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  • The Historian 138: Hidden stories of a centenary

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Contents 4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 Britain’s Jews and the First World War - Paula Kitching (Read article) 13 The President’s Column 14 Journeys Home: Indian forces and the First World War – Kiran Sahota and Paula Kitching (Read article) 20 We will remember them: well, most of...
    The Historian 138: Hidden stories of a centenary
  • The Historian 137: Branches

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 HA Conference 8 A year in the life of a branch co-ordinator – Jenni Hyde (Read article) 14 Private Lives of the Tudors – Tracy Borman (Read article) 19 The President’s Column 20 Good Evening Sweetheart: experiences of an ordinary couple in the...
    The Historian 137: Branches
  • How significant is the tragic story of the SS Mendi?

      Primary History article
    Historical anniversaries and events are often in the news, commemorated locally and nationally. I have found that getting the children involved in topics relating to these can really help them feel the importance of their learning, help them to appreciate the past and feel a sense of responsibility – a...
    How significant is the tragic story of the SS Mendi?
  • What’s The Wisdom On... Historical significance

      Teaching History feature
    The idea of historical significance eludes tidy answers. It doesn’t thrive on the quick fix. Yet we do not need to be confused by it. It just requires some clear thinking about what it distinctively offers. In other words, we need to clarify overall curricular aims, and think big about...
    What’s The Wisdom On... Historical significance
  • ‘The story of her own wretchedness’: heritage and homelessness

      Historian article
    David Howell uses eighteenth-century beggars at Tintern Abbey as a starting point for his research into the use of heritage sites by the homeless. In 1782, the Reverend William Gilpin published his Observations on the River Wye, a notable contribution to the emerging picturesque movement. A key element of his work is a commentary on Tintern Abbey....
    ‘The story of her own wretchedness’: heritage and homelessness
  • Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by the work of the social and cultural historian Tim Cole, Stuart Farley decided to look again at the way he teaches the Holocaust. He wanted to focus on the geographical concept of place as a way of enabling his Year 9 students to build far more diverse narratives,...
    Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust
  • The Historian 136: 1967 - A Year of Change

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 Homosexuality in Britain since 1967 – Harry Cocks (Read article) 12 Reviews 13 The President’s Column 14 The origins and development of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights movement in Britain from 1960 to the present – Professor Sally R. Munt (Read...
    The Historian 136: 1967 - A Year of Change
  • The 1620 Mayflower voyage and the English settlement of North America

      Historian article
    On the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims in New England on the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock explores the reasons for migration to the New World in 1620 and later, and the significance of those migrants, both at the time and their impact on the evolution of the USA...
    The 1620 Mayflower voyage and the English settlement of North America
  • Broadening and deepening narratives of Benin for Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Josh Garry describes his effort to refresh his approach to teaching the British transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on reading, lectures and discussions during an Historical Association Teacher Fellowship programme, Garry built a sequence of lessons designed to contextualise the trade while showing African agency and complexity. The result was a sequence...
    Broadening and deepening narratives of Benin for Year 8
  • Primary History 99: Out now

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    Read Primary History 99 Welcome to Primary History 99! As the countdown to our 100th edition begins, it is pleasing to read the findings of the 2024 Primary History Survey, which shows that children (and teachers) continue to love learning about the past. We know that history is a diverse and inclusive subject,...
    Primary History 99: Out now
  • How have schools interpreted the new EYFS Framework?

      Primary History article
    The new Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Framework became statutory from this September (2021). Although the seven areas of learning and development remain unchanged (including Understanding the World), the Early Learning Goals (ELGs) have changed within each of these areas. These new ELGs have been written so that they are...
    How have schools interpreted the new EYFS Framework?
  • Primary History 99

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    05 Editorial (Read article) 06 Using children’s illustrators as a focus for learning about ‘Past and Present’ in EYFS – Helen Crawford (Read article) 10 Developing disciplinary knowledge: pulling up the portcullis to explore how and why castles and forts developed – Susie Townsend (Read article) 18 Little coins, big...
    Primary History 99
  • Primary History 100: Out now

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    Read Primary History 100 We are proud to present you with the hundredth edition of Primary History journal. It is a publication that has developed and changed over the intervening years, adjusting and amending as the curriculum and teaching approaches have varied. At its heart, however, has always been the...
    Primary History 100: Out now
  • Insights from a year of leading the development of a ‘knowledge-rich curriculum’

      Primary History article
    Raynville Primary School serves a highly disadvantaged area of West Leeds and we work hard to provide our children with the best opportunities to learn and enjoy their time with us. One jewel in the crown of our school’s curriculum is children’s historical learning as part of a knowledge-rich curriculum....
    Insights from a year of leading the development of a ‘knowledge-rich curriculum’
  • Teaching History 199: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 199: Ordinary People We editors always enjoy kicking around ideas for the theme of each edition of Teaching History. It sometimes surprises readers to learn that we don’t come up with a title, and then commission articles. Rather, we immerse ourselves in the scores of proposals that come...
    Teaching History 199: Out now
  • Teaching History 199: Ordinary People

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Please note: the print edition of Teaching History 199 will start arriving with members from around 7 July onwards.    03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 HA Update 08 When a name is not enough: telling rich stories about women’s lives in the American West at GCSE –...
    Teaching History 199: Ordinary People
  • Taking control of assessment

      Teaching History article
    Ian Luff recognised that in a post-levels world efforts to devise new assessment systems risked replicating old problems or creating new ones. Drawing on his many years’ experience of teaching and school leadership Luff argues that for assessment in history to be truly useful to teachers and pupils it needs...
    Taking control of assessment
  • Move Me On 199: handling differences between history lead's advice and history teachers' approaches

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
    Move Me On 199: handling differences between history lead's advice and history teachers' approaches
  • ‘Power to the people’? Disputed presidential elections in US history

      Historian article
    Michael Dunne reveals the complex background to the modern elaborate constitutional process of electing a United States President. On Wednesday, 20 January 2021, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America.  In years to come these simple words may seem prosaic and...
    ‘Power to the people’? Disputed presidential elections in US history
  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Histories of education – and society?

      Teaching History feature
    It is not emphasised enough that the progress of historiography often proceeds, not by historians arguing and then coming to some resolution, but simply by moving on. Historiography follows fashion, and subjects often exhaust themselves (for the time being)... A related issue is that of siloes. Historiography – academic writing generally...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Histories of education – and society?
  • Two Realms and an empire: history, geography and an investigation into landscape

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The idea that subjects should abandon their ‘silos' and work together is bandied about currently a great deal - ‘subjects' and ‘silos' alliterate after all and so, of course, does the word ‘slogan'. What might...
    Two Realms and an empire: history, geography and an investigation into landscape
  • Examining the Value of Teaching Sensitive Matters in History

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 14, Number 2 – Spring/Summer 2017 ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract Driven by the overarching objective of promoting reconciliation through education, this paper explores the impact of history teaching on youth identity and ethnic relations in Sri Lanka. Building on the arguments of scholars the...
    Examining the Value of Teaching Sensitive Matters in History
  • Year 9 use a 'road map' to problematise change and continuity

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Rachel Foster, a trainee teacher on teaching placement in November of her PGCE year, wanted her Year 9 pupils to understand the complexity of historical change. She also wanted them to find the difficult challenge...
    Year 9 use a 'road map' to problematise change and continuity
  • How museum collections make ancient Egypt, and the people who lived there, real

      Primary History article
    It’s a safe bet that ancient Egypt is one of the most exciting topics on the primary history curriculum. But that can come with misunderstandings of a complex 3,000-year-long history and an accomplished group of people, embedded by the sensationalised, gory, and othering approach often shown when ancient Egypt features...
    How museum collections make ancient Egypt, and the people who lived there, real
  • Move Me On 198: trainee finds it difficult to explain substantive concepts effectively

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
    Move Me On 198: trainee finds it difficult to explain substantive concepts effectively