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  • Broadening horizons: using cross-curricular conversations to support historical understanding

      Teaching History article
    Bettney and Ridley focus on the context in which we teach and in which our students learn and on history in the context of the whole school curriculum and in relation to education about personal development. Taking the example of learning about parliament, they explore how the history curriculum and the...
    Broadening horizons: using cross-curricular conversations to support historical understanding

  • The rise and fall of Nauru

      Historian article
    Aadam Patel offers an insight into the complexities of the recent economic history of a remote Pacific island. Nauru is an isolated island located in the Pacific Ocean approximately 4,400km north-east from Australia and 1,300km north-east from the Solomon Islands. With an area of just below 21 squared kilometres, it is...
    The rise and fall of Nauru

  • Move Me On 192: analytical focus with diverse histories

      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 192: analytical focus with diverse histories

  • My favourite monument: The Acropolis, Athens, Greece

      Primary History feature
    About 3,200 years old, the Acropolis of Athens supports the most stunning and complete collection of ancient Greek structures that still exist. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987, it remains a mostly intact classical collection that fascinates those who study and visit it. I have always been intrigued...
    My favourite monument: The Acropolis, Athens, Greece

  • 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

  • Developing KS3 students’ ability to challenge their history curriculum through an early introduction of significance

      Teaching History article
    Offered five weeks to teach ‘whatever he wanted’ to Year 7, Andrew Slater decided that he wished to tackle the concept of significance head-on early in his students’ time in his school. He chose the expectedly unfamiliar substantive content of the Khmer Empire, challenging his students to justify the significance of...
    Developing KS3 students’ ability to challenge their history curriculum through an early introduction of significance

  • A land without music?

      Historian article
    It is sometimes said that England was a ‘land without music’ in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – not so, according to David Fleming. ‘Between the age of Purcell and that of Elgar and Parry, we had to do without much musical life in our country.’ Or so wrote Simon...
    A land without music?

  • Arctic aspirations: Britain and Icelandic independence, 1917–18

      Historian article
    As it sought independence, Iceland gained a new significance for Britain during the latter stages of the First World War, writes Ben Markham.  At the turn of the twentieth century, Iceland was not an independent country. Isolated in the North Atlantic Ocean, it was nonetheless considered an integral part of...
    Arctic aspirations: Britain and Icelandic independence, 1917–18

  • Bringing historical method into the classroom

      Teaching History article
    Shortly before their final A-level examination, Peter Turner was alarmed to discover some fundamental weaknesses in his Year 13 students’ understanding of the nature of historical interpretations. Determined to address this concern at a much earlier point with his next cohort of students he developed a new six-lesson enquiry. His...
    Bringing historical method into the classroom

  • Slavery, child labour, or a grand day out? Hull’s agricultural hiring fairs, 1870–1950

      Historian article
    Agricultural hiring fairs – now largely forgotten –performed multiple social functions and were an intriguing aspect of rural life, writes Stephen Caunce. Over the last three decades, long-established British newspapers have endured a steady dwindling of staff, depth of reporting and public respect. Paradoxically, however, the digitalising of old content has...
    Slavery, child labour, or a grand day out? Hull’s agricultural hiring fairs, 1870–1950

  • The Mary Celeste: the history of a mystery

      Historian article
    Graham Faiella guides us through the historical evidence and literary speculation surrounding one of the ultimately unresolved incidents of recent times. One hundred and fifty years ago, sometime between 25 November and 4 December 1872, the brigantine Mary Celeste was abandoned at sea somewhere between the Azores and the coast of Portugal....
    The Mary Celeste: the history of a mystery

  • History 381

      The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 108, Issue 381
    All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:  1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.   NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new window or tab. Access the full edition online New...
    History 381

  • Real Lives: Jessie Reid Crosbie

      Historian feature
    Alyson Brown, Dan Copley and Jack Bennett uncover the life of a reforming Liverpool headmistress. Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are...
    Real Lives: Jessie Reid Crosbie

  • My Favourite History Place: Burton Agnes Hall

      Historian article
    David Hockney’s landscape paintings of the Yorkshire Wolds in the 1990s alerted people to the peculiar beauty of the East Riding but the region remains strangely unknown and unvisited, especially the small, scattered villages inland from the coast. Yet the village of Burton Agnes, on the road between Driffield and Bridlington,...
    My Favourite History Place: Burton Agnes Hall

  • History Abridged: American Policy: theory and practice over 200 years

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: In this feature we take a person, time, theme or event and tell you the vast rich history in small space. A long dip into history in a shortened form. See all History Abridged articles The ‘Monroe Doctrine’ in 1825 provided a cornerstone for future United States foreign policy. Drafted...
    History Abridged: American Policy: theory and practice over 200 years

  • Out and About in Ardmore, County Waterford

      Historian article
    Within the historic landscape it is frequently possible to identify the impact of deeply religious figures who have exercised very real and long-lasting spiritual influence on their communities and indeed on the very landscape itself.Often these are shadowy figures in a distant past where myth and history intertwine. Sometimes it is...
    Out and About in Ardmore, County Waterford

  • Primary History summer resource 2023: Early civilisations

      Primary member resource
    Our free summer resource for 2023 is intended to enhance your subject knowledge about ancient civilisations. We have selected two articles from the HA journal The Historian that provide you with an insight into current historical knowledge.  The first article includes Sumer, Indus, Shang and Egypt, early civilisations that are identified in...
    Primary History summer resource 2023: Early civilisations

  • The History of Afro-Brazilian People

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 15, Number 1 – Autumn/Winter 2017ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract This work is part of the following research projects: ‘Indians, Quilombolas, and Napalm’ funded by the Ministry of Education (MEC/CAPES-Brazil), and ‘Teaching-learning methodology and evaluation in controversial social issues of humanities and its...
    The History of Afro-Brazilian People

  • ‘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

  • Communities of inquiry: creating the conditions for meaningful collaboration

      Teaching History article
    When Will Bailey-Watson (a history ITE tutor) and Charlie Crouch (a history PhD student) worked together to improve a history undergraduate course at their university, they realised that the benefits of collaboration between teachers and historians can flow both ways. In this article they offer an account of how they sought...
    Communities of inquiry: creating the conditions for meaningful collaboration

  • Three strategies to support pupils’ study of historical significance

      Teaching History article
    When Paula Worth met with history-teaching colleagues to explore how they could improve their teaching about historical significance, she found that she was far from alone in finding the process a daunting one. Prompted to investigate the difficulties she had encountered, Worth realised that that she had previously reached for...
    Three strategies to support pupils’ study of historical significance

  • Using eighteenth-century material culture to develop evidential thinking in Year 8

      Teaching History article
    It seems that teapots really can talk. Eleanor Dimond took her undergraduate experience of studying material culture into the classroom, with startling results. Historians of material culture have developed distinctive evidential methods which, in stark contrast to typical GCSE and A-Level approaches, see a strong interplay between analysis of the physical attributes...
    Using eighteenth-century material culture to develop evidential thinking in Year 8

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... gender and sexuality

      Teaching History feature
    Although they overlap, gender and sexuality are each a distinctive field of historical research. Researching in these fields involves cross-disciplinary work and a range of media and methods. One of the greatest challenges is that of terminology: how to refer to the gender identity or sexuality of a subject in...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... gender and sexuality

  • The wheels (and horses…) on the bus

      Primary History article
    A theme in the Early Years will have many cross-curricular links, encompassing many of the different areas of learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Statutory Framework. The focus for this article is on historical elements of Understanding the World; however there will be some cross-over into other areas of...
    The wheels (and horses…) on the bus

  • Exploring the relationship between historical significance and historical interpretation

      Teaching History article
    Jane Card’s previous work on the power of images in conveying particular interpretations and her advice about how to use visual material effectively in classrooms will be familiar to readers of Teaching History. In this article she focuses specifically on the capacity of visual representations to convey a compelling message about the...
    Exploring the relationship between historical significance and historical interpretation