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  • Investigating Henry VIII

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The lesson required the children to consider carefully their own opinions about Henry and anything that they knew about him. This was followed up by a literacy lesson in which they used the evidence to express a point of view regarding...
    Investigating Henry VIII

  • Scheme of work: Local history – the story of our High Street

      Scheme of Work, KS1 History, Changes Within Living Memory (unresourced)
    Teaching a unit that considers ‘changes within living times’ requires a focus that provides clear evidence of those changes. Children need to be able to identify specific differences as well as recognise relevant similarities. While we all still undertake shopping on a daily or weekly basis the processes involved in...
    Scheme of work: Local history – the story of our High Street

  • How diverse is your history curriculum?

      Article
    The past was full of diverse people and our students are entitled to learn about this diverse past. History lessons should enable students to see their connection to the past and to understand the world today. Here are a list of questions for history teachers to use to support a...
    How diverse is your history curriculum?

  • Significant people: Mary Wollstonecraft

      Primary History article
    ‘I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves’ – Mary Wollstonecraft The National Curriculum gives the freedom to select any significant individual and many schools have already chosen those outside the commonly-used ones such as Florence Nightingale, Christopher Columbus and Queen Victoria. There is also...
    Significant people: Mary Wollstonecraft

  • Scheme of Work: Waterloo and the Age of Revolutions

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (resourced)
    This scheme of work explores the 'Age of Revolutions' period across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It was written for the Historical Association by Karin Doull to supplement the Age of Revolutions Teacher Fellowship Programme, which is funded by Waterloo 200. The Napoleonic wars shaped their age: children...
    Scheme of Work: Waterloo and the Age of Revolutions

  • Primary History 58: The Olympics

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    THE OLYMPICS: TEACHING HISTORY TODAY 04 Editorial: Nelson Mandela, Apartheid and the Olympics 05 Think Bubble: What ever happened to the Standing Long Jump? - Peter Vass 06 Public celebration of the 1864 Olympian Festival - Dominic Wallis PLANNING FOR THE OLYMPICS 08 Primary History and planning for teaching the...
    Primary History 58: The Olympics

  • Vikings settle down

      Lesson Plan (KS2)
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here. This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts...
    Vikings settle down

  • Creating Variety in the Classroom

      Article
    Sometimes, pupils complain that there is a sameness to history lessons. History though offers scope for all kinds of exciting and varied activities targeting the key concepts and processes of the National Curriculum. Over the years, the following list has been gathered showing this variety. It could be used as...
    Creating Variety in the Classroom

  • HA Blog Watch

      Selected history education blogs
    We've collated some of the best history education blogs here. The list isn't exhaustive so if there is a great history education blog out there that is not on this list – let us know! One Big History Department HA Secondary Committee blog One Big History Department (OBHD) has been...
    HA Blog Watch

  • Anglo-Saxons: a brief history

      Reference guide for primary
    Jump to: Anglo-Saxons in Britain | Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms | Areas to examine | Key concepts & links This resource 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...
    Anglo-Saxons: a brief history

  • Victorian Britain: a brief history

      Reference guide for primary
    Victorian era | Questions | Industrial revolution | Social reforms | Empire | Teaching the Victorians | Citizenship | Victorian achievements | Key concepts < This resource is free for everyone For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and...
    Victorian Britain: a brief history

  • The Vikings in Britain: a brief history

      Reference guide for primary
    Viking Age | In Britain: background | Short history | King Alfred | Later raids & rulers | Key concepts < This resource is free for 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...
    The Vikings in Britain: a brief history

  • A creative Egyptian project

      Primary History article
    Ideally when teaching history, teachers will look to deliver projects that will engage and motivate, hopefully making the hard work of being creative stimulating and rewarding, based upon questioning, enquiry, investigation of sources and reaching conclusions grounded in the evidence.Ancient Egypt is one of those history topics which, because it...
    A creative Egyptian project

  • Ancient Egypt

      Reference guide for primary
    This resource 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 Please note: this guide was written before the new National Curriculum...
    Ancient Egypt

  • Primary History 101

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    05 Editorial (Read article) 06 Animals who help us: teaching past and present in EYFS – Kate Rigby (Read article) 09 Student teacher experiences at the Historical Association Conference 2025 – Charlotte Deacon, Amy Cuthbert and Sarah Tinsley (Read article) 12 She sells seashells by the seashore: teaching Mary Anning...
    Primary History 101

  • Film: Black British History – 1714 to 1785

      Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714–2010
    In Episode 4, Dr Montaz Marché (University College London) and Professor Ryan Hanley (University of Exeter), discuss the lives and experience of 18th century Black Britons. In this discussion they look at the lives of both the exceptional and the ordinary, and reflect upon the politics of race and gender in...
    Film: Black British History – 1714 to 1785

  • Real Lives: A German captain’s perspective on the end of WWI

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected sto greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: A German captain’s perspective on the end of WWI

  • Planning a post-1066 thematic study

      HA Primary Subject Leader Area
    The requirement in National Curriculum rubric at Key Stage 2 for a study or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066 can appear intimidatingly broad at first sight, but Andrew Wrenn is here to help! Drawing on non-statutory examples provided in the National Curriculum – such as...
    Planning a post-1066 thematic study

  • Primary History summer resource 2025: Women with power

      Primary member resource
    For this year’s Primary History summer resource, we have selected a focus on the lives of women at a particular period – that of the Anglo-Saxon or the early medieval period. This period covers a substantial period of time – around 600 years. It was a time of catalyst and...
    Primary History summer resource 2025: Women with power

  • Film: Discovering local and family history

      Article
    Children love discovering things and collecting treasures. They might find shells or pebbles on the beach or broken pieces of pottery in their garden soil. They might ask family members to share interesting things about their family history. This video has been designed to inspire children, from EYFS to year...
    Film: Discovering local and family history

  • Teaching local history in primary schools: learning about effective practice

      Primary History article
    Rachel Bruce and Susannah Russell were two of the six primary teachers on the recent Local History Teacher Fellowship. Here they outline the activities they were engaged in and how they produced two very different local history enquiries – one based in York and the other in Wrecclesham, Surrey. They...
    Teaching local history in primary schools: learning about effective practice

  • Film series: Power and authority in Germany, 1871-1991

      Germany 1871-1945: Introduction
    The rise and fall of Germany in the 20th Century is one of the major political arcs of the modern period, and one that many feel familiar with – from the unification of the Germanic states, the defeat of the Kaiser in 1918, revolution, a weak Weimar Republic all the...
    Film series: Power and authority in Germany, 1871-1991

  • The Amesbury Archer

      Primary History article
    One of the requirements for the Key Stage 2 history curriculum is that children learn about changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age. In some ways this is a challenging period to teach – the evidential record is patchy, it is open to interpretation, and there...
    The Amesbury Archer

  • Scheme of work: Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality

      Primary history scheme of work, Key Stage 1 (unresourced)
    Children can be introduced to the idea that schools have been in the locality for some time but they have not always been the same. They can look at similarities and differences, as well as be introduced to some of the events that affected the schools. The theme allows children...
    Scheme of work: Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality

  • Where might the Gunpowder Plot sit within the principles of the new model curriculum?

      Primary History article
    The government has proposed creating a model curriculum for history. This will contain a range of non-statutory and supplementary guidance to focus history teaching. In July 2022, terms of reference to identify principles and approaches underpinning the model history curriculum were published. There will be an advisory panel that will...
    Where might the Gunpowder Plot sit within the principles of the new model curriculum?