Dental, transcendental, regimental: making Mangal Pandey

This article aims to make a modest contribution to ongoing conversations about historical learning by proposing a scaffold designed to support the development of student thinking about explaining action in the past. The scaffold is the product of reflection on existing practical and theoretical work. It is offered in the hope that it may prove useful or, at least, interesting, and in the hope that it will be criticised, developed and improved.