Teaching History 202: Organising Principles

The HA's journal for secondary history teachers

Published: 19th March 2026

In this edition of Teaching History

Please note: The print version of this edition will start arriving with members from 13 April. 

03 Editorial (Read article)

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 (Read article)

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

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

31 One ‘battle’ after another? Using turning points in anti-racist history to explore historical significance at Key Stage 3 – Joel Sharples (Read article)

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

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

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

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

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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