Curriculum
The Historical Association provides a wealth of resources to help teachers to develop and refine their subject knowledge for all areas of the history curriculum. We also provide guidance related to key developments in the curriculum, such as revised version of the National Curriculum (2014) and on-going developments related to GCSE and A level specifications. Read more
Teaching resources
- Secondary Education and Social Change in the UK since 1945: KS3 resource packs
- Lesson sequence: Muslim Tommies
- Lesson sequence: Eighteenth-century politics
- Lesson sequence: The Normans - taster lesson
- Lesson sequence: The Normans
- Lesson sequence: Life in a Medieval Village
Key Stage 3
- Conducting the orchestra to allow our students to hear the symphony
- Film: Making an effective History curriculum
- Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum
- Structuring a history curriculum for powerful revelations
- How should women’s history be included at Key Stage 3?
- How diverse is your history curriculum?
Key Stage 4
- Move Me On 191: using sources in lessons
- Past Time Toolkit: new learning resource about Victorian Prisons
- Changing thinking about cause
- BBC Class Clips: ‘ClueTubers’ with Carmel Bones
- Dealing with the consequences
- My journey to Bosnia: The Balkans Conflict 22 years on
A Level
- Cunning Plan 190: Using art to make A-level history more accessible
- Bringing historical method into the classroom
- Building Key Stage 5 students’ analysis of interpretations
- Why does anyone do anything? Attempts to improve agentive explanations with Year 12
- Using the Harkness method to help post-16 students make confident historical claims
- Absence and myopia in A-level coursework
Content
- Census 2021: using the census in the history classroom
- Investigating Aspects of the History of Kent at Key Stage 3
- Teaching History 174: Structure
- New, Novice or Nervous? 171: Teaching Medieval History
- The National Archives launches new free GCSE History resources
- Podcast Series: William I to Henry VII
Principles of planning
- New, Novice or Nervous? 172: Curriculum planning
- Move Me On 171: Using existing lesson plans
- New, Novice or Nervous? 171: Teaching Medieval History
- Looking through the keyhole at Birkenhead from 1900 to 1950 with Year 7
- Academic Critical Thinking, Research Literacy and Undergraduate History
- From ‘double vision’ to panorama: exploring interpretations of Nazi popularity
Curriculum Issues
- It’s just reading, right? Exploring how Year 12 students approach sources
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Histories of education – and society?
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading
- What’s The Wisdom On... Extended Reading
- Structuring a history curriculum for powerful revelations
- ‘This extract is no good, Miss!’