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  • What is good history? The criteria for effective primary school history

      Article
    This section attempts to identify the principles for good history in primary schools both in terms of knowledge, skills, and understanding and how the teaching might be organised.
    What is good history? The criteria for effective primary school history

  • Creating a curriculum to help children in the early years understand the world in which the live: history and children in the early years

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In a recent article in Primary History Denis Hayes suggests that despite many lively ways of learning about the past, ‘history concepts will always be beyond both the experiential and conceptual reach of the youngest pupils’. Consequently...
    Creating a curriculum to help children in the early years understand the world in which the live: history and children in the early years

  • 'I could change the world if I put my mind to it!' Teaching Controversial Issues and Citizenship Through a Project on heroes and heroines

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Rye Oak School is in its second year of ‘Fresh Start’ status and there are many issues in the school, including poorly motivated children and behavioural problems. Many of the children in the school were...
    'I could change the world if I put my mind to it!' Teaching Controversial Issues and Citizenship Through a Project on heroes and heroines

  • What made Cleopatra so special?

      Article
    Ancient Egyptian civilisation is rich and mysterious with distinctive visual imagery and strange animal-headed gods. The exotic differences of the society have always intrigued the western imagination and so they continue to ensure that this is a popular unit with both teachers and children. There are plentiful resources with new...
    What made Cleopatra so special?

  • How to teach chronology

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. For more recent resources see: Chronology: Developing a coherent knowledge (2014) Scheme of work (KS2): Chronology: Books through time Scheme of work (KS2): Chronology: Numbers through time  Britain and World timeline 4000-2000BC Britain and World timeline 2000BC to 0BC Britain and World timeline, 0BC...
    How to teach chronology

  • A visit to the Red Lodge, Bristol: using ICT to record and communicate children's learning in history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. There is a huge potential for using ICT to enhance children’s historical learning. This article suggests ways in which ICT was employed to record children’s impressions of their visit to an historical building.
    A visit to the Red Lodge, Bristol: using ICT to record and communicate children's learning in history

  • Chronology - an Olympic timeline

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Pat Hoodless illuminates how chronology can provide a spine, a backbone and an ‘essential framework' to support and shape pupil learning of NC History. The Olympic movement provides the perfect opportunity to consider the broad sweep...
    Chronology - an Olympic timeline

  • Teacher trainees writing history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. Introduction I would like to share some Cumbria University Year 4 primary history specialist student's written work with you. These students who are in their final year have just completed their last assignment...
    Teacher trainees writing history

  • Children's thinking in archaeology

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Young children enjoy prehistory Tactile, Physical and Enactive engagement with archaeological remains stimulates, excites and promotes children's logical, imaginative, creative and deductive thinking. Through archaeology there are infinite opportunities for ‘reasonable guesses' about sources and...
    Children's thinking in archaeology

  • Case Study: Engaging history with National Trust tracker packs

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. White Horse Hill in Oxfordshire is home to the famous chalk White Horse, and it has been for the last 3000 years. The history surrounding this hill, high up on the Berkshire Downs, goes back...
    Case Study: Engaging history with National Trust tracker packs

  • Written sources and local history at Key Stage 1

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Working on written sources is fundamental to historical learning. A document, inscription or sign brings children directly into contact with the past in much the same way as an artefact. It is real and conveys...
    Written sources and local history at Key Stage 1

  • KS2 Egyptian Story & Lesson Resource

      Book & Lesson Resource Review
    Ma'at's Feather: A story set in Ancient Egypt by Juliet Desailly, The Book Guild,  p/b £6.99 Pub 2008, ISBN: 978 1 84624 273 1 and accompanying lesson resource Ma'at's Feather: Cross-Curricular Lesson Ideas by Juliet Desailly Pub 2008, ISBN: 978 0 955668 0 4 Reviewed by Alf Wilkinson Ma'at's Feather...
    KS2 Egyptian Story & Lesson Resource

  • Our commitment to diversity

      History of all for all
    In summer 2020 the Historical Association in partnership with the The Royal Historical Society, The Institute of Historical Research, Runnymede Trust and Schools History Project established a steering group to review content and approaches in GCSE and A-Level History examination specifications and in the history curriculum generally. This was in response to...
    Our commitment to diversity

  • 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

  • Local History through Drama (Bursary Project)

      The Women Chain Makers Strike Of 1910
    A Campaign Project For Primary Schools Focusing On The Women Chain Makers Strike Of 1910.  The Historical Association was left a legacy by Joan Lewin which became the Joan Lewin Education Bursary Fund. Each year, applicants apply for grants for education projects surrounding aspects of teaching and learning, resources, or...
    Local History through Drama (Bursary Project)

  • Young Historian Awards 2025 – take part (Primary prizes)

      History competition for primary schools
    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 series of awards to Primary school children for outstanding history scholarship. Children are asked to investigate, think...
    Young Historian Awards 2025 – take part (Primary prizes)

  • Primary History 94

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    05 Editorial (Read article - open access) 06 Is primary history thriving? What the recent survey of primary history seems to be telling us – Tim Lomas (Read article) 10 Using picture books to explore ideas around history with very young children – Karin Doull (Read article) 14 Significant people: why it’s...
    Primary History 94

  • 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

  • Outline plan using key questions: Vikings example

      A Series of Lessons (KS2)
    Overall key question: Who were the Vikings? Lesson 1 Key question: What can a case study tell us about the Vikings? Content Building on prior knowledge - what the children knew and what they wanted to know.Digging up a burial mound on the Isle of Man, and discovering many aspects...
    Outline plan using key questions: Vikings example

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 92

      The Gunpowder Plot; Epitaph
    The Gunpowder Plot Epitaph
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 92

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 78

      Investigating the Shang Dynasty and History in the primary curriculum
    1. Investigating the Shang Dynasty; 2. History in the primary curriculum - what does it offer?
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 78

  • 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

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 96

      Earthrise; Finding some of the great trees of the United Kingdom
    Poster 1: ‘Earthrise’, taken on 24 December 1968, by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders  Poster 2: Finding some of the great trees of the United Kingdom
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 96

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 94

      One aspect of teaching Benin that can never be ignored – the incredible bronzes
    Posters 1 and 2: The incredible Benin bronzes
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 94

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 90

      Timeline of Queen Elizabeth II; Queen and Commonwealth
    Timeline of Queen Elizabeth II Queen and Commonwealth
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 90