Teaching History 202: Organising Principles

The HA's journal for secondary history teachers

Published: 19th March 2026

In this edition of Teaching History

03 Editorial

04 HA Secondary News

06 HA Update

08 How foundational concepts, supporting concepts and concrete examples can help untangle the past at Key Stage 3 – Gareth Lennon

16 Making substantive concepts (do the) work: towards a strategy of conceptual progression at Key Stage 3 – Alistair Dickins and Tommy-James Alexander

25 Cunning Plan… for interdisciplinary teaching of landscape through time – Dan Procter and Stefan Carron

31 One ‘battle’ after another? Using turning points in antiracist history to explore historical significance at Key Stage 3 – Joel Sharples

40 Parachutists and truffle hunters: exploring a logical conceptualisation of continuity with Year 9 pupils – Miles Eades

52 What Have Historians Been Arguing About...  piracy and empire in the early modern world – Richard Blakemore

56 Reshaping students’ understanding of empire: why we need to take the long view of African economies – Abigail Branford and Peter Brooke

68 Move Me On: trainee is struggling to make history accessible without removing the scope for independent thought

72 Back Page Pick

Regular features

Teaching History includes a number of regular features for history teachers including What have historians been arguing about...?, Cunning Plan and Move Me On. You can access past editions of these here.

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