History Subject Knowledge Guides

To support teachers’ understanding of key topics and concepts in the Primary History National Curriculum, we have created these handy subject knowledge guides with enough information for teachers to learn about the topics that they are teaching.

There is no expectation that children would know all of this information by the end of the unit - these are designed to support teacher understanding of a subject before planning and teaching it.

The units covered in these History Subject Knowledge Guides are:

• Ancient Egyptians
• Ancient Greeks
• Ancient Maya
• Ancient Sumer
• Anglo-Saxons in Britain
• Bronze Age Britain
• Changing Power of British Monarchy
• Early Islamic Civlisation
• Indus Valley
• Iron Age Britain
• Kingdom of Benin
• Romans in Britain
• Shang Dynasty
• Stone Age Britain
• Industrial Revolution in Britain
• Vikings in Britain
• World War II

Each .PDF can be used by class teachers to support their understanding of the topics that may be selected for teaching in a Primary History school curriculum.