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  • Young Quills winners 2024

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    The Young Quills winners and highly commended have been announced for his year. This competition for historical fiction for children is a way of celebrating and recognising those authors who are continuing the long tradition of creative writing about the past for children. All of the books are reviewed by...
    Young Quills winners 2024

  • Using historical discourse to find narrative coherence in the GCSE period study

      Teaching History article
    When planning a GCSE period study on the American West, Alex Ford wrestled with reconciling the content demands of the examination specifications with the need to provide his students with a memorable narrative. In this article, Ford shows how he drew on the latest academic scholarship to construct a rigorous,...
    Using historical discourse to find narrative coherence in the GCSE period study

  • How diverse is your history curriculum?

      Article
    The past was full of diverse people and our students are entitled to learn about this diverse past. History lessons should enable students to see their connection to the past and to understand the world today. Here are a list of questions for history teachers to use to support a...
    How diverse is your history curriculum?

  • What’s the wisdom on… Causation

      Teaching History feature
    What's the Wisdom On... is a short guide providing new history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of history teaching. It draws on tried and tested approaches arising from teachers with years of experimenting, researching, practising, writing and debating their...
    What’s the wisdom on… Causation

  • Polychronicon 175: Paris 1919 – a century on

      Teaching History feature
    The Paris peace conference resulted in five major treaties, each with one of the defeated Central Powers. Of these the most consequential was the Treaty of Versailles with Germany, signed on 28 June 1919, which was denounced by the young economist John Maynard Keynes in his bestselling polemic The Economic...
    Polychronicon 175: Paris 1919 – a century on

  • The Great Debate Final 2024

      25th March 2024
    Winner:  Emma Crow of Broxburn Academy, Broxburn, Scotland  Runners up:  Abigail Powers of The Ladies’ College, Guernsey  Erica Wright of William Farr School, Lincolnshire  Rachel McGarry of Shavington Academy, Crewe, Cheshire  Finalists Sofia Ntege, North Oxfordshire Academy, Banbury Harry Gray, Exeter School, Exeter Rhea Cherrington, Bablake School, Coventry Molly Grimshaw,...
    The Great Debate Final 2024

  • Kilpeck Church: a window on medieval 'mentalite'

      Historian article
    In the village of Kilpeck, about eight miles south-west of Hereford, may be found the small parish church of St Mary and St David, justifiably described by Pevsner as ‘one of the most perfect Norman village churches in England’ (Pevsner 1963, 201). Seemingly remote today, in the twelfth century the...
    Kilpeck Church: a window on medieval 'mentalite'

  • Using diagrammatic representations of counterfactuals to develop causal reasoning

      Teaching History article
    Tom Bennett begins his article with a tale of a frustrating afternoon with Year 7. We’ve all been there. In his case, his frustration was caused by his finding a conceptual gap between how well his class wanted to do and the actual quality of their causal thinking. Bennett decided...
    Using diagrammatic representations of counterfactuals to develop causal reasoning

  • Exploring the importance of local visits in developing wider narratives of change and continuity

      Rethinking religious rollercoasters
    The authors of this article take a well-known structural framework for students’ thinking about the Reformation and give it a twist. Their Tudor religious rollercoaster is informed by local visits in their setting in Guernsey – an area where the local picture was not quite the same as the national...
    Exploring the importance of local visits in developing wider narratives of change and continuity

  • Teaching History 174: Structure

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary news 04 HA update 08 Austin’s narrative: an exploratory case study, with Year 8, into what kinds of feedback help students produce better historical narratives of the interwar years – Alex Rodker (Read article) 16 Cunning Plan: Teaching Year 8 to create and...
    Teaching History 174: Structure

  • Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum

      Guidance for history teachers
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of history teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today  With Ofsted incorporating curriculum into inspections from September 2019 and finally...
    Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum

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

      History competition for students
    Researching, writing and presenting ideas about a historical theme or period is one of the best parts about studying history. We want young school and college aged students to get the bug for writing about history in an incisive, interesting and critical way. That is why each year the Historical...
    Young Historian Awards 2025 – take part (Secondary prizes)

  • Hidden in plain sight: the history of people with disabilities

      Teaching History journal article
    Recognising the duty placed on all teachers by the 2010 Equality Act to nurture the development of a society in which equality and human rights are deeply rooted, Helen Snelson and Ruth Lingard were prompted to ask whether their history curricula really reflected the diverse pasts of all people in...
    Hidden in plain sight: the history of people with disabilities

  • Write Your Own Historical Fiction Competition 2025

      The Historical Association Historical Fiction Prize
    Each year we are so impressed by the ever increasing number and standard of entries we receive around such a wide range of historical periods and settings. You can take a look at some of last year’s winning entries here. Unleash the creativity of your pupils through the Write Your Own...
    Write Your Own Historical Fiction Competition 2025

  • Secondary Committee biographies

      Information
    Find out more about the HA's committees here  Sally Burnham (committee chair) Sally is a history teacher in a school in Lincolnshire and also works one day a week at the University of Nottingham on the History PGCE. Sally has been a Head of Department and is now a Lead...
    Secondary Committee biographies

  • Webinar series: Making substantive and disciplinary knowledge work together in the secondary history curriculum

      HA on-demand webinar series for secondary history teachers
    The last few years have, rightly, seen a lot of discussion about 'what' we include in the history curriculum. This has meant that many schools now teach a wider-ranging and more inclusive form of history. As this work has an impact, it is important to continue to think about how...
    Webinar series: Making substantive and disciplinary knowledge work together in the secondary history curriculum

  • ‘Its ultimate pattern was greater than its parts’

      Teaching History journal article
    Identifying the challenges his students faced both with recall and analysis of the content they had learned for their GCSE course, Ed Durbin devised a solution which focused not on exam skills and revision lessons, but on using Key Stage 3 to build the ‘hinterland’ of contextual knowledge and causal...
    ‘Its ultimate pattern was greater than its parts’

  • Couching counterfactuals in knowledge when explaining the Salem witch trials with Year 13

      Teaching History journal article
    Puzzled by the shrugs and unimaginative responses of his students when asked certain counterfactual questions, James Edward Carroll set out to explore what types of counterfactual questions would elicit sophisticated causal explanations. During his pursuit of the ‘gold standard’ of counterfactual reasoning, Carroll drew upon theories of academic history in...
    Couching counterfactuals in knowledge when explaining the Salem witch trials with Year 13

  • Ralph Sadleir: Hackney's Local Hero or Villain: Examples of learning opportunities in museums and historic sites at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    The benefits of learning in historical sites and museums are well documented. De Silva, Smith and Tranter wrote in Teaching History 102, Inspiration and Motivation Edition, about exploring identity through the biography of a house, suggesting the possibility of teaching from the local to capture the national picture. However, students...
    Ralph Sadleir: Hackney's Local Hero or Villain: Examples of learning opportunities in museums and historic sites at Key Stage 3

  • History-specific support – for every career stage

      Information
      Register for the HA's SLT newsletter for more Our biannual SLT newsletter will give you up-to-date information and support on managing history including updates on current issues, priorities and policy issues. Register here Subject-specific support is an essential investment in your teaching staff, equipping them with the knowledge and...
    History-specific support – for every career stage

  • Popular revolt and the rise of early modern states

      Historian article
    In the 1960s and 1970s, historians and sociologists who were not specialists in the Middle Ages constructed models of pre-industrial crowds and revolt to understand the distinctiveness of modern, post-French Revolutionary, Europe. Foremost among these scholars were George Rudé, a historian of eighteenth century England and France, and Charles Tilly,...
    Popular revolt and the rise of early modern states

  • Announcing the winners of the Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2022

      The HA's writing competition for children aged 10-19 years
    The HA's writing competition for children aged 10-19 years After another year of high-quality fiction writing from our young people, we are pleased to announce that the winners in all of the categories are: School Years 5-6: Eloise Burt – The HMS Titanic. Old Priory Junior Academy, Plymouth Hannah Tan...
    Announcing the winners of the Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2022

  • Corporate secondary membership: a view from SLT

      By Simon Harrison, Headteacher
    From history teacher to Headteacher, in over 25 years of teaching I have filled most school roles; history teacher, in the ‘middle’ as a subject leader, an Advanced Skills Teacher, senior leader and eventually Headteacher. I have learned a lot about leadership in Secondary Schools along the way, and becoming...
    Corporate secondary membership: a view from SLT

  • Looking through the keyhole at Birkenhead from 1900 to 1950 with Year 7

      Journal article
    Matt Jones wanted to harness the power of local history to help his students understand the profound social changes experienced across Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. While he hoped that the personal stories of six families in Birkenhead would help to humanise abstract concepts such as...
    Looking through the keyhole at Birkenhead from 1900 to 1950 with Year 7

  • Defying the ‘constrictive grip of typologies’

      Journal article
    History teachers have frequently made recourse to character cards as a device to help young people, each assigned specific roles, to understand how different kinds of people responded in different ways to particular situations in the past. Edward FitzGerald builds on this tradition, demonstrating the value of using rich historical...
    Defying the ‘constrictive grip of typologies’