Yes, free – honestly. The link below takes you to:

1. Special Needs materials for KS3 – originally published in the early 1990s. There’s a very large quantity of useful material here.

2. Teachers’ support material for titles in the This is History! Series – even if you don’t use these books these resources contain a lot of material that can be used on their own. Titles include: The Norman Conquest; King John; Lost in Time; King Cromwell?; Dying for the Vote; The Trenches; the Holocaust

3. Two ‘flash’ activities from Hodder’s Dynamic Learning resources – The Amritsar Massacre and The Cuban Missile Crisis.

4. Plus material for:

Medicine through time
American West
GCSE Modern World History

See it all at:

www.hoddereducation.co.uk/Schools/Nests/Hodder_History_Subject_Nest/nest_home_history/Free-resources_history

Ian

I wonder how many people have done History degrees or become history teachers because of historical novels? Quite a significant number I’d guess.

I know that the history lodged most securely in my brain when I went to university came from the pages of Ronald Welch and other authors of fiction and not from the pages of Elton and other A level reading. I think it’s all about caring about the characters and the period – fiction made me care about the people I read about and want to find out more. Elton, sadly, didn’t. So fiction’s a great way of stimulating curiosity and further investigative reading. … did that really happen? … has the author manoeuvred events? … how do we know what it was really like?

Using historical fiction in the classroom isn’t always easy so this online HA CPD course may help you work out how to use fiction more effectively and so stimulate interest and get children caring about the people of the past.

For more information see:

www.history.org.uk/news/news_1402

Ian