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Recorded webinar: Windows into the past: better use of clips in the history classroom
In partnership with ERA
This webinar explores how we can make better use of documentary and historical drama clips in history classrooms, including what curricular role they can play beyond 'press play and take some notes.' It also introduces history teachers to ERA, a streaming platform free to English state schools and other ERA-licensed...
Recorded webinar: Windows into the past: better use of clips in the history classroom
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Webinar series: Making history accessible
On-demand webinar series for subject leaders and teachers of history
What does this series cover and why should I attend?
In recent years, the UK’s SEND system has been under the spotlight. As numbers of students with identified special educational needs increase, attention has been given to how to best embed inclusive practice, enabling teachers to support all students to...
Webinar series: Making history accessible
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Webinar series: Embedding oracy in secondary history
HA webinar series for secondary history teachers and subject leaders
What does this series cover?
The Curriculum and Assessment Review places fresh emphasis on the vital role of oracy for work and life, and oracy will become high profile across curriculum subjects and in their own subject specific ways. Join us for this special webinar series to get ahead of...
Webinar series: Embedding oracy in secondary history
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Film: Creating a more positive interpretation of the Middle Ages at Key Stage 3
Secondary History Workshop Annual Conference 2019
Popular perceptions of life, politics and morality in the Middle Ages are overwhelmingly negative, a far cry from images being developed by historians through their research. This workshop explores how to tweak and change familiar topics (including the reign of Richard III) to create a more historically accurate, positive and...
Film: Creating a more positive interpretation of the Middle Ages at Key Stage 3
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Recorded webinar: Embracing messiness: the case for returning to disciplinary thinking in history classrooms
Webinar series: Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
Session 1: Embracing messiness: the case for returning to disciplinary thinking in history classrooms
In recent years, disciplinary thinking has been somewhat overlooked as the 'what' of curriculum has taken the front seat for many schools. This introductory session will explain the rationale for...
Recorded webinar: Embracing messiness: the case for returning to disciplinary thinking in history classrooms
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The History Ledger, podcasts from the Economic History Society
An HA partnership podcast series with the Economic History Society
The HA and the Economic History Society are developing a new partnership. Affiliates of the EHS contributed to our Teacher Fellowship programme: Teaching the economic history of colonialism in Africa and Asia. As part of the development of closer links, we are delighted to support the dissemination of The History...
The History Ledger, podcasts from the Economic History Society
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Webinar series: Historical thinking in a digital world: how history builds digital and media literacy
HA webinar series for secondary history teachers, history subject leaders, senior leaders, teacher educators and KS2–3 transition leads
What does this series cover?
This series makes the case that history is a natural subject for digital literacy because it teaches how knowledge is made, contested, evidenced, and communicated – the exact habits students need for navigating misinformation, manipulated media, and AI-generated content. Across six sessions, participants build a...
Webinar series: Historical thinking in a digital world: how history builds digital and media literacy
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On-demand webinar: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: interpretations
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Session 4: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: interpretations
In this fourth session, Jacob and Mike will explore how history teachers can teach disciplinary knowledge (how we know about the past) directly – specifically, historical interpretations. They will share examples of lessons that directly teach pupils how historians (and...
On-demand webinar: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: interpretations
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On-demand webinar: Histories of the African continent
Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
Session 4: Histories of the African continent
This 90-minute recorded webinar will cover three elements: an introductory discussion about the scope and opportunities for exploring African history; Enquiry One: Africa and the development of religion; Enquiry Two: Decolonisation, Ideology and Race in Africa: the struggles...
On-demand webinar: Histories of the African continent
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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
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Italian history teachers day
Partnership CPD from the Historical Association, Association for the Study of Modern Italy, University College London and Royal Holloway, University of London
Saturday 12 October 2024, 10am–3pmUniversity of London
This event will feature lectures from academics from the University of Leicester, UCL and Royal Holloway on a variety of topics within Italian history from 1900-1946. It will provide up to date academic knowledge on key topics within this period of Italian history...
Italian history teachers day
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Doing history: is it too dangerous to be a medieval historian?
Presidential Lecture
Podcast of Professor Anne Curry, President of the Historical Association. Friday 14th May 2010.
Head of the School of Humanities and Professor of Medieval History, Southampton University ‘Re your piece in the Daily Mail, 26 October 2009, on the battle of Agincourt, I was absolutely disgusted at the inference that...
Doing history: is it too dangerous to be a medieval historian?
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On-demand webinar series: Direct history teaching
HA webinar series for history teachers at KS3 and KS4
What does this series cover?
In this webinar series, explore a direct approach to teaching history. Presenters Jacob Olivey and Mike Hill will advocate for ‘lean lessons’ that focus on reading, explanation, and discussion to build pupils’ historical knowledge and understanding – with no worksheets, activities, or group work in...
On-demand webinar series: Direct history teaching
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On-demand webinar: Observation and feedback as a mentor
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Session 3: Observation and feedback
In this third webinar, Laura and Victoria explore strategies for dialogic and history-specific observation and post-lesson reflection. This session will focus on how mentors can forefront historical learning in the observation cycle.
Release date: Tuesday...
On-demand webinar: Observation and feedback as a mentor
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On-demand webinar: Teaching neurodivergent students to succeed at GCSE History and beyond
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Session 3: Teaching neurodivergent students to succeed at GCSE History and beyond
This session will offer practical strategies teachers can use to support and challenge neurodivergent students at GCSE. Covering the importance of scaffolding and Vygotsky’s Zone of Proximal Development, Kate Wright will offer a...
On-demand webinar: Teaching neurodivergent students to succeed at GCSE History and beyond
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On-demand webinar: Showcasing history teaching and learning in special schools
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Webinar series: Making history accessible
Session 4: Showcasing history teaching and learning in special schools
From a special school perspective, Sally Lonsdale and Lucy Bennett explore how history is encountered at their school. With secondary students working at Key Stage 1 age related expectations, history is seen as an ‘enriching...
On-demand webinar: Showcasing history teaching and learning in special schools
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On-demand webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
On-demand webinar series for secondary history teachers and leaders
What does this series cover?
In this series of six webinars, Jonathan Grande will explore and exemplify a wide range of types and forms of assessment that can be used to provide precise, accurate and meaningful insights into pupils’ historical knowledge and understanding. The sessions will consider the purposes of...
On-demand webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
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History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP)
Immersive online course for history teachers looking to develop beyond their early career
Book now
Autumn 2025 cohort (Closed)
Spring 2026 cohort
- Welcome meeting: Thursday 12 March, 4.45pm-5.45pm- Second meeting: Thursday 23 April, 4.45pm-5.45pm- Assessment meeting: Thursday 2 July, 4.45pm-5.45pm
What is the History Teacher Development Programme?
The History Teacher Development Programme is an immersive online programme aimed at history teachers who...
History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP)
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On-demand webinar series: Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
On-demand webinar series for secondary history teachers and leaders
What does this series cover?
This series of webinars will consider how disciplinary thinking has perhaps become something of an afterthought in curriculum planning, for a range of valid reasons, and start to explore ways to build it back in. It will encourage colleagues to hold up a mirror to...
On-demand webinar series: Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
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Film: Blood and Iron
Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
Katya Hoyer recently gave a lecture for the HA Virtual Branch on Weltkrieg: the German home front during the First World War and the devastating effects of total war on a divided and insecure society. This talk provides an insight into the First World War that is often overlooked, reminding us that...
Film: Blood and Iron
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On-demand webinar: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories as a mentor
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Session 4: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories
The fourth webinar considers how to support beginning and early career history teachers to tackle more sensitive, emotive and controversial histories in the classroom, and harness the potential of their mentee...
On-demand webinar: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories as a mentor
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Round Table Discussion: Does Content Matter?
Annual Conference 2010
This round table discussion took place on Saturday 15th May 2010. The panel includes: Dr Katharine Burn (Editor of Teaching History), Dr Michael Riley (Director of the Schools History Project.); Colin Jones (President of the Royal Historical Society and Professor of History at Queen Mary, London); David Evans (Former Head of Eton).
Round Table Discussion: Does Content Matter?
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Film: What's the wisdom on... Causation
Your Virtual History Department Meeting
We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances, so we wanted to lend a helping hand.
'What’s the wisdom on…' is a brand-new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect...
Film: What's the wisdom on... Causation
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On-demand webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level
HA webinar series for subject leaders and teachers of history at KS5
What does this series cover?
This webinar series will help you to support your A-level students to gain detailed knowledge of particular periods and to engage in rigorous historical thinking. The topics covered will include building students’ knowledge, developing students’ disciplinary understanding in order to help them construct arguments in...
On-demand webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level
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Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework
HA webinar series for secondary history teachers, history subject leaders and senior leaders overseeing curriculum
What does this series cover?
This three-part series explores how the new Ofsted framework shapes expectations for history teaching, curriculum design, and evidence of impact. It continues to re-emphasise inclusive approaches, ensuring they are genuinely meaningful for all pupils rather than performative compliance.
Drawing on Ofsted’s Research Review (2021) and...
Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework
