Themes
History is the story of all that has passed, which makes it a pretty big subject! So we have tried to break it down both by periods of time and by themes. So whether you are an academic, a teacher, a heritage worker, student, someone with a general interest or armchair historian you can probably find an area that most captivates you here. If you love all history or you’re not sure where to start then using a theme as your filter will probably work – give it a go you never know where you might end up.
Politics
- Shaping what matters: Year 9 decide why we should care about the Windrush scandal
- New approaches to teaching the History of Appeasement in the classroom
- Broadening horizons: using cross-curricular conversations to support historical understanding
- Historical anniversaries calendar
- Cunning Plan 190: Using art to make A-level history more accessible
- Helping Year 8 to understand historians’ narrative decision-making
Women
- Tracing the popular memory of Rosa Parks with Year 9
- How representing women can convey a more complex narrative of the Russian Revolution to Year 9
- Historical anniversaries calendar
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... gender and sexuality
- ‘Compressing and rendering’: using biography to teach big stories
- Recorded Webinar: Female slave-ownership in 18th and 19 century Britain
Health
- Learning from a pandemic
- Polychronicon 172: Health in the Middle Ages
- The development of the Department of Health
- Cunning Plan 163.1: GCSE Thematic study
- WWI and the flu pandemic
- Podcast: The Historical Medicalization of Homosexuality & Transvestism
Power
- Helping Year 8 to understand historians’ narrative decision-making
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Royal Studies
- Power, authority and geography
- What can rituals reveal about power in the medieval world? Teaching Year 7 pupils to apply interdisciplinary approaches
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the British Empire and the age of revolutions in the global South
- Diversifying the curriculum: one department’s holistic approach
Science & Industry
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the consequences of the industrial revolution
- Learning from a pandemic
- Age of Revolutions Resources
- The Victorian Age
- From the history of maths to the history of greatness
- Climate change: greening the curriculum?
Religion
- Disembarking the religious rollercoaster
- Developing KS3 students’ ability to challenge their history curriculum through an early introduction of significance
- ‘Compressing and rendering’: using biography to teach big stories
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the English Reformation
- Year 7 use oral traditions to make claims about the rise and fall of the Inka empire
- Cunning Plan 183: Teaching a broader Britain, 1625–1714
International Relations
- Shaping what matters: Year 9 decide why we should care about the Windrush scandal
- Triumphs Show: Embracing scholarship to guide Year 7 on an exploration of the Silk Roads
- New approaches to teaching the History of Appeasement in the classroom
- Triumphs Show 193: Year 8 imagine the First World War trenches
- Imagining cities: exploring historical sites as contested spaces
- ‘But they just sit there’: using objects as material culture with Year 8
Crime & Punishment
- Past Time Toolkit: new learning resource about Victorian Prisons
- Polychronicon 171: Policing in Nazi Germany
- Polychronicon 157: Reinterpreting police-public relations in modern England
- Crime and Punishment - Roman to Early Modern
- The Bloody Code - Early Modern Crime and Punishment
- Crime and Punishment Selected Articles
Economics
- Polychronicon 177: The New Deal in American history
- Cunning Plan 175: Using the England's Immigrants database
- The Past, the Present and the Future of the Economic Crisis, through Greek Students’ Accounts of their History
- Bristol and the Slave Trade
- Podcast Series: The Renaissance
- From Sail to Steam
Society
- Tracing the popular memory of Rosa Parks with Year 9
- Shaping what matters: Year 9 decide why we should care about the Windrush scandal
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Modern British LGBTQ+ history
- Lengthening Year 9’s narrative of the American civil rights movement
- Triumphs Show: Recovering the queer history of Weimar Germany in GCSE history
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... youth culture?
Culture
- Triumphs Show: Embracing scholarship to guide Year 7 on an exploration of the Silk Roads
- Lengthening Year 9’s narrative of the American civil rights movement
- Triumphs Show: Recovering the queer history of Weimar Germany in GCSE history
- Year 7 challenge stereotypes about the Mexica
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... youth culture?
- Imagining cities: exploring historical sites as contested spaces