ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the ways in which John Fines challenged children to connect with the past. The Cambridge Review found that teachers and children enjoy history because it involves activities and 'hands-on' experiences. The children and teacher were elaborately dressed in costumes they had made at home, by copying wall paintings or artists' illustrations in books. The drawings of the children in question are psychologically interesting, showing what various and sometimes obscure points appeal to the mind of a child and also that children have the same intellectual pleasure as persons of cultivated mind in working out new hints and suggestions. In Bringing History Alive through Local People and Places, Dixon and Hales draw on conversations with children, which reveal the impact of local and community history on a child's personal identity. Children, Their World, Their Education fosters relations between children who may come from different backgrounds.
