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  • The 2024 Primary History survey: what are the implications for what it revealed?

      Primary History article
    This article is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today The 2024 Primary Survey follows a series of earlier biennial surveys...
    The 2024 Primary History survey: what are the implications for what it revealed?
  • Primary History summer resource 2024: the Ancient Greeks

      Primary member resource
    Our free summer resource for 2024 is intended to enhance your subject knowledge about Ancient Greece. The first article looks at an individual Greek, Pytheas. Often Greece is taught largely as an insular place of city states, but the reality is that Greece was heavily involved in trade and they...
    Primary History summer resource 2024: the Ancient Greeks
  • Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch

      Article
    The Medlicott Medal is awarded annually for outstanding services and contributions to history. This year the Medal went to renowned historian and author Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch who is currently Professor of the Church at Oxford. His 2008 book History of Christianity: the first three thousand years is the leading authority on the history...
    Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch
  • Primary History summer resource 2023: Early civilisations

      Primary member resource
    Our free summer resource for 2023 is intended to enhance your subject knowledge about ancient civilisations. We have selected two articles from the HA journal The Historian that provide you with an insight into current historical knowledge.  The first article includes Sumer, Indus, Shang and Egypt, early civilisations that are identified in...
    Primary History summer resource 2023: Early civilisations
  • Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2022 - David Olusoga

      Article
    This talk was presented at the Historical Association Awards evening, 7 July 2022. The talk is by Professor David Olusoga on the evening that he received the HA Medlicott Medal for Outstanding contributions to History. It is not to be used for any purpose or publicly reported on without the...
    Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2022 - David Olusoga
  • Scheme of work: The Platinum Jubilee

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 1 History (unresourced)
    In this unit, children will learn about the significance of the 2022 Platinum Jubilee. They will look at the life of Queen Elizabeth II, from her role as Princess Elizabeth to her coronation and through to 2022, as a great-grandmother and the longest-reigning British monarch. The unit will help children...
    Scheme of work: The Platinum Jubilee
  • Census 2021: using the census in the history classroom

      Article
    As we approach the next census in March 2021, we are reminded of what a rich historical source the census is. For historians, using the census can shine a light on particular people and places – a snapshot in time. Big stories can be told through a sharp local lens...
    Census 2021: using the census in the history classroom
  • HA News, Autumn 2024

      Welcome to the autumn 2024 edition of HA News magazine
    Welcome to the autumn edition of HA News. We have updates on the office team's move back into 59a, and HA President Alexandra Walsham's busy six months travelling the country supporting the HA and its activities, as well as membership, education and competition updates. Dr Dean A. Irwin shares ‘What got me into...
    HA News, Autumn 2024
  • Young Historian Awards 2026 – take part (Primary prizes)

      History competition for primary schools
    The 2026 competition is now open. Entries close on 17 July 2026 (3 July for overseas entries). We want young people to get the bug for writing about history in an interesting and critical way. Each year the Historical Association in collaboration with the Spirit of Normandy Trust and Classics for All offers a...
    Young Historian Awards 2026 – take part (Primary prizes)
  • Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2024 - Professor Catherine Hall

      Article
    The Medlicott Medal is awarded annually for outstanding services and contributions to history. This year the Medal went to Professor Catherine Hall, who is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London. Professor Hall has a long-established academic record in feminist history and empire and post-colonial history. She was a...
    Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2024 - Professor Catherine Hall
  • Young Quills reviews 2024

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    The Young Quills books for each year must be published for the first time in English in the year preceding the competition – so 2023 for this year’s selection. Divided by age suitability the books are given to schools on the condition that the children and young people there write...
    Young Quills reviews 2024
  • Primary History summer resource 2022: Museum visits

      Primary member resource
    This year's free summer resource for primary members looks at making the most of museum visits. Museums and sites provide rich sensory environments that engage children's curiosity and allow them to explore through all their senses. Museums and sites transmit the past through a variety of perspectives, provide authenticity and present historical evidence. The experiential nature of museum visits encourages genuine...
    Primary History summer resource 2022: Museum visits
  • Young Quills reviews 2023

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    The Young Quills books for each year must be published for the first time in English in the year preceding the competition – so 2022 for this year’s selection. Divided by age suitability the books are given to schools on the condition that the children and young people there write...
    Young Quills reviews 2023
  • Primary History summer resource 2021: Using historical sources

      Primary member resource
    This year's free summer resource for primary members looks at using historical sources with primary pupils. Introducing children to sources is an important part of understanding the disciplinary nature of history. One of the key ideas we need to get pupils to understand is that history is based on sources, which...
    Primary History summer resource 2021: Using historical sources
  • Recorded webinar: Ordinary people - Holocaust Memorial Day 2023

      Recorded webinar
    Recorded webinar: Ordinary people - Holocaust Memorial Day 2023
  • Primary History summer resource 2020: Historical Fiction

      Article
    This year's free summer resource for primary members explores historical fiction and how we can use it in our teaching and learning. Historical fiction can be a potent tool for creating a ‘sense of period’, immersing us in the past through the power of narrative. When studying a particular historical period,...
    Primary History summer resource 2020: Historical Fiction
  • Ofsted research report into history 2021

      14th July 2021
    Ofsted writes: The study of history can bring pupils into a rich dialogue with the past and with the traditions of historical enquiry. In this report, Ofsted have: outlined the national context in relation to history considered curriculum progression in history, pedagogy, assessment and the impact of school leaders’ decisions on provision...
    Ofsted research report into history 2021
  • The Historical Association's response to Curriculum Review 2024

      20th November 2024
    New government, new curriculum review. It always happens when there is a big change in who is in charge. But just because it always happens doesn’t mean we can ignore it. Ten years ago, substantial changes were made to education, and they have affected a whole generation of children and teachers....
    The Historical Association's response to Curriculum Review 2024
  • The Coronation of King Charles III

      Resources for Key Stages 1 and 2
    2023 will see the first coronation of a British monarch for 70 years. Only those now in their 70s or above will remember the last one. The UK is the only country in Europe still to carry out a coronation, a ceremony that has its roots in traditions over a...
    The Coronation of King Charles III
  • Recorded webinar: Making the most out of Holocaust Memorial Day: challenges and opportunities

      Article
    Since 2001 the UK has marked Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January, the date of the 'liberation' of Auschwitz Birkenau by Soviet soldiers in 1945. History teachers and their colleagues are often asked to 'mark' HMD in their schools. In this webinar we will explore themes of commemoration and education...
    Recorded webinar: Making the most out of Holocaust Memorial Day: challenges and opportunities
  • Online course: Ofsted subject reports: supporting quality history and geography

      Primary CPD in partnership with the Geographical Association
    The Ofsted history and geography subject reports of 2023 highlighted several areas of strength and improvement in primary schools. However, it emphasised that pupils’ experience of both subjects and disciplines could differ significantly between schools. We are pleased to offer another opportunity to attend this supportive, practical one-day course from the...
    Online course: Ofsted subject reports: supporting quality history and geography
  • Recorded webinar: Teaching history during a climate emergency: how can we respond?

      HA Virtual Forum, November 2021
    We are at a vital moment in our attempt to tackle the climate crisis. Global warming is an inter-disciplinary challenge for the world and an inter-disciplinary challenge in education, too. In this talk, Alison Kitson argues that history provides a vital perspective that enables young people to understand our interaction...
    Recorded webinar: Teaching history during a climate emergency: how can we respond?
  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 86

      Re-imagining statues: how should we do this? and Historical fiction prizes: Summer 2020
    Re-imagining statues: how should we do this? Historical fiction prizes: Summer 202
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 86
  • Recorded webinar: Prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome

      Article
    In this webinar, Jane Draycott shares her research on prostheses and assistive technology in ancient Greece, Rome and the neighbouring civilisations. She outlines the findings from her 2023 book on this subject, which arose from a grant to visit museums around the UK to access surviving ancient prostheses and modern...
    Recorded webinar: Prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome
  • Recorded webinar: Henry VIII on Tour

      Finding a new perspective on the Tudors
    During his lifetime, Henry VIII journeyed throughout his kingdom in what are known as royal 'progresses'. In this webinar, Anthony Musson will share research from the AHRC-funded 'Henry on Tour' project which seeks to reassess these progresses by exploring archival sources, archaeology, music and material culture. In addition to contributing...
    Recorded webinar: Henry VIII on Tour