One Big History Department
We are in the wonderful position where #OBHD is getting so big that it can be hard to find things. Here are some handy links to posts you enjoyed and might want to access again. Or perhaps you missed them first time around and can discover anew what a fabulous subject community we are part... Continue Reading →
Many superb colleagues have grafted to make life easier for us all by creating lists and indices of many useful resources. This work on behalf of the community saves so much time and is so helpful to newer colleague less 'au fait' with the sources old hands use for subject knowledge and also 'how to... Continue Reading →
In these strange times, we want #OBHD to be a supportive place for all history teachers valiantly rising to the many challenges of teaching remotely online. We will keep posting regularly and do let us know what is most useful to you. It's going to be awhile until we can indulge our history nerdiness in... Continue Reading →
There is a lot of work going on in departments to make sure that students understand how studying History can help them with their future careers. Employability is once more a buzz word! Corporate HA members can use all the materials on the HA website in the Careers with History section Here you will find articles... Continue Reading →
Ruth Lingard and Helen Snelson have been leading York area teachers and University of York PGCE trainees to deepen their knowledge of stories from the past that are too often absent from the history classroom. Here they offer the 'slot-ins' made so far as a way to help history teachers make the history curriclum more... Continue Reading →
Subject knowledge updating is enjoyable and a huge challenge in a busy teacher life. There are fantastic initiatives, such as The History Teachers’ Book Club which featured in a previous post, which make this more collegiate. Connected to this, some historians are super generous with their time and engage with history teachers on social media... Continue Reading →
Richard Kennett gave the keynote at the first HA North West forum at the end of January. He has turned his talk into this blogpost so more of us can benefit from his thinking about curriculum. This blogpost is unashamedly about curriculum. Put simply, curriculum is what stuff we choose to teach. It is not... Continue Reading →
... In which I was inspired by Ruth Lingard’s post to take Michael Riley’s analogy way too far!" As someone with responsibility for the History curriculum at my school, I often worry about the quality of what we do. This is no false modesty, there are aspects of our curriculum that really aren’t that good.... Continue Reading →
Last week the History Department at Abbey School (@theabbey_hist) posted some images on Twitter. They have generously agreed to share these. With the theme 'We hear your voices too!' they have adapted famous images to bring forward the people in the pictures whose voices are less often heard from the past. Have a look, the... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Chris Rowe from the EuroClio historical content team for sharing this early work from the EuroClio project 'Football Makes History'- Life Stories Diversity NEW. The team have been working to provide content about footballers from diverse backgrounds who have led the way in changing and challenging attitudes. From the start of the 20th... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Sally Burnham (@salburnham), SHP fellow, HA Secondary Committee member, history teacher in Lincolnshire and PGCE tutor at Nottingham University, for this blogpost. Sally reminds us of the importance of teaching local history and gives lots of top tips for including it across the key stages. When their eyes light up and they... Continue Reading →
