History teaching resources

History · KS3 to A Level £4.99

The Historian’s Craft, Confident Schools

One book for the whole department — the head of history defending curriculum time and the teacher taking a Year 9 class through a source they have never seen. What historical thinking actually is, how it is built from Year 7 to Year 13, and what separates a student who knows a great deal from one who can argue with it.

1. 1 Chronology
2. 2 Knowledge
3. 3 Concepts
4. 4 Evidence
5. 5 Argument

Eight GCSE and A Level history specifications, read in full · 77 pages, 73 sections · For department CPD, planning and curriculum review

History · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 7 History Scheme of Work

Six half-termly units across one academic year, in chronological order. The year opens before 1066 because that is where evidence is easiest to teach — the record is thin enough that a class has to reason from it — and it closes on the world beyond Christendom, so that England is not the only place history happens.

1. 1a Before the Normans: Who Was Here, and How Do We Know?
2. 1b 1066: How Do You Take a Country, and How Do You Keep It?
3. 2a Medieval Lives: What Held England Together?
4. 2b Christendom and Beyond: How Connected Was the Medieval World?
5. 3a The Black Death and the Revolt: Did the Plague Change England For Ever?
6. 3b Crown in Crisis: Why Did the King Lose Control of His Own Nobles?

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 history (DfE, 2013) · 56 pages, 23 sections · For heads of history, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

History · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 8 History Scheme of Work

Six half-termly units across one academic year. The year turns on two questions a class will meet again in every unit of Year 9: who holds power, and who pays for prosperity. It runs from the break with Rome to the first industrial nation, and it carries the local history study.

1. 1a The Break with Rome: How Far Did the Reformation Change England?
2. 1b Elizabeth's Settlement: How Do You Govern a Country That Has Changed Religion Three Times?
3. 2a War With Itself: Why Did Britain Fight the Civil Wars?
4. 2b After the King: Who Governs, and With Whose Consent?
5. 3a The Atlantic System: How Was Britain Changed by Slavery and Empire?
6. 3b The First Industrial Nation: Did Industrialisation Improve People's Lives?

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 history (DfE, 2013) · 56 pages, 23 sections · For heads of history, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

History · Key Stage 3 £3.99

Year 9 History Scheme of Work

Six half-termly units across one academic year. The twentieth century is given the time it needs rather than a fortnight, and the key stage closes with an enquiry the student frames, plans and answers for themselves.

1. 1a The Vote: How Democratic Had Britain Become by 1918?
2. 1b Empire and India: What Did Rule Mean, and to Whom?
3. 2a 1914: Why Did a Crisis in the Balkans Become a World War?
4. 2b Between the Wars: Why Did People Vote for Dictators?
5. 3a The Holocaust: How Did It Become Possible?
6. 3b Since 1945: How Far Has Britain Changed — and How Would You Find Out?

The statutory programme of study for key stage 3 history (DfE, 2013) · 59 pages, 23 sections · For heads of history, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

History · GCSE £4.99

GCSE History Questions & Model Answers

History is the one subject where the boards do not share a syllabus: AQA sets Germany and Elizabethan England, Edexcel sets Medicine and Weimar, OCR differs again. So this book is built on what every specification does share — the four assessment objectives, the question types they force, and the enquiries those questions are. Every source and every interpretation in it is genuine, out of copyright, quoted verbatim with its provenance printed, and checked character by character against the original text on every build.

1. 1 Reading a source
2. 2 How useful is this source
3. 3 Two sources together
4. 4 What an interpretation says
5. 5 Why interpretations differ
6. 6 Judging an interpretation
7. 7 Cause and consequence
8. 8 Change, continuity and significance
9. 9 Narrative and the historic environment
10. 10 Substantiated judgement

The GCSE subject content for history published by the Department for Education and Ofqual's subject level guidance — the four assessment objectives at 35/35/15/15, the three eras, time scales and geographies, and the caps the regulator sets on how the marks inside each objective may be spent · 102 pages, 10 sections · For history teachers and heads of department — used with a class, not a student revision guide

History · GCSE · Every exam board Free

GCSE History — Posters

Five A3 posters on the skills rather than the periods: using a source through nature, origin and purpose; why historians disagree, with two interpretations worked; the history paragraph and the connectives that build it; the seven second-order concepts with the question stems that signal each; and chronology, including why the 1800s are the nineteenth century.

The skills every specification assesses, whichever period it sets · 5 A3 posters · For history classrooms, corridors and revision spaces