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  • Anything but brief: Year 8 students encounter the longue durée

      Article
    Inspired by The History Manifesto, Suzanne Powell describes in this article her rationale for expanding her students’ horizons by asking them to think about change, similarity and difference on a grand scale. She sets ‘big history’ into its curricular context, and shows the way in which her students could, and...
    Anything but brief: Year 8 students encounter the longue durée

  • Year 7 use oral traditions to make claims about the rise and fall of the Inka empire

      Teaching History article
    As part of her department’s effort to diversify the history curriculum, Paula Worth began a quest to research and then shape a lesson sequence around the Inkas. Her article shows how she allowed the new topic and its historiography to challenge and extend her own use of sources, particularly oral tradition....
    Year 7 use oral traditions to make claims about the rise and fall of the Inka empire

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 163: Historical significance

      Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
    Historical significance first appeared in England’s National Curriculum for history in 1995. It entered the assessment framework (Level Descriptions) in 2008. In 2014, it became part of the History NC ‘Aims’. One thing never changes, however: it is hard. But history teachers have written a great deal about historical significance...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 163: Historical significance

  • Are historical thinking skills important to history teachers?

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research IJHLTR, Volume 14, Number 2 – Spring/Summer 2017 ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract This article presents some findings of a qualitative interview study with 42 Austrian history teachers, conducted in the framework of an on-going three-year research project (2015–2018) funded by the Austrian Science Fund. The study...
    Are historical thinking skills important to history teachers?

  • Recorded webinar: Making history accessible: context and considerations

      Webinar series: Making history accessible
    Session 1: Making history accessible This webinar provides an overview of recent key developments in SEND, including statutory guidance and regulations from Ofsted’s latest Education Inspection Framework and the SEND improvement plan. Drawing on SEND toolkits, we reflect on how to embed inclusive practice. This is explored in the context...
    Recorded webinar: Making history accessible: context and considerations

  • The Past, the Present and the Future of the Economic Crisis, through Greek Students’ Accounts of their History

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 15, Number 1 – Autumn/Winter 2017ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract This is an analysis of 97 written questionnaires given to university students’, prospective teachers’. Students were asked first to narrate the Greek state’s history, second to make predictions about the future. It took...
    The Past, the Present and the Future of the Economic Crisis, through Greek Students’ Accounts of their History

  • Virtual Branch recording: The Women's World Committee against War & Fascism

      Connected and Competing Activisms
    How did a group of women activists with varied ideological backgrounds construct several important campaigns against fascism in the interwar period? How did this Women's World Committee against War and Fascism (Comité Mondial des Femmes contre la Guerre et le Fascisme) undertake effective humanitarian and propaganda work and forge extensive...
    Virtual Branch recording: The Women's World Committee against War & Fascism

  • Film: Creating a more positive interpretation of the Middle Ages at Key Stage 3

      Secondary History Workshop Annual Conference 2019
    Popular perceptions of life, politics and morality in the Middle Ages are overwhelmingly negative, a far cry from images being developed by historians through their research. This workshop explores how to tweak and change familiar topics (including the reign of Richard III) to create a more historically accurate, positive and...
    Film: Creating a more positive interpretation of the Middle Ages at Key Stage 3

  • On-demand webinar: How might we go about assessing oracy in history classrooms?

      Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom: Session 3
    Webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom Session 3: How might we go about assessing oracy in history classrooms?Focus: Key Stages 3 and 4 | Presenter: Toby Dove This session will put forward and then critique a framework for assessing oracy within a history classroom context. It will...
    On-demand webinar: How might we go about assessing oracy in history classrooms?

  • Building and assessing a frame of reference in the Netherlands

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Concerns about our ability to equip young people with a frame of reference that they can actually use to orient themselves in time are widespread. The challenges were extensively debated within the last issue of...
    Building and assessing a frame of reference in the Netherlands

  • HA response to the DFE consultation on CPD

      CPD Consultation
    In September, the government launched a call for evidence concerning teachers professional development. The Historical Association has responded to the call for evidence on behalf of our members. You can read our response below.
    HA response to the DFE consultation on CPD

  • 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

  • The National Curriculum Attainment Target (from 2008)

      HITT Resource
    Level 4 Pupils show their knowledge and understanding of local, national and international history by describing some of the main events, people and periods they have studied, and by identifying where these fit within a chronological framework. They describe characteristic features of past societies and periods to identify change and...
    The National Curriculum Attainment Target (from 2008)

  • ‘Miss, what’s the point of sources?’ Helping Year 11 to understand the discipline

      Teaching History article
    Clare Bartington noticed that her students’ focus on the specific kinds of question used in examinations appeared to have undermined their understanding of how historians actually use sources. Instead of approaching the traces or ‘leftovers’ of the past as potential sources of evidence in relation to a particular question, her students believed...
    ‘Miss, what’s the point of sources?’ Helping Year 11 to understand the discipline

  • Why this? Why now? Reviewing your history curriculum

      North West History Forum keynote
    Richard Kennett gave the keynote at the first HA North West History Forum at the end of January. He has turned his talk into this article so more of us can benefit from his thinking about curriculum. This piece is unashamedly about curriculum. Put simply, curriculum is what stuff we choose...
    Why this? Why now? Reviewing your history curriculum

  • Frameworks for linking pupils' evidential understanding with growing skill in structured, written argument: the 'evidence sandwich'

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. History teachers are increasingly good at designing exercises which develop skill in evidence analysis. The ubiquitous ‘source' is invariably analysed for utility and reliability. But how do pupils integrate such understandings with extended written work?...
    Frameworks for linking pupils' evidential understanding with growing skill in structured, written argument: the 'evidence sandwich'

  • Creating a progression model for teaching historical perspectives in Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Jacob Olivey set out to design enquiries which would enable his pupils to reconstruct, using evidence, the perspectives of people in the past. In this article he shares in detail the planning and outcomes of two enquiries: one for Year 7 and one for Year 8. Olivey offers a example...
    Creating a progression model for teaching historical perspectives in Key Stage 3

  • Recorded Webinar: Robespierre and Danton: Heroes of the French Revolution?

      Article
    One of the oldest myths of the French Revolution is the lethal rivalry between Robespierre and Danton: Robespierre the cold, bloodthirsty dictator who ruled France through Terror, versus Danton, the warm, humane, inspirational orator who wanted to stop Terror. Throughout the 19th century Robespierre was mostly depicted as a villain,...
    Recorded Webinar: Robespierre and Danton: Heroes of the French Revolution?

  • What was Witchcraft in the Early Sixteenth Century?

      Article
    In this article, Dr Jonathan Durrant (Principal Lecturer in History, University of South Wales) argues that we know no more now than we did in the late 1980s about what witchcraft was as men and women of the early sixteenth century understood it. Dr Durrant looks at evidence from Henry VIII's Witchcraft Act of 1542 to explore British and European perceptions of witches...
    What was Witchcraft in the Early Sixteenth Century?

  • History in England’s primary schools: What do secondary history teachers need to know?

      HA Update
    What’s been happening in primary history lately? Invited to write an update on this, I decided to identify some themes that might be helpful to secondary teachers.  As a senior lecturer in primary education with responsibility for history and as a member of the HA Primary Committee, I was able...
    History in England’s primary schools: What do secondary history teachers need to know?

  • Film: Meet the author: Marc Morris on The Anglo-Saxons

      Article
    In this Virtual Branch talk best-selling author and renowned historian Marc Morris joined us to discuss the process of researching for, structuring and writing his new book The Anglo-Saxons: a history of the beginnings of England.  Drawing on a vast range of original evidence - chronicles, letters, archaeology and artefacts - Morris's...
    Film: Meet the author: Marc Morris on The Anglo-Saxons

  • 'Veni, Vidi, Vici!'

      Historian article
    A personal reflection on Julius Caesar and the conquest of Britain Julius Caesar always brings to mind the famous dictum of Winston Churchill, ‘History will be kind to me, for I shall write it!' In his writings Julius Caesar provides a vivid and detailed account of his invasions of Britain in...
    'Veni, Vidi, Vici!'

  • Can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention?

      Teaching History article
    Patterns of genocide: can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention? Alison Stephen, who has wrestled for many years with the challenges of teaching emotional and controversial history within a multiethnic school setting, relished the opportunity to link her school's teaching of the Holocaust with a comparative study of other genocides....
    Can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention?

  • Using databases to explore the real depth in the data

      Teaching History article
    Is it a good thing to have a lot of evidence? Surely the historian would answer that yes, it is: the more evidence that can be used, the better. The problem with this approach, though, is that too much data can be overwhelming for the history student - and, in...
    Using databases to explore the real depth in the data

  • Global Learning & Critical Thinking

      Article
    Critical thinking GLP-E aims: Young people will also develop the skills to interpret that knowledge in order to make judgements about global poverty. In this way they will be able to: think critically about global issues. The GLP has a strong focus on developing young people's knowledge and understanding of...
    Global Learning & Critical Thinking