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1906-2006 One Hundred Years of the Historical Association
The Historian 91
4 Foreword - Lady Antonia Fraser
6 Swanning around - Jeremy Paterson
10 A Parade of Past Presidents 1906-82 - Donald Read
24 The Norton Medlicott Medal - Bill Speck
30 For Short Time an Endless Monument: The Shifting History of a Familiar London Landmark - Lisa Jardine
38 Wise...
1906-2006 One Hundred Years of the Historical Association
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The Historian 95: An American showman
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
The 2007 Medlicott Medal Lecture: What kind of history should school history be? Chris Culpin (Read article)
P. T. Barnum - Promoter of 'freak shows' for the family - John Springhall (Read Article)
Roald Dahl and the Lost Campaign - Trevor Fisher (Read Article)
Presenting Naseby: Documents, terrain, findings and...
The Historian 95: An American showman
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'Please send socks': How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War?
Teaching History article
This was an opportunity all good historians dream about. A large box crammed with artefacts about a soldier who fought in the First World War, just begging to be read, studied, sorted and organised. Being faced with such a wealth of uncatalogued primary evidence could have proved daunting enough without...
'Please send socks': How much can Reg Wilkes tell us about the Great War?
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Teaching History 126: Outside the Classroom
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 ‘I understood before, but not like this:’ maximising historical learning by letting pupils take control of trips – Helen Snelson (Read article)
12 A search beyond the classroom: using a museum to support the renewal of a scheme of work – Hannah Moloney and Paula Kitching (Read article)
20...
Teaching History 126: Outside the Classroom
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Camels, diamonds and counterfactuals: a model for teaching causal reasoning
Teaching History article
In the last edition of Teaching History, Arthur Chapman described how he uses ICT to develop sixth form students’ conceptual understanding of interpretations, significance and change. In this article, he turns his attention to causal reasoning and analysis. Drawing on the work of historians such as Evans and Carr, he...
Camels, diamonds and counterfactuals: a model for teaching causal reasoning
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The Historian 89: The Great Liberal landslide
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Letters 5 Editorial 6 HA News
8 The Great Liberal Landslide of 1906: The 1906 general election in perspective - Dr Ian Packer (Read article)
17 A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: The Forgotten William Dampier - Diana Preston (Read article)
26 Popular Revolt & the rise of Early Modern States -...
The Historian 89: The Great Liberal landslide
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Using this map and all your knowledge, become Bismarck
Teaching History article
Understanding the past is not an abstract exercise. Historical questions revolve around decisions made by real people under real pressure. As historians, we factor psychological pressure into our analysis. How, though, are we to enable our students to do the same? To study why Bismarck began a programme of overseas...
Using this map and all your knowledge, become Bismarck
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The Historian 42
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles
3 Feature: The British Empire and the Peace Conferences 1919-1923 - Michael Dockrill
9 Update: Taking Stock of Crime - Clive Emsley
13 Biography: When the Kissing had to Stop: Passion in the Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft - Susan Alendus
17 Local History: The VCH: Past, Present and Future - Kate Tiller...
The Historian 42
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Teaching History 44
Journal
Editorial
Grade Criteria: opportunity or impending disaster? - R. Ben Jones
Domesday Book - past and present, John Fines and Jon Nichol
An Appreciation of Joe Hunt
Childwrite, Teresa Clark
Computer Update
The Teaching of Irish History in the Secondary School, Roger Swift
The Contributors
Town and Country in the...
Teaching History 44
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Means and Ends: History, Drama and Education for Life
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
John Fines, Raymond Verrier and I frequently taught as a team trying to discover where drama work and history meet. We were interested in helping children get a grasp of past events which have influenced their...
Means and Ends: History, Drama and Education for Life
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Music in the History Curriculum
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated.
In a primary school in Devon, there is a teacher who sings to his class every day: traditional songs; love songs; lyrical ballads; sea shanties; tales of mystery and suspense; songs of ritual and ceremony, hunting songs,...
Music in the History Curriculum
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Primary History 42: Getting Out
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 HA Centenary Day and Competition
05 Editorial
06 Primary Noticeboard
08 In My View: the debate upon the English National Curriculum for history at KS2 — Robert Guyver and Jon Nichol
11 The Taunton Market Project: an innovative collaboration — Sue Berry
14 Geography and history: exploring the local...
Primary History 42: Getting Out
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The Historian 79: Tony Blair, the Iraq War and a sense of history
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
6 Tony Blair, the Iraq War, and a sense of history - Dr Adrian Smith (Read article)
9 John Knox and womankind: a reappraisal - Maureen M Meikle (Read article)
16 Why did regional variations exist in the prosecution of witches between 1580-1650? - Robert Hodgkinson (Read article)...
The Historian 79: Tony Blair, the Iraq War and a sense of history
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The Historian 77: William the Silent
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
6 Hungarian Nationalism in International Context - R.J.W. Evans (Read article)
13 William the Silent: the first tolerant Prince - Stephen Morse (Read article)
22 Religion and Science in the Eighteenth Century - J.P. Lethbridge (Read article)
30 Oscar Wilde: the myth of martyrdom - Trevor Fisher (Read...
The Historian 77: William the Silent
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Teaching History 123: Constructing History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 Asses, archers and assumptions: strategies for improving thinking skills in history in Years 9 to 13 – Arthur Chapman (Read article)
14 Triumphs Show: 'Source Specs': making sources fun - Rachael Povey (Read article)
16 Little Jack Horner and polite revolutionaries: putting the story back into history – Alf Wilkinson (Read...
Teaching History 123: Constructing History
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Teaching History 41
Journal
Editorial
BEd Students at Work in a Middle School, Michael Gibson 3
Report: The First BALH young Historians' workshop, David Haynes & Ray Acton 5
BBC Educational Broadcasting and Irish History, Victor Kelly 6
Whose Class Is It Anyway? Ian Jones 8
Report: The Second National Conference, Sneh Shalt 11...
Teaching History 41
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Linking history and science: how climate affected settlement
Primary History article
Karin Doull looks at how previous civilisations were affected by natural climate change, often precipitated by volcanic eruptions. She suggests that any investigation into ancient civilisations should consider how physical geography contributed to the initial settlement and development. She argues that we should also look at what might have contributed to...
Linking history and science: how climate affected settlement
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Why we must change history GCSE
Teaching History article
A head of steam for change in GCSE history has been building for some time now amongst history teachers, heads of history, advisers, teacher-trainers, researchers, consultants and all who regularly engage in debate about history teaching and learning. All those who read widely, share their practice, experience many Key Stage...
Why we must change history GCSE
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Pull-out Posters: Primary History 73
Map of ancient civilisations
Pull-out Posters: Primary History 73
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Thinking through history: Story and developing children's minds
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated.
Story is the crucial factor in children’s awareness of past times in their ‘mythic’ phase of mental development, see page 4. Everyone loves a story, stories ‘open out fresh fields, the illimitable beckoning of horizons to imagination…...
Thinking through history: Story and developing children's minds
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Teaching Famous People at Key Stage One
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated
Studying famous people at Key Stage One has obviously been an issue for many years and no matter how long you have been teaching the name Florence Nightingale seems to appear as the only famous...
Teaching Famous People at Key Stage One
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Teaching History 38
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education - What the History Teacher can Contribute - Ben Kerwood, 3
The Lincolnshire Educational Aids Project - A Successful Launch into Historical Aids - Ray Acton and Tim Hall, 8
The Humanities Teaching and Computing Project-Jon Nichol with Jackie Dean, 12
Report: HMI/National...
Teaching History 38
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Teaching History 112: Empire
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Special 64 page themed edition of Teaching History including: A case study in planning the teaching of the British Empire at key Stage 3, Using this map and all of your knowledge become Bismark, National Archives and the british Empire, Imperialism and the Roman Empire, History's challenge: facing the future,...
Teaching History 112: Empire
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Teaching History 110: Communicating History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
08 Narrative: an underrated skill - Seán Lang (Read article)
18 Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion - Maria Bakalis (Read article)
27 Developing conceptual understanding through talk and mapping - Jannet van Drie and Carla van Boxteland (Read article)
32 ‘You be Britain and I’ll be Germany...’ Inter-school e-mailing in...
Teaching History 110: Communicating History
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New opportunities for history: implementing the citizenship curriculum in England's secondary schools - a QCA perspective
Teaching History article
In September 2002 Citizenship becomes a completely new subject in England’s secondary schools. Jerome Freeman, Principal Officer for History with the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) — the authority responsible for advising the British government on curriculum content and qualification standards in England - outlines QCA’s view on the connections...
New opportunities for history: implementing the citizenship curriculum in England's secondary schools - a QCA perspective
