Editorial Note: The impact of war on children's lives and witness testimony is a powerful way to motivate history learning through engaging children with the recent past. The process of developing this unit provides a wonderful example of reflective curriculum development, and a teaching and learning journey. When I first taught...

Editorial note: The WOW factor. When we first received and read the World War II Evacuation Project case study we simply went WOW! It was genuinely mind-blowing. Below we publish the main sections of the report. They bring to life an invaluable, ground-breaking case-study of national significance. The case-study involved...

On the 20th of October 2011, Lecturers and PGCE trainees at the University of the West of England, Bristol created a Blitz experience for the children of three local primary schools. The University's Education department was transformed into a Blitz style street, complete with a home front kitchen, a Warden's post-...

Editorial note: The WOW factor. When we first received and read the World War II Evacuation Project case study we simply went WOW! It was genuinely mind-blowing. Below we publish the main sections of the report. They bring to life an invaluable, ground-breaking case-study of national significance. The case-study involved...

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This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today These lessons with Year 6 children at a voluntary-aided primary...

Where World War 2 took placeI wanted the year 5 children to understand World War II in a wider context than just the Home Front in Britain. After reading the lesson on

This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today This was a series of three lessons completed in the...

1930s Depression: a case study Bringing this decade of economic depression and hardship to life for the children, using the story of the 1936 Jarrow march. (These resources are attached below) As an introduction to the 1930s the class had already watched the How We Used to Live video. The...

My Year 6 class were studying Britain since 1930. I wanted the class to understand the power of propaganda, and of how convincing it could be. The values that underpin democracy were at the heart of the lessons featuring a fictional politician with controversial views, Mr Busterbank. There was throughout...

In this lesson we asked what clues (objects and pictures) can tell us about the past. How were schools in the past different from ours? (Resources attached below.) The objectives were: To introduce the children to the idea of history as detective work. To help the children to make comparisons...

We focused on changes in one local set of shops (in Magdalen Road) and looked at the impact of the World War II Exeter blitz on the area. The topic was a local study incorporating history and geography, developing children's historical understanding. To develop as fully as possible the children's...

Dates of a Decade: the 1960s by Nathaniel Harris. Franklin Watts, pub 2008, ISBN: 978 0 7496 7882 1 Reviewed by Alf Wilkinson This book contains a selection of the key events of the 1960s. Each double-page spread has at least one image, detail of and background to the event, and a...

Produced by the Northamptonshire Black History Association and originally published in 2008, this is one of a set of resources for schools offering a more inclusive map of the past that includes an appreciation of Black History within the local, national and global context. The resources provide a range of opportunities to promote diversity within the curriculum....

Please note: this 2005 article is likely to be of use to researchers rather than teachers. A post cold war world: The last decade of the 20th century saw a sea change in the political systems of the Soviet Bloc and a corresponding re-orientation of international politics. Following the fall of...

Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. This article reports some surprising gender-based trends indicated by a small scale piece of classroom research looking into incidental responses of Year 6 pupils to the teaching of Study Unit 11b (Britain Since...

Please note: the links and website lists in this 2002 article are out of date. Marked by tensions and contradictions, the 1930s were on the cusp of older and newer trends; in the shadow of late Victorian and Edwardian society yet pulled towards a recognisably modern life-style which would develop...

The miner’s cottage is part of a project at The Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, to preserve folk history. Since its founding in 1948, over 40 buildings, including a row of six original miners’ cottages from Rhyd-y-Car, have been dismantled and transported from sites throughout Wales to be reconstructed...