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The mystery of why the pyramids were built in the desert is finally solved

Many of you teaching Ancient Egypt in depth as part of a broader topic on ancient civilizations will , no…

Teaching Olympic games in 2024

Are you planning to teach about the Olympic games which are coming to Paris in July 2024? If so you…

The Blitz 80 years on

On the night of 14 November 1940, 80 years ago, one of the most infamous aerial attacks of all time…

Spectacular Bronze Age finds

Article: BBC Detectorist ‘shaking with happiness’ after Bronze Age find Among the items found this week in Peebles in Scotland…

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,…

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…

Florence Nightingale and her legacy – 200 years since her birth, on 12 May 1820

Historians have praised Florence Nightingale on the 200th anniversary of her birth, and said her legacy has “never been more…

Remembering VE Day

In these difficult times when schools are not in session it will not be possible to commemorate the ending of…

Teaching about Roman villas at KS2- some new finds in Gloucestershire. Should the housing development now go ahead – arguments for and against?

Those of you teaching about Roman villas at KS2, maybe even using the outstanding lesson on this website, Is this…

80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two

On 3 September 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany after Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland. It was the…

Anniversary of the start of the Great Fire.

On this anniversary of the outbreak of the Great Fire, take a look at the outstanding lesson which explores why…

Widespread ignorance of the Holocaust still shocks

Five per cent of UK adults do not believe the Holocaust took place and one in 12 believes its scale…

Elizabeth I: awful weather

As reported in The Times, yesterday marked the Coronation of Elizabeth I, 460 years ago. It was cold and wet…

Powerful personal memories of Remembrance Day

As we all remembered the fallen yesterday, I had particular reason to think of family loss. In the Great War…

Has Mary Beard got it right about TV history?

Mary Beard has sparked controversy yet again , this time about the way history is portrayed on TV. Too many…

Commemorating centenary of ending of World War One: Using fiction to teach about remembrance at KS1 and 2

Fiction provides opportunities for children to explore what life might have been like for people living during the war and,…

£2.2. million to be spent on time-saving curriculum materials in hist, geog and science

Sounds great doesn’t it. Even better when you realise that the money is to fund school-based initiatives rather than top-down…

Spanish Armada: 430th anniversary- great lessons to enjoy for KS2 and 3

Those of you teaching the Spanish Armada at KS2 or 3, will know that today is the 430th anniversary of…

Trump’s woeful ignorance of own country’s Cold War history

I know we shouldn’t be surprised when Trump commits another faux pas, but I can’t help admitting that my hackles…

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