This site is for history teachers, to help them to think about and plan their history teaching, as it seems to me that the best history lessons or series of lessons are often those that have been thought about very carefully.

I would like this site to be slightly different from those excellent sitesthat cater for us history teachers who want one off resources, or groups of resources. I'm thinking particularly of Andrew Field's legendary site, or the burgeoning www.historyshareforum.com run by Doug Belshaw. I would like it to become, eventually, a place where there are larger resources and longer articles made by history teachers. As an excellent example, I would draw your attention to this piece, written by Dave Stacey, which discusses how history departments could re-vamp their KS3 schemes of work. 

 When I first had the idea for this site I envisaged it as a wiki. I asked for help and got some great contributions, from Doug, but especially Dave Stacey. The wiki didn't quite work out - to be honest the programming side of it was beyond me - so I'll be transferring the information posted there to this site as time goes on. I realise that this site has probably got to become useful in its own right before lots of people volunteer to join in and contribute thier material. In the meantime if you do find something useful, or someting useless, please do let me know by posting a comment in the relevant section.