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Keeping up to-date with teaching of the Maya – Archaeologists uncover scoreboard for ancient Maya ball game
In the Archaeological Zone of Chichén Itzá, archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have discovered a…
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OFSTED Webinar on primary and secondary History 2023
Many of you will have read the lengthy OFSTED paper on research findings into the history curriculum published in 2021,…
Read MoreMATs v Council-maintained? What does the evidence tell us about relative performance? May 2022
Council-maintained schools in England outperform academies in Ofsted rankings, according to analysis published on the day the government’s ambitions for…
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KS4 – Migration; Expulsion of the Jews 800 years ago : now a topical issue – May 2022
Those of you teaching about medieval England or the new thematic study on migration may for GCSE might like to…
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Here’s one i made earlier – The DFE’s plans for a new model primary history curriculum – May 2022
The DfE have been trailing the idea of a model curriculum for history for a while now. They seem to…
Read MoreInclusive history curriculum – March 2022
So you will have a new “model history curriculum” by 2024 to equip you with the skills to lead lessons…
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Knowledge rich: necessary but surely not sufficient? Or 5 good reasons not to listen to Nick Gibb, the schools minister
In a speech delivered last week, July 21,2021, we had to read, or listen to, the same ill-informed clap-trap from…
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New evidence of Anglo-Saxon mutilations as punishment
Ninth-century England was a bad place to be a criminal, new findings suggest. The skull of an Anglo-Saxon teenager discovered…
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New evidence at Chedworth Roman villa casts new light on Dark Ages
A mosaic at Chedworth Roman villa that was previously believed to date from the fourth century has now been radiocarbon-dated…
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How close to World War Three has the world come since 1945. A Year 9 enquiry.
Just as the United Nations is marking its 75th anniversary, so the world peace it was set up to maintain…
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Spectacular Bronze Age finds
Article: BBC Detectorist ‘shaking with happiness’ after Bronze Age find Among the items found this week in Peebles in Scotland…
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Wizards and scientists:changing views of Stonehenge. History as interpretations and a constant conversation between past and present
One of the harder parts of teaching history at Ks2 is to explain to pupils that history is a construct,…
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Is this another find to help us understand Stonehenge?
Yesterday’s more interesting news centred on a newly-published report on the finds at Durrington Wells on Salisbury Plain. As the…
Read MoreLatest research on Stonehenge- a must for KS2 teachers
The results of one of the largest DNA studies yet conducted show that soon after Stonehenge was built, Britain was…
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