Cunning Plan is a regular feature in Teaching History (TH), offering a series of instructions for tackling a particular issue. Cunning Plans range in purpose and scale from detailed suggestions for teaching specific topics or responding to particular challenges, through outline schemes of work for a particular enquiry, to overarching frameworks that map progression in relation to particular concepts or themes.

Most Cunning Plans are written by classroom teachers, eager to share their successful ideas in an accessible format. Each one sets out the issue or problem that the plan is intended to address and provides a step-by-step series of instructions or recipe for achieving the core objective(s).

Cunning plan title/topic	TH issue	Year	Author
Does women’s suffrage deserve a more prominent place in Australia’s national narrative?	196	2024	Jonathon Dallimore, Martin Douglas
Studying medieval Ghana and Aksum	195	2024	Thomas Knowles
Teaching about climate change through the history curriculum	194	2024	Nebiat Michael and Nini Visscher
A suggested itinerary for visiting Berlin	192	2023	Geraint Brown, Matthew Stanford
Diving deep into ‘history from below’ with Year 8	191	2023	Nathanael Davies
Using art to make A-level history more accessible	190	2023	Gemma Hargraves
Teaching Samurai Japan in Key Stage 3	186	2022	Joseph Player
Building difference into GCSE curriculum design	185	2021	Carmel Bones
Teaching a broader Britain, 1625–1714	183	2021	Helen Snelson
Incorporating a more global perspective within Key Stage 3	181	2020	Tess McLaughlin
Using TV producers’ techniques to make the most effective use of retrieval practice	179	2020	Pam Canning
How far did Anglo-Saxon England survive the Norman Conquest?	178	2020	Eve Hackett
Teaching about life in Elizabethan England by looking at death	177	2019	Robin Conway
Using the England's Immigrants database	175	2019	Diana Laffin
Teaching Year 8 to create and refine a narrative of the interwar years	174	2019	Alex Rodker
Using Black Tudors as a window into Tudor England	173	2018	Chris Lewis
Teaching the industrial revolution	167	2017	Elizabeth Carr
Developing an enquiry on the First Crusade	166	2017	Rachel Foster, Kath Goudie
Helping lower attaining students to grasp historical interpretations	165	2016	Sophie Sullivan
Developing an A-level course in medieval history	163	2016	Michael Fordham
GCSE Thematic study	163	2016	Sally Thorne
Building useful knowledge at KS3 and transferring it to KS4	162	2016	Elizabeth Carr
Magna Carta's legacy	161	2016	Raven Tolson
Putting the people into the Magna Carta	159	2015	Ian Dawson
Was King John unlucky with his barons?	159	2015	Damian Hayes
Teaching about the history of the UK parliament	158	2015	Tony McConnell
Interpreting WW1 events	155	2014	Paula Worth
Who is buried in the box? Layers of history	154	2014	Philip Arkinstal
Placing visual sources at the heart of historical learning	152	2013	Shaun Collins
Using Gillray cartoons to enable Year 8 pupils to understand 18th-century Britain	152	2013	John Carter
The 'Glorious' revolution of 1688	151	2013	Arthur Chapman
Exploring the Migration experience	149	2013	Cecilia Axelsson
A Year 7 lesson on Gladiators	149	2013	Nicholas Flynn
Getting students to use classical texts	147	2012	Beth Baker
Promoting independent student enquiry	144	2011	Ben Twitchin
Constructing historical claims about the British Empire	143	2011	Laura Fyson
Why do historical interpretations change over time?	142	2011	Giles Fullard and Tom Wheeley
Bringing history to life	140	2010	Jonathan Davies
Teaching about Victorian debates on progress	139	2010	Jonathan White
Making homework more exciting	137	2010	Robin Conway
Challenging generalisations	135	2009	Christine Counsell
Local history at KS3	134	2009	Dan Moorhouse
Year 7 and the new National Curriculum	132	2008	Christine Counsell
Mary I	129	2007	Alison Stephen
Abolitionist icons	127	2007	Andy Prestoe
What can Berlin tell us about Germany in the 20th century?	126	2007	Steve Mastin
Planning a school trip	123	2006	Tony McConnell
Why was Berlin such a significant theatre of conflict after 1945?	120	2005	Anna Hamilton, Tony McConnell
Geography in history: how do earthquakes affect a place?	116	2004	Duncan Hawley
Building overview understanding of 19th-century social history	114	2004	Christine Counsell
Empire	112	2003	Anna Hamilton, Tony McConnell
Year 8 lesson on C.V. Wedgwood's writing	111	2003	Christine Counsell
Imperial China	110	2003	Paul Parkinson, Carol Nelson
Teaching the French Revolution to Year 12	109	2002	Sarah Boote
Teaching Tudor architecture	108	2002	Diana Laffin
The big idea of Freedom	107	2002	Chris Husbands, Alison Kitson
Political literacy	106	2002	Richard Harris
Crusades Enquiry	105	2001	Christine Counsell
Why did Henry VIII marry so many times?	103	2001	Alison Webb
How emailing enhanced students' debating skills	101	2000	Richard Harris, Diana Laffin
Teaching the First World War in Year 9	100	2000	Dale Banham
A world study after 1900	99	2000	Geraint Brown, Stephen Bayes, Ben Jeffreys
Britain 1750-1900	98	2000	Richard Cunningham
A-Level: International Relations 1890-1914	97	1999	Richard Harris, Seán Lang
Teaching citizenship through KS3 history	96	1999	Andrew Wrenn
Medicine through time	95	1999	Dale Banham
Study Unit 2: Crowns, Parliaments and Peoples, 1500-1750	94	1999	Michael Riley
Study Unit 3: 'The Making of the United Kingdom 1500-1750'	93	1998	Richard Harris
A-Level European history: The Weimar Republic	92	1998	Diana Laffin