Sect. 1. Exploring the narrative past
1. Dogs and cats: the nineteenth-century historical novel for children / Dennis Butts
2. twentieth century - giving everybody a history / Fiona M. Collins and Judith Graham
3. silent ages: prehistory and Peter Dickinson / Peter Hollindale
4. heavy-cavey business: language in historical fiction with particular reference to the novels of Joan Aiken and Leon Garfield / Gillian Lathey
5. 'Time no longer' - history, enchantment and the classic time-slip story / Linda Hall
6. historical picture book - is it a 'good thing'? / Judith Graham
7. Beyond expectations: historical fiction and working children / Liz Thiel
8. Passage to America: migration and change / Fiona M. Collins
Sect. 2. Writing about the narrative past
9. Waking quests / Julian Atterton
10. 'Over the stile and into the past': Children of Winter and other historical fiction / Berlie Doherty
11. Flesh on the bones / Michael Foreman
12. Daddy, or serendipity / Philip Pullman
13. History and time / Rosemary Sutcliff
Sect. 3. Teaching the narrative past
14. Up and Down the City Road: history through dramatic action / Geoff Fox
15. Stimulating the historical imagination: working with primary age children on books about the plague / Andrea Fellows
16. Getting under the skin: the EACH Project / Alun Hicks and Dave Martin
17. Slavery and the Underground Railroad: working with students / Liz Laycock.