Historical Fiction
Teacher Bibliography
Starting points
- Barrs, Myra & Cork, Valerie. 'The Reader in the Writer: the links between the study of literature and writing development at Key Stage 2 ', Centre for Language in Primary Education, London, 2001.
- Brooke, Beth; Martin, Dave, & Dawson, Ian. 'Write Your Own Roman Story', (John Murray, 2001).
- Collins, Fiona & Graham, Judith, editors. 'Historical Fiction for Children: Capturing the past’. (David Fulton, 2001).
- Counsell, Christine. 'History and Literacy in Y7: Building the lesson around the text ', (John Murray, 2004).
- Martin, Dave & Brooke, Beth. 'Getting personal: making effective use of historical fiction in the history classroom', in ‘Teaching History’, Issue 108, (Historical Association, September 2002).
See also
- Benedict, Susan. 'Reading the Past Through Children's Eyes', in 'New Advocate', Vol. 5, No 4, Fall 1992.
- Brandhorst, Allan R. 'Historical Fiction in the Classroom: Useful Tool or Entertainment?' in 'Southern Social Studies Quarterly', Vol. 14, No 1, Fall 1988.
- Claire, Hilary. ‘Reclaiming our pasts: Equality and diversity
in the primary history curriculum’, (Trentham Books, 1996).
Chapter 3 is explicitly on Using Stories to support KS 1 history. - Collins, Fiona. 'Storyseeds: Creating Curriculum Stories' in 'Tales, Tellers and Texts'. ed Gabrielle Cliff Hodges, Mary Jane Drummond and Morag Styles (Cassell, 2000).
- Fisher, Janet. 'An Index to Historical Fiction for Children and Young People', (Scholar Press, 1994).
- Graham, Judith. 'Venturesome Ways: Historical Fiction and the Novels of Henrietta Branford ' in 'Tales, Tellers and Texts'. ed Gabrielle Cliff Hodges, Mary Jane Drummond and Morag Styles (Cassell, 2000).
- Hicks, Alun. 'Telling it like it was', in 'Language and Learning', (July 1995).
- Hicks, Alun & Martin, Dave. 'Teaching English and History Through Historical Fiction', in ‘Children's Literature in Education’, Vol. 28, No 2, 1997.
- 'Ireland in Schools' web journal. ‘Using Irish historical fiction in the classroom'
- Kay, Anne & Samuelson, Maggie. 'Story Books to Support and Extend Work on SU 3B: Britain Since 1930', in ‘Primary History’, Issue 21, (Historical Association, January 1999).
- Lindquist, Tarry. ‘Why and how I teach with historical fiction'
- Little, Vivien & John, Trevor. 'Historical Fiction in the Classroom', 'Teaching of History', Series No 59, (Historical Association, 1986).
- Martin, Dave. 'Why should we use historical fiction to teach English and History?' in ‘Primary History’, Issue 22, (Historical Association April 1999).
- Martin, Dave. 'Questions you have always wanted to ask about ... Using Historical fiction in the classroom' in ‘Primary History’, Issue 41, (Historical Association Autumn 2005).
- Mills, Victoria. 'Fiction, Empathy and Teaching History', in ‘Teaching History', No. 81, (Historical Association, October 1995).
- Powell, David. 'The Historical Novel: History as Fiction and Fiction as History', in 'The Historian', No 43, (Historical Association, Autumn 1994).
- Proud, Linda. ‘Truth is No Stranger than Fiction’, in ‘History Today’, Vol. 54, (November 2004).
- Self, David. 'A Lost Asset? The Historical Novel in the Classroom', in 'Children's Literature in Education', Vol. 22, No 1, 1991.
- Stewig, J. W. 'Helping Children be There, Then. Historical Fiction as a Base for Children's Fiction Writing', in 'Journal of Teaching Writing', Vol. 10, No 1, Summer 1991.
- Townsend, John R. 'Written for Children', (Bodley Head, 1990).
- Trease, Geoffrey. 'Tales Out of School', (Heinemann, 1964).
- Walsh, Jill Paton. 'The Story of the Past: Historical Fiction 4 to 14 years', (Penguin).
- Watt, Nigel. 'Year 8 write Renaissance historical fiction '.
- Williams, Mary. ‘The Black Death - in fact and fiction’, in ‘The Secondary English Magazine’, (2001).
- See the complete 'Primary History - The Power of a good story ... history and literacy', Issue 41 (Historical Association, Autumn 2005).