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 »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 »Final reflections on some of the broader issues emerging from the workshops and plenaries at SHP's first Autumn Conference in London ...
Read More »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 »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 »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 ...
Read More »SHP has always regarded the development of textbooks as an effective if discreet way of providing CPD for teachers, communicating new ideas about teaching and learning and about the content of History itself. And our new A level series, 'Enquiring History' (which appears from March 2012 onwards) is very much in this tradition ...
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