England's Medieval Immigrants: Migration History Resources for Schools

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CONTEXTEngland's Medieval Immigrants: Migration History Resources for Schools aims to maximize the impact of AHRC-funded advanced research from the project, 'England's Immigrants, 1330-1550', which ran between 2012 and 2015. Its major research output, www.englandsimmigrants.com, provides a database of nearly 65,000 named individuals born outside England who lived within its bounds in the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. In particular, it captures all the data for the government inquiry conducted in 1440 in preparation for a universal tax on persons born outside the kingdom - the only such documented process before 1841. The 1440 data thus provide a unique snapshot of the names, nationalities, places of English residence, occupations, households and family structures of up to 20,000 aliens - approaching 1% of the population of mid-fifteenth-century England. From Sept 2016, the GCSE curriculum for History will include major components on the long-term history of migration to the British Isles. The shortage of suitable resources to support teaching and learning for the medieval elements of these modules has prompted the designers of the new curriculum (the Oxford and Cambridge and RSA Examination Board, and the Schools History Project) to seek support from the England's Immigrants team. The present project is a collaboration of the University of York, The National Archives, and the Historical Association, together with an independent Consultant, to create online resource packages that support teaching and learning in the history of migration to Britain at Key Stages [KS] 2-5 of the National Curriculum, including GCSE, and to develop an impact evaluation tool that will generate significant data on the impact of research-based teaching and learning of History in schools. AIMS AND OBJECTIVESThe aims of the present project are:1. To enhance the impact of the successful AHRC-funded research project, 'England's Immigrants, 1330-1550' 2. To make a key contribution to the study of migration in schools (KS 2-5 and GCSE) 3. To create methodologies for measuring the impact of AHRC-funded research in schoolsThe objectives (fully detailed in the separate Objectives section) are:1. To create a definitive online resource for KS 2-5 teachers and students that allows effective use of the database www.englandsimmigrants.com in the new GCSE curriculum from Sept. 20162. To create a definitive online resource for KS 2-5 teachers and students for the history of migration between the coming of the Romans (55BCE) and the expulsion of the Jews (1290)3. To create a methodology for the systematic evaluation of the impact of this project during the academic year 2016-17 4. To enable a group of KS 2-5 teachers to engage pro-actively in the development of new, research-based teaching resources on the history of migration in the Middle Ages APPLICATIONS AND BENEFITSThe online resource packages linked to Objectives 1 and 2 and the impact evaluation tool developed under Objective 3 (together with the resulting impact evaluation report) will be made freely available via www.englandsimmigrants.com and www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/. The outputs are all designed to maximise the impact of AHRC-funded research in the teaching and learning of History in Schools. To achieve this aim, the project identifies five groups of beneficiaries:1. Teachers and students who use the resulting resources at KS 2-5 and in GCSE 2. Examination boards, who will have access to reliable, research-based resources to support migration history3. Public agencies, include RCUK and HEFCE Impact strategists, who will benefit from the findings and conclusions of the impact evaluation report4. Researchers in Education, and specifically those working on research-based teaching and learning5. Participants in the Teacher Scholar Programme run as part of the activities of the project, for their career development