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  • The International Journal Volume 11, Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial Articles Eleni Apostolidou Teaching and Discussing Historical Significance with 15 year-old students in Greece Manuela Carvalho and Isabel Barca Students' Use of Historical Evidence in European Countries P. Checkley and C. Checkley ‘Future Teachers of the Past' - An initial analysis of Initial Teacher Training students and their preparation...
    The International Journal Volume 11, Number 1

  • Knowing what counts in history: historical understanding and the non-specialist teacher

      Article
    If science graduates think that history teaching is not about questioning, that there is only ‘one answer' in history or that historical facts are unproblematic, does it matter? Should we care? Doug Newton and Lynn Newton argue that it matters very much for the teaching of history. Their article focusses...
    Knowing what counts in history: historical understanding and the non-specialist teacher

  • Triumphs Show 164: interpretations at A Level

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    Julia Huber and Katherine Turner found that their A-level students struggled to identify the line of argument in a passage of historical scholarship, an essential prerequisite for answering their coursework question. They devised an activity that helped students to unpick and visually contrast historians’ interpretations of the relative importance of...
    Triumphs Show 164: interpretations at A Level

  • Pupil Perceptions and History

      E-CPD Resource
    A PowerPoint presentation by Alison Kitson dealing with Pupil Perceptions and History.
    Pupil Perceptions and History

  • Move Me On 194: dealing with students’ current concerns when teaching the history of climate change

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
    Move Me On 194: dealing with students’ current concerns when teaching the history of climate change

  • Does the grammatical ‘release the conceptual’?

      Teaching History article
    Jim Carroll noticed basic literacy errors in his Year 13s’ writing, but on closer examination decided that these were not best addressed purely as literacy issues. Through an intervention based on clauses, Carroll managed to enable his students to write better, but he did this by teasing out principles of...
    Does the grammatical ‘release the conceptual’?

  • 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

  • Secondary Committee biographies

      Information
    Find out more about the HA's committees here  Helen Snelson (committee chair) Helen Snelson is the current chair of the Secondary Committee. She is the course leader of the History PGCE at the University of York. Helen taught history in 11-18 schools for over 20 years. In addition to supporting...
    Secondary Committee biographies

  • Raising the bar: developing meaningful historical consciousness at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. How can we help pupils make sense of the history that they learn so that the whole adds up to more than the sum of its parts? How can we help pupils develop and sophisticate...
    Raising the bar: developing meaningful historical consciousness at Key Stage 3

  • Using an anthology of substantial sources at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Struck by his GCSE students’ bewildered expressions when studying source extracts, Liam McDonnell decided to adopt a new approach to source analysis. Inspired by the work of other history teachers, McDonnell decided to use an anthology of substantial sources when studying nineteenth-century Whitechapel in London. By revisiting the sources at...
    Using an anthology of substantial sources at GCSE

  • Counterfactual Reasoning: Comparing British and French History

      Teaching History article
    Year 8 use counterfactual reasoning to explore place and social upheaval in eighteenth-century France and Britain Two linked motivations inspired Ellen Buxton's research study: she wanted pupils to make connections between British and French history and she wanted to explore the potential of counter-factual reasoning within a causation enquiry. It...
    Counterfactual Reasoning: Comparing British and French History

  • Helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house

      Teaching History article
    A host of histories: helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house Described by the author Monica Ali as a building that ‘sparks the imagination and sparks conversations', 19 Princelet Street, now a Museum of Diversity and Immigration, captivated the imagination of teacher David Waters. He...
    Helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house

  • SHP and 'What is history?'

      Article
    In the 1970s a new approach to history teaching was developed through the auspices of the Schools Council History Project (SCHP) later named the Schools History Project (SHP). In order to engage pupils (and reverse the perceived danger of a declining uptake of history amongst pupils) the project authors designed...
    SHP and 'What is history?'

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity

      Your Virtual History Department Meeting
    We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances,  so we wanted to lend a helping hand. 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity

  • Evidence: Theoretical

      Links to HA resources for secondary teachers
    Getting Year 10 beyond trivial judgements of ‘bias': towards victory in that battle ... Let's play Supermarket ‘Evidential' Sweep: developing students' awareness of the need to select evidence Assessment of students' uses of evidence: shifting the focus from processes to historical reasoning How can students' use of historical evidence be...
    Evidence: Theoretical

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Enquiry questions (Part 1)

      Your Virtual History Department Meeting
    We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances, so we wanted to lend a helping hand. 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Enquiry questions (Part 1)

  • Time's arrows? Using a dartboard scaffold to understand historical action

      Teaching History article
    Arthur Chapman presents a task-specific scaffold - a ‘dart' board - designed to teach students how to interrogate sources of information so that these become sources of evidence for particular claims about past actions, beliefs and aims. Chapman also uses his ‘dart' board to foster students' reflection on the degrees of...
    Time's arrows? Using a dartboard scaffold to understand historical action

  • The International Journal Volume 10 Number 1

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 10, Number 1 - Summer 2011. Editorial    Jean Pierre Charland, Marc-Andre Ethier,Jean Francois Cardin  History Written on Walls: a study of Quebec High School Students' historical consciousness   Michelle J. Bellino and Robert L. Selman High School Students' Understanding of Personal Betrayal...
    The International Journal Volume 10 Number 1

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 164: Constructing narrative

      Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
    Narrative is shedding its status as the ‘underrated skill’, re-emerging as a requirement of the new GCSE in England. As Counsell has argued, constructing a narrative is ‘no easy option’, however, and asking students to ‘Write an account…’ lacks the comfortable familiarity of ‘Explain why…’ or ‘How far…’. Fortunately, many...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 164: Constructing narrative

  • On-demand webinar: New approaches to teaching Britain and transatlantic slavery

      Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
    Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum Session 5: New approaches to teaching Britain and transatlantic slavery This 90-minute webinar will delve into the social, economic, and moral implications of this topic. It features an interview with historian Maxine Berg related to her research in this area, before suggesting tools for...
    On-demand webinar: New approaches to teaching Britain and transatlantic slavery

  • Putting black into the Union Jack: weaving Black history into the Year 7 to 9 curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Making a passionate case for teaching Black British history in the secondary school curriculum, Hannah shares here the personal journey she has travelled in planning for Black British history in her curriculum. She cites her inspirations and offers striking examples to illustrate her rationale and approach to teaching this history....
    Putting black into the Union Jack: weaving Black history into the Year 7 to 9 curriculum

  • Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar

      Article
    Connecting Classrooms: bringing together Bradford and Peshawar, primary and secondary schools, history and English In this article, Dianne Excell shares her experience of a crossphase, collaborative project funded by the British Council that brought together teachers and pupils from three schools in Bradford and five schools in Peshawar, Pakistan. Although...
    Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar

  • Making reading routine

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by the growing number of history teachers who have sought to introduce younger pupils to academic historical scholarship in the classroom, Tim Jenner wanted to bring about his own reading revolution at Key Stage 3. But rather than simply develop one-off lessons or enquiries based on scholarship his goal...
    Making reading routine

  • Young Historian Awards 2021 – Winners

      Annual competition, HA and The Spirit of Normandy Trust
    Each year the Historical Association partners with The Spirit of Normandy Trust to award young historians who have shown excellent knowledge and demonstrated historical argument around a subject associated with a series of themes. The competition is divided into age brackets and the entry at secondary level is by essay...
    Young Historian Awards 2021 – Winners

  • What’s the wisdom on… enquiry questions

      Teaching History feature
    One way of explaining what is meant by an enquiry question is to start with what it is not. 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...
    What’s the wisdom on… enquiry questions