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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.

C.M. Yonge shows how, during the nineteenth century, the British public began to take a keen interest in the wonders of their native beaches.

John Wesley spent two years as a chaplain in Georgia in the 1730s; Stuart Andrews describes how forty years later he was much preoccupied with the

Were the fifties a dull decade? Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson has the answer.

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

J.A.R. Pimlott studies the development of the Christmas Spirit—from Pagan Saturnalia to Victorian family party

Anthony Fletcher uses the papers of his artistic great-aunt, who, as a young nationalist, wrote an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising, to explore her yo

A new form of antiquarianism? Celebrating experience at the expense of analysis? Seven leading historians seek to define social history.