The course is designed to introduce students to “historiography”. In delivering the course, my aim is to encourage and inspire pupils from deprived state schools to think about applying to Oxbridge and Russell Group universities to read History.  As an example, in its first year, pupils came from four schools, including two schools with a high proportion…

The first session. These resources are designed to help pupils understand some of the bigger turning points and trends in the development of historiography, from Herodotus to Marx. Reading Resource:  A Summary History of History Reader Activity: A Summary History of History Table

The second session. This reading resource is designed to be used alongside my ‘Collapse of the Tsarist Empire Game‘ (published in the journal Teaching History, Number 149). The game serves as an introduction to the concept of causation in History, and asks pupils to grapple with E.H. Carr’s seminal work on historical causation (Chapter 4 in his…

The third session. This reading resource can stand alone as an introduction to positivist and postmodernist approaches to history, although I use it alongside an activity on how the Third Crusade has been interpreted differently, which I wrote up in an article on ‘Reading and Writing Narrative‘ (available from the journal Teaching History, Number 156) . The…