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  • Short course: Britain and the Second World War – a global conflict

      HA short course, February–May 2025
    Book Now (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window. Please read the course terms and conditions before registering) What does the course cover? 2025 is the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War – a conflict that defined the twentieth century and still has...
    Short course: Britain and the Second World War – a global conflict

  • Recorded webinar: Prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome

      Article
    In this webinar, Jane Draycott shares her research on prostheses and assistive technology in ancient Greece, Rome and the neighbouring civilisations. She outlines the findings from her 2023 book on this subject, which arose from a grant to visit museums around the UK to access surviving ancient prostheses and modern...
    Recorded webinar: Prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome

  • Recorded webinar: Henry VIII on Tour

      Finding a new perspective on the Tudors
    During his lifetime, Henry VIII journeyed throughout his kingdom in what are known as royal 'progresses'. In this webinar, Anthony Musson will share research from the AHRC-funded 'Henry on Tour' project which seeks to reassess these progresses by exploring archival sources, archaeology, music and material culture. In addition to contributing...
    Recorded webinar: Henry VIII on Tour

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The House of Dudley

      Article
    The Dudleys thrived at the court of Henry VII, but were sacrificed to the popularity of Henry VIII. Rising to prominence in the reign of Edward VI, the Dudleys lost it all by advancing Jane Grey to the throne over Mary I. That was until the reign of Elizabeth I,...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The House of Dudley

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Henry III and Simon de Montfort

      Article
    David Carpenter brings to life the dramatic events in the last phase of Henry III’s momentous reign, provides a fresh account of the king’s strenuous efforts to recover power and sheds new light on the rebel figure Simon de Montfort. Professor David Carpenter is a Professor of Medieval History at King's College...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Henry III and Simon de Montfort

  • Subject Leader Development Programme (SLDP)

      News Item
    Teach Secondary Awards 2024: Highly Commended We're delighted that the HA's Subject Leader Development Programme won Highly Commended in the 2024 Teach Secondary awards. Here's what the judges said: "A really useful, evidence-based and academically rigorous exploration of subject leadership, with a nice balance of theory and practical guidance. The online content...
    Subject Leader Development Programme (SLDP)

  • From Cyrus to Cleopatra: The ancient history adventure

      HA webinar series in partnership with The Classical Association
    Have you thought about offering Ancient History at Key Stage 3, GCSE or A-level? This webinar series, offered in collaboration with the Classical Association, explores how ancient history can be embedded across the key stages at secondary level. Across this series, we will show you how teaching ancient history is...
    From Cyrus to Cleopatra: The ancient history adventure

  • 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

  • Recorded webinar: Witchcraft imagery and gender

      Article
    One consistent aspect of the figure of the witch throughout history is that she has usually been imagined as female rather than male. Early depictions of the witch following the first major witchcraft trials and the publication of the Malleus Maleficarum (1486) quickly established her sex as essential to modern witchcraft iconography....
    Recorded webinar: Witchcraft imagery and gender

  • Film: A conversation on Goethe with A.N. Wilson

      Article
    In Goethe: His Faustian life, award-winning biographer, critic and writer A. N. Wilson tells the spellbinding story of the life of Goethe. From his youth as a wild literary prodigy, to his later years as Germany’s most heroic intellectual figure, Wilson hones in on Goethe’s undying obsession with the work he would spend his...
    Film: A conversation on Goethe with A.N. Wilson

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The cultural world of Elizabethan England

      Article
    In this Virtual Branch talk Professor Emma Smith provides a preview of her current research, which explores the lives and cultural undercurrents of Elizabethan England. What was influencing their cultural tastes and how much of it was new, or had it all been seen before? Emma Smith is Professor of Shakespeare...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The cultural world of Elizabethan England

  • Recorded webinar: Medieval manuscripts and modern lasers

      Article
    Modern, non-invasive scientific techniques have revolutionised knowledge of medieval inks and pigments - from the most exotic, such as lapis lazuli and Egyptian blue, to the most ordinary, indigo and ochres - and of how they were used to create magnificent illuminated manuscripts. This webinar will outline the techniques in question,...
    Recorded webinar: Medieval manuscripts and modern lasers

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Vagabonds versus the Mendicity Society

      Article
    Red Lion Square was long one of London's most genteel addresses, home to nobles, scholars, and professionals. But on 25 March 1818, one house on the south side opened its doors to quite another class of person, as the Mendicity Society began its business. Set up to solve the growing...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Vagabonds versus the Mendicity Society

  • Teaching History 196: Out now

      Article
    Read Teaching History 196: Demanding history  History can be a very demanding subject, in a number of senses. The past can make demands on us – it can demand attention and demand to be addressed. There can, as it were, be historical as well as financial ‘final demands’, reminders of...
    Teaching History 196: Out now

  • Triumphs Show: Year 9 explore what permacrisis might have felt like in 1938

      Teaching History feature
    In April 2023, I attended an event at the University of Sheffield with my colleague, Katy Dixon, and a handful of our Year 10 historians. The event showcased the work of Professor Julie V. Gottlieb and playwright Nicola Baldwin who had written a play about the writer and critic of...
    Triumphs Show: Year 9 explore what permacrisis might have felt like in 1938

  • Lenses, mirrors and bridges: one department’s holistic approach to diversifying and decolonising local history

      Teaching History article
    As was the case for many heads of history, Jack Brown was prompted by the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 to reflect afresh on the content and questions asked within his school’s history curriculum, paying particular attention to local history. In this article he sets out the principles and...
    Lenses, mirrors and bridges: one department’s holistic approach to diversifying and decolonising local history

  • 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?

  • 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?

  • On-demand webinar: How can we support strong oracy in history classrooms?

      Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom: Session 2
    Webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom Session 2: How can we support strong oracy in history classrooms?Focus: Key Stages 3 and 4 | Presenter: Toby Dove This session will explore different strategies for promoting and embedding good oracy within a history classroom. The session will consider the...
    On-demand webinar: How can we support strong oracy in history classrooms?

  • The Olympics - politics, impact and legacy - its not just about the sport

      Article
    2024 is an Olympic Games year. Held every four years (with the exception of during the World Wars and Covid-19 restrictions), the modern Olympics is the largest international sporting event in the world. However, historically it has not always been just the sports that are played and the athletes’ performances...
    The Olympics - politics, impact and legacy - its not just about the sport

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The Women of the Anarchy

      Article
    In 1135 Stephen of Blois usurped the throne, stealing it from his cousin Empress Matilda and sparking a nineteen-year civil war that would become known as the Anarchy, one of the bloodiest periods in English history. On the one side is Empress Matilda. On the other side is her cousin,...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The Women of the Anarchy

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... immigration in French history

      Historian feature
    3 July 2024 marks the 50th anniversary of a significant, yet little known, event in French history: the declaration of an end to the recruitment of economic migrants. Over the previous decades, some three million migrant workers had arrived to surprisingly little fanfare, building the economic growth later mythologized by...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... immigration in French history

  • 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

  • Recorded webinar: What does great oracy look like in history?

      Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom: Session 1
    Webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom What does great oracy look like in history?  This webinar explores the features of good student oracy in a non-disciplinary sense, but also within the setting of a history classroom. It explores how to identify these features in the day to day of teaching...
    Recorded webinar: What does great oracy look like in history?

  • Disability history resources

      Article
    Disabled people are part of the fabric of every society past and present, yet the stories, achievements and struggles of disabled people have often been hidden or marginalised by societies who refuse to adapt. Coping with disability, societal attitudes towards disability and the stories, voices and contributions of disabled people...
    Disability history resources