CPD
At the HA we offer history-specific CPD for every stage of your career. All our current courses and webinar series are listed below in What’s On, with more detail about individual events in Available events. There is also our On-demand CPD, our Teacher Fellowships programme and more. Find out about our CPD presenters here. For informal, ongoing CPD discussion with colleagues see the One Big History Department blog.
What's On
- Your Secondary CPD calendar Spring 2026
- History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP)
- Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)
- Webinar series: Embedding oracy in secondary history
- Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework
- On-demand webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level
Available Events
- Your Secondary CPD calendar Spring 2026
- HA Recorded Webinar: Teaching history when it is not your speciality
- HA Webinar: The Crusades through Middle Eastern eyes: Islamic and Eastern Christian perspectives
- HA Webinar: Creating an inclusive and equitable history curriculum
- HA Webinar: Assessing historical oracy: the bigger picture at Key Stage 3
- HA Webinar: Using oral histories in the classroom
On-demand CPD
- On-demand Secondary CPD: Spring 2026
- On-demand webinar: Teaching language directly
- On-demand webinar: Why teach history directly?
- On-demand webinar: Engaging with evidence at A-level
- On-demand webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level
- On-demand webinar: Engaging with interpretations at A-level
Free for members
- Recorded webinar series: The power of maps
- Virtual Branch Recording: Assassins and Templars
- Recorded webinar: The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians at the time of Fascism
- Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714–2010
- Virtual Branch Recording: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
- Recorded webinar: Revisiting the witch trials
Teacher Fellowships
- The History Ledger, podcasts from the Economic History Society
- Teacher Fellowship programme: The Caribbean, Monarchy and Legacies of Empire
- Teacher Fellowship programme: Henry on Tour: Teaching the royal progresses of Henry VIII
- Addressing Health: Sickness and social reform in the Victorian and Edwardian period
- Teacher Fellowship programme: Teaching the economic history of colonialism in Africa and Asia
- Mini Teacher Fellowship: Medieval Perceptions of Conquest
Bespoke CPD
Film series
- Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714–2010
- Film series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
- Film series: Power and authority in Germany, 1871-1991
- Film series: The African-American Civil Rights Movement
- Film series: Tudor Royal Authority
‘What’s the Wisdom On’ films
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Significance
- Film: What's the wisdom on...Similarity and Difference
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity
Short courses
- Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History: on-demand short course
- The impact and legacy of the First World War: on-demand short course
- New Perspectives on the First Crusade: on-demand short course
- The Jews of Medieval England: on-demand short course
- Berlin and the Berlin Wall: on-demand short course