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  • 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

  • Learning to read, reading to learn: strategies to move students from 'keen to learn' to 'keen to read'

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Conventionally, students learn to read before they come to secondary school. As a result, for the majority of our students, reading can be taken for granted. Yet sometimes, as history  teachers, we can find that...
    Learning to read, reading to learn: strategies to move students from 'keen to learn' to 'keen to read'

  • Understanding Key Concepts: Diversity

      Article
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. For more recent resources, see How diverse is your history curriculum? and Diversity links and resources for Secondary history. This material enables history teachers to explore the concept of diversity. Section 1 discusses the concept of diversity and its importance in the...
    Understanding Key Concepts: Diversity

  • Walter Tull: Sport, War and Challenging Adversity

      Resource packs and schemes of work for KS1 and KS3
    Schemes of work and resource packs  Produced by the Northamptonshire Black History Association and originally published in 2008, these packs comprise a teachers' resource book and a schemes of work booklet of 10 activities for teachers to use in the classroom. The resource book contains a description of how to use this resource,...
    Walter Tull: Sport, War and Challenging Adversity

  • 'What's that stuff you're listening to Sir?' Rock and pop music as a rich source for historical enquiry

      Teaching History article
    Building on the wonderful articles by Mastin and Sweerts & Grice in TH 108, Simon Butler urges us here to make greater use of rock and pop music in history classrooms. His reasons are persuasive. First, it provides a rich vein of initial stimulus material to tap, helping us to...
    'What's that stuff you're listening to Sir?' Rock and pop music as a rich source for historical enquiry

  • Learning about an 800-year-old fight can't be all that bad, can it? Its like what Simon and Kane did yesterday': modern-day parallels in history

      Teaching History article
    Deborah Robbins charts a story of her own learning during the PGCE year. She explains how she identified a point of interest in her own practice - the use of modern-day examples. Turning this into a focus for testing her own hypotheses, she theorised from her own lessons to produce...
    Learning about an 800-year-old fight can't be all that bad, can it? Its like what Simon and Kane did yesterday': modern-day parallels in history

  • The Normans

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Norman Conquest The Origins of the Norman Conquest The Norman Conquest: why did it matter? KeynoteSpeech from the Historical Association 2013 Annual Conference - Podcast 1066: The Limits of our Knowledge Edward the Confessor and the Norman Conquest The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of...
    The Normans

  • Thinking across time: planning and teaching the story of power and democracy at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Ian Dawson's seminal work on developing chronological understanding - in Teaching History 117, on the website thinkinghistory.co.uk and elsewhere - will be familiar to readers. In this article Dawson considers the question, very much on...
    Thinking across time: planning and teaching the story of power and democracy at Key Stage 3

  • Bob Dylan and the concept of evidence

      Teaching History article
    No edition of Teaching History devoted to creativity could be complete without returning to the riches that popular songs offer to historians and history teachers alike. The five Bob Dylan songs that Christopher Edwards explores here are chosen not merely for their ‘literary qualities' and ‘emotional charge'; they also provide...
    Bob Dylan and the concept of evidence

  • What's happening in History? Trends in GCSE and 'A'-level examinations

      Teaching History article
    Teaching History frequently celebrates and analyses the practice of those history departments that appear to buck trends. In keeping with the Historical Association’s Campaign for History and its popular ‘Choosing History at 14’ Pack, a number of articles and Triumphs Shows in recent editions of Teaching History have celebrated the...
    What's happening in History? Trends in GCSE and 'A'-level examinations

  • 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)

  • The Evidence of the Casket Letters

      Classic Pamphlet
    It has been well said that the last word will never be written on the tragedy of Mary Stuart, for her fate presents problems which invite solution from the historians of successive generations, and yet can never be wholly solved, If the charge brought against the Queen of complicity in...
    The Evidence of the Casket Letters

  • Sense, relationship and power: uncommon views of place

      Teaching History article
    Liz Taylor invites history teachers to consider how diverse and uncommon the ‘common’ person’s experience of place might be. She draws upon cultural geography to show how words like ‘place’, ‘space’ and ‘landscape’ can be unpacked and questioned and so become better tools for pupils’ critical thinking in both geography...
    Sense, relationship and power: uncommon views of place

  • Ufton Court

      Visit
    Ufton Court, an Elizabethan Grade 1 Manor House between Reading and Newbury, is an inspirational centre for schools. The Ufton team lead residential and day visits for KS2 that aim to give children a passion for history.  Residential VisitsEnjoy sole overnight occupancy of the inspiring Tudor Manor over 1 to...
    Ufton Court

  • The effect of the loss of the American Colonies upon British Policy

      Classic Pamphlet
    (1) Problems of an Empire in ruinsTwo weeks after Yorktown, but before the news of that disaster had reached England, George III wrote to Lord North that "The dye is now cast whether this shall be a great Empire or the least dignified of European states." England had not fought...
    The effect of the loss of the American Colonies upon British Policy

  • Triumphs Show 146: putting an enquiry together

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    Department meetings have a range of purposes, and all teachers will be aware of some of the more tedious tasks that have to be completed at such meetings. The most exciting meetings for us are those where we can sit down as a history department and design a new enquiry....
    Triumphs Show 146: putting an enquiry together

  • Making learning drive assessment: Joan of Arc - saint, witch or warrior?

      Teaching History article
    Andrew Wrenn describes his work with Barry Williams and the teachers of the history department at Ailwyn School (11-14 comprehensive), Ramsey in Cambridgeshire. Devoting equal attention to the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of history assessment, he shows how this group of teachers developed a fresh approach to assessment out of...
    Making learning drive assessment: Joan of Arc - saint, witch or warrior?

  • International relations

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    An HA Podcasted History: The Cold War The Road to World War II The World War I peace treaties The League of Nations
    International relations

  • The Jesuits and the Catholic Reformation

      Classic Pamphlet
    The society of Jesus, formally approved by Pope Paul III in his bull Regimini Militantis Ecclesiae of September 1540, was one of many new religious orders of men and women - such as Barnabites, Capuchins, Oratorians, Piarists and Vincentians among the male orders, and Daughters and Sisters of Charity, Ursulines,...
    The Jesuits and the Catholic Reformation

  • Transition to University

      What is the transition from sixth form to studying at University like?
    In this series of short films history undergraduates answer questions about their experiences of the transition to university and about extended student engagement. A joint project of the Historical Association and the History Subject Centre.
    Transition to University

  • Triumphs Show 141: using family photos to bring the diversity of Jewish lives to life

      Teaching History feature
    Headteachers, Hungarians and hats: using family photos to bring the diversity of Jewish lives to life It is 9.35am on a wet Tuesday. As the rain falls outside, fingers twitch in a Y ear 9 history classroom. The instruction is given and 28 pairs of hands spring into action, rifling...
    Triumphs Show 141: using family photos to bring the diversity of Jewish lives to life

  • Transforming Year 7's understanding of the concept of Imperialism: a case study on the Roman Empire

      Teaching History article
    Those of us in the U.K. know that many of our pupils finish their entire historical education without a satisfactory grasp of basic substantive concepts as they are used in history. Do all our low-attaining or ‘low ability’ 14-year-olds who are pressured to drop history at 14 really emerge with...
    Transforming Year 7's understanding of the concept of Imperialism: a case study on the Roman Empire

  • History's secret weapon: the enquiry of a disciplined mind

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. As a local authority adviser, Andrew Wrenn's advice has often been sought by history departments, both those seeking to resist ill-conceived and potentially damaging cross-curricular initiatives and those keen to exploit new opportunities for meaningful...
    History's secret weapon: the enquiry of a disciplined mind

  • Do we need another hero? Rorke's Drift

      Teaching History article
    Do we need another hero? Year 8 get to grips with the heroic myth of the Defence of Rorke's Drift in 1879 Mike Murray shares a lesson sequence in which his students examined changing interpretations of the Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879. Building on earlier work on teaching interpretations...
    Do we need another hero? Rorke's Drift

  • The Scottish Enlightenment

      Classic Pamphlet
    In recent decades, Scotland's distinctive contribution to the Enlightenment has been of increasing interest to scholars. Often very remarkable in an analytical view, such studies may nevertheless miss their sense of the story by treating Scottish insight in abstraction from Scottish life. Taking a more concrete approach, the present study...
    The Scottish Enlightenment