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  • Cunning Plan 163.1: GCSE Thematic study

      Teaching History feature
    I started teaching ‘crime and punishment through time’ thematically a few years ago. I was teaching it as a Schools History Project ‘study in development’. We had moved from ‘medicine through time’ in order to keep things fresh. After six times through the content, much as I loved it, crime,...
    Cunning Plan 163.1: GCSE Thematic study

  • HA Secondary History Survey 2015

      Survey Report
    *Full Survey Report attached below 1.1 Data on which this report is based This survey was conducted during the summer term 2015. Responses were received from 455 history teachers working in a wide range of different contexts, including sixth form and tertiary colleges. The rapid expansion of the academies programme...
    HA Secondary History Survey 2015

  • Move Me On 163: Ahistorical thinking

      Teaching History feature
    Jane Whorwood’s concern to encourage students to think for themselves is leading to some very ahistorical thinking. Jane Whorwood has proved to be a generally confident and positive trainee, largely due to two years’ experience as a cover supervisor before committing to a formal training programme. She has made a...
    Move Me On 163: Ahistorical thinking

  • Guidance for would-be history teacher trainees

      An interview with history NQTs
    Are you considering history teaching as a career option? Knowing where to start, what to expect from teaching and whether teacher training is right for you can feel like a leap into the unknown. We spoke to three recently qualified teachers, Ben Kirby, Liam Frondigoun and Alex Schmidt, all based...
    Guidance for would-be history teacher trainees

  • Move Me On 155: Historical Intepretation vs. Opinion

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Helena Swannick tends to treat differences between historical interpretations simply as matters of opinion. Helena Swannick is a career changer who has decided to come into teaching after many years' working in human resources and some time at home caring for two young children. Her degree was a...
    Move Me On 155: Historical Intepretation vs. Opinion

  • Cunning Plan 96: teaching citizenship through KS3 history

      Teaching History feature
    Big theme: dissent and the formation of the concept of ‘rights' You can teach citizenship not only without compromising National Curriculum content, processes and concepts, but in such a way as to improve them. Review your department's ‘whole Key Stage' planning. Secure rigour and high levels of challenge by remembering...
    Cunning Plan 96: teaching citizenship through KS3 history

  • Cunning Plan 139: Victorian debates about progress

      Teaching History feature
    How can we interest students in the world of ideas? How can we help them to see how important ideas were in shaping and reflecting the world of the Victorians? Working with the overarching enquiry question, ‘Why did some Victorians believe in progress in the nineteenth century and others did not?’ I devised...
    Cunning Plan 139: Victorian debates about progress

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 154: Using historical scholarship in the classroom

      Teaching History feature
    As another World Book Day goes past, you have been watching the English department wax lyrical about all of the wonderful books that pupils might read. You know that there is a wealth of well-written historical scholarship out there for pupils to dive into, yet you are not sure about...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 154: Using historical scholarship in the classroom

  • Cunning Plan 147: Getting students to use classical texts

      Teaching History feature
    The following plan provides a more detailed practical example of the approaches discussed in the article on using ancient texts. Having puzzled over what ancient texts actually are - carefully constructed interpretations? testimonies? (but testimonies to what?) myths? - I wanted my Ancient History GCSE class to engage in this...
    Cunning Plan 147: Getting students to use classical texts

  • Cunning Plan 106: Political literacy

      Teaching History feature
    The onset of citizenship brings with it the need to cover political literacy. The topic can be seen as dry and complex by Year 9 pupils. But ‘democracy is not boring’ (Lang in Teaching History 96). We need to educate our pupils to understand the complexity and features of a...
    Cunning Plan 106: Political literacy

  • Why history matters? Round Table discussion podcast

      Podcasts
    Podcast of the round table discussion available here!The History Matters Annual Conference in May saw the best turnout we've had for some time with a healthy and representative mix of HA members. Our thanks to all those who contributed their time and energy in delivering workshops and lectures. Our afternoon...
    Why history matters? Round Table discussion podcast

  • History in Schools - Present and Future

      Conference Report
    History in Schools - Present and future: Event report This one day conference was organised by the sponsors to raise awareness of the changes in the 14-19 curriculum and initiate discussion on how history, taught from Key Stage 3 to HE level, could be best served and enhanced by the...
    History in Schools - Present and Future

  • The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1

      Journal
    The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education. Articles included in this edition:  Editorial: History Education, Identity and Citizenship in the 21st Century, Bahri Ata The Turkish prospective History teachers' understanding of analogy in History education, Isabel...
    The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1

  • Move Me On 100: Deciding on lesson objectives

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Hugh Horsea, PGCE student, is having difficulty deciding on his lesson objectives  Problem:  Hugh is a few weeks into his first placement. He is enthusiastic and hard working and was successful in the first teaching tasks that he undertook. However, now that he has moved beyond directed...
    Move Me On 100: Deciding on lesson objectives

  • The Dilemma of Senator Williams

      IJHLTR Article
    Abstract The titled “Senator Williams, Do You Vote For or Against on the Diego Resolution before Senate” encourages students to engage in historical empathy and critical inquiry on the possible military intervention in the small hypothetical country of Ersatz. The Diego Resolution asks the Senate to endorse the President’s plan to move a...
    The Dilemma of Senator Williams

  • Move Me On 98: Marking & Assessment

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's problem: Bill Penn, PGCE student, is struggling with marking and assessment Problem Bill Penn is three weeks into his main school placement and making excellent progress. One problem, however, is beginning to emerge. He is being extraordinarily conscientious in his marking but is rapidly losing heart. He is increasingly...
    Move Me On 98: Marking & Assessment

  • Carter Review of Initial Teacher Training 2014

      Article
    An independent review of the quality and effectiveness of ITT courses, to be led by Andrew Carter was announced in May 2014 by the then Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove. The review, which closed on September 22nd 2014, looked across the full range of ITT courses and sought views...
    Carter Review of Initial Teacher Training 2014

  • Writing the history of nineteenth-century Europe

      Annual Conference 2013 Podcast
    Keynote Speech from the Historical Association 2013 Annual Conference - Podcast Sir Richard Evans FBA - Regius Professor of History and President of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge ‘Study problems, not periods', Lord Acton famously advised in his Inaugural Lecture at Cambridge. Centuries in themselves have no historical meaning; the...
    Writing the history of nineteenth-century Europe

  • Film: Making the most of HA trainee membership 

      Article
    Film: Making the most of HA trainee membership 

  • American Liberalism: The Career of a Concept

      Podcast
    Jonathan Bell: Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History at the University of Reading.What historians have come to term ‘liberalism' in an American context has taken on numerous meanings that provide a lens through which to examine broad trends in US history across the twentieth century. From the...
    American Liberalism: The Career of a Concept

  • Cunning Plan 174: creating a narrative of the interwar years

      Teaching History feature
    The major aim of this sequence of lessons was to teach Year 8 how to create and refine a narrative. I chose a period I was substantively confident on, which lent itself well to the narrative form, had a number of prominent academic narratives published about it and followed neatly...
    Cunning Plan 174: creating a narrative of the interwar years

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 169: Developing a sense of place

      Journal article
    This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Each problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don’t exist. But in others’ writing, you’ll soon find something better: conversations in which other history teachers have debated or tackled your problems – conversations any history...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 169: Developing a sense of place

  • Napoleon and the creation of an imperial legend

      Annual Conference 2013 Podcast
    Lecture from the Historical Association 2013 Annual Conference - Podcast Professor Alan Forrest - University of York Napoleon would become a nineteenth-century hero, the stuff of legend in a romantic age. This lecture examines the genesis of the Napoleonic myth, and shows how throughout his career he consciously burnished his...
    Napoleon and the creation of an imperial legend

  • Punk, Politics and the collapse of consensus in Britain

      Podcast
    2012 Annual Conference LectureShot by both sides: Punk, Politics and the collapse of consensus in BritainMatthew Worley: Reader in History, University of ReadingThis paper examines the way in which organisations of the far left and far right endeavoured to appropriate elements of British youth culture to validate their analysis of...
    Punk, Politics and the collapse of consensus in Britain

  • We Also Served: British Asian Veterans of WW2

      We Also Served
    In search of the story of British Asian Veterans of World War Two.‘We also served' is a moving short film, which follows pupils from Beardwood and St Bede's high schools as they research why the contribution of these soldiers is not more widely recognised.
    We Also Served: British Asian Veterans of WW2