Summary CV
These details are provided for the use of anyone wishing to employ me on a freelance basic and for students and teachers who wish to know my credentials for creating this website.
Teaching and Teacher Training
Teacher and head of department, secondary comprehensive school, Wakefield, 1976-1981
PGCE tutor 1989 - 1995, Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds, concurrent with:
Principal Lecturer in History, 1989 - 2002, specialising in medieval history, the Wars of the Roses and overviews of British history
Awarded National Teaching Fellowship, 2003, after being chosen as 1 of the 20 ’outstanding university teachers in the country’. The NTF Project produced this website and its accompanying DVD on active learning techniques [ DVD details ]
Provision of workshops for A level students on the Wars of the Roses and the Tudor period, including source-work, role-plays, decision-making activities and up to date Historiographical analysis. These workshops have been held in schools, museums and historic sites including the Tower of London
CPD and Allied Work
Director, Schools History Project 1982-1989
Publications Director, Schools History Project (part-time, 1999 - present)
Experience of providing courses for teachers in over 70 LEAS and for Specialist Schools Trust
Contributor to annual Historical Association and SHP conferences since earl 1980s. Contributions have focused on active learning from KS3 to A level, developing chronological understanding, teaching overviews and outline studies at KS3 and GCSE, teaching methods at A level
Author of articles in Teaching History, Welsh History Review and TES
Workshop provider at conferences on university history teaching
Lead-author of QCA guidance on developing chronological understanding at KS3, one of the key pillars supporting the new KS3 History PoS (for QCA website)
Member of QCA working parties revising GCSE and A level History criteria, 2005-6
Writing and Editing
Author and editor of over 80 books and CDs for schools, including:
Author and series co-editor SHP KS3 Resources for 2008 KS3
Series editor for Key Stage 3 series for Oxford University Press (1991-1994) [ more info ] and for John Murray (2000-present) [ more info ]
Series co-editor for Discovering the Past GCSE books for John Murray (1997- present).
Series editor for SHP Core Texts Advanced Level series, published by John Murray (1998 - 2006) [ more info ]
Author of Medicine and Health through Time (1996) and Crime and Punishment through Time (1999), the most widely used books on these SHP topics and The Tudor Century (1993), a ground-breaking book that introduced activities, artwork and diagrams into mainstream A level books
Co-author of digital learning CDs for KS3 and GCSE History, Hodder-Murray (2007 and on-going)
Co-author of The Young Oxford History of Britain and Ireland, a history for general readers (1996, second edition 2005)
Historical Association
Awarded Honorary Fellowship of HA (2009)
Branch officer and committee member, Leeds (1979 – c.1998)
Branch officer and committee member, West Yorkshire (c.2003 – c.2007)
Member of Council (c.1985 – c.1991)
Member of Secondary Education committee (c.1985 – c.1991)
Provider of workshops at HA Education Conferences (c.1985 – late 1990s)
Provider of lectures and workshops for HA branches (c.1987 – late 1990s)
Museums and Heritage
My teaching, writing and communication techniques provide materials and courses that are particularly suited to museum, heritage and outreach education [ more info ]. Examples include:
Educational Consultant for Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds prior to the museum opening and on its continuing educational development [ More info ]
Author of GCSE pack for Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds (winner of Sandford Awards – Educational Museum of the Year 2000/2005)
Author of GCSE pack for Galleries of Justice, Nottingham
Author of KS2 and KS3 packs for Vindolanda Roman Fort [ More info ]
Author of KS3 pack for Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds (being trialled)
Consultant to Segedunum Roman Fort and Museum on medicine galleries for GCSE students
Consultant to Royal Armouries, Leeds on conflict gallery for KS3 pupils (forthcoming)
Consultant to British Museum on using Hadrian Exhibition with KS3 pupils
Advisory consultancy for English Heritage on educational publications (2007)
Resources on chronological understanding for The National Archives' Learning Curve website (forthcoming)
Television
’Talking head’ interviewee for programmes made by Cromwell Productions and shown on The History Channel on ’Henry VII’ and a series of four programmes on ’The Wars of the Roses’
This Page
Off Duty
At Spofforth Castle near Leeds.