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  • Recorded webinar: History for All - Approaches from the Special Sector

      History for all series
    Whilst many teachers in mainstream schools now have useful links with primary coordinators and have a working knowledge of how the curriculum is approached and implemented in Key Stages 1&2, few colleagues have contact with special schools and the expertise which our colleagues in special education can share with us...
    Recorded webinar: History for All - Approaches from the Special Sector

  • Recorded webinar series: The history that Shakespeare gave us

      Multipage Article
    To mark the anniversary of the publication of Shakespeare’s first folio in 1623–24, our 2024 winter webinar series focused on ‘The history that Shakespeare gave us’. The representation of the past in Shakespeare’s plays has shaped many people’s understanding of history. In this webinar series, leading academics explore the history that is...
    Recorded webinar series: The history that Shakespeare gave us

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity

      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 new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity

  • Film: Preparing a history department for the new inspection framework

      London History Forum Workshop
    This film was taken at the HA London History Forum at the Institute of Education, UCL (University of London) in November 2019 and features Kath Goudie (Cottenham Village College). Drawing on her experience as a history teacher, teacher trainer and assistant headteacher Kath Goudie shares reflections on how the history...
    Film: Preparing a history department for the new inspection framework

  • Film: Widening horizons within, and beyond, the taught curriculum

      London History Forum Keynote 2019
    The film below was taken at the London History Forum: Widening Perspectives which took place on Thursday 25 April 2019 at the UCL Institute of Education and features Will Bailey-Watson (subject lead for PGCE History at the University of Reading).The renewed emphasis on curriculum in many schools is giving history teachers a...
    Film: Widening horizons within, and beyond, the taught curriculum

  • Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Korean War and its legacy

      Teacher Fellowship Programme 2019
    Why Korea? Why Now? 70 years after the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, its impact still reverberates in the Korean peninsula and around the world. Tensions in the region continue to feature prominently in the news: with the Armistice ending the Korean War still in place but peace...
    Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Korean War and its legacy

  • History in Schools: What is the Future?

      History Debate Podcast
    The Future of history in our schools Whether you have children or not, whether you're a teacher or not, if you have a love of History this debate matters to you.
    History in Schools: What is the Future?

  • Recorded webinar: Britain's eighteenth-century tradition of popular riot and protest

      Article
    Eighteenth-century Britons were ruled by a restricted oligarchy of landowners and plutocrats. Yet the wider population had a proud tradition of assertiveness and readiness to protest. ‘Britons never will be slaves!’ as the chorus of 'Rule Britannia' (1740) announced pointedly (if somewhat ironically, in view of Britain’s role in the...
    Recorded webinar: Britain's eighteenth-century tradition of popular riot and protest

  • What sort of history should school history be? Debate Podcast

      Debate Podcast
    On July 18 2011 the Historical Association hosted a public debate chaired by Professor Simon Schama at the Institute of Education, Bedford Way, London. With the history curriculum being the focus of intense interest the following series of podcasts from the debate examine what that curriculum might look like. Joining Simon Schama was five...
    What sort of history should school history be? Debate Podcast

  • 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

  • Podcast: Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr?

      Podcast
    2012 Annual Conference Presidential Lecture Charles I: The People's Martyr? Jackie Eales, HA President and Professor of Early Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University Charles I was renowned for his distrust of ‘popularity'. Yet during the 1640s he was forced to appeal to his people for support and in...
    Podcast: Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr?

  • On-demand webinar: Helping the past take shape with historical enquiry

      Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
    Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history Session 5: Helping the past take shape with historical enquiry This session focuses into enquiry and on second order concepts. It offers practical advice to how second order concepts can be introduced in a way that is historically rigorous. We will explicitly address...
    On-demand webinar: Helping the past take shape with historical enquiry

  • 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 

  • Film: Rome in the world/the world in Rome with Dr Lucy Donkin

      Article
    In-person tickets to HA Annual Conference 2023 are now limited but you can still book for an incredible virtual programme. To give you a taster of the fantastic sessions on offer, we've published one of the sessions from last year's HA Conference on Rome in the world/the world in Rome with...
    Film: Rome in the world/the world in Rome with Dr Lucy Donkin

  • Addressing Health: Sickness and social reform in the Victorian and Edwardian period

      Mini Teacher Fellowship with the Addressing Health project
    This special funded CPD programme ran in partnership with the Wellcome Trust Collaborative Research project, Addressing Health: Morbidity and Mortality in the Victorian and Edwardian Post Office. The project explores the relationships between work and health in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the lens of thousands of Post Office employees....
    Addressing Health: Sickness and social reform in the Victorian and Edwardian period

  • Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967

      Virtual Branch
    In the centenary year of the BBC, this Virtual Branch talk from Marcus Collins relates the strange tale of how the BBC did and did not broadcast about homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s and what it tells us about sexuality, broadcasting and the origins of permissiveness in mid-twentieth century Britain.  Marcus Collins...
    Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967

  • Building St James's spire: Louth's guilds and popular piety in the later middle ages

      Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
    Medieval historian Dr Claire Kennan continued our Virtual Branch series with a local history talk on the building of St James's spire, Louth.  In her talk Kennan traces the important role that Louth's major guilds of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Holy Trinity played in the building of the St James’s spire. Throughout the...
    Building St James's spire: Louth's guilds and popular piety in the later middle ages

  • Film: 'Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World'

      Article
    Historian and author Martyn Whittock recently gave a lecture for the HA Virtual Branch on 'Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World'. In 1620, 102 ill-prepared asylum seekers landed two months later than planned, in the wrong place on the eastern coast of North America. By the next summer, half of...
    Film: 'Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World'

  • Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers

      Teaching History article
    Kate Hawkey and Helen Snelson, who have both worked for many years in initial teacher education, wanted to find ways of supporting recently qualified teachers in continuing to develop their practice. Working in two different parts of the country, they established different kinds of informal, but well-focused history-specific, support groups....
    Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers

  • Webinar series: Making substantive and disciplinary knowledge work together in the secondary history curriculum

      HA on-demand webinar series for secondary history teachers
    The last few years have, rightly, seen a lot of discussion about 'what' we include in the history curriculum. This has meant that many schools now teach a wider-ranging and more inclusive form of history. As this work has an impact, it is important to continue to think about how...
    Webinar series: Making substantive and disciplinary knowledge work together in the secondary history curriculum

  • A Guide to the Key Stage 3 programme (pre-2014)

      Key Stage 3 Guide
    Please note: this unit was produced for a previous national curriculum (pre-2014). However, much of the advice remains useful and it provides a context to topics that continue to be very important for history teachers. Subject leaders, ITE providers and others may find it useful to consider how currently relevant topics were...
    A Guide to the Key Stage 3 programme (pre-2014)

  • 'I've started... So I'll finish' Top tips on teaching history from the Historical Association's Bristol Centenary Conference

      Article
    Isn’t it fantastic that on a cold and brisk Saturday in early March a doggedly determined crew of mad historians can find solace within the fantastic portals of the Empire & Commonwealth Museum in Bristol? All were there to learn something new, to share good practice and to meet like-minded...
    'I've started... So I'll finish' Top tips on teaching history from the Historical Association's Bristol Centenary Conference

  • Agincourt 600

      2016 Teacher Fellowship Programme
    Course lead: Ian DawsonAcademic support: Prof Anne Curry, Prof Michael Hicks, Dr Dan Spencer The inaugural Teacher Fellowship Programme was launched through funding provided by Agincourt 600 with the aim of providing rigorous, subject knowledge-focused professional development for teachers. It was led by Ian Dawson with a focus on the fifteenth...
    Agincourt 600

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Shylock's Venice

      The remarkable history of Venice’s Jews and the Ghetto
    This is the story of the Venice Ghetto, the corner of the city where Jews were exiled; free to walk the streets by day, locked behind gates and walls at night. Yet, gates and walls notwithstanding, from its establishment in 1516 until the fall of Venice in 1798, the ghetto...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Shylock's Venice

  • Recorded webinar: Mapping uncertainty - Holocaust Memorial Day 2025

      Retracing the trajectories of young survivors in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust
    Recorded webinar: Mapping uncertainty - Holocaust Memorial Day 2025