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  • Using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War

      Teaching History article
    Teaching ‘the lesson of satire': using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War ‘Blackadder for real' is how the British journalist and broadcaster, Ian Hislop, characterised The Wipers Time, the newspaper published on the front line by members of the 12th Battalion Sherwood, and recently brought...
    Using The Wipers Times to build an enquiry on the First World War

  • Teaching History 96: Citizenship and Identity

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This issue deals with critical approaches to citizenship, democracy and identity. Teaching Year 9 to be critical, Using theatre to support teaching about the First World War, Pupils' perception of history at the end of Key Stages 2, 3 and 4, Does studying WW2 make any difference to pupils' sense...
    Teaching History 96: Citizenship and Identity

  • Suffrage, feudal, democracy, treaty... history's building blocks: learning to teach historical concepts

      Teaching History article
    In the UK, thoughtful history teachers have long lamented the fact that the majority of pupils emerge from their compulsory history schooling at 14 with a limited or inadequate understanding of those key historical concepts that are necessary to make sense of the world in adult life. Whilst more able...
    Suffrage, feudal, democracy, treaty... history's building blocks: learning to teach historical concepts

  • The Historian 123: Newcastle & the General Strike 1926

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial 6 Using the House by Wendy Barnes 11 The President's Column 12 Newcastle and the General Strike 1926 - Hugh Gault (Read Article)  16 A Story in Stone: the Tirah War Memorial in Dorchester - Dave Martin (Read Article) 20 The shortest war in history - Alf Wilkinson (Read...
    The Historian 123: Newcastle & the General Strike 1926

  • Where might the Gunpowder Plot sit within the principles of the new model curriculum?

      Primary History article
    The government has proposed creating a model curriculum for history. This will contain a range of non-statutory and supplementary guidance to focus history teaching. In July 2022, terms of reference to identify principles and approaches underpinning the model history curriculum were published. There will be an advisory panel that will...
    Where might the Gunpowder Plot sit within the principles of the new model curriculum?

  • Animation case study: Indus Valley figurines

      Primary History case study
    Since the advent of animation software for schools, I wanted to trial an animation project, inspired by the quirky human and animal figurines, model wheeled carts and toys, all of terracotta, from the Bronze Age Indus Valley civilisation which clamour for clay / plasticine animation. A rich source of historical evidence,...
    Animation case study: Indus Valley figurines

  • Rethinking progression in historical interpretations through the British Empire

      Teaching History article
    Let’s stop saying sorry for the Empire! Thus Mastin and Wallace introduce one of their lessons on interpretations of the British Empire. They develop Gary Howells’s ideas from the previous edition of Teaching History to demonstrate exactly what we might get our students to do with interpretations of the past....
    Rethinking progression in historical interpretations through the British Empire

  • Teaching History 58

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: National Curriculum History: Interim Report Martin Booth 7 Teachers' Concerns over the Current Vogue in Teaching History Peter Truman 10 Story-Telling in History Alan Farmer 17 `Mr. History': the Achievement of R. J. Unstead Reconsidered Sean Lang 24 'Let's Think about this': GCSE History -...
    Teaching History 58

  • The Historian 148: Out now

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Read The Historian 148 How many times are we all going to write ‘it’s been an odd year’? – I know I have now written it many times, yet it has affected schedules and output here at the HA. So I am very sorry that this edition of The Historian...
    The Historian 148: Out now

  • Take one day: undertaking an in-depth local enquiry

      Primary History article
    Local history units of study provide teachers with valuable opportunities, but these can also seem daunting. Potential challenges for teachers include the perceived overwhelming scope of the topic, difficulties in developing subject knowledge and knowing where to find resources. However, none of these is insurmountable, if teachers identify a clear learning...
    Take one day: undertaking an in-depth local enquiry

  • In conversation with Mark Nicholls

      Historian feature
    The Historian sat down with Mark Nicholls to discuss his latest book, The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History, co-authored with Allen Boyer, which charts the history of the law of treason from its origins to the present day...
    In conversation with Mark Nicholls

  • Teaching History 57

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: 'Not the White Tights again!': Role-play in History Teaching at Degree Level Ian Dawson 7 The Impact of GCSE History on Further Education Ian Aveyard 14 Some Sixth-Former's Views of History Janice C. Vaudry 17 A Small Oral History Project in Four Rural Cumbrian Primary...
    Teaching History 57

  • Teaching History 95: Learning to Think

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Note-making, knowledge-building and critical thinking. Exceptional performances at GCSE: what makes a starred A? Analysing Anne Frank: a case study in the teaching of thinking skills, Motivating pupils through the poetic writing about the First World War, The history teachers guide to the internet and much more... Who wants to...
    Teaching History 95: Learning to Think

  • Fifties Britain through the senses: ‘never had it so good’?

      Teaching History article
    Maya Stiasny was faced with difficulties familiar to many of us. Her new Year 12 students were struggling to get to grips with a new period of history. They were not interrogating primary sources with sufficient vigour. Her solution, detailed here, was novel. Working on the rich social history of post-war...
    Fifties Britain through the senses: ‘never had it so good’?

  • ‘But they just sit there’: using objects as material culture with Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Having specialised in the history of material culture during her degree, Gabriella West was struck by the dismissive attitude of her pupils towards the study of material objects from the past. She therefore set out to find the perfect object through which to induct her Year 8 pupils into the history...
    ‘But they just sit there’: using objects as material culture with Year 8

  • The QCA history scheme of work for Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. QCA's scheme of work for history at Key Stage 3, together with similar schemes for other subjects, has been published in response to widespread requests for more guidance on curriculum planning. Heather Richardson, Subject Officer (history)...
    The QCA history scheme of work for Key Stage 3

  • Cunning Plan 174: creating a narrative of the interwar years

      Teaching History feature
    The major aim of this sequence of lessons was to teach Year 8 how to create and refine a narrative. I chose a period I was substantively confident on, which lent itself well to the narrative form, had a number of prominent academic narratives published about it and followed neatly...
    Cunning Plan 174: creating a narrative of the interwar years

  • Teaching History 59

      Journal
    Editorial News Articles: History and Economic Awareness in the National Curriculum David Kerr Deconstruction to Reconstruction: Women's History through Local History Dave Welbourne Keeping the Past under Review Linda Vitagliano and Peter Lim History as Ethnography: a Pyschological Evaluation of a Theatre in Education Project - George Shand, Rosemary Linnell...
    Teaching History 59

  • A team-taught conspiracy: Year 8 are caught up in a genuine historical debate

      Teaching History article
    Are top sets always our top priority? Of course, we know that every child matters (should that now have capital letters?) but those of us who teach in an ability-setted context also know that a bottom set left unable to access the curriculum is likely to pose bigger problems than...
    A team-taught conspiracy: Year 8 are caught up in a genuine historical debate

  • Teaching History 94: Raising the Standard

      Journal
    Raising the Standard of History education. WW2 cemetries and twenty years of curriculum change, Ordinary pupils, extraordinary results: a structured approach to raising attainment at GCSE, Talk to your inspector: making the most of your history inspection, Stretching the very able student in the mixed ability classroom, Year 11 and...
    Teaching History 94: Raising the Standard

  • ‘I need to know…’: creating the conditions that make students want knowledge

      Teaching History journal article
    Chloe Bateman recognised the value to her Key Stage 3 pupils of developing rich subject knowledge, but wanted to find a way of encouraging them to value that knowledge for themselves. In this article she explains how she provided that inspiration by setting her Year 7 class the challenge of...
    ‘I need to know…’: creating the conditions that make students want knowledge

  • Using the back cover image: Windmill Hill

      Primary History feature
    The back cover image is a reconstruction of prehistoric life based on the English Heritage site Windmill Hill. Such images are of great value to the teacher in bringing the distant past to life, and in deepening pupil understanding of its historical significance. Using these sorts of illustrations can help...
    Using the back cover image: Windmill Hill

  • 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

  • From our branches: Were we quite mad? Establishing the East Sussex Branch

      Historian feature
    John Oliphant gives us the lowdown on the Historical Association’s new East Sussex Branch, describing the tribulations faced by its committee before a lecture on Oliver Cromwell in September 2024 marked a successful start to the new academic year...
    From our branches: Were we quite mad? Establishing the East Sussex Branch

  • Interpretations and history teaching

      Teaching History article
    Gary Howells offers us a challenge: are we sure that we are teaching the study of interpretations correctly? It is much criticised at GCSE, but do we really engage our students in the process of writing history, and in understanding how history works, from 11-14? Or do we use reductive...
    Interpretations and history teaching