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  • Writing in Primary History edition 1 and 100: has there been a dramatic shift?

      Primary History article
    This article is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today Tim Lomas was astounded and partly horrified that he was...
    Writing in Primary History edition 1 and 100: has there been a dramatic shift?

  • Out and About: The Parish Armoury in St Mary’s Church, Mendlesham

      Historian feature
    In the Tudor and early Stuart period most towns and villages had a legal obligation to store arms and armour in case of a national emergency. Here Shona Rutherford-Edge tells the story of the parish armoury in the Suffolk village of Mendlesham, which was kept in the local church and from which many...
    Out and About: The Parish Armoury in St Mary’s Church, Mendlesham

  • Doing history: The Old Poor Law in a Regency York Parish 1795–1847

      Historian feature
    In this regular feature called Doing History, history enthusiasts describe a piece of research they have undertaken and how it sheds light on aspects of local and national history. Here Steve Barrett shows how his exploration of archives in York provided interesting insights into the controversial issue of poor relief, with a focus...
    Doing history: The Old Poor Law in a Regency York Parish 1795–1847

  • Landowners and their motives for change at the Suffolk village of Culford between 1793 and 1903

      Historian article
    Isabel Jones from Thomas Mills High School at Framlingham was the winner of the Young Historian Award for Local History [16-19] in 2006. The Director of the Young Historian Project, Trevor James, has edited her winning essay. It has been shortened and the footnotes removed, to enable it to fit...
    Landowners and their motives for change at the Suffolk village of Culford between 1793 and 1903

  • Update: Space, place and social constructs: the Spatial Turn in history

      Historian feature
    Ryan Hampton explains how ‘things’ and people combine to make space an important consideration in human history. Focusing on the German Peasants’ War of 1524-26, he examines how advances in our understanding of space might affect our knowledge of this important conflict...
    Update: Space, place and social constructs: the Spatial Turn in history

  • The Historian 13

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Fiume 1919, John di Folco  6 Feature: Republicanism in Victorian Britain, Robert Woodall 10 Update: The Origins of the Cold War, John Young 14 Education Forum: Michael Biddiss, Alex Cowan
    The Historian 13

  • Polychronicon 112: The Angevin Empire

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its ownage. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of the 'Polychronicon' concentrates on the...
    Polychronicon 112: The Angevin Empire

  • What’s in a narrative? Unpicking Year 9 narratives of change in Stalin’s Russia

      Teaching History article
    Is it structure or the selection of knowledge that makes writing historical narrative so difficult? Where does a conceptual focus on change, or causation, come in? James Ellis set out to explore the challenges his Year 9 pupils faced in writing historical narratives about change. Inspired by the work of...
    What’s in a narrative? Unpicking Year 9 narratives of change in Stalin’s Russia

  • The Historian 49: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    2 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Alfred R. Smyth 8 Update: Galileo - Michael Sharratt 11 Labour, language and class - John Belchem 17 Profile: Lord Curzon of Kedleston - Harry Bennett 20 Education Forum: Young Historian Prizes - Gordon Batho 20 In memoriam: F. G. Emmison - John Fines
    The Historian 49: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

  • Who inherits the house? Using heritage to shape pupils’ thinking about historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Reflecting on the reasons why generic models for teaching historical significance are never quite adequate, Rachel Foster found herself considering, instead, the specific contexts in which arguments about historical significance arise.  These reflections took her to the fascinating example of stately homes. Drawing on scholarship such as that of Peter...
    Who inherits the house? Using heritage to shape pupils’ thinking about historical significance

  • The Historian 85: Lloyd George and Gladstone

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 8 Lloyd George and Gladstone - Chris Wrigley (Read article) 18 Flowers Block The Sun - James Bartlett (Read article) 19 The Friar's Bush - James Bartlett (Read article) 20 George III and America - John Cannon (Read article) 27 Saint Robert and the Deer - Dr. Frank Bottomley (Read article)...
    The Historian 85: Lloyd George and Gladstone

  • Deepening post-16 students' historical engagement with the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Peter Morgan represents what is best about the reflective practitioner - an experienced teacher of some 15 years' standing, he continues to challenge himself and to seek ways to improve and develop his classroom practice. Deeply influenced by the pedagogy and resources that he encountered on the CPD of the Institute...
    Deepening post-16 students' historical engagement with the Holocaust

  • The Holocaust in history and history in the curriculum

      Teaching History article
    In this powerfully argued article Paul Salmons focuses directly on the distinctive contribution that a historical approach to the study of the Holocaust makes to young people's education. Not only does he question the adequacy of objectives focused on eliciting purely emotional responses; he issues a strong warning that turning...
    The Holocaust in history and history in the curriculum

  • Move Me On 197: struggling to manage the history teacher education programme alongside part-time work

      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 197: struggling to manage the history teacher education programme alongside part-time work

  • What time does the tune start? From thinking about 'sense of period' to modelling history at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. A ‘sense of period' is the contextual backdrop to the study of any aspect of history. As experienced historians, we tend to take for granted both our structural map of the past and our rich...
    What time does the tune start? From thinking about 'sense of period' to modelling history at Key Stage 3

  • What history should we teach? The HA Primary Survey

      Primary History article
    The government's 2010 White Paper makes clear that the history curriculum will be reviewed. This is the ideal time to consider that very contentious issue - What History Should We Teach? And who better to ask than those who really know and understand what the curriculum will look and feel...
    What history should we teach? The HA Primary Survey

  • The Historian 12

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: A Prisoner's Pursuits: the Captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, Gordon R. Batho 10 Record Linkage: Sir Lewis Harcourt and the Foreign Office Telegrams July 1914, Keith Wilson 13 Update: English Politics and Society in the Eighteenth Century, Bill Speck 16 HUDG: Middle Age Spread, John Boume
    The Historian 12

  • The Historian 58: Lord Acton's Inaugural

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    2 Lord Acton's Inaugural, John Burrow 7 Local History: Local and Regional History: the Example of North East England, Norman McCord 10  The Victorians and Child Labour, Eric Hopkins 15 Education Forum: Forgotten Corner of Europe?: Scandinavian History in English History Textbooks, Leo Pekkala 16 Gladstone, Ian Machin 20 Tours...
    The Historian 58: Lord Acton's Inaugural

  • Cunning Plan... for teaching about climate change through the history curriculum

      Teaching History feature
    Is this climate change lesson geography or history, Miss? When thinking about teaching climate change in schools we often associate it with subjects like geography or even science, but we hardly think about history. And yet, history has as much claim on this topic as other subjects do, especially when...
    Cunning Plan... for teaching about climate change through the history curriculum

  • Roald Dahl and the Lost Campaign

      Historian article
    Following the successful filming of his book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, Roald Dahl has an international reputation as a children’s writer. There is, however, a macabre dimension to his writing underlined by his successful TV series ‘Tales of the Unexpected’. Dark episodes in Dahl’s highly successful career touched his...
    Roald Dahl and the Lost Campaign

  • 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

  • Think Bubble: The passion to know why

      Article
    I gave half an ear recently to a radio debate on the nature of scientific genius. A number of examples were given of infants doing calculus and toddlers designing suspension bridges, but the most convincing statement came from a panellist who defined the phenomenon as ‘the passion to know’. The...
    Think Bubble: The passion to know why

  • The Historian 82: The Spanish Collection

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 The Spanish collection at the Victorian and Albert Museum in London: its inception and development in the Museum's context and conversion policy - Dr Rafael Manuel Pepiol (Read article) 12 The Great Exhibition - Chloe Jeffries (Read article) 18 Stanley Baldwin's reputation - Philip Williamson (Read article) 24 Beware the serpent...
    The Historian 82: The Spanish Collection

  • Teaching History 124: Teaching the most able

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    06 Expertise in its development phase: planning for the needs of gifted adolescent historians – Deborah Eyre (Read article) 09 Duffy’s devices: teaching Year 13 to read and write – Rachel Ward (Read article) 17 Mussolini’s missing marbles: simulating history at GCSE – Arthur Chapman and James Woodcock (Read article)...
    Teaching History 124: Teaching the most able

  • Balderstone St Leonard’s CE Primary School: our journey to the Quality Mark Gold Award

      Primary History article
    Kate Turner provides a fantastic insight into the way in which their school has achieved the Gold Standard Quality Mark. She demonstrates both the overarching themes that underpin the history curriculum in the school but also their sensitivity to ethnic and cultural diversity, the rich opportunities gained through engaging with...
    Balderstone St Leonard’s CE Primary School: our journey to the Quality Mark Gold Award