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Russel Tarr demonstrates how today’s technology can enliven teaching and learning about the past.

Russel Tarr shows that there is much more to using video than pressing ‘play’.

Russel Tarr introduces the new International Baccalaureate, assessing its advantages and disadvantages compared with A Levels.

Russel Tarr asks key questions about the religious radicals of the 16th century.

Once again Russel Tarr demonstrates how ICT can enrich and enliven the work of historians.

Fundamentalism has become the face of Islam in the West. It was not always so and need not be in the future, says Tim Stanley.

Richard Kennett calls on his fellow history teachers to embrace narrative. There is no better way to inspire the historians of the future.

A thief who had been dead for more than a century caused a moral panic in the theatres of Victorian London. 

Contrary to myth, it wasn’t Prince Albert but another German royal transplant who introduced the Christmas tree to Britain.