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  • Teacher Fellowship programme: Henry on Tour: Teaching the royal progresses of Henry VIII

      Teacher Fellowship programme 2025
    With an emphasis on sustained professional development, the HA Teacher Fellowship programme aims to bring teachers up to date with the latest historical research and how to apply this in their teaching. We are delighted to be running this funded Teacher Fellowship programme in partnership with the AHRC-funded Henry on...
    Teacher Fellowship programme: Henry on Tour: Teaching the royal progresses of Henry VIII

  • On-demand webinar: Assessing the historical parts

      Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
    Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom Session 2: Assessing the historical parts This session will explore how history teachers can isolate and assess individual components, or parts, of pupils’ historical knowledge, but without reducing this to an assessment of isolated facts. The session will include examples...
    On-demand webinar: Assessing the historical parts

  • On-demand webinar: Assessing the historical whole

      Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
    Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom Session 4: Assessing the historical whole  This session will set out a range of tasks and questions, beyond answering an enquiry question, that require pupils to draw on the knowledge they have built cumulatively throughout the curriculum. The session will...
    On-demand webinar: Assessing the historical whole

  • Film: Bricks and the making of the city - London in the 19th century

      Virtual Branch
    In this HA Virtual Branch talk Peter Hounsell drew on his recently published book Bricks of Victorian London, exploring the crucial role brick production played in the creation of Britain's capital and why the important place of bricks in the fabric of the city isn't always obvious. Peter Hounsell has published...
    Film: Bricks and the making of the city - London in the 19th century

  • Teacher Fellowship programme: Teaching the economic history of colonialism in Africa and Asia

      Teacher Fellowship programme 2024
    This Teacher Fellowship programme, in partnership with the Department of Economic History at LSE, explored the economic history of colonialism and empire in South and South-East Asia, Africa and the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The programme was supported by the LSE Knowledge Exchange and Impact fund....
    Teacher Fellowship programme: Teaching the economic history of colonialism in Africa and Asia

  • Film: Why does the massacre of the Armenians in the First World War still get overlooked?

      Virtual Branch
    Why is the term 'Armenian Genocide' controversial, with many countries still not acknowledging a genocide at all? What do we know about the event of 1915 and the plight of the Armenian community in Turkey? How can we grapple with a history that many people want to forget? In this...
    Film: Why does the massacre of the Armenians in the First World War still get overlooked?

  • Film: Making the most of your secondary membership as a trainee

      A guide to key benefits for trainee secondary history teachers
    Are you a trainee teacher, new to or interested in HA secondary membership and want some guidance on where to start? In this webinar we guide you through some key benefits included as part of your membership - from essential online resources and journal support for beginning teachers to available CPD and accreditation routes...
    Film: Making the most of your secondary membership as a trainee

  • Using oral history in the classroom

      Multipage Article
    The Oral History Society has kindly agreed to produce two new films aimed at history teachers who are new to carrying out or using oral histories either in their teaching or with students. These two films will equip teachers with the essential tools and knowledge for using and devising effective...
    Using oral history in the classroom

  • Recorded webinar series: The Olympic Games

      Culture and political impact across the twentieth century
    2024 was an Olympic Games year. Held every four years (with the exception of during the World Wars and Covid-19 restrictions), the modern Olympics is the largest international sporting event in the world. However, historically it has not always been just the sports that are played and the athletes’ performances...
    Recorded webinar series: The Olympic Games

  • Interpreting Agincourt: KS3 Scheme of Work

      Scheme of Work
    2015 was a year of anniversaries. As part of our funded commemoration projects surrounding the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, we commissioned this scheme of work looking at interpretations of the battle and period, particularly aimed at pupils in Key Stage 3. It comes with a complete resource...
    Interpreting Agincourt: KS3 Scheme of Work

  • Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare

      Presidential Lecture - Annual Conference 2014
    In Twelfth Night Shakespeare gently mocked the Puritans, who objected to stage plays and other entertainments. Yet within four decades, the Puritans had closed the London theatres and were about to seize power from Charles I. Among their many reforms were the banning of Christmas celebrations and of Twelfth Night itself....
    Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare

  • The Norman Conquest: why did it matter?

      Annual Conference 2013 Podcast
    Keynote Speech from the Historical Association 2013 Annual Conference - Podcast Dr Marc Morris - Historian, author and television presenter 1066 is the most famous date in English history. Everyone remembers the story, depicted on the Bayeux Tapestry, of William the Conqueror's successful invasion, and poor King Harold being felled...
    The Norman Conquest: why did it matter?

  • Recorded webinar: History teachers as teachers of reading

      Developing confident readers and writers in the history classroom and beyond
    Students and teachers can perceive literacy, particularly the challenges of extended reading and writing, to be a barrier to enjoyment of and success in history. Repeated lockdowns over the past two years have, despite teachers’ most creative and dedicated responses to remote learning, made it even harder to help children...
    Recorded webinar: History teachers as teachers of reading

  • Film: Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe

      Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
    Ravenna was the capital of the Western Roman Empire from 402 CE until 751 CE, then later, the capital of the immense kingdom of Theoderic the Goth and finally the centre of Byzantine power in Italy. In this talk Professor Judith Herrin explores the history of the city, its peoples...
    Film: Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe

  • Recorded webinar: Using 'One Day' to explore the actions that helped to lead to the Holocaust and actions of genocide

      HA Webinar
    This year's Holocaust Memorial Day the theme is 'One Day'. In this webinar with historian Paula Kitching, we will use the one day Wannsee Conference of January 1942 to help explore the actions of the perpetrators, the Holocaust victims and how decision making by people can lead to genocide. This...
    Recorded webinar: Using 'One Day' to explore the actions that helped to lead to the Holocaust and actions of genocide

  • The Reformation: the view from the north

      Annual Conference 2013 Podcast
    Lecture from the Historical Association 2013 Annual Conference - Podcast Professor Bill Sheils - University of York The Reformation comprised a range of regional and local experiences, each with its own character and chronology. This talk will examine the broad characteristics of religious change in the north of England between...
    The Reformation: the view from the north

  • On-demand webinar: Mastering the memory challenge at GCSE

      Webinar series: Making history accessible
    Webinar series: Making history accessible Session 2: Mastering the memory challenge: running successful interventions with students who are struggling to remember at GCSE This webinar will explore a range of proven strategies for helping students remember more at GCSE. This includes:    How to avoid cognitive overload by maintaining an explicit...
    On-demand webinar: Mastering the memory challenge at GCSE

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Vagabonds versus the Mendicity Society

      Article
    Red Lion Square was long one of London's most genteel addresses, home to nobles, scholars, and professionals. But on 25 March 1818, one house on the south side opened its doors to quite another class of person, as the Mendicity Society began its business. Set up to solve the growing...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Vagabonds versus the Mendicity Society

  • Virtual Branch recording: The Women's World Committee against War & Fascism

      Connected and Competing Activisms
    How did a group of women activists with varied ideological backgrounds construct several important campaigns against fascism in the interwar period? How did this Women's World Committee against War and Fascism (Comité Mondial des Femmes contre la Guerre et le Fascisme) undertake effective humanitarian and propaganda work and forge extensive...
    Virtual Branch recording: The Women's World Committee against War & Fascism

  • New Perspectives on the First Crusade: on-demand short course

      Online self-guided short course for lifelong learners
    As Christianity had spread across Europe, Islam had spread across the Middle East. At the end of the eleventh century the relationship between the Muslim leader of Jerusalem and the Christian communities and travellers to the city fractured. Along with other key relationships across Europe, the Middle East and around...
    New Perspectives on the First Crusade: on-demand short course

  • Recorded webinar: Introduction to decolonising the secondary history curriculum

      Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
      This recorded webinar will explore what we mean by decolonising the curriculum and outline principles of approach and explore key concepts involved. Making school history relevant as well as rigorous is our priority and school leaders will want their history department to be at the cutting edge of work that...
    Recorded webinar: Introduction to decolonising the secondary history curriculum

  • Recorded Webinar: India and the Second World War

      Article
    Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War.  Their experiences are little remembered today, neither in the West where a Euro/US-centric memory of the war dominates, nor in South Asia, which privileges nationalist histories of independence from the British Empire. What was it like...
    Recorded Webinar: India and the Second World War

  • Berlin and the Berlin Wall: on-demand short course

      Online self-guided short course for lifelong learners
    The Berlin Wall became a symbol of a time in history, and a physical defining point in an otherwise covert series of battles. To study and explore the Berlin Wall is to explore how the Cold War manifested itself in Central Europe and the impact it had on one nation...
    Berlin and the Berlin Wall: on-demand short course

  • Film: Meet the author: Marc Morris on The Anglo-Saxons

      Article
    In this Virtual Branch talk best-selling author and renowned historian Marc Morris joined us to discuss the process of researching for, structuring and writing his new book The Anglo-Saxons: a history of the beginnings of England.  Drawing on a vast range of original evidence - chronicles, letters, archaeology and artefacts - Morris's...
    Film: Meet the author: Marc Morris on The Anglo-Saxons

  • Recorded webinar: Introduction to Sporting Heritage in the Curriculum

      Webinar
    Excited about the opportunity to creatively incorporate sporting history as new part of your curriculum offer or a thematic enrichment extension to it? Interested in hearing more about how this approach could inspire your students’ potential approach to EPQ? Like to influence and shape how this might be achieved? This...
    Recorded webinar: Introduction to Sporting Heritage in the Curriculum