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History Teacher Development Programme
Spring 2025 cohort
The History Teacher Development Programme is an online course aimed at history teachers who want to re-focus their attention on teaching ambitious and rigorous history.
Are you a relatively new teacher coming to the end of your ECT years?
Are you a more experienced teacher who wants to re-engage with...
History Teacher Development Programme
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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
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Time and Place; Using a Local Historical Site with Key Stage 2 and 3
Time and Place
English Heritage and the Historical Association have teamed up to provide this great new CPD guide to getting the most out of local historical sites with your classes. This easy to follow unit provides the basis for an entire unit of local study using the built heritage around you. Examples...
Time and Place; Using a Local Historical Site with Key Stage 2 and 3
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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
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Recorded Webinar: Our Human Planet
Article
Recorded Webinar: Our Human Planet
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The later Middle Ages: Teacher Fellowship programme outcomes
Multipage Article
These resources were developed as part of the Historical Association’s inaugural Teacher Fellowship Programme funded by Agincourt 600. The programme was led by Ian Dawson and focused on developing teachers’ knowledge of late medieval history and translating this to the classroom.
Featuring academic input from Professor Anne Curry, Professor Michael...
The later Middle Ages: Teacher Fellowship programme outcomes
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Teacher Fellowship Programme: Local history
Teacher Fellowship Programme 2021–22
At the heart of this Teacher Fellowship programme in partnership with the British Association for Local History was the concept of integrating local history into the classroom through the stories of the people and places which make the history of your school's community exciting and unique. Through the lens of local history...
Teacher Fellowship Programme: Local history
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Teacher Fellowship Programme: The Cold War in the Classroom
Teacher Fellowship Programme 2017
Course lead: Ben Walsh Academic lead: Dr Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck)
The 2017 Teacher Fellowship Programme focused on the history and historiography of the Cold War. The course was taught by historians at Birkbeck College London in collaboration with the Historical Association. The programme was fully funded.
The course provided opportunities to make sense...
Teacher Fellowship Programme: The Cold War in the Classroom
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Teacher Fellowship Programme: Conflict, Art and Remembrance
Teacher Fellowship Programme 2019
Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red was a commemorative art installation of 888,246 handmade ceramic poppies at the Tower of London in 2014, by artists Paul Cummins and Tom Piper. It has been described as “the most popular art installation as well as arguably the most effective expression of commemoration...
Teacher Fellowship Programme: Conflict, Art and Remembrance
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On-demand webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom
HA webinar series for secondary history teachers
At the HA, we understand the importance of creating the next generation of history students who can not only write about history, but who can also effectively communicate their thinking through oracy. Current academic research highlights the importance of oracy for learning and the close relationship between being able to...
On-demand webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom
