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Teaching History 184: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 184: Different lenses
For millennia, human beings have used lenses as tools: to help them see further, to magnify or to correct defects of vision. Yet lenses can distort as well as illuminate the unseen.
Robert Hooke, the seventeenth-century scientist who helped popularise the microscope through his...
Teaching History 184: Out now
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Obituaries: the first verdict in history
Historian article
Last year marked the deaths of two world-renowned historical figures - Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. Their obituaries reflected the marked contrast in the way the pair were viewed. Mandela ended up by being universally admired, while Thatcher was both adored and despised in seemingly equal measure. Writer Nigel Starck...
Obituaries: the first verdict in history
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Churches as a local historical source
Primary History Article
At Key Stage 1 children should learn about significant events, (e.g. the Great Fire of London) and about people and places in their locality. At Key Stage 2 they should learn about British settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots (e.g. Anglo-Saxon art and culture) and do a local history study (e.g....
Churches as a local historical source
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Teaching History 140: Creative History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Ellen Buxton - Fog over channel; continent accessible? Year 8 use counterfactual reasoning to explore place and social upheaval in eighteenth-century France and Britain (Read article)
16 Gary Hillyard - Dickens...Hardy...Jarvis?! A novel take on the Industrial Revolution (Read article)
25 Triumphs show: Leading a...
Teaching History 140: Creative History
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History 342
The Journal of the Historical Association
Articles:
1. Introduction (pages 507–516) Alexandra Walsham
2. The Elizabethan Puritan Movement (1967) (pages 517–534) Peter Lake
3. Archbishop Grindal 1519–1583: The Struggle for a Reformed Church (1979) (pages 535–543) Kenneth Fincham
4. The Religion of Protestants: The Church in English Society, 1559-1625 (1982) (pages 544–558) Alexandra Walsham
5. The...
History 342
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Teaching History 139: Analysing History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7 analyse the changing relationship of Henry II and Becket - Tim Jenner (Read article)
11 Encountering diversity in the history of ideas: engaging Year 9 with Victorian debates about ‘progress' - Jonathan White (Read article)
14 Cunning Plan: Teaching about...
Teaching History 139: Analysing History
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Teaching History 191: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 191
Please note: the print edition of Teaching History 191 will arrive with members in mid-July.
Has the materiality of the past been neglected in secondary school history? Many history teachers might be surprised at the question. After all, enquiries featuring social, economic and cultural realities have...
Teaching History 191: Out now
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History 341
The Journal of the Historical Association
Articles: 1. Arson, Treason and Plot: Britain, America and the Law, 1770-1777 (pages 374-391) - Gwenda Morgan and Peter Rushton2. James VII's Multiconfessional Experiment and the Scottish Revolution of 1688-1690 (pages 354-373) - Alasdair Raffe3. Diehard Conservatives and the Appeasement of Nazi Germany, 1935-1940 (pages 412-435) - N. C. Fleming4....
History 341
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The Philosophy of History
Classic Pamphlet
Philosophy is thinking about the world as a whole. To study the nature of selected parts of the world is to be a scientist; to study its nature as a whole is to be a philosopher. Thus, it is the business of one kind of scientist-the mathematical physicist-to study matter...
The Philosophy of History
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Primary History 96: Out now
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
Read Primary History 96: Climate and Environment
This edition of Primary History Journal is a special edition. It focuses on the challenge of climate change and the need for sustainability, a challenge that is becoming increasingly urgent. It is a joint project with Teaching History, our secondary counterpart, to which...
Primary History 96: Out now
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One of my favourite history places: Neuschwanstein Castle
Primary History feature
Visiting Neuschwanstein Castle is a dramatic if seemingly unreal experience and for this reason it is one of my favourite historical sites. The castle is situated on the slopes of the Alps in Bavaria, close to the village of Hohenschwangau, overlooking low-lying plains to the north. The ornate turrets, Romanesque windows...
One of my favourite history places: Neuschwanstein Castle
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History 340
The Journal of the Historical Association
April 2015 - Volume 100, Issue 340Articles1. Intelligence Studies: The British Invasion (pages 163-166)Richard H. Immerman2. The Burgeoning Fissures of Dissent: Allen Dulles and the Selling of the CIA in the Aftermath of the Bay of Pigs (pages 167-188)Simon Willmetts3. American Journalism and the Landscape of Secrecy: Tad Szulc, the...
History 340
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Primary History 96: Climate and Environment
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
05 Editorial (Read article)
06 The potential of primary history – Alison Kitson and Michael Riley (Read article)
12 How much has the weather mattered in British history? A possible development study – Tim Lomas (Read article)
20 A Significant Local Event: Carlisle floods – Sue Temple (Read article)
24 Earth heroes: Etta Lemon,...
Primary History 96: Climate and Environment
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Primary History 63: History & Creativity
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
Editorial and In My View
04 Editorial - history and creativity
05 Creativity and history - Hilary Cooper (Read article)
Features
08 A creative Egyptian project - Caitlin Bates (Read article)
09 Diogenes - WHITHER CREATIVITY?! A consideration of the article Creativity and the Primary Curriculum - Peter Vass (Read...
Primary History 63: History & Creativity
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Primary History summer resource 2023: Early civilisations
Primary member resource
Our free summer resource for 2023 is intended to enhance your subject knowledge about ancient civilisations. We have selected two articles from the HA journal The Historian that provide you with an insight into current historical knowledge.
The first article includes Sumer, Indus, Shang and Egypt, early civilisations that are identified in...
Primary History summer resource 2023: Early civilisations
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Primary History 81
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article)
05 HA Primary News
08 Riding along on my pushbike… exploring transport in EYFS – Helen Crawford (Read article)
11 Three first-class ladies – teaching significant individuals in Key Stage 1: Harriet Quimby, Hilda Hewlett and Bessie Coleman – Karin Doull (Read article)
17 Assessment and feedback in...
Primary History 81
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A history of Choral Evensong: the birth of an English tradition
Historian article
The apogee of the native church music tradition, Evensong is a jewel born of the English Reformation, but how did it come to be, asks Tom Coxhead?
Evensong is a miraculous success-story for the Anglican Church in an increasingly secular society. Midweek attendance at cathedrals, collegiate chapels, and larger churches...
A history of Choral Evensong: the birth of an English tradition
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Teaching History 186: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 186: Removing Barriers
We have in the past two years encountered a series of novel barriers to learning. Are the schools open? Are both students and teachers well enough to be there? How do you monitor learning on a Friday afternoon across a series of patchy network...
Teaching History 186: Out now
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History 339
The Journal of the Historical Association
Articles
1. From Tyrant to Unfit Monarch: Marchamont Nedham's Representation of Charles Stuart and Royalists during the Interregnum (pages 1-20) - Benjamin Woodford
2. Images of Kingship: Charles I, Accession Sermons, and the Theory of Divine Right (pages 21-39) - Elena Kiryanova
3. ‘Citizen Emperor': Political Ritual, Popular Sovereignty and the...
History 339
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Primary History 53: Living history
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
Living history - a primary history curriculum for the 21st century: Historical, Geographical and Social Understanding
03 Editorial
04 The Historical Association’s response to the Rose Review
05 In my view: Towards a new primary curriculum: Cambridge Primary Review Part 1, Past and Present, Part 2, The Future — An...
Primary History 53: Living history
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Primary History 88: Out now
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
Read Primary History 88
It is sometimes the case that the history we are exposed to changes in a way that is barely perceptible. At other times the changes have been momentous. Some have been long lasting, others fleeting. The time that primary history often felt like a support act for...
Primary History 88: Out now
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Harnessing the power of community to expand students’ historical horizons
Teaching History article
Many history teachers will already be familiar with ‘meanwhile, elsewhere...’, a website offering freely downloadable homework resources on individuals, events and developments in world history. In this article the website’s creators, Richard Kennett and Will Bailey-Watson, set out a curricular rationale for the project. They argue that using homework tasks...
Harnessing the power of community to expand students’ historical horizons
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History 338
The Journal of the Historical Association
Articles1. Drapery in Exile: Edward III, Colchester and the Flemings, 1351-1367 (pages 733-753) - Bart Lambert and Milan Pajic2. The Speed and Efficiency of the Tudor South-West's Royal Post-Stage Service (pages 754-774) - Ian Cooper3. Technologies of the Body: Polite Consumption and the Correction of Deformity in Eighteenth-Century England (pages...
History 338
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History 325
The Journal of the Historical Association
Articles1. Fiction as History: The Black Death and Beyond (pages 3-23) - John Hatcher2. Tudor: What's in a Name? (pages 24-42) - C. S. L. Davies3. Chartism, Bronterre O'Brien and the ‘Luminous Political Example of America' (pages 43-69)- Michael Turner4. The ‘Bandon Valley Massacre' as a Historical Problem (pages 70-98)...
History 325
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History 337
The Journal of the Historical Association
Articles1. The Amherst Embassy and British Discoveries in China (pages 568-587) - Gao Hao2. Toasting Fox: The Fox Dinners in Edinburgh and Glasgow, 1801-1825 (pages 588-606) - T. E. Orme3. Eighteenth-Century Jamaica's Ambivalent Cosmopolitanism (pages 607-631) - James Robertson4. Britain, Balkan Conflicts and the Evolving Conceptions of Militarism, 1875-1913 (pages...
History 337
