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  • What’s The Wisdom On... Extended writing

      Teaching History feature
    Writing history is hard! But the things that make it challenging are the things that make it worth doing. They are also the key to enabling all students to write, to embrace the challenge and to enjoy its rewards enough to keep going. A big mistake is to kid ourselves...
    What’s The Wisdom On... Extended writing

  • Bombing and the Air War on the Italian Front 1915-1918

      Article
    During the First World War air operations were on a much smaller scale on the Italian front than in France and Flanders. Italian fighter pilots claimed to have shot down fewer than a tenth of the number of enemy aircraft officially credited to German fighter pilots operating over the Western...
    Bombing and the Air War on the Italian Front 1915-1918

  • Czech Uranium and Stalin's Bomb

      Article
    Z.A.B. Zeman uncovers a fateful link between Czechoslovakia’s brief monopoly of uranium in Europe and the country’s subordination to the USSR. The great uranium rush started in 1943 and lasted for about seven years. Unlike the gold rushes of the past, uranium did not promise untold riches to individuals but...
    Czech Uranium and Stalin's Bomb

  • Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation

      Journal
    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 The evidence sandwhich - Margaret Mulholland (Read article) Teaching pupils to analyze...
    Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation

  • Primary History summer resource 2021: Using historical sources

      Primary member resource
    This year's free summer resource for primary members looks at using historical sources with primary pupils. Introducing children to sources is an important part of understanding the disciplinary nature of history. One of the key ideas we need to get pupils to understand is that history is based on sources, which...
    Primary History summer resource 2021: Using historical sources

  • What’s The Wisdom On... Extended Reading

      Teaching History feature
    Why, in a history lesson (or out of a history lesson; let’s say, for a homework perhaps) might we want pupils to read more than a paragraph, to stay with the text, to actually read? We don’t mean plucking facts from information boxes, nor ploughing through four comprehension questions. We...
    What’s The Wisdom On... Extended Reading

  • A Project on Working Class Education in the Victorian Period

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In the third year at London Metropolitan University, history B.ED students research and prepare a resource about an aspect of life in C19th Britain for use with their chosen age group. Nicky made a book,...
    A Project on Working Class Education in the Victorian Period

  • 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 Abridged: The Berlin Conference 1884–1885

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. Think Horrible Histories for grownups (without the songs and music). See all History Abridged articles In 2020 there was lots...
    History Abridged: The Berlin Conference 1884–1885

  • What’s The Wisdom On... Consequence

      Teaching History feature
    Consequence easily becomes ‘causation’s forgotten sibling’, as Fordham noted, in the title of a workshop presented at the 2012 Historical Association conference. The choice to treat consequence separately from causation in this series of articles is, therefore, a very deliberate one. Yet an emphasis on the importance of consequences should...
    What’s The Wisdom On... Consequence

  • Primary History 50

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    03 Editorial 05 In My View: History... about lives and living – Mick Waters (Read article) 07 In My View: primary history and the curriculum: a South African perspective – Gail Weldon (Read article) 08 In My View: history, values education & PSHE – Hilary Cooper (Read article)  09 In...
    Primary History 50

  • London and the English Civil War

      Article
    In the spring of 1643 William Lithgow, a Scot born in Lanark in 1582, who had spent most of his life travellingaround Europe, often on foot and having many fantastic adventures, decided to return to Britain. Having just turned sixty, he was obviously feeling pretty gloomy. ‘After long 40 years...
    London and the English Civil War

  • 'Wanted, The Elusive Charlie Peace': A Sheffield Killer Of The 1870s As Popular Hero

      Historian article
    On 28 November 1876, William and John Habron, Irish brothers habitually in trouble with the police, were tried at Manchester Assizes for the murder three months before of Police Constable Nicholas Cock (on the basis of ‘scientific’ footprint evidence at the scene of the crime). The jury found 19 year-old...
    'Wanted, The Elusive Charlie Peace': A Sheffield Killer Of The 1870s As Popular Hero

  • From Ashes to Icon

      Historian article
    Charles Stirton reflects on Middleton Hall and the creation of the National Botanic garden of Wales. Something significant is stirring in the gardening world. This year Wales will make history by opening the first national botanic garden in the third millennium. When visitors enter the new garden on the 24th...
    From Ashes to Icon

  • Primary History 18

      Journal
    2 Editorial  3 Primary Updates 7 The Cabot Voyages and Atlantic Exploration uner the Tudors - Peter Fleming 8 Discovering Cabot's Bristol Kieron Costello 12 Reviews 16 History Matters 17 Lessons from History for Primary Schools Roy Hughes 19 PRIMARY HISTORY RESOURCES
    Primary History 18

  • Eric Hobsbawm: Is History Dangerous?

      Article
    Professor Eric Hobsbawm’s address at the Annual Dinner of the Historical Association meeting in Cambridge, April 1999, on accepting the Medlicott Medal. Our annual award the Medlicott Medal is awarded to individuals for outstanding services and current contributions to history.
    Eric Hobsbawm: Is History Dangerous?

  • History Abridged: the Acropolis

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. Think Horrible Histories for grownups (without the songs and music). See all History Abridged articles The Acropolis of Athens is...
    History Abridged: the Acropolis

  • Primary History 17

      Journal
    2 News for the Young Historian Scheme - Trevor James 2 Editorial 4 Developing design and technology through history Gordon Guest 7 The Primary Latin Project Barbara Bell 11 Why teach about time in the primary school? Pat Hoodless 13 History in the Primary Years: The State of the Nation...
    Primary History 17

  • Primary History 45: History in the Foundation and Early Years

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    04 Editorial 05 2006-2007 Historical Association History and ICT project — Alf Wilkinson 08 Citizenship: Citizenship through the English National Curriculum’s The Romans In Britain Study Unit — Hilary Claire 10 In my view: consigning history to the history books — Denis Hayes 11 Introducing history into the KS1 curriculum...
    Primary History 45: History in the Foundation and Early Years

  • Primary History summer resource 2020: Historical Fiction

      Article
    This year's free summer resource for primary members explores historical fiction and how we can use it in our teaching and learning. Historical fiction can be a potent tool for creating a ‘sense of period’, immersing us in the past through the power of narrative. When studying a particular historical period,...
    Primary History summer resource 2020: Historical Fiction

  • 1939 After Sixty Years

      Article
    Historians view major anniversaries with a measure of ambivalence. We know that they are artificial, that it is merely a convenient fiction to think that the passage of a round number of years provides a privileged vantage point from which to review the significance of a given event. Yet we...
    1939 After Sixty Years

  • Why did People Choose Sides in the English Civil War?

      Article
    This paper was delivered at the British Library on 30th January 1999 at a joint meeting to commemerate the 350th anniversary of the execution of Charles I.
    Why did People Choose Sides in the English Civil War?

  • Move Me On 132: Already the best teacher in the department

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Phyllis Wheatley already seems to be the most effective teacher in the department. How can her mentor ensure that she goes on learning? Phyllis Wheatley is several weeks into her second placement and her mentor, Selina, is acutely aware of how impressive her teaching is already. A degree in...
    Move Me On 132: Already the best teacher in the department

  • History Abridged: Publishing

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. See all History Abridged articles For centuries the only way the written word could be communicated was by it being...
    History Abridged: Publishing

  • Teaching History 132: Historians in the Classroom

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 Obituary: Martin Hunt 1936-2007   04 HA Secondary News 05 Cultivating curiosity about complexity: what happens when Year 12 start to read Orlando Figes’ The Whisperers? – Laura Bellinger (Read article) 16 ‘Billy plays the drums but Lizzie cannot play.’ Will music-making help them both anyway? Year...
    Teaching History 132: Historians in the Classroom