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  • The Historian 60: The Knights Templars

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 4 The Rise and Fall of The Knights Templars - Malcolm Barber (Read article) 10 The Resistible Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte - Malcolm Crook (Read article) 16 The Pilgrimage of Grace - Michael Bush (Read article) 21 The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait 1898-1899 (Read article)
    The Historian 60: The Knights Templars

  • Using the back cover image: Sandbach Crosses - an Anglo-Saxon market cross

      Primary History feature
    This image is a reconstruction, or interpretation, by Peter Dunn, an artist, of what Sandbach Crosses might have looked like in the ninth century. They are one of the few remaining Anglo-Saxon stone crosses in the country. They stand in the market place in Sandbach, Cheshire. You can find a...
    Using the back cover image: Sandbach Crosses - an Anglo-Saxon market cross

  • The 2014 History National Curriculum: how to get the best from heritage

      Primary History article
    We all know that site visits are good for children - not least because they give a break from the normal school routine - and there are a plethora of heritage sites both local and national that are able to offer facilities for school visits. But we also know that...
    The 2014 History National Curriculum: how to get the best from heritage

  • History and the National Primary Strategy

      Primary History article
    The Historical Association poses a series of questions to the Director of the Primary National Strategy, Kevan Collins.
    History and the National Primary Strategy

  • Ideas on the Shape, Size and Movements of the Earth - Pamphlet

      Classic Pamphlet
    This classic pamphlet takes you through some of the key ideas on the shape, size and movements of the Earth as they changed over time from classical cosmology to the work of Galileo and Isaac Newton.
    Ideas on the Shape, Size and Movements of the Earth - Pamphlet

  • Helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house

      Teaching History article
    A host of histories: helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house Described by the author Monica Ali as a building that ‘sparks the imagination and sparks conversations', 19 Princelet Street, now a Museum of Diversity and Immigration, captivated the imagination of teacher David Waters. He...
    Helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house

  • Out and About First World War memorials in the heart of London

      Historian feature
    The First World War had an enormous impact on society and on our landscape, perhaps not through war damage as was the case during the Second World War but through the erection of memorials. It doesn't matter where I am in the UK and often when abroad I will find...
    Out and About First World War memorials in the heart of London

  • Interpreting an early seventeenth-century cottage at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum

      Historian article
    The Weald & Downland Open Air Museum (WDOAM), which opened to the public in 1970, is one of the leading museums of historic buildings and rural life in the United Kingdom. It has a collection of nearly 50 historic buildings - domestic, agricultural and industrial - dating from the thirteenth...
    Interpreting an early seventeenth-century cottage at the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum

  • Stepping into the past: using images to travel through time

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Pupils are eternally curious about their teachers. Do they really have lives outside the classroom? Could Miss Jones have once been a child? Does she have parents and grandparents and a past of her own?...
    Stepping into the past: using images to travel through time

  • Redrawing the Renaissance - non verbal assessment in Year 7

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Matt Stanford is not exactly fed up of marking essays, but he could do with a change. His pupils, he realises, could too. History assessments have often been based on words - either the written...
    Redrawing the Renaissance - non verbal assessment in Year 7

  • ‘What do they mean by that?’ Helping students to analyse academic writing from Key Stage 3 onwards

      Teaching History article
    Following her PGCE year, Alex Blelloch became concerned about the ways in which some of the students she observed struggled to engage with the complexities of texts written by historians. More broadly, she was also concerned about the limited opportunities younger students had to engage with historians’ works. In this...
    ‘What do they mean by that?’ Helping students to analyse academic writing from Key Stage 3 onwards

  • Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front

      Teaching History article
    Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front to help pupils take a more critical approach to what they encounter The first year of the government's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme is now under way, allowing increasing numbers of students from across Britain...
    Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front

  • On the frontlines of teaching the history of the First World War

      Teaching History article
    It is very common for people in politics and the media to make assumptions about what happens in history classrooms. Too often these preconceptions are based on little more than anecdote, examples from the Internet or memories of what someone experienced at school themselves. In this article, Catriona Pennell reports...
    On the frontlines of teaching the history of the First World War

  • Polychronicon 155: Interpreting the Origins of of the First World War

      Teaching History feature
    As I write this article I have before me my grandfather's Victory Medal from the First World War. It has inscribed on the reverse side, ‘The Great War for Civilisation 1914-1919'. The absolute certainty of such a justification for Britain's entry into the war seems somewhat hollow as we approach...
    Polychronicon 155: Interpreting the Origins of of the First World War

  • Getting Started with Drama: The Roses of Eyam 1665

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. If you are a little nervous of using drama in your history lessons, here is a safe way to start but look out for the many opportunities that arise for developing empathy, personal opinion, understanding of...
    Getting Started with Drama: The Roses of Eyam 1665

  • 'The Generous Turk': Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes

      Article
    Notwithstanding the tribal hatred recently shown for each other by a handful of English and Turkish football fanatics, nobody who has travelled in Turkey or taken a holiday in that country can have failed to notice the courtesy and generosity with which visitors are invariably treated. Indeed, one of the...
    'The Generous Turk': Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes

  • Shipwrecks, Clocks and Westminster Abbey: the story of John Harrison

      Historian article
    ‘Poor England has lost so many men' On 22 October 2007 an unlikely group of people were to be seen casting wreaths upon the sea off the Scilly Isles. They comprised a Chief Executive, a Naval Commander, a Science journalist and the Fourteenth Astronomer Royal (this writer). A clue which...
    Shipwrecks, Clocks and Westminster Abbey: the story of John Harrison

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 154: Using historical scholarship in the classroom

      Teaching History feature
    As another World Book Day goes past, you have been watching the English department wax lyrical about all of the wonderful books that pupils might read. You know that there is a wealth of well-written historical scholarship out there for pupils to dive into, yet you are not sure about...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 154: Using historical scholarship in the classroom

  • The co-ordinator's role and the 2014 national curriculum for history

      Primary History article
    Co-ordinator's dilemma: I have seen the new requirements and know that I have a bit of time before things start, but I don't want to leave everything to the last minute. Without feeling that I have to get everything done now, are there some things I can be getting on...
    The co-ordinator's role and the 2014 national curriculum for history

  • The effect of the loss of the American Colonies upon British Policy

      Classic Pamphlet
    (1) Problems of an Empire in ruinsTwo weeks after Yorktown, but before the news of that disaster had reached England, George III wrote to Lord North that "The dye is now cast whether this shall be a great Empire or the least dignified of European states." England had not fought...
    The effect of the loss of the American Colonies upon British Policy

  • The Historian 120: The calm before the storm? The World in 1913

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 The Romanov Tercentenary: nostalgia versus history on the eve of the Great War - Catherine Merridale (Read Article) 12 The world in 1913: friendly societies - Daniel Weinbren (Read Article) 17 The President's Column 18 Franz Ferdinand - Ian F. W. Beckett (Read Article) 23 Round About A...
    The Historian 120: The calm before the storm? The World in 1913

  • The Value of Biography in History

      Article
    7 April 2000: Historical Association, Norton Medlicott Medal Lecture. President, fellow members, ladies and gentlemen. I am deeply conscious that having just received the Norton Medlicott Medal; which means so much to me, that I must try to live up to the honour itself and the traditions of the recipients....
    The Value of Biography in History

  • History and the Literacy Hour

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Amid fears of history being lost from the Key Stage One curriculum, following suspension of the statutory orders, research which considered the use of historical story as part of the Literacy hour, was carried out by Paula Silvera, a final year BEd...
    History and the Literacy Hour

  • Towards inclusion: A study of significant figures and disability within the national curriculum

      Primary History article
    Since the early days of the National Curriculum, considerable progress has been made to introduce children to an inclusive view of history. The research of the late Hilary Claire (1996) served as a major impetus and now primary teachers strive to ensure that no groups or individuals are marginalised, particularly...
    Towards inclusion: A study of significant figures and disability within the national curriculum

  • An authentic voice: perspectives on the value of listening to survivors of genocide

      Teaching History article
    It is common practice to invite survivors of the Holocaust to speak about their experiences to pupils in schools and colleges. Systematic reflection on the value of working with survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides and on how to make the most of doing so is rarer, however. In...
    An authentic voice: perspectives on the value of listening to survivors of genocide