understanding through scripted drama

  • Databases, spreadsheets, and historical enquiry at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Databases and spreadsheets used to terrify many history teachers and even where some skill was gained, these tools were approached in a spirit of professional worthiness rather than of intellectual excitement. Rob Alfano oozes intellectual excitement and it is pretty obvious that he communicates this to his pupils. His approaches...
    Databases, spreadsheets, and historical enquiry at Key Stage 3

  • Cunning Plan 142: Why do historical interpretations change over time?

      Teaching History feature
    History teachers have been talking about the need to teach broad narratives, overview and chronology for a long time. They have also recognised how essential it is for students to have an opportunity to study the ways in which the past has been interpreted, and the reasons why these interpretations...
    Cunning Plan 142: Why do historical interpretations change over time?

  • Story time? Investigating using stories about the French Revolution with Year 12

      Teaching History article
    Recognising a significant return to stories in the history classroom, Holliss and Carroll wanted to think carefully about what this meant for A-level history. While stories had always been present in their classrooms, they wanted to experiment with the methods of the ‘new storytellers’, building lessons, then sequences of lessons,...
    Story time? Investigating using stories about the French Revolution with Year 12

  • Does the grammatical ‘release the conceptual’?

      Teaching History article
    Jim Carroll noticed basic literacy errors in his Year 13s’ writing, but on closer examination decided that these were not best addressed purely as literacy issues. Through an intervention based on clauses, Carroll managed to enable his students to write better, but he did this by teasing out principles of...
    Does the grammatical ‘release the conceptual’?

  • Update: Disability history

      Historian feature
    Expansion into new periods and places, new revelations of human diversity and difference, and a rethink of the tools we use to recover the past – disability history is not just thriving but is also exciting, as Daniel Blackie and Alexia Moncrieff demonstrate in their update on the state of...
    Update: Disability history

  • Early Modern History

      Article
    Early Modern History

  • Triumphs Show 164: interpretations at A Level

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    Julia Huber and Katherine Turner found that their A-level students struggled to identify the line of argument in a passage of historical scholarship, an essential prerequisite for answering their coursework question. They devised an activity that helped students to unpick and visually contrast historians’ interpretations of the relative importance of...
    Triumphs Show 164: interpretations at A Level

  • The digital revolution

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Developments in information technology continue at an extraordinary pace. Many young children will have little or no idea of what it was like to live in a world without mobile phones, computers and the Internet. Most children will regularly make use...
    The digital revolution

  • History Journal Film: The Letters, Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell

      History journal blog
    The History journal team are delighted to launch their first in a series of films interviewing the authors at the cutting edge of historical research. Today, we are thrilled to welcome John Morrill, professor emeritus of the University of Cambridge and emeritus fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Dr Joel...
    History Journal Film: The Letters, Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell

  • 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

  • The President's Column 132

      Article
    From the time of Andrew Marvell to Philip Larkin, Hull has been regarded as a ‘city of poets’. This coming year Hull will be the UK City of Culture and has organised a 365-day series of literary,  artistic, dramatic and historical events. Recovering the various aspects of the city’s past...
    The President's Column 132

  • Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history

      Article
    Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people are the largest minority ethnic group in some communities (and therefore in some schools) in the UK. Yet the past of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller people may rarely be part of history lessons. The result is that pupils of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritage may not...
    Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history

  • On-demand webinar: Making it stick: enhancing memory retention for pupils with SEND in GCSE history 

      Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
    Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4 Session 2: Making it stick: enhancing memory retention for pupils with SEND in GCSE history  Presenter: Dale Banham This session explores how to help SEND learners retain historical knowledge by applying research-informed strategies that reduce cognitive overload...
    On-demand webinar: Making it stick: enhancing memory retention for pupils with SEND in GCSE history 

  • Thinking beyond boundaries

      HA Update
    In October of last year, the Royal Historical Society (RHS) published an important report highlighting the racial and ethnic inequalities in the teaching and practice of history in the UK (RHS, 2018). Focused on history teaching at university, it nevertheless highlighted the need for thinking to occur at all levels...
    Thinking beyond boundaries

  • Teaching History 131: Assessing Differently

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Speed cameras, dead ends, drivers and diversions: Year 9 use a ‘road map’ to problematise change and continuity – Rachel Foster (Read article) 09 The Holy Grail? GCSE History that actually enhances historical understanding! – Katie Hall (Read article) 17 ‘Create something interesting...
    Teaching History 131: Assessing Differently

  • History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP)

      Immersive online course for history teachers looking to develop beyond their early career
    Book now Autumn 2026 cohort - Thursday 15 October, 4.45pm-5.45pm- Thursday 3 December, 4.45pm-5.45pm- Thursday 21 January, 4.45pm-5.45pm Spring 2027 cohort - Thursday 4 March, 4.45pm-5.45pm- Thursday 22 April, 4.45pm-5.45pm- Thursday 11 June, 4.45pm-5.45pm What is the History Teacher Development Programme? The History Teacher Development Programme is an immersive online programme aimed...
    History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP)

  • Film: Blood and Iron

      Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
    Katya Hoyer recently gave a lecture for the HA Virtual Branch on Weltkrieg: the German home front during the First World War and the devastating effects of total war on a divided and insecure society. This talk provides an insight into the First World War that is often overlooked, reminding us that...
    Film: Blood and Iron