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  • The Battle of Monte Cassino and the D-Day Landings

      Article
    The Second World War is no longer a recent war. Very soon, there will be no veterans left to tell us how they saw things and what it was really like for them. While some eyewitnesses who were children at the time might be with us to see the centenary...
    The Battle of Monte Cassino and the D-Day Landings
  • Using the back cover image: Exploring the collections of Victorian naturalists

      Primary History feature
    Many museums around the country house natural history collections that offer children the opportunity to engage with a wide variety of species from around the world. Using the collections of Victorian explorers and naturalists offers children a historical perspective with a cross-curricular approach which has a great appeal. Yet for...
    Using the back cover image: Exploring the collections of Victorian naturalists
  • On-demand webinar: Immersive history, AI, and the making/unmaking of student understanding

      Webinar series: AI in primary history
    Webinar series: AI in primary history Session 5: Immersive history, AI, and the making/unmaking of student understandingPresenter: Ailsa Fidler and Simon Lea AI-driven immersive history is entering our classrooms in ways previously unimaginable. Through interactive simulations, image and video generation and storytelling, students will be able to explore historical events and...
    On-demand webinar: Immersive history, AI, and the making/unmaking of student understanding
  • On-demand webinar: AI Black Box: responsible use for primary teachers

      Webinar series: AI in primary history
    Webinar series: AI in primary history Session 4: AI Black Box: responsible use for primary teachersPresenter: Dr Vanessa Cui, Dr Louise Wheatcroft, Dr Jordan Bird Generative AI offers incredible potential for resource creation for teachers, but the current dominant generative AI tools' core function is to be an agreeable, helpful assistant....
    On-demand webinar: AI Black Box: responsible use for primary teachers
  • On-demand webinar: How might we effectively use AI in primary history?

      Webinar series: AI in primary history
    Webinar series: AI in primary history Session 3: How might we effectively use AI in primary history?Presenter: Stuart Tiffany In this session, Stuart will explore how AI can be beneficial in tackling some of the challenges that face primary history teachers in a time of continued curriculum emphasis. Alongside this, he will...
    On-demand webinar: How might we effectively use AI in primary history?
  • On-demand webinar: AI and Technology: enhancing primary history

      Webinar series: AI in primary history
    Webinar series: AI in primary history Session 2: AI and Technology: enhancing primary historyPresenter: Chris Goodall, Beth Humphrey, Ryan Reece Moor, Zehra Fagan Discover how Bourne Education Trust's comprehensive digital strategy is transforming history education through thoughtful AI integration. This webinar showcases Bourne’s Trust-wide approach to digital innovation, demonstrating how...
    On-demand webinar: AI and Technology: enhancing primary history
  • Delivering school-based CPD as a history subject leader

      HA Primary Subject Leader Area
    This guide provides primary history subject leaders with clear, practical support for planning and delivering effective school‑based CPD, offering strategies for securing time, engaging all staff, and building consistency across the curriculum. It includes ideas for training activities, guidance on strengthening progression and assessment, and advice for leading confident, purposeful...
    Delivering school-based CPD as a history subject leader
  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 102

      1926 timeline; Castles
    Poster 1: 1926 timeline of events Poster 2: Castles: from strongholds to ruins
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 102
  • Developing historical understanding across all areas of the EYFS framework

      Primary History article
    Children in nursery and reception classes do not, of course, learn history. They meet the subject for the first time when they start Year 1. However, what children learn – and how they learn – in EYFS is important for preparing them to learn history. This goes beyond building knowledge...
    Developing historical understanding across all areas of the EYFS framework
  • Using learning outside the classroom at historic sites to explore British history units

      Primary History article
    British history in the National Curriculum (2014) provides extensive opportunities for learning outside the classroom, from the earliest times to the present day. Visiting historic sites is one experience of learning outside the classroom that provides a meaningful and stimulating focus for understanding Britain’s past. This said, any site and...
    Using learning outside the classroom at historic sites to explore British history units
  • Britain on pause: remembering the 1926 General Strike

      Primary History article
    In this article, Kate Rigby looks back at the 1926 General Strike and considers how this could be used to explore significance, cause and consequence in Key Stage 2...
    Britain on pause: remembering the 1926 General Strike
  • The Roaring Twenties: teaching a decade of change across Key Stages 1 and 2

      Primary History article
    This article explores how one topic can be used in different ways to support historical understanding at Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2. The themes highlighted could link into possible golden threads to enable connections to be made across a school’s curriculum. The ‘Roaring Twenties’ also provide a real...
    The Roaring Twenties: teaching a decade of change across Key Stages 1 and 2
  • Identifying sources to plan a local study

      Primary History article
    Local history is fascinating, but finding interesting, authentic resources can be challenging. In this article, James P. Bowen gives practical advice about how to source a local history project, setting this in the context of Baldwin’s Gate in North Staffordshire – a valuable guide for anyone devising a local history...
    Identifying sources to plan a local study
  • Task design for historical thinking

      Primary History article
    In this article, Julia Huber examines how task design can support pupils’ historical thinking in the primary classroom. Drawing on her own practice, she shares examples that develop conceptual understanding in areas such as significance, similarity and difference, continuity and change, and interpretations...
    Task design for historical thinking
  • How to link food with British history and view change through living memory in Key Stage 1

      Primary History article
    From free school milk to free school meals, in this article Polly Gillow explores how you can use food as an engaging way to explore the past in Key Stage 1. She suggests different ways to incorporate food history into your curriculum and shows how food can be an excellent...
    How to link food with British history and view change through living memory in Key Stage 1
  • What is characteristic of the Indus Valley Civilisation?

      Primary History article
    In this article, Karin Doull examines some characteristic features of the Indus Valley Civilisation and considers what these might tell us about this fascinating, less well-known empire...
    What is characteristic of the Indus Valley Civilisation?
  • Primary History 102

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    05 Editorial (Read article) 06 Developing historical understanding across all areas of the EYFS framework – Helen Crawford (Read article) 10 Using learning outside the classroom at historic sites to explore British history units – Paul Bracey (Read article) 16 Britain on pause: remembering the 1926 General Strike – Kate Rigby (Read article)...
    Primary History 102
  • Recorded webinar: Sensory approaches to history with the National Archives

      In partnership with the National Archives Education & Outreach department
    This recorded webinar explores methods that the Education & Outreach department at The National Archives is using to teach and engage audiences by allowing them to explore original documents using touch, hearing, and smell. This includes projects for school-age blind and visually impaired students, Early Years audiences, intergenerational audiences with...
    Recorded webinar: Sensory approaches to history with the National Archives
  • On-demand webinar: AI in primary history: a practical introduction

      Webinar series: AI in primary history
    Webinar series: AI in primary history Session 1: AI in primary history: a practical introductionPresenter: Gelnn Carter AI is steadily becoming more and more prevalent in schools and this session will look at some practical ideas that can be utilised within your classrooms for primary history — no prior experience required!...
    On-demand webinar: AI in primary history: a practical introduction
  • Virtual Branch Recording: Assassins and Templars

      Article
    In this talk, Steve Tibble discusses the Assassins and Templars, two of history's most legendary groups. One was a Shi’ite religious sect, the other a Christian military order created to defend the Holy Land. Steve Tibble traces the history of these two groups from their origins to their ultimate destruction showing how they survived...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Assassins and Templars
  • Recorded webinar: The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians at the time of Fascism

      Article
    The Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini understood more than other leaders of his generation the power of images and used them to great effect in building his personality cult which was central to Italian Fascism. In this illustrated webinar, Professor Giuliana Pieri will explore the evolution of the iconography of...
    Recorded webinar: The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians at the time of Fascism
  • On-demand webinar: Curriculum coherence and transition to Key Stage 1

      Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS
    Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS Session 3: Curriculum coherence and transition to Key Stage 1 This webinar will support you to ensure well-planned transition to Key Stage 1, and will give advice on planning for mixed-age Reception/Year 1 classes. It will reflect on developing a coherent history curriculum across all...
    On-demand webinar: Curriculum coherence and transition to Key Stage 1
  • On-demand webinar: Effective pedagogy for EYFS

      Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS
    Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS Session 2: Effective pedagogy for EYFS This webinar will look at effective use of picture books to develop children’s historical vocabulary and their understanding of the past, and will explore thematic approaches for teaching ‘past and present'. Release date: 7 January 2026Expiry date: 6 January...
    On-demand webinar: Effective pedagogy for EYFS
  • On-demand webinar: Making sense of curriculum frameworks in EYFS

      Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS
    Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS Session 1: Making sense of curriculum frameworks in EYFS This webinar will explore ‘Understanding the World’ and its relationship to history education, understanding the child and their community, and making sense of chronology and progression in EYFS. Release date: 7 January 2026Expiry date: 6 January 2028 How...
    On-demand webinar: Making sense of curriculum frameworks in EYFS
  • Schools of Vice: how a medical scandal led to the dismantling of Britain’s last prison hulks

      Historian article
    Hulks – former naval ships used as prisons for those convicted of serious crime and sentenced to transportation – were intended to be a temporary solution to a penal crisis caused by the American Revolutionary Wars. These ‘schools of vice’, or ‘floating hells’ lasted 80 years, casting a shadow over...
    Schools of Vice: how a medical scandal led to the dismantling of Britain’s last prison hulks