During her term as President, Professor Jackie Eales instituted the President's Award for Students. The Award is given by HA branches to students in their region and we were delighted to make our first twenty awards last year and are hoping to see more this year. Each HA Branch can...

Curriculum Planning: which non-European society might we offer at school?‘A non-European society that provides contrasts with British history - one study chosen from: early Islamic civilization, including a study of Baghdad c. AD 900; Mayan civilization c. AD 900; Benin (West Africa) c. AD 900-1300.'That's quite clear then - there's...

This year it was in Stratford upon Avon. Just what the home of literature needed, over 350 historians to descend on it - well that is what it got! It was a hugely successful event (if we say ourselves) with three keynote lectures and over 55 workshop sessions plus walking...

New Private Peaceful Resource from Into FilmAn innovative new, cross curricular resource from education charity Into Film and the National Literacy Trust offers teachers an array of stimulating possibilities for using Michael Morpurgo's moving story Private Peaceful to develop literacy and bring World War I to life in its centenary...

New classroom teaching resourcesThe Guardian have just uploaded a series of classroom learning resources using sources from the Bernie Grant archive (owned by the Bernie Grant Trust and housed in the Bishopsgate Institute Archive) to the Guardian Teacher Network. The resources use the life and career of Bernie Grant (1944-2000) to...

The Department for Education today published subject criteria for both GCSE and A Level History. The new linear A Level History will be ready for first teaching from September 2015 and will retain a 20 percent personal study element. It is still unclear how the two year A Level course...

Some readers of The Historian will be users of Twitter and may already follow the Historical Association's Twitter feed https://twitter.com/histassoc For those who are not, Twitter is an on-line social networking and micro blogging service that enables users to send and read tweets, which are text messages limited to 140...

Despite being something that we handle on a daily basis, the British Pound is something we rarely discuss. Did you know that it remains the oldest currency in use today? Or that is was originally made from silver? Read on to discover the real value of what's in your wallet....

Television and the internet have not stopped people from leaving their homes and going out to listen to historians and historical experts - certainly not in Lincoln. A new branch of the Historical Association had its inaugural lecture on the 19th February 2014 at the Bishop Grosseteste University. Actually it...

Mrs Eileen Castle graduated from Bedford College, University of London in 1959 and proceeded to a postgraduate Certificate of Education at Birmingham University. She achieved an MA in the Philosophy of Education and dedicated much of her life promoting historical knowledge and enquiry, encouraging enthusiasm and excitement in the learning...