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  • Manifesto for learning outside the classroom

      Article
    the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto – launched a few months ago - is intended to be a ‘movement’, the purpose of which is to canvas support for education beyond the school walls. It grew out of the education and skills select Committee’s report of 2005 which acknowledged the challenges...
    Manifesto for learning outside the classroom

  • Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967

      Virtual Branch
    In the centenary year of the BBC, this Virtual Branch talk from Marcus Collins relates the strange tale of how the BBC did and did not broadcast about homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s and what it tells us about sexuality, broadcasting and the origins of permissiveness in mid-twentieth century Britain.  Marcus Collins...
    Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967

  • The Evolution of the British Electoral System 1832-1987

      Classic Pamphlet
    During the last 20 years our perspective on the great Victorian question of parliamentary reform has noticeably changed. We have acquired a comprehensive picture of the organisation and political socialisation of those who won the vote; and some interesting debates have developed about the social characteristics of the electors and...
    The Evolution of the British Electoral System 1832-1987

  • 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    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.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

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... expanding the reach of the American Revolution

      Teaching History feature
    The Founding Fathers of the United States of America are never far from current political and cultural discussions. Whether prompted by the phenomenal success of Hamilton: the musical (2015), or the shocking scenes of riotous attack on the US Capitol in January 2021, the revolutionary intentions and legacy of such...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... expanding the reach of the American Revolution

  • Film: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War

      The Searchers
    Historian Robert Sackville-West joined the HA Virtual Branch in November 2021 to talk about the topic of his book The Searchers: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War. By the end of the First World War, the whereabouts of more than half a million British soldiers were unknown. Most were presumed...
    Film: The Quest for the Lost of the First World War

  • Film: Making the most of your secondary membership as a trainee

      A guide to key benefits for trainee secondary history teachers
    Are you a trainee teacher, new to or interested in HA secondary membership and want some guidance on where to start? In this webinar we guide you through some key benefits included as part of your membership - from essential online resources and journal support for beginning teachers to available CPD and accreditation routes...
    Film: Making the most of your secondary membership as a trainee

  • Approaches to the History Curriculum: integrated learning models

      Briefing Pack
    In 2010 an integrated curriculum was being implemented in some schools in England. This short briefing pack provides some practical examples of that process.  Is your school on the brink of curriculum innovation that involves history? Are you in the midst of such a change and feel confused and uncertain?...
    Approaches to the History Curriculum: integrated learning models

  • William the Silent and the Revolt of the Netherlands

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Revolt of the Netherlands was the most successful of all uprisings in early modern Europe and had far reaching effects on the course of Dutch and European history. In accounting for its outcome recent research has emphasized the significance of impersonal forces of political, economic or religious nature rather...
    William the Silent and the Revolt of the Netherlands

  • Film: The use of educational talk in history learning and teaching

      Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
    This film continues our Teaching History for Beginners filmed webinar series. In this episode, David Ingledew, senior lecturer in history education and ITE lead at the University of Hertfordshire explores education talk as a follow up from his earlier film on questioning in the history classroom.
    Film: The use of educational talk in history learning and teaching

  • Filmed Lecture: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

      A Fistful of Shells
    In this Virtual Branch webinar we were joined in conversation with Dr Toby Green on his acclaimed book 'A Fistful of Shells'. Shortlisted for the 2020 Wolfson Prize and winner of the 2019 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, the book explores West Africa from the Rise of the...
    Filmed Lecture: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

  • Do Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children see themselves in your history classroom?

      Helen Snelson and Richard Kerridge; resources from HA conference session, Bristol, May 2022
    Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people are the largest minority ethnic group in some communities (and therefore in some schools) in the UK.  Richard Kerridge and Helen Snelson have worked with the historian Professor Becky Taylor to produce a range of teaching resources for teaching the history of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller...
    Do Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children see themselves in your history classroom?

  • The Reformed Electoral System in Great Britain, 1832-1914

      Classic Pamphlet
    The struggle for parliamentary reform between 1830 and 1832 has long been regarded as one of the decisive battles of British political history. The Tories lamented that the passage of the Reform Bill meant the destruction of the constitution. Middle class Radicals welcomed the Reform Bill as the instrument that...
    The Reformed Electoral System in Great Britain, 1832-1914

  • 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

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the British Empire on Britain?

      Teaching History feature
    The murder of George Floyd during the summer of 2020 and the ongoing ‘culture war’ in Britain over the legacy of the British Empire have reignited interest in imperial history. This focuses, in particular, on the question of the empire’s impact on Britain itself: on how the act of conquering...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the British Empire on Britain?

  • Decolonise, don’t diversify: enabling a paradigm shift in the KS3 history curriculum

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Dan Lyndon-Cohen makes the case that history departments should move from diversifying the curriculum to decolonising it. After reflecting on some examples of how he made the content of his lessons more representative, he explores how the influence of writers such as Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Emma Dabiri...
    Decolonise, don’t diversify: enabling a paradigm shift in the KS3 history curriculum

  • In pursuit of shared histories: uncovering Islamic history in the secondary classroom

      Teaching History article
    In 2005, in a Teaching History article entitled, ‘A need to know’, Nicolas Kinloch built an argument for teaching the history of Islamic civilisations to all pupils. Afia Chaudhry returns to this theme, reflecting deeply on the needs of her own students – Muslim and non-Muslim alike – within a...
    In pursuit of shared histories: uncovering Islamic history in the secondary classroom

  • Approaches to the History Curriculum: skills based curriculum

      Briefing Pack
    In 2010 many schools were adopting thematic or skills based curricula in England. This is one way of organising a curriculum. Some of the pros and cons of this approach are elaborated here.  There are an increasing number of schools now adopting a thematic or skills based curriculum for year...
    Approaches to the History Curriculum: skills based curriculum

  • Film: 'Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World'

      Article
    Historian and author Martyn Whittock recently gave a lecture for the HA Virtual Branch on 'Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World'. In 1620, 102 ill-prepared asylum seekers landed two months later than planned, in the wrong place on the eastern coast of North America. By the next summer, half of...
    Film: 'Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World'

  • Building St James's spire: Louth's guilds and popular piety in the later middle ages

      Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
    Medieval historian Dr Claire Kennan continued our Virtual Branch series with a local history talk on the building of St James's spire, Louth.  In her talk Kennan traces the important role that Louth's major guilds of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Holy Trinity played in the building of the St James’s spire. Throughout the...
    Building St James's spire: Louth's guilds and popular piety in the later middle ages

  • Secondary Education and Social Change in the UK since 1945: KS3 resource packs

      Free schools resource packs for Key Stage 3
    Although secondary education become an almost universal experience for British 11-year-olds after the Second World War, it is striking how rarely this key social transformation is used to engage current school-age pupils studying post-1945 British history. // Can't see the video? Download it here The lessons on these pages are...
    Secondary Education and Social Change in the UK since 1945: KS3 resource packs

  • ‘One big cake’: substantive knowledge of the mid-Tudor crisis in Year 7 students’ writing

      Teaching History article
    While looking to revamp his department’s Year 7 enquiry on the Tudors, Jack Mills turned to historiographical debates regarding the ‘mid-Tudor crisis’ to inform his curricular decision making. In doing so, Mills noted that the debate hinged on interpretations of substantive concepts such as ‘crisis’. He therefore also drew on previous...
    ‘One big cake’: substantive knowledge of the mid-Tudor crisis in Year 7 students’ writing

  • Move Me On 182: thinks that substantive knowledge is all that matters

      Teaching History feature
    Lina Power has interpreted an emphasis on knowledge organisers and factual knowledge tests to mean that substantive knowledge is all that matters. 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...
    Move Me On 182: thinks that substantive knowledge is all that matters

  • Recorded webinar: Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the history classroom

      Webinar
    In the last 12 months students have all missed significant chunks of school and importantly a significant chunk of history lessons. In this special one-off webinar, some members of the HA secondary committee discuss the main issues we face as history teachers and offer some potential solutions. What does catch...
    Recorded webinar: Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the history classroom

  • Potential and pitfalls in teaching 'big pictures' of the past

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Jonathan Howson summarises findings from the recent ESRC funded research project - Usable Historical Pasts - and suggests how its insights might inform continuing professional debate and enquiry concerning both frameworks and ‘big pictures'. In...
    Potential and pitfalls in teaching 'big pictures' of the past