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  • Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'

      Historian article
    Medieval ‘Signs and Marvels': insights into medieval ideas about nature and the cosmic order. Many aspects of life in the Middle Ages puzzle the modern reader but some are stranger than others. What can possibly explain an event reported from Orford Castle, in Suffolk? This is an amazing tale and...
    Medieval 'Signs and Marvels'
  • 1066 and all what?

      Article
    Over dinner on 14 October a friend challenged me: ‘You’re a history teacher. How come everyone knows about the Battle of Hastings? There must have been loads of battles. Why that one?’ The year 1066 had an iconic role in English historical thought long before Sellar and Yeatman immortalised it...
    1066 and all what?
  • Harold Son of Godwin

      Classic Pamphlet
    To lecture on Harold Godwinson, earl of Wessex, King Harold II of England, in the year 1966 at Hastings is a presumption. We appear to know much about him, and yet in fact there are many gaps in knowledge. Much information, so plausible at first sight, proves unreliable on closer...
    Harold Son of Godwin
  • Magna Carta and the Origins of Parliament

      Historian article
    In February this year the four surviving originals of Magna Carta were briefly brought together in the Houses of Parliament. John Maddicott, examining the Charter's role in the early development of Parliament, shows that the setting was well chosen. What did Magna Carta contribute to the origins of parliament? If...
    Magna Carta and the Origins of Parliament
  • Henry V in the cinema

      Historian article
    Public attitudes to Henry V are very much influenced by WilliamShakespeare's interpretation. Richard Inverne discusses howShakespeare's version has been translated into cinematic form byLaurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh. Shakespeare indulges himself considerably with his own relatively recent history - Richards II and III, Henrys IV, V and VI, for example....
    Henry V in the cinema
  • Exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative

      Teaching History article
    ‘English king Frederick I won at Arsuf, then took Acre, then they all went home': exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative Paula Worth draws on three professional traditions in history education in order to build a lesson sequence on the Crusades for her Year 7s. First,...
    Exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative
  • Podcast Series: William I to Henry VII

      Multipage Article
    An HA Podcasted History featuring Professor David Bates and Professor Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia, Dr Philip Morgan of Keele University, Professor Mark Ormrod of the University of York, Dr James Davis of Queens University Belfast, Professor Michael Hicks of the University of Winchester, Dr Sean Cunningham of...
    Podcast Series: William I to Henry VII
  • The Origins of Parliament

      Classic Pamphlet
    He who would seek the origins of parliament cannot proceed without knowing that this is, and this has been, a matter much controverted. English politics have very often been conducted in terms of what has passed for history, not least because they have so frequently revolved around the rights and...
    The Origins of Parliament
  • Period, place and mental space

      Teaching History article
    Period, place and mental space: using historical scholarship to develop Year 7 pupils' sense of period What is a sense of period? And how can pupils' sense of period be developed? Questions such as these have troubled history teachers for many years, often revolving around debates over the role played by...
    Period, place and mental space
  • The Great Revolt of 1381

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Great Revolt of 1381 began in South-West Essex sometime between late May and 2 June: contemporary narratives and record sources differ irreconcilably about the dates. It all started with the arrival of a royal tax commissioner, John Bampton, at Brentwood inBarnstable Hundred. He came to inquire into the evasion...
    The Great Revolt of 1381
  • Podcast lecture: Mad or Bad? Was Henry VI a tyrant?

      Presidential Lecture 2011
    Professor Anne Curry delivered her final Presidential lecture at the Historical Association Annual Conference 2011 in Manchester. Henry VI (1422-61) was England's youngest king, only nine months old when he succeeded his famous father. Traditionally he is seen as incompetent, pious and, latterly, insane, and thereby causing the Wars of...
    Podcast lecture: Mad or Bad? Was Henry VI a tyrant?
  • Recorded webinar: The People of 1381

      Article
    This lecture with Adrian Bell, Helen Lacey and Helen Killick introduces key findings of the AHRC-funded project The People of 1381. Which people and social groups were involved in England’s biggest pre-civil war revolt? How much can we find out about their lives: where did they come from, what actions...
    Recorded webinar: The People of 1381
  • Broadening and deepening narratives of Benin for Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Josh Garry describes his effort to refresh his approach to teaching the British transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on reading, lectures and discussions during an Historical Association Teacher Fellowship programme, Garry built a sequence of lessons designed to contextualise the trade while showing African agency and complexity. The result was a sequence...
    Broadening and deepening narratives of Benin for Year 8
  • Widening the early modern world to create a more connected KS3 curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Readers of this journal will be familiar with a number of ways of approaching the Tudors. Kerry Apps provides here an article detailing her concerns about the differences between what she had been delivering at Key Stage 3 and the broader, connected experience she had as an undergraduate historian. How...
    Widening the early modern world to create a more connected KS3 curriculum
  • Planning a more diverse and coherent Year 7 curriculum

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Jacob Olivey describes his department’s efforts to both diversify their Key Stage 3 curriculum and secure greater curricular coherence. Building on a large body of research and practice, Olivey sought new forms of curricular coherence through the selection and sequencing of substantive content across the curriculum. He...
    Planning a more diverse and coherent Year 7 curriculum
  • Cunning Plan 181: Incorporating a more global perspective within Key Stage 3

      Teaching History feature
    While lockdown, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, brought a period of turbulence to the education sector, it also brought a wealth of generosity, with a vast range of free online CPD offered by different providers. One in particular was the webinar series ‘West African History before the 1600s’ hosted...
    Cunning Plan 181: Incorporating a more global perspective within Key Stage 3
  • Teaching Medieval History Resources

      Article
    We hope you enjoyed reading Teaching Medieval History. To help you explore the topic further we’ve put together some ‘top pick’ resources below which have been made open access for a limited time. You can open up resources like these and so much more for your school by signing up...
    Teaching Medieval History Resources
  • Medieval Britain 1066-1509

      HA Resources
    The development of Church, state and society in Medieval Britain 1066-1509While the 2014 Curriculum sets out the broad focus of each particular content area, considerable choice has been left to history departments in determining which particular events or developments to include and how they can best 'combine overview and depth...
    Medieval Britain 1066-1509
  • 1450: The Rebellion of Jack Cade

      Classic Pamphlet
    ‘When Kings and chief officers suffer their under rulers to misuse their subjects and will not hear nor remedy their people's wrongs when they complain, then suffereth God the rebel to rage and to execute that part of His justice which the partial prince will not.' Thus did the Tudor...
    1450: The Rebellion of Jack Cade
  • The Lords of Renaissance Italy

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Lords of Renaissance Italy: the signori, 1250-1500 Among the many city states into which Italy was divided in the late medieval and early modern period, the republics of Florence and Venice are comparatively well known. Republicanism was not, however, the most common form of government. This pamphlet deals with states...
    The Lords of Renaissance Italy
  • Polychronicon 148: The Wars of the Roses

      Teaching History feature
    There are few periods in our history from which we turn with such weariness and disgust as from the Wars of the Roses. Their savage battles, their ruthless executions, their shameless treasons seem all the more terrible from the pure selfishness of the ends for which men fought, the utter...
    Polychronicon 148: The Wars of the Roses
  • Maximising the power of storytelling in the history classroom

      Teaching History article
    James Hopkins’s Year 10 class had been excited by their course on medicine through time, but were less enthused about their new study of Norman England. They told him that the topic felt ‘distant’ and ‘not real’. Recalling his own experience as a student, Hopkins was interested in the ways...
    Maximising the power of storytelling in the history classroom
  • The Great Charter

      Classic Pamphlet
    The following introduction to and translation of Magna Carta was made for the use of my pupils and is here published in response to a suggestion that it may be of use to others. The Charter bristles with technical legal terms and its Latin is often ambiguous since the language...
    The Great Charter
  • The First Crusade

      Pamphlet
    Nine centuries after enthusiasm for pope Urban's expedition to Jerusalem swept western Europe the phenomenon of the first crusade continues to fascinate. This pamphlet examines the nature of the crusades and the motives of those who joined it, describes the hardships of the long journey to the Holy Land and...
    The First Crusade
  • The Monarchies of Ferdinand and Isabella

      Classic Pamphlet
    On 12 December 1474, the news reached the Castillian city of Segovia, north-west of Madrid, that Henry IV, king of Castile, had died. After the proper ceremonies had been conducted in memory of the deceased monarch, his sister, Isabella, was proclaimed queen of Castile in that place. There was much...
    The Monarchies of Ferdinand and Isabella