Publications and Consultancy

This section summarises ways in which I can provide support for history teachers and educators.

Courses for teachers and A level students
Museums consultancy
Publications

Summary CV

Teacher and head of department, secondary comprehensive school, 1975-1981
Director, Schools History Project 1982-1989
PGCE tutor 1989 – 1995 and Principal Lecturer in History, 1989 - 2002, Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds.
Awarded National Teaching Fellowship, 2003, for excellence in university teaching.
Provider of courses for teachers in over 70 LEAS and to Historical Association and Schools History Project conferences
Provision of active learning workshops for A level students on the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor period, involving role-plays and decision-making activities.
Author and editor of over 60 books for schools.
Consultant and author of GCSE packs for Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds

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Courses for teachers and A level students

Courses for teachers can be provided on the use of active learning techniques
· across age ranges
· for KS3
· for GCSE SHP courses
· at A level
· at university level

Courses for AS/A2 students can be provided on the Wars of the Roses and Henry VII

Fees and travel and accommodation costs agreed by discussion.

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Museums consultancy

Consultancy can be provided for museums and other heritage sites seeking to improve and increase their use by schools. This can involve discussion of presentation and content and/or the writing and preparation of resources to be used on site by students.

Past examples of this work –

Adviser to the Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds (winner of Sandford Awards for Educational Museum of the Year 2000 and 2004). This involved advising on content and structure during the museum’s design stage, running introductory courses for teachers and writing the GCSE pack used by students on site.

Consultant and author of GCSE pack for The Galleries of Justice, Nottingham.

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Publications

Book of the Month
General History
A level
GCSE
Key Stage 3

Book of the Month

Cover – The Twentieth Century Chris Culpin

The Twentieth Century by Chris Culpin
Publisher John Murray ISBN 0 7195 7711 X

The Twentieth Century is the final book in SHP’s This is History series! Students follow the stories of the key events through the experiences of ordinary people and use the Significance Skittles to decide which events have been the most important in the Twentieth Century.

General History

Cover – Young Oxford History ed Morgan
The Young Oxford History of Britain and Ireland edited by Kenneth O. Morgan, written by Mike Corbishley, John Gillingham, Rosemary Kelly, Ian Dawson and James Mason.
Oxford University Press, paperback, 1998.

This isn’t a school-book or, at least, it doesn’t have activities in it! It’s a highly-illustrated, colourful, narrative history aimed at intelligent teenagers – and it is ideal for PGCE students who are trying to fill those tricky gaps in their knowledge before they face Year 8 for the first time.

A level

Covers – Russia by Terry Fiehn
Titles
Weimer and Nazi Germany by John Hite and Chris Hinton
Fascist Italy by John Hite and Chris Hinton
Communist Russia under Lenin and Stalin by Terry Fiehn and Chris Corin
The Early Tudors 1485-1558 by David Rogerson, Samantha Ellsmore and David Hudson
The Reign of Elizabeth 1558-1603 by Barbara Mervyn
Britain 1783-1851: From Disaster to Triumph? By Charlotte Evers and Dave Welbourne

John Murray’s Advanced History Core Texts are designed to help students cross the bridge from GCSE to A level with confidence and with success. Diagrams, charts, artwork and full text provide analysis in a range of styles

Text link – Tudor Century

GCSE
Covers – Medicine and Health, Essential Germany

A selection of SHP books for GCSE

Titles
Medicine and Health through Time
Medicine for Edexcel
Essential Medicine and Health through Time
Crime and Punishment through Time
Elizabethan England
Britain 1815-1851
Essential Germany
The Struggle for Peace in Northern Ireland
Essential The Struggle for Peace in Northern Ireland
South Africa

Key Stage 3

Covers – King Cromwell? The Twentieth Century

This is History! combines depth and outline studies and brings you essay writing on the Grand Prix track, the Significance Skittles, the Source Testers and many other ideas for tackling the kinds of problems that crop up every year as students get to grips with KS3 history.
Titles
Tell your own Roman story
The Norman Conquest
Lost in Time
King John
King Cromwell?
Dying for the Vote
The Impact of Empire
The Trenches
The Twentieth Century
The Holocaust

Covers -What is History Y7and Y9

What is History? Year 7 provides an introduction to History in KS3 History through a series of short, intriguing investigations that introduce key ideas – evidence, causation, interpretations, empathy and significance.

What is History? Year 9 is a concluding unit that pulls together the content and issues covered in Key Stage 3 History, giving the course a coherent conclusion. It contains three investigations, on using the past to understand terrorism today, a development study on punishments through time and an invitation to students to choose their own Top 5 History Topics from KS3.