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Thinking through history: Story and developing children's minds
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated.
Story is the crucial factor in children’s awareness of past times in their ‘mythic’ phase of mental development, see page 4. Everyone loves a story, stories ‘open out fresh fields, the illimitable beckoning of horizons to imagination…...
Thinking through history: Story and developing children's minds
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Teaching Famous People at Key Stage One
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated
Studying famous people at Key Stage One has obviously been an issue for many years and no matter how long you have been teaching the name Florence Nightingale seems to appear as the only famous...
Teaching Famous People at Key Stage One
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Teaching History 38
Journal
Editorial, page 2
The Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education - What the History Teacher can Contribute - Ben Kerwood, page 3
The Lincolnshire Educational Aids Project - A Successful Launch into Historical Aids - Ray Acton and Tim Hall, page 8
The Humanities Teaching and Computing Project-Jon Nichol with Jackie Dean,...
Teaching History 38
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The Fall of the Roman Republic
Ancient European History
In this podcast Dr Federico Santangelo of the University of Newcastle examines the key factors that led to the fall of the Roman Republic.
The Fall of the Roman Republic
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Teaching History 112: Empire
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Special 64 page themed edition of Teaching History including: A case study in planning the teaching of the British Empire at key Stage 3, Using this map and all of your knowledge become Bismark, National Archives and the british Empire, Imperialism and the Roman Empire, History's challenge: facing the future,...
Teaching History 112: Empire
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Teaching History 110: Communicating History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
08 Narrative: an underrated skill - Seán Lang (Read article)
18 Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion - Maria Bakalis (Read article)
27 Developing conceptual understanding through talk and mapping - Jannet van Drie and Carla van Boxteland (Read article)
32 ‘You be Britain and I’ll be Germany...’ Inter-school e-mailing in...
Teaching History 110: Communicating History
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New opportunities for history: implementing the citizenship curriculum in England's secondary schools - a QCA perspective
Teaching History article
In September 2002 Citizenship becomes a completely new subject in England’s secondary schools. Jerome Freeman, Principal Officer for History with the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) — the authority responsible for advising the British government on curriculum content and qualification standards in England - outlines QCA’s view on the connections...
New opportunities for history: implementing the citizenship curriculum in England's secondary schools - a QCA perspective
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Teaching History 94: Raising the Standard
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Raising the Standard of History education. WW2 cemetries and twenty years of curriculum change, Ordinary pupils, extraordinary results: a structured approach to raising attainment at GCSE, Talk to your inspector: making the most of your history inspection, Stretching the very able student in the mixed ability classroom, Year 11 and...
Teaching History 94: Raising the Standard
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Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with the complex relationship between depth work and overview work. Revealing the big picture: patterns, shapes and images at Key Stage 3, Slavery, Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the 20th Century, Teaching the history of 20th women in Europe, Using Ethel and Ernest...
Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures
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Concerns over future of teacher training 2014
Article
The Facts
Increasing numbers of trainee teachers are entering the profession with little or no history-specific training.
Opportunities for graduates to increase subject knowledge alongside subject-based teaching practice in university centred school partnerships have been cut.
Our research shows that 90% of respondents agreed that all trainees should receive a...
Concerns over future of teacher training 2014
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The Celts
Ancient British History
In this podcast Professor Richard Bradley of the University of Reading looks at the Celts in Britain & Ireland.
The Celts
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Reading into writing
Article
Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated.
Background The emphasis in pupil writing in the National Literacy Strategy is upon non-fiction genres (DfEE:1997; DfEE: 1998). Such genres are essential tools for life and are at the centre of an effective literacy programme (Wray...
Reading into writing
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Creating Stories For Teaching Primary History
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated.
With primary history contributing to writing, some research by Sandra Dunsmuir and Peter Blatchford into pupils aged 4-7 has relevance to history teaching. The findings were published in the "British Journal of Educational Psychology", edition...
Creating Stories For Teaching Primary History
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The Origins and Structure of the Roman Republic
Ancient European History
In this podcast Dr Federico Santangelo of the University of Newcastle looks at the origins of the Roman Republic, how was it structured and how did the Republic developed politically and culturally.
The Origins and Structure of the Roman Republic
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Teaching History 36
Journal
Teaching History, June 1983 Number 36
In this issue:
Editorial, page 2
Off the Record: the Ommission of Women from Classroom Historical Evidence - Carol Adams, page 3
Sex Differences and Historical Understanding - Martin Booth, page 7
Sexist Microcosm - R.J. Bradbury and C.A. Newbould, page 9
A Feast...
Teaching History 36
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Primary History 28
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
3 Editorial – Penelope Harnett
3 Primary Noticeboard – edited by Tim Lomas
5 EuroClio Conference: Tallinn, Estonia – Penelope Harnett
6 Planning for diversity in the Key Stage 2 history curriculum: the Victorians – Hilary Claire
9 Can you bring the dead back to life...? – Victoria Rogers (Read article)...
Primary History 28
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Primary History 26
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
3 Primary Noticeboard – edited by Tim Lomas
7 Standards in primary history: onward and upward? A view from Ofsted – Scott Harrison (Read article)
10 Rhyd-y-Car cottages at St Fagans Museum of Welsh Life – Susanna Wood (Read article)
12 Asking the right questions. a study of the ability...
Primary History 26
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Challenges to the Roman Republic
Ancient European History
In this podcast Dr Federico Santangelo looks at the challenges the Roman Republic faced both internally and externally.
Challenges to the Roman Republic
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Raising the achievement of higher-attaining pupils: some challenging activities on Ancient Greece
Primary History Article
Karin Doull offers advice on raising the achievements of higher attaining pupils.
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and reference the old QCA, but offers some useful activities on Ancient Greece.
Raising the achievement of higher-attaining pupils: some challenging activities on Ancient Greece
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Primary History 13
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
4 Viewpoint - Grant Bage
4 Primary History Teachers - an endangered species? - Alan Hodkinson
5 Corinthian Helmet - Patrick Wood
6 Begin at the Beginning: The Iliad - Patrick Wood
8 Using Greek Vases in a Study of the Greeks at Key Stage 2 - Keith Dickson
10...
Primary History 13
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Teaching History 96: Citizenship and Identity
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Build it in, don’t bolt it on: history’s opportunity to support critical citizenship - Andrew Wrenn (Read article)
Weighing a century with a website: teaching Year 9 to be critical - Lindsey Rayner (Read article)
Democracy is not boring - Sean Lang (Read article)
Doomed Youth: Using theatre to support...
Teaching History 96: Citizenship and Identity
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Teaching History 32
Journal
Editorial, page 2
The Role of History in Multi-Cultural Education - David Edgington, page 3
The Perception of Indian History Teachers about the Ideal Pupil - Vijay K. Raina, page 6
Can History Survive? - Trevor Fisher, page 8
Report: Teaching A Level History: A Conference Report - Sandra Armstrong,...
Teaching History 32
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Teaching History 34
Journal
Teaching History, October 1982 Number 34
In this issue:
Editorial, page 2
Museums and the Use of Evidence in History Teaching - Carol Adams and Sue Millar, page 3
A Course of Local History for 12-13 year olds and their Reactions to it - John Mathews, page 7
Developments in...
Teaching History 34
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Sources for the Roman Republic
Ancient European History
In this podcast Dr Federico Santangelo of the University of Newcastle discusses the sources historians use when studying early Roman history.
Sources for the Roman Republic
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Working as a team to teach the Holocaust well: a language-centred approach
Teaching History article
Clear themes run through the work of the history department at Huntington School. A remarkably consistent emphasis on language and literacy, including work on speaking and listening of many types, is a hallmark of this sequence of six Year 9 lessons on the Holocaust, described in detail by head of...
Working as a team to teach the Holocaust well: a language-centred approach
