The series consists of five webinars. We recommend watching live on the dates below. Recordings will also be available to booked delegates until the end of the term.

Session 1: AI in primary history: a practical introduction (FREE for HA members)
Tuesday 20 January 2026, 4pm–5pm
Presenter: Glenn Carter

AI is steadily becoming more and more prevalent in schools and this session will look at some practical ideas that can be utilised within your classrooms for primary history — no prior experience required! We will look at some of the more common platforms that are available, best use cases for utilising AI in primary history and some of the basic pitfalls to look out for. You will leave the session with a handful of ideas to spark creativity and interest in your lessons.

Session 2: AI and Technology: enhancing primary history
Tuesday 27 January 2026, 4pm–5pm
Presenters: Chris Goodall, Beth Humphrey, Ryan Reece Moor, Zehra Fagan

Discover how Bourne Education Trust's comprehensive digital strategy is transforming history education through thoughtful AI integration. This webinar showcases Bourne’s Trust-wide approach to digital innovation, demonstrating how AI tools enhance historical enquiry and pupil engagement whilst aligning with curriculum goals.

Session 3: How might we effectively use AI in primary history?
Thursday 5 February 2026, 4pm–5pm
Presenter: Stuart Tiffany

In this session, Stuart will explore how AI can be beneficial in tackling some of the challenges that face primary history teachers in a time of continued curriculum emphasis. Alongside this, he will cover some of the areas teachers must be aware of to ensure the validity of what is taught. It is a final balance to strike between managing immense teacher workloads and the accuracy in a world full of misinformation, disinformation and immense challenges.

Session 4: AI Black Box: responsible use for primary teachers
Thursday 5 March 2026, 4pm–5pm
Presenters: Dr Vanessa Cui, Dr Louise Wheatcroft, Dr Jordan Bird

Generative AI offers incredible potential for resource creation for teachers, but the current dominant generative AI tools' core function is to be an agreeable, helpful assistant. This often leads to oversimplified narratives and a lack of necessary nuance and criticality, not to mention the common ethical challenges generative AI tools present such as bias, inaccuracy and environmental impact. These challenges potentially can compromise the quality of teaching materials and the ethics of teachers' practice.

This focused 60-minute session is designed to inform teachers about principles of how dominant Generative AI models function, including the crucial role of Alignment (training on human preference) in the way generative AI responds to human inputs with the aim to empower teachers to confidently understand, evaluate, and responsibly use generative AI tools across their professional practice. Read more

Session 5: Immersive history, AI, and the making/unmaking of student understanding
Wednesday 11 March 2026, 4pm–5pm
Presenters: Ailsa Fidler and Simon Lea

AI-driven immersive history is entering our classrooms in ways previously unimaginable. Through interactive simulations, image and video generation and storytelling, students will be able to explore historical events and environments with unprecedented stimulus and immediacy. Yet, this technological leap prompts a critical question: are these sophisticated tools genuinely empowering students to think historically, or are they fostering a passive consumption of pre-packaged narratives that diminish children's own interpretive agency?

The course is for history subject leaders and anyone who teaches at Key Stage 1 or 2.

This webinar series will enable you to:

• • Develop your awareness of a variety of AI applications and how these can be used to support your planning and teaching of primary history
• • Develop your confidence and criticality in using AI in history planning and teaching.
• • Develop your thinking and knowledge around this fast-moving issue that will continue to have implications for both primary history and education as a whole.

Session 1 is led by Glenn Carter, a class teacher in the northeast of England and member of the Historical Association’s primary committee. You may know him as the founder of History Rocks!

Session 2 is led by practitioners at Bourne Education Trust: Chris Goodall (Digital Lead), Beth Humphrey (Digital Lead/History), Ryan Reece Moor (Digital Lead), Zehra Fagan (History)

Session 3 is led by Stuart Tiffany, an experienced primary school teacher, history specialist and consultant — you may know him as Mr T Does Primary History.

Session 4 is led by academics Dr Vanessa Cui (Senior Research Fellow in Education, Birmingham City University), Dr Louise Wheatcroft (Senior Lecturer in Primary Education, Birmingham City University) and Dr Jordan Bird (Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Nottingham Trent University)

Session 5 is led by teacher educators Ailsa Fidler FHA and Simon Lea, both Seniors Lecturers in Primary Education, Liverpool John Moores University. Ailsa is also a member of the Historical Association’s primary committee and an editor of Primary History.

All prices are listed inclusive of VAT. Any webinar booked individually on Cademy will incur an additional fee.

To access the member price please provide your membership number when prompted. You must have a valid membership at the time of booking and attending. All webinars in this series are eligible for the corporate member free offer.

The webinars will take place online over Zoom. While we strongly recommend participating live, if you are unable to attend for any reason a recording link will be made available. This will be emailed to all registered participants to access for a limited period until the end of the term.

To book for multiple webinars or request an invoice, please complete the form below.

If you have missed a session, a recording can be accessed using the form. You will be emailed an invoice for the cost of the recording(s) and a time-limited link to access the webinar recording on Zoom.