Tag: teaching

  • Teaching Around Trauma: The Holocaust in Primary School Education

    Teaching Around Trauma: The Holocaust in Primary School Education

    By Alex White (@alex_j_white) It’s a sunny day in rural England. A football team is practising on the field outside, a group of schoolchildren are queuing for lunch, and I am working as a teaching assistant as a class of nine-year-olds learn about the Holocaust for the first time. The room is quiet, and I…

  • Doing History in Public Year in Review: 2019

    Doing History in Public Year in Review: 2019

    Editor of DHP Stephanie Brown (@StephEmmaBrown) looks back at 2019. As it is New Year’s Eve, let’s take one final look at 2019, before the resolutions of 2020 begin. In fact, it was a resolution that kicked off 2019 for DHP. Veganuary saw Greggs launch their vegan sausage roll and they quickly struggled to keep up…

  • Doing History in Public Year in Review: 2020

    Doing History in Public Year in Review: 2020

    By Zoë Jackson (@ZoeMJackson1) & Evelyn Strope (@emstrope) This New Year’s Eve, we look back at 2020, a year many have described as ‘unprecedented’. The coronavirus spread around the world from the start of the year, and the ensuing pandemic and resulting lockdowns have completely altered life as we knew it.