Daniel Nuttall

Daniel Nuttall is the Curriculum Area Lead for the History PGCE Programme at the University of York, where he develops and supports trainee history teachers. He is also a part-time history teacher at a Catholic Sixth Form College, with 20 years of classroom experience across comprehensive schools in northern England, an international school in Austria, and higher education institutions.

• Education: BA (Hons) in History (University of Leeds, 2003), PGCE (2005), MA in Education (History, UCL, 2023)

Nuttall specializes in history education, focusing on:

• Developing students' historical consciousness (how learners think with history rather than just memorize facts)
• Scale-switching pedagogy to overcome historical knowledge fragmentation
• Big History frameworks for temporal and geographical macro-scale understanding
• Holocaust education and its impact on students' moral/ethical interpretations

His recent publications explore Holocaust pedagogy and historical consciousness development. He actively contributes to history education through:

• Textbook co-authorship for Pearson Education (Key Stages 3-5)
• Leadership in the History Teacher Educators Network
• Member of the Historical Association
• Conference presentations on e-learning, slavery education, and 20th-century knowledge frameworks