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Read past education articles from BBC History Magazine where we look at issues that matter in history education from primary school to adult learning.
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| Challenging our gifted children |
| Alison Kitson asks whether the move to put more resources into stretching talented young historians will ultimately benefit everyone. |
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| Sprechen Sie Deutsch? |
| British students cannot do justice to international history if they have no understanding of foreign languages, says Richard J Evans |
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| Free lessons for the people |
| Alison Kitson on a major new development at the Open University that will make some of its courses available for anyone to learn from. |
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| Fighting for History |
| Alison Kitson argues that the threat to history is coming from pressures on schools, not pupil apathy |
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| Rewriting the course of history |
| British history is on the up but this may mean the end of coursework. Nicolas Kinloch reports on changes facing the English and Welsh curriculum. |
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| The Lords on history |
| What should school history include and what can it teach us? Alison Kitson reports on a debate in the House of Lords that shows mounting concern. |
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| Still hidden from history? |
| Teachers have been criticised for treating black history as a token add-on. Alison Kitson looks at ways to integrate the subject. |
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| History in the technology age |
| Imaginative use of computers and whiteboards can engage students and bring history lessons fully up-to-date, believes Alison Kitson |
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| Primary Skills |
| What can young children learn from history? Mervyn Benford believes that the answer is more than people give it credit for... |
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| Standing up for history |
| History teachers in Scotland are having to fight for their subject, says Richard Dargie, as the Scottish curriculum is being reviewed. |
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| Who are we? |
| As politicians enter the debate on what it means to be British, ALISON KITSON explores how the issue of collective identity inevitably leads us into history classrooms |
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| So what? |
| ALISON KITSON reviews recent research on children's perceptions of history and asks if we can make it more enjoyable and relevant. |
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| Is adult learning under threat? |
| Are funding pressures putting part-time adult courses under threat? ALISON KITSON takes a look at current concerns over archaeology in continuing education to see if there is a trend |
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| Why history and all that is a Good Thing |
| As the comic classic 1066 And All That celebrates its 75th birthday SEAN LANG considers its lasting appeal for older readers and asks what it says about attitudes of the 1930s |
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| Should history be relevant? |
ALISON KITSON considers the call to make history more relevant to young people and looks at some of the problems relevance brings up as the curriculum faces a review.
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| Adult learners look to the past |
| Researching family history is a hot topic, but, as CLAIRE PHIPPS discovers, sometimes amateur genealogists need a little help. |
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| 1066, 1666 and all that |
| The history that is taught in our classrooms has become a hot political topic, but it's about more than dates, says CLAIRE PHIPPS |
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| Sea stories |
| This years's Traflagar anniversary provides a focus for engaging children with the UK's maritime story, says LAURA WILKINSON |
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| No more worksheets |
| History education is changing and museums and galleries will have to adapt if they are going to attract a new generation, says ALISON KITSON |
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