We know that it's not easy for teachers to get out of school or have budgets to afford a plentiful supply of CPD. We know how essential your CPD is to you and that is why we have worked to provide a wide range of online learning and webinar-based CPD...

According to HA surveys over the years we know that supporting non-specialist teachers to teach history is a concern. In fact almost a quarter of respondents in previous surveys have expressed concern about the amount of history being taught by non-specialists. Given the current crisis in teacher recruitment and budgetary...

Explore the history of the struggle for women’s suffrage and equality with this course developed by Royal Holloway, University of London, and the UK Parliament. With content from the Parliamentary Archives, the Women’s Library collection at the LSE Library and The National Archives; engaging videos, articles and quizzes; and a...

Booking closed (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window. Please read the HA CPD terms and conditions before registering) We are pleased to be hosting a Doing History at University event for students and teachers in partnership with the University of Sheffield. The aim of the event is to...

Are you a trainee teacher, new to HA secondary membership and not quite sure where to start? In this webinar Membership Manager Emily Randall will introduce you to work of the Historical Association and will guide you through some key benefits included as part of your membership - from essential...

Building Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates how recent excavations enable us to grasp for the first time the diversity of the Anglo-Saxon built environment. The book explores how the natural landscape was modified for human activity, and how settlements were laid out with geometrical precision by specialist surveyors. It also shows how...

This CPD in partnership with the Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre offers teachers a concise overview of 1,000 years of Jewish migration history, tailored for the OCR A, OCR B, Pearson Edexcel and AQA GCSE migration modules. With stimulating primary sources and rigorously-researched historical background, the session distils everything you...

"This session explores some of the hidden barriers faced by neurodivergent pupils in the history classroom, including anxiety and low self-confidence. It offers practical strategies to create an inclusive and supportive environment that enables all learners to engage meaningfully with historical learning. Key topics: • Recognising common anxiety triggers in...

A specialist in late-Imperial Russian society and ethnicities, including the Cossacks, Dr O’Rourke will explore society under the last three Tsars, examining Russification in the western Russian borderlands, Russian settler colonialism, the Caucasus and deportation, and current historiographical trends.

The History Teacher Development Programme is an online course aimed at history teachers who want to re-focus their attention on teaching ambitious and rigorous history.  Are you a relatively new teacher coming to the end of your ECT years? Are you a more experienced teacher who wants to re-engage with...

The History Teacher Development Programme is an online course aimed at history teachers who want to re-focus their attention on teaching ambitious and rigorous history.  Are you a relatively new teacher coming to the end of your ECT years? Are you a more experienced teacher who wants to re-engage with...

The History Teacher Development Programme is an online course aimed at history teachers who want to re-focus their attention on teaching ambitious and rigorous history.  Are you a relatively new teacher coming to the end of your ECT years? Are you a more experienced teacher who wants to re-engage with...

Book Now (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window/tab. Please read the HA CPD terms and conditions before registering) This one-day event will feature lectures from university academics on a variety of topics within Italian history from 1830–1946. It will provide up to date academic knowledge on key topics...

Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum Session 4: Histories of the African continent This 90-minute recorded webinar will cover three elements: an introductory discussion about the scope and opportunities for exploring African history; Enquiry One: Africa and the development of religion; Enquiry Two: Decolonisation, Ideology and Race in Africa: the struggles...

Mass-Observation is probably the most consistently useful source for the study of mid and late 20th social lives Britain. It was established in 1937 with the aim of investigating ordinary life and developing an 'anthropology of ourselves.' It used a range of different methods to collect information, from recording overheard...

Where Jews appear on school curricula, they tend to appear as victims, particularly in the context of the Nazi genocide. The vibrant diversity of Jewish life in preceding centuries is underexplored, and students are given little context for understanding the growth of antisemitism. This webinar delves into this vibrant richness...

This webinar was presented by Richard Rieser, who is a campaigner and champion for disability rights and the coordinator of UK Disability History Month. His presentation is part of our ongoing work to explore disability history and the arguments and representations of it and ensure that people from disability groups...

  This recorded webinar will explore what we mean by decolonising the curriculum and outline principles of approach and explore key concepts involved. Making school history relevant as well as rigorous is our priority and school leaders will want their history department to be at the cutting edge of work that...

We are at a vital moment in our attempt to tackle the climate crisis. Global warming is an inter-disciplinary challenge for the world and an inter-disciplinary challenge in education, too. In this talk, Alison Kitson argues that history provides a vital perspective that enables young people to understand our interaction...

These three recordings are taken from the Virtual History Forum which took place in March 2022 and focused on change over the last 70 years.  2022 marked the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. This is an unprecedented occasion in our history. The last 70 years have seen both continuities and...