A student’s guide to History’s history

THE HISTORY OF HISTORY IS SO COMPLEX A DISCIPLINE THAT IT HAS BECOME ITS OWN FIELD: HISTORIOGRAPHY. You will see that in some cases the word is capitalised – this is to show when I am referring to the discipline of History, as opposed to the more general phenomenon of history as a transmission of […]

Dear Parent: why your child is learning histories not history

SOMETIMES WE GET ASKED BY TEACHERS PLANNING TO USE THE PARALLEL HISTORIES TEACHING METHOD IF WE HAVE A SAMPLE LETTER TO SEND HOME TO PARENTS EXPLAINING WHAT THE PROGRAMME INVOLVES AND WHAT THEIR CHILD WILL BE DOING. This is often a good idea, especially when the history of the conflict you are going to be […]