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  • Dickens...Hardy...Jarvis?! A novel take on the Industrial Revolution

      Teaching History article
    ‘Empathy with edge' was the editorial description given eight years ago to the kind of historical fiction that Dave Martin and Beth Brooke first argued history students should be writing (TH 108). The winning entries from the annual ‘Write Your Own Historical Story Competition' to which their work gave rise...
    Dickens...Hardy...Jarvis?! A novel take on the Industrial Revolution

  • Teaching Year 8 pupils to take seriously the ideas of ordinary people from the past

      Teaching History article
    Jacob Olivey wanted Year 8 to know that ordinary people in the nineteenth century constructed their own identities. In this reflection on how his practice developed in his training year, Olivey illustrates the importance of using historical scholarship in choosing foundational knowledge to teach. He shows how he used that...
    Teaching Year 8 pupils to take seriously the ideas of ordinary people from the past

  • What about history? Lessons from seven years with project-based learning

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Alternative curriculum models can take many forms. Some seem to be imposed on reluctant history teachers with little opportunity for planning. Other teachers are given the opportunity to really embed and revise models that might...
    What about history? Lessons from seven years with project-based learning

  • Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    The uses of sources in History, The evidence sandwich, Teaching Pupils to analyse cartoons, shared stories and a sense of place, Working with sources, interpretations of history and much more... The use of sources in History - Tony McAleavy (Read article) The evidence sandwhich - Margaret Mulholland (Read article) Teaching...
    Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation

  • From our branches: Conwy Borough Branch

      Historian feature
    A new branch of the Historical Association has recently opened in North Wales. In this article, branch founders Morgan Ditchburn and Gemma Campbell introduce themselves and provide an exciting account of the present and future activities of the Conwy Borough Historical Association Branch...
    From our branches: Conwy Borough Branch

  • What they think they know: the impact of pupils' preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Robin Conway suspected that his students’ concepts of the significance of different aspects of historical periods was affected by the preconceptions that they brought to his lessons. These preconceptions were leading his students into making unhistorical judgments, without any real understanding on their part of what had affected their thinking....
    What they think they know: the impact of pupils' preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance

  • Teaching History 120: Diversity and Divisions

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    05’Why can’t they just live together happily, Miss?’ Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE – Alison Stephen (Read article) 11 Breaking the 20 year rule: very modern history at GCSE – Chris Culpin (Read article) 15 Cunning Plan: Why was Berlin such a significant theatre of conflict after...
    Teaching History 120: Diversity and Divisions

  • The use of sources in school history 1910-1998: a critical perspective

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The arrival of sources of evidence into secondary school history classrooms amounted to a small revolution. What began as a radical development is now establishment orthodoxy, with both GCSE and now National Curriculum in England...
    The use of sources in school history 1910-1998: a critical perspective

  • Out went Caesar and in came the Conqueror: A case study in professional thinking

      Teaching History article
    A case study in professional thinking Michael Fordham examines the evolution of his own practice as an example of how history teachers draw upon collective, professional knowledge constructed by other history teachers in journals, books, conferences and seminars. Fordham explains how a  particular Year 7 enquiry examining historical change from the...
    Out went Caesar and in came the Conqueror: A case study in professional thinking

  • HA News, Autumn 2024

      Welcome to the autumn 2024 edition of HA News magazine
    Welcome to the autumn edition of HA News. We have updates on the office team's move back into 59a, and HA President Alexandra Walsham's busy six months travelling the country supporting the HA and its activities, as well as membership, education and competition updates. Dr Dean A. Irwin shares ‘What got me into...
    HA News, Autumn 2024

  • Teaching History 74

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    7 The Aims of School History - John White 10 Beyond the Old Dichotomies: Some Reflections on Hayden White - Keith Jenkins 17 Teaching Post-Modern History: A Rational Proposition for the Classroom? - Peter Brickley 23 What is the Future for the History National Curriculum? - Frances M. Connelly 27...
    Teaching History 74

  • 'A lot of guess work goes on': Children's understanding of historical accounts

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated The ESRC-funded Project Chata has collected evidence of children's ideas about the discipline of history and attempted to see if there is any progression in those ideas. Here, Peter Lee describes how Chata has tried...
    'A lot of guess work goes on': Children's understanding of historical accounts

  • The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1

      Journal
    The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education. Articles included in this edition:  Editorial: History Education, Identity and Citizenship in the 21st Century, Bahri Ata The Turkish prospective History teachers' understanding of analogy in History education, Isabel...
    The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1

  • Teaching possibilities: From Plato to Nato

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The Olympics historical dimension opens up a plethora of possibilities for history, projects and integrated approaches that draw upon the themes and approaches that underpin the primary school curriculum. Our top ten are: 1. Home and...
    Teaching possibilities: From Plato to Nato

  • Cunning Plan 155: interpreting WW1 events

      Teaching History feature
    Enquiry Question: What's worth knowing about the First World War? At the end of our scheme of work on the First World War, I asked myself how I might encourage my Year 9 pupils to reflect on the historical significance of the events we had studied. I was particularly interested...
    Cunning Plan 155: interpreting WW1 events

  • Bristol and America 1480-1631

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet addresses the relationship between Bristol and America, charting the rising and waning interest the city and its merchants had in discovering new lands and profiting from them, and the success or more often the failure of these voyages. It provides an interesting argument which may be seen to...
    Bristol and America 1480-1631

  • Think Bubble 54 - Arte facts - Get my Meaning?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. It is difficult to think of an area of primary history that has had a more transforming effect on the subject than that of artefacts. The idea of giving children a ‘real' experience of the past...
    Think Bubble 54 - Arte facts - Get my Meaning?

  • How to teach chronology

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. For more recent resources see: Chronology: Developing a coherent knowledge (2014) Scheme of work (KS2): Chronology: Books through time Scheme of work (KS2): Chronology: Numbers through time  Britain and World timeline 4000-2000BC Britain and World timeline 2000BC to 0BC Britain and World timeline, 0BC...
    How to teach chronology

  • Teaching History 76

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    6 I Thought It Was For Picking Bones Out Of Soup ... Using Artefacts In The Primary School - Liz Smith and Cathie Holden 10 Understanding Ethnocentrism: History Teachers Talking - Janet Maw 17 Critical History? - Rob Isaac 19 Language Use and Problem Solving in Primary History - Patricia Hoodless...
    Teaching History 76

  • The Uses of History in the Twenty First Century

      Historian article
    During the last century or so there has developed a new ‘public role’ for history: the past as personal history, a vital element in the nourishing of people in society. During the past decades a new perception of what history is has manifested itself on two levels: first a shift of...
    The Uses of History in the Twenty First Century

  • The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2

      Journal
    The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education. Articles in the edition: Erinc Erdal and Ruken Akar Vural Teaching History through Drama: the ‘Armenian Deportation' Terry Haydn and Richard Harris Children's ideas about what it means...
    The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2

  • The International Journal Volume 4 Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial  Historical Consciousness, Teaching and Understanding History    Articles Peter Lee'Walking backwards into tomorrow' Historical consciousness and understanding history   Robert Guyver and Jon NicholFrom Novice to effective Teacher: a Study of Postgraduate Training and History Pedagogy
    The International Journal Volume 4 Number 1

  • 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

  • Teaching History 75

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    2 Editorial 3 News 5 The Dearing Final Report - Threat or Opportunity? - Carol White 7 Responses to the Dearing Report: History Post-16 - Laurie Taylor 9 Making Dearing Enduring - A Personal View - Roy Hughes 11 Teaching History at Key Stage 2 - One School's Approach -...
    Teaching History 75

  • Teaching History 54

      Journal
    Editorial 2 Historical Association News 3 Articles: Computers in Secondary School History Teaching: an HMI view - Carole Baker and lain Paterson 7 Supporting the Future - MESU and the History Teacher - Sue Bennett 10 An Introduction to Computers in the History Classroom - John Simkin 12 GCSE Course...
    Teaching History 54