SHP Conf 12: Digs Deep
It was great to get outside and get our hands dirty. Eschewing the classroom bound format of other SHP workshops, Carenza and Richard gave us hands-on experience of archaeological fieldwork ...
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SHP Conf 12: Saturday under way
Saturday morning is half way through the SHP conference, and always a great session as you pick up two workshops in quick succession. And then you realise you can't do everything ...
Read More »SHP Conference 2012: Off to a great start
How do you want a conference to begin? Richard and Neil provided 50 minutes of practical, engaging activities for GCSE – all designed and proven to deepen students’ thinking, knowledge and enjoyment of History ...
Read More »New for A Level: Russian Revolution
The second book in SHP’s Enquiring History series is now available – Chris Culpin’s The Russian Revolution. And don’t be fooled into thinking that accessibility means an absence of challenge ...
Read More »SHP’s new A Level series: One out – lots to come
The first book in our new ground breaking Enquiring History Series, for A Level, is now available. And the teachers' support resources are online - and free ...
Read More »A historian worth reading!
Fed up with reading historians and politicians pontificating about History teaching without having any respect for the evidence or even trying to look at the evidence in the first place? For a refreshing change read Richard J Evans...
Read More »SHP in London: Final Reflections
Final reflections on some of the broader issues emerging from the workshops and plenaries at SHP's first Autumn Conference in London ...
Read More »SHP in London: Reflections on Christine’s Plenary
It’s impossible to imagine anyone better than Christine Counsell to keep the conference bubbling to the end – vitality, positive tone, body language, utter conviction. Impossible as ever for mere words to do justice to her session on "Disciplinary history for all: Why it matters, why it is so difficult and why we should not give up" – the best I can do is just note down some of my jottings ...
Read More »SHP in London: Local History and the National Story
Why are people here on a Saturday in late November? No exam sessions, no functional reviews – the first two people I spoke to told me they’re here, hoping to leave ‘bubbling with enthusiasm’, inspired by ideas that will feed into their teaching, helping them inspire their students in turn. And the choice of Michael Wood to start the day has fitted this aim of ‘bubbling with enthusiasm’ really well...
Read More »History and Behaviour
I'm sat at a government review meeting and must admit I'm sneakily tapping away writing this blog. This isn't because I'm disengaged or disaffected. Rather it's because I'm very engaged and very affected. You see, the review meeting is about the new teaching standards for behaviour ...
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