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  • Triumphs Show: Diversifying the curriculum at A-level

      Teaching History feature
    There is a wealth of literature arguing for the importance of accommodating a wide range of perspectives and experiences in school history curricula. Many have contended that it is crucial to include the stories of those traditionally omitted from historical records in order to teach history well. Others have emphasised...
    Triumphs Show: Diversifying the curriculum at A-level

  • The Spanish Collection

      Article
    For the art historian, a thorough study of works of art, their creators and the environment in which they were produced, as well as their significance then and now, is a specialised endeavour. This, nevertheless, does not exhaust the presentation of art to contemporaries, least of all in the context...
    The Spanish Collection

  • The Great Exhibition

      Article
    ‘Of all the decades to be young in, a wise man would choose the 1850s’ concludes G.M. Young in his Portrait of An Age. His choice is understandable. Historians and contemporaries have long viewed the middle years of the century as a ‘plateau of peace and prosperity’, an ‘age of...
    The Great Exhibition

  • 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

  • Recorded webinar: Introduction to Sporting Heritage in the Curriculum

      Webinar
    Excited about the opportunity to creatively incorporate sporting history as new part of your curriculum offer or a thematic enrichment extension to it? Interested in hearing more about how this approach could inspire your students’ potential approach to EPQ? Like to influence and shape how this might be achieved? This...
    Recorded webinar: Introduction to Sporting Heritage in the Curriculum

  • Podcast Series: The Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates

      Multipage Article
    In this set of podcasts Emeritus Professor Gerald Hawting of SOAS, University of London provides an introduction to the Umayyad (661-750) and Abbasid (750-1258) Caliphates.
    Podcast Series: The Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates

  • Recorded webinar: History for All - Approaches from the Special Sector

      History for all series
    Whilst many teachers in mainstream schools now have useful links with primary coordinators and have a working knowledge of how the curriculum is approached and implemented in Key Stages 1&2, few colleagues have contact with special schools and the expertise which our colleagues in special education can share with us...
    Recorded webinar: History for All - Approaches from the Special Sector

  • The QCA history scheme of work for Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. QCA's scheme of work for history at Key Stage 3, together with similar schemes for other subjects, has been published in response to widespread requests for more guidance on curriculum planning. Heather Richardson, Subject Officer (history)...
    The QCA history scheme of work for Key Stage 3

  • 'Victims of history': Challenging students’ perceptions of women in history

      Teaching History article
    As postgraduate historians with teaching responsibilities at the University of York, Bridget Lockyer and Abigail Tazzyman were concerned to tackle some of the challenges reported by their students who had generally only encountered women’s history in a disconnected way through stand-alone topics or modules. Their response was to create a...
    'Victims of history': Challenging students’ perceptions of women in history

  • The Quality Mark award: Self-evaluation with a critical friend

      Article
    The Quality Mark has been a really important part in the journey of the development of our history curriculum culture at the Convent of Jesus and Mary. Our school is a diverse comprehensive all-girls Catholic school situated in Harlesden, north west London. We first started working together as a department team...
    The Quality Mark award: Self-evaluation with a critical friend

  • Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part B

      Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
    This is the fourth film in the Teaching History for Beginners series. In this film, Ruth Lingard, head of history at Millthorpe School in York and PGCE tutor, takes us through the practical opportunities for effective questioning and the kinds of questions that lend themselves well to different purposes, second order concepts...
    Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part B

  • Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part A

      Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
    This film continues our Teaching History for Beginners filmed webinar series.  In this short filmed webinar, David Ingledew, senior lecturer in history education and ITE lead at the University of Hertfordshire sets out the scholarship, principles and context of questioning in the history classroom. This will be followed by a short film...
    Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part A

  • Ofqual: Quality assurance for GCSE, AS and A level

      27th April 2021
    With exams cancelled, summer 2021 grades will be determined by schools and colleges. Every year, there is teacher assessment in subjects with non-exam assessment and schools and colleges will be familiar with moderation arrangements. This summer, with exams cancelled, the context is very different, so the quality assurance (QA) process...
    Ofqual: Quality assurance for GCSE, AS and A level

  • Curating the imagined past: world building in the history curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Mike Hill was concerned that his students were unable to genuinely inhabit the historical places they encountered in his lessons. Drawing on fields as varied as history-teacher research, philosophy, and literary and media theory, Hill identified ways to curate his students’ constructions of ‘secondary worlds’ in the historical past, including...
    Curating the imagined past: world building in the history curriculum

  • Podcast Series: Russia and the USSR

      Russia and the USSR
    An HA Podcasted History of Russia and the USSR featuring Dr Beryl Williams, Dr Jonathan Davis of Anglia Ruskin University, Dr Edwin Bacon of Birkbeck University of London and Professor Peter Waldron of the University of East Anglia.
    Podcast Series: Russia and the USSR

  • Move Me On 141: Teaching the Holocaust

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Marion Hartog is wondering how to approach teaching the Holocaust, especially with her ‘difficult' Year 9.
    Move Me On 141: Teaching the Holocaust

  • History and the perils of multiculturalism in 1990s Britain

      Teaching History article
    Ian Grosvenor's article points both to dangers and to positive potential in the National Curriculum for history. Critical of the published proposals for history in the current curriculum review, he points not only at the continuing narrowness of the perspectives enshrined by the proposed curriculum but at the reasons why...
    History and the perils of multiculturalism in 1990s Britain

  • 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

  • Film: Preparing a history department for the new inspection framework

      London History Forum Workshop
    This film was taken at the HA London History Forum at the Institute of Education, UCL (University of London) in November 2019 and features Kath Goudie (Cottenham Village College). Drawing on her experience as a history teacher, teacher trainer and assistant headteacher Kath Goudie shares reflections on how the history...
    Film: Preparing a history department for the new inspection framework

  • My journey to Bosnia: The Balkans Conflict 22 years on

      A personal account of an educational visit to Sarajevo and Srebrenica
    In these pages HA Education Manager Melanie Jones shares her own personal experiences and reflections from a recent educational visit to Bosnia, and looks at ways in which British schools might be able to explore aspects of the 1990s Balkans Conflict.  In September 2017 I was approached by a small charitable organisation Remembering...
    My journey to Bosnia: The Balkans Conflict 22 years on

  • Podcast Series: The Spanish Golden Age

      Multipage Article
    An HA Podcasted History of the Spanish Golden Age featuring Dr Glyn Redworth of Manchester University and Dr Francois Soyer of the University of Southampton.
    Podcast Series: The Spanish Golden Age

  • Polychronicon 177: The New Deal in American history

      Teaching History feature
    Over 50 years ago I read my first serious book on American history. I can still remember the excitement of reading William E. Leuchtenburg’s Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940. His description of FDR and American politics in the 1930s seemed so much more colourful and dramatic than...
    Polychronicon 177: The New Deal in American history

  • Do smile before Christmas: the NQT Year

      Teaching History article
    Lucy Russell challenges the ancient wisdom passed down to new teachers. Addressing issues of relationships with pupils, the demands of historical learning and the new teacher's personality and integrity, she advises taking a thoroughly positive, and ambitious, view of the NQT year. NQTs should aim to move historical learning forwards....
    Do smile before Christmas: the NQT Year

  • Cunning Plan 175: Using the England's Immigrants database

      Teaching History feature
    Ever wondered if there is a streak of masochism in those designing A-level history syllabi? The absence of the Spanish Armada from the current Edexcel breadth study in favour of (among other delights) ‘the new draperies’ prompts this question. But the challenge of enthusing modern teenagers with woollen cloth can...
    Cunning Plan 175: Using the England's Immigrants database

  • Film: Widening horizons within, and beyond, the taught curriculum

      London History Forum Keynote 2019
    The film below was taken at the London History Forum: Widening Perspectives which took place on Thursday 25 April 2019 at the UCL Institute of Education and features Will Bailey-Watson (subject lead for PGCE History at the University of Reading).The renewed emphasis on curriculum in many schools is giving history teachers a...
    Film: Widening horizons within, and beyond, the taught curriculum