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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Primary History 66
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
This edition of HA's Primary History magazine is free to download via the link at the bottom of the page (individual article links within the page are not free access unless otherwise stated).
For a subscription to Primary History (published termly), plus access to our huge library of high-quality resources...
Primary History 66
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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
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Primary History 80
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article)
05 HA Primary News
08 Castles: distinguishing fact and fiction in the early years curriculum – Sue Temple (Read article)
12 Ordinary Roman life: using authentic artefacts to achieve meaning – Hugh Moore (Read article)
14 Good practice in primary history: celebrating outstanding history teaching through the...
Primary History 80
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Writing Lilian Harrison into history
Article
In this article Matthew Brown and Pablo Scharagrodsky introduce us to the little-known story of Anglo-Argentinian swimmer Lilian Harrison, who in 1923 became the first person to swim the 42km from Uruguay to Argentina at the estuary of the Rio de la Plata. Her story shows how she had to battle against not only tides and...
Writing Lilian Harrison into history
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The Historian 140: A Shared History
The magazine of the Historical Association
Contents
4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article)
8 Civil Rights: 1968 and Northern Ireland – Jim McBride (Read article)
13 Dr Joseph Parry: the story of Wales’ greatest composer – Colin Wheldon James (Read article)
18 National distinctions entirely laid aside?: British history through the eyes of Welsh writers in the...
The Historian 140: A Shared History
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Primary History 82
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article)
05 HA Primary News
06 Emerging historians in the outdoors – Gillian Sykes (Read article)
09 Getting to grips with concepts in primary history – Tim Lomas (Read article)
18 Up Pompeii: studying a significant event at Key Stage 1 – Susan Townsend (Read article)
24 The Bronze Age:...
Primary History 82
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The Historian 121: Historical Biography
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Review - John F. Kennedy
5 Editorial
6 Anne Herbert: A life in the Wars of the Roses - Ian Dawson (Read Article)
13 The President's Column
14 Contemporary and Historical Biography: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2004-14: A ten-year review - Lawrence Goldman
20 The Unfortunate Captain Peirce:...
The Historian 121: Historical Biography
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History 336
The Journal of the Historical Association
ArticlesIntroduction1. Introduction: Human Rights and the History of Violence in the Early British Empire (pages 383-402) - Brendan KaneArticles1. The Deep Roots of Albion's Fatal Tree: The Tudor State and the Monopoly of Violence (pages 403-417) - Andy Wood2. Organized Violence in the Elizabethan Monarchical Republic (pages 418-443) - Malcolm...
History 336
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From the history of maths to the history of greatness
Teaching History article
Readers of Teaching History will be familiar with the benefits and difficulties of cross-curricular planning, and the pages of this journal have often carried analysis of successful collaborations with the English department, or music, or geography. Harry Fletcher-Wood describes in this article a collaboration involving maths, providing for us the...
From the history of maths to the history of greatness
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Music in the history curriculum
Primary History article
Music is a dimension of teaching history that is under used. Rosie explores key ideas about its value for teaching history. The first Aim of the proposed 2014 National Curriculum highlights the role of history: perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles...
Music in the history curriculum
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Primary History 79
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article)
05 HA Primary News
08 Using role-play to develop young children’s understanding of the past – Lisa MacGregor (Read article)
11 Writing books for young children about the First World War – Hilary Robinson (Read article)
12 What confuses primary pupils in history? Part 2 –...
Primary History 79
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History, drama and education for life
Primary History article
Drama plays a crucial role in bringing the past to life. For children it enables them to develop their understanding of motivation, behaviour and historical contexts within an essential chronological framework. Primary History 48 , History, Drama and the Classroom, explores the scope and nature of Drama for teaching history....
History, drama and education for life
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Three strategies to support pupils’ study of historical significance
Teaching History article
When Paula Worth met with history-teaching colleagues to explore how they could improve their teaching about historical significance, she found that she was far from alone in finding the process a daunting one. Prompted to investigate the difficulties she had encountered, Worth realised that that she had previously reached for...
Three strategies to support pupils’ study of historical significance
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The mechanics of history: interpretations and claim construction processes
Teaching History article
Holly Hiscox was concerned that many of her A-level students – asked to evaluate three different historical interpretations for their non-examined assessment task – still tended to hold unhelpful misconceptions about the nature of interpretations. In this article she explains how she created an introductory scheme of work to help them understand...
The mechanics of history: interpretations and claim construction processes
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Pull-out Posters: Primary History 77
Posters: Fun across time and Write your own historical fiction
1. Fun across time; 2. Write your own historical fiction
Pull-out Posters: Primary History 77
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Doing history for climate action
Historian article
Incidents of flooding across the UK are increasing, threatening homes and livelihoods. In this article, Hannah Worthen and Briony McDonagh explain how they are using historic records of floods and flood management to engage communities in Hull in new conversations and to prompt vital action. Their project, Risky Cities, was...
Doing history for climate action
