Enquiries
A key cornerstone of history is historical enquiry. Quality history provision has historical enquiry at its heart. Through historical enquiry children can be shown how to ask questions, select and evaluate evidence and to make judgments about the past. It can also be a vital way of showing them that there is often more than one side to a story and that history is multi-perspective. Historical enquiry is all about asking questions or hypothesising about the past that we hope the evidence will help us to answer, but getting the enquiry question right is not always easy. In this section you will find resources and guidance that will help you to plan challenging enquiries for your children that will help them to develop as historians.
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Curriculum plan: Ancient Greece
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HA Enquiry Toolkit
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Teaching black British history through local archives
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Benin: exploring an African empire at Key Stage 2
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The Coronation of King Charles III
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Scheme of work: The history of the ancient Olympic Games
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Changes in an aspect of social history from 1945 to 2000: youth culture
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Film: What's the wisdom on... Enquiry questions Part 2 (Primary)
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Film: What's the wisdom on... Enquiry questions Part 1 (Primary)
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Teaching the Romans in Britain: a study focusing on Hadrian’s Wall
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Making the most of a census
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Scheme of Work: Comparing Ancient Civilisations
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The history of medicine – warts and all – for Key Stage 2
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Women in parliament since 1918
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To boldly go: exploring the explorers
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Strange goings-on: exploring the benefits of learning history through outdoor pedagogy
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Scheme of Work: The Blitz: all we need to know about World War II?
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For whose God, King and country? Seeing the First World War through South Asian eyes
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Scheme of Work: Waterloo and the Age of Revolutions
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Ideas for Assemblies: Refugee stories
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