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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
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The Spice of Life? Ensuring variety when teaching about the Treaty of Versailles
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Much has been said and written about different learning styles in recent years. Some people have responded with evangelical enthusiasm, others exercise a more cautious approach, whilst a few disregard it completely. Certainly, there are...
The Spice of Life? Ensuring variety when teaching about the Treaty of Versailles
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Delve deeper with The Historian magazine
The perfect support material for teachers and students
The Historian magazine offers the perfect support material for teachers. It’s an opportunity to learn more about those bits of history you may need a greater knowledge of for teaching, just have an interest in or to support your A-level and GCSE students with their studies. It’s also an ideal...
Delve deeper with The Historian magazine
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16-19 Curriculum 2000 in a nutshell
Article
I'VE HEARD OF THIS. BROADER COVERAGE, GAPS BRIDGED BETWEEN GCSE AND A LEVEL AND BETWEEN VOCATIONAL AND ACADEMIC EDUCATION, A HIGHLY LITERATE, NUMERATE AND COMPUTER-LITERATE WORKFORCE FOR THE 21st CENTURY. WHOM SHOULD WE THANK?
Sir Ron Dearing, who else? His review of post-16 education was accepted by the last government...
16-19 Curriculum 2000 in a nutshell
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The 'Era of the Dictators' Reconsidered
Article
Kenneth Thomson reflects on major aspects of the ‘era of the dictators’ after the collapse of Soviet Communism and its satellite regimes. In 1939, on the eve of the Second World War, almost the whole of continental Europe was ruled by dictatorships of various political hues. Even countries, like France,...
The 'Era of the Dictators' Reconsidered
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The Tudor Monarchy in crisis: using a historian's account to stretch the most able students in Year 8
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Contributors to this journal have long recognised that success in public examinations is at least partly achieved by carefully teaching in Key Stage 3. A critical component of A-Level is that students who wish to...
The Tudor Monarchy in crisis: using a historian's account to stretch the most able students in Year 8
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VE Day 75: free home learning resource
5th May 2020
Lots of organisations in the UK had exciting plans to commemorate the 75th anniversary of VE Day but unfortunately many of them will not now go ahead because of the Covid-19 situation. However, that doesn’t mean that young people can’t begin to understand why the first May bank holiday has...
VE Day 75: free home learning resource
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Past Time Toolkit: new learning resource about Victorian Prisons
New resource for teachers of GCSE history from Warwick University's Centre for the History of Medicine
Past Time Toolkit: A Learning Resource about Victorian Prisons is aimed at teachers of GCSE History students and is also of interest to anyone exploring the Victorians, prison history, isolation, or food history.
The resource is particularly useful to those working with the Edexel GCSE History course’s Crime and Punishment...
Past Time Toolkit: new learning resource about Victorian Prisons
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Resource sharing hub for home learning
2nd April 2020
We know how hard life has been for teachers and schools in recent weeks. Materials have had to be put online hastily to provide students with home learning activities in the light of a fast-moving situation. At present, there is little indication as to how long schools will remain closed...
Resource sharing hub for home learning
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Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with the complex relationship between depth work and overview work. Revealing the big picture: patterns, shapes and images at Key Stage 3, Slavery, Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the 20th Century, Teaching the history of 20th women in Europe, Using Ethel and Ernest...
Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures
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Do we have to read all of this?' Encouraging students to read for understanding
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
What’s the hardest part of history? Heads of Year 9 at options time seem depressingly clear - ‘Don’t do history, there’s too much writing.’ David Hellier and Helen Richards show that at The Green School...
Do we have to read all of this?' Encouraging students to read for understanding
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Podcast: The Life and Significance of Alan Turing
Podcast
In this podcast Dr Tommy Dickinson of the University of Manchester discusses the life and significance of Alan Turing. Please note this is only the first section of the full podcast which is available to HA Members
Alan Mathison Turing, (23 June 1912–7 June 1954) was a British pioneering computer scientist, mathematician,...
Podcast: The Life and Significance of Alan Turing
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Podcast: The Historical Medicalization of Homosexuality & Transvestism
Podcast
In this podcast, Dr Tommy Dickinson of the University of Manchester, looks at the historical medicalization of homosexuality and transvestism.
1. Introduction: the historical medicalization of homosexuality and transvestism
HA Members can listen to the full podcast here
Suggested Reading:
Tommy Dickinson (2015) "Curing Queers": MentalNurses and their Patients 1935-1974.
Peter Conrad &...
Podcast: The Historical Medicalization of Homosexuality & Transvestism
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How visual learning in 'A' level history can improve memory and conceptual understanding
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Steve Garnett shares some the techniques that he uses to involve different kinds of learner in his post-16 lessons and explains how he arrived at these approaches after reflecting on problems in his own early...
How visual learning in 'A' level history can improve memory and conceptual understanding
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Great Debate FAQs
The Great Debate
Below are some frequently asked questions about the Great Debate and the logistics of the heats.
If you need more information, you can get in touch with us directly at greatdebate@history.org.uk.
How does the debate work?
Each student will have five minutes to deliver their argument in response to the...
Great Debate FAQs
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Seeing, hearing and doing the renaissance (Part 2)
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
In the last edition of Teaching History, Maria Osowiecki described in detail the fourth lesson in a five-lesson enquiry entitled: What was remarkable about the Renaissance? She also shared her resources for two lively, interactive...
Seeing, hearing and doing the renaissance (Part 2)
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Suffrage Poster Competition Winners
17th July 2019
Congratulations to four students from Newport Girls' High School – Daniah, Romaisa, Hetavi and Saira – who created the winning poster for our Suffrage competition.
The poster had a modern message while demonstrating research and inspiration from a local suffragist from the past. The judges at the HA were very...
Suffrage Poster Competition Winners
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Young Quills Awards 2019 – the winners
16th July 2019
Announcing this year’s winners of the HA's Young Quills Historical Fiction Competition for children and young adults:
6–10 years category: Janina Ramirez for Riddle of the Runes (Oxford University Press)
11–13 years category: Pippa Goodhart for The Great Sea Dragon Discovery (Catnip Publishers)
14 years and above category: Elizabeth Wein...
Young Quills Awards 2019 – the winners
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Does differentiation have to mean different?
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Richard Harris questions common assumptions about differentiation. In particular, he encourages teachers to avoid accepting too readily the view that pupils of different abilities must be given different resources or activities. Instead he builds a...
Does differentiation have to mean different?
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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
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The Great Debate 2020: speeches
Should we judge historical figures by the morals of today?
Many things have been different this year – especially things that involve people coming together physically in one setting. That was certainly the case for our Great Debate competition. Fortunately, all of the regional heats had taken place across the UK before the first lockdown came into effect last spring,...
The Great Debate 2020: speeches
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Talk to your inspector: making the most of your history inspection
Article
Scott Harrison gives the official view on what history teachers can expect from an OFSTED inspection. He emphasises the need to communicate, as fully as possible, the department's rationale underlying all professional practice. This is essential if the inspector is to analyse the reasons why standards are as they are....
Talk to your inspector: making the most of your history inspection
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Young Quills 2019 shortlist
Young Quills Awards
Books, books, books – we’ve been surrounded by books in the HA office and what is more, we’ve been relying on other people to tell us about them. Yes, it’s been Young Quills reviewing time. From the start of this year pupils and students around the country have been delving...
Young Quills 2019 shortlist
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Evidence: Theoretical
Links to HA resources for secondary teachers
Getting Year 10 beyond trivial judgements of ‘bias': towards victory in that battle ...
Let's play Supermarket ‘Evidential' Sweep: developing students' awareness of the need to select evidence
Assessment of students' uses of evidence: shifting the focus from processes to historical reasoning
How can students' use of historical evidence be...
Evidence: Theoretical
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Marketing History - Some Links
Guidance
Marketing History to your students...
How studying history can help with a career as an investigative journalist
How studying history can help with a career within the field of the law
How studying history can help with a career with a number of different jobs at a senior level.
How...
Marketing History - Some Links
