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Teaching History 64
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 The Professional Craft Knowledge of the History Teacher - Peter John
12 Talking about History: Group Work in the Classroom - Practice and Implications - Kenneth Brzezicki
17 Issues in the Teaching of History - Towards a Skills/Concept-led Approach - Jane Jenkins
22 Bebba and her Sisters - Gully Robson
26 Time...
Teaching History 64
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Teaching History 65
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Replies to Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley: Always Historicise? - Richard Aldrich
13 Clarity Please! - Gavin Alexander
15 Economic Awareness through History - P. J. Rogers
21 National Curriculum History and Teacher Autonomy: The Major Challenge - Robert Phillips
25 Teaching History: Art American Experience - Sean McGrath
28 Learning about Museum Resources - Sue...
Teaching History 65
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Teaching History 66
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
7 The Discursive Turn: Tony Bennett and the Textuality of History - Keith Jenkins
17 History Reprieved? - Terry Haydn
21 Overwhelming Evidence: Written Sources and Primary History - Peter Vass
27 Towards a Controllable Time Machine' - Sean O'Conaill
31 Beating the Invader in 1941: A 7-year-old's Experiences - John Kinross
35 Key Stage...
Teaching History 66
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Teaching History 68
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
9 History Teaching and Economic Awareness: A Sample Topic - P. J. Rogers
14 A Land Fit for Heroes: Recreating the Past through Drama - Kate Fleming
17 Holt Hall, 1940: A Residential 'Living History' Project - Alan Childs and Mike Pond
20 History and Computers in Dorset - Dave Martin
26 Clear...
Teaching History 68
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Knowledge and the Draft NC
Teaching History article
Silk purse from a sow's ear? Why knowledge matters and why the draft History NC will not improve it
Katie Hall and Christine Counsell attempt to construct a Key Stage 3 scheme of work out of the draft National Curriculum for history that was released for consultation in England in...
Knowledge and the Draft NC
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Teaching History 72
The HA's journal for history teachers
11 Using the Attainment Targets in Key Stage 2: AT2, 'Interpretations of History' - Pam Harper
14 Using the Attainment Targets in Key Stage 3: AT2, 'Interpretations of History' - Tony McAleavy
18 A Way of Looking at History: Local-National-World Links - Sylvia L. Collicott
23 Deja vu - The...
Teaching History 72
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Film: What's the wisdom on...Similarity and Difference
Your Virtual History Department Meeting
We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances, so we wanted to lend a helping hand.
'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a virtual department meeting....
Film: What's the wisdom on...Similarity and Difference
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Teaching History 74
The HA's journal for history teachers
7 The Aims of School History - John White
10 Beyond the Old Dichotomies: Some Reflections on Hayden White - Keith Jenkins
17 Teaching Post-Modern History: A Rational Proposition for the Classroom? - Peter Brickley
23 What is the Future for the History National Curriculum? - Frances M. Connelly
27...
Teaching History 74
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Webinar series: Improving outcomes in GCSE History: rich and authentic encounters with the past at Key Stage 4
HA webinar series for secondary history teachers and subject leaders
Under pressure to increase student attainment at GCSE but hesitant about what that might look like? Struggling to make a content-heavy course accessible to all learners? In this webinar series, Ed Durbin will take a fresh look at approaches to teaching GCSE History. With all eyes on the new specifications...
Webinar series: Improving outcomes in GCSE History: rich and authentic encounters with the past at Key Stage 4
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Teaching History 75
The HA's journal for history teachers
2 Editorial
3 News
5 The Dearing Final Report - Threat or Opportunity? - Carol White
7 Responses to the Dearing Report: History Post-16 - Laurie Taylor
9 Making Dearing Enduring - A Personal View - Roy Hughes
11 Teaching History at Key Stage 2 - One School's Approach -...
Teaching History 75
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Teaching History 76
The HA's journal for history teachers
6 I Thought It Was For Picking Bones Out Of Soup ... Using Artefacts In The Primary School - Liz Smith and Cathie Holden
10 Understanding Ethnocentrism: History Teachers Talking - Janet Maw
17 Critical History? - Rob Isaac
19 Language Use and Problem Solving in Primary History - Patricia Hoodless...
Teaching History 76
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Teaching History 77
The HA's journal for history teachers
6 History, Autonomy and Education or History Helps Your Students Be Autonomous Five Ways (with apologies to PAL dog food) - Peter Lee
11 Theory and Practice Essay: The Use of Resources and Teaching Aids in the Teaching of History, with particular reference to Year Eight - Elizabeth Danks
16...
Teaching History 77
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Teaching History 78
The HA's journal for history teachers
5 Using History to Develop Citizenship Education in the National Curriculum - Peter John and Ian Davies
8 Developing a Multicultural Perspective Within Key Stage 3 National Curriculum History - Paul Bracey
11 History Education in a Democratic South Africa- Peter Kallaway
17 History Teaching and the Council of Europe -...
Teaching History 78
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Teaching History 82
The HA's journal for history teachers
6 Project Chata: Concepts of History and Teaching Approaches at Key Stages 2 and 3 - Peter Lee, Alaric Dickinson and Rosalyn Ashby
12 History, Economics, Economic History and Economic Awareness - Peter J. Rogers
20 GCSE History: A Case for Revolution - John Checketts
23 History 14-19: Challenges and Opportunities...
Teaching History 82
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Teaching History 86
The HA's journal for history teachers
6 Our History or Your History? - Gillian Wilson
8 The Constructive Use of Role Play at Key Stage 3 - Edwin Towil!
14 Why and how we teach history in schools: the case of the Roman soldier - Terry Haydn
16 In Search of the Missing Railway - Dave Welbourne...
Teaching History 86
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Teaching History 87
The HA's journal for history teachers
6 Reading the Bickersteth Diaries - John Bickersteth
8 History at Home - Rob David
14 Nuffield Primary Project (Part I) - John Fines
21 Our History or Your History? (Part 2) - Gillian Wilson
24 Key Stage 2 Multi Cultural Issues (Part I) - Marika Sherwood
27 Primary School...
Teaching History 87
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Why are you wearing a watch? Complicating narratives of economic and social progress
Teaching History article
Frustrated by the traditional narrative of the industrial revolution as a steady march of progress, and disappointed by her students’ dull and deterministic statements about historical change, Hannah Sibona decided to complicate the tidy narrative of continual improvement.
Inspired by an article by E.P. Thompson, Sibona reflected that introducing her...
Why are you wearing a watch? Complicating narratives of economic and social progress
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Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit
The mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times
Dr Jo Fox continued our virtual branch lecture series this July on the subject 'Reimagining the Blitz Spirit: the mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times'. Fox is the Director of the Institute of Historical Research and a well-known historian specialising in the history of propaganda, rumour and truth telling.
In this talk...
Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit
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What is interesting about the Cold War?
Article
Almost 30 years after the end of the Cold War, diversity is suddenly galvanising the field of scholarly research into the Cold War. As the historian Federico Romero has argued, older, simpler interpretations ‘seem to be giving way to a looser understanding of the Cold War as an era that encompassed...
What is interesting about the Cold War?
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The International Journal Volume 1 Number 1
Journal
Editorial
Old Wine, New Bottles : National Identity, Citizenship and the History Curriculum for the 21st Century
Articles
Penelope Harnett - History in the Primary School: Re-Shaping Our Pasts. The Influence of Primary School Teachers' Knowledge and Understanding of History on Curriculum Planning and Implementation.
Laura Capita,...
The International Journal Volume 1 Number 1
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Making reading routine
Teaching History article
Inspired by the growing number of history teachers who have sought to introduce younger pupils to academic historical scholarship in the classroom, Tim Jenner wanted to bring about his own reading revolution at Key Stage 3. But rather than simply develop one-off lessons or enquiries based on scholarship his goal...
Making reading routine
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The Historian 170: Out now
The magazine of the Historical Association
Read The Historian 170: Disability
One of the core aims of historical study is the recovery of the full diversity of the human experience. Since the 1960s, which saw the rise of ‘history from below’, our understanding of past societies has become ever richer through studies of ordinary and often marginalised...
The Historian 170: Out now
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Podcast Series: The History of Science
Multipage Article
In this series of podcasts we take a look at the history of the Royal Society and the influence it has had on the history and development of science.
This series features: Keith Moore, Head of Libraries and Archives at the Royal Society, Dr Jordan Goodman, Dr Patricia Fara of...
Podcast Series: The History of Science
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Teaching History 124: Teaching the most able
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 Expertise in its development phase: planning for the needs of gifted adolescent historians – Deborah Eyre (Read article)
09 Duffy’s devices: teaching Year 13 to read and write – Rachel Ward (Read article)
17 Mussolini’s missing marbles: simulating history at GCSE – Arthur Chapman and James Woodcock (Read article)...
Teaching History 124: Teaching the most able
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Polychronicon 164: The End of the Cold War
Teaching History feature
A quarter-century on from 1989-91, with a large amount of archive and media material available, these epic years are ripe for historical analysis. Yet their proximity to our time also throws up challenging questions about the practice of ‘contemporary history’, and the complexity of events raises larger issues about how...
Polychronicon 164: The End of the Cold War
