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  • Cunning Plan 107: the big idea of Freedom

      Teaching History feature
    Big ideas, making connections, citizenship, thinking skills. We were nothing if not ambitious in our planning for this unit for a lower attaining Year 8 group at Langley School in Solihull. Having identified the big ideas which could underpin a dialogue between history and citizenship and make the connections between...
    Cunning Plan 107: the big idea of Freedom

  • Beyond bias: making source evaluation meaningful to year 7

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Heidi Le Cocq demonstrates how to introduce Year 7 pupils to sophisticated techniques for evaluating sources. Taking up Seán Lang's criticism of the inappropriate use of the term ‘bias', she shows how even very young pupils can be encouraged to move beyond this wearisome response to questions...
    Beyond bias: making source evaluation meaningful to year 7

  • The origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

      Historian article
    On 29 January 1949 there was a debate in the British House of Commons. When Winston Churchill, the leader of the opposition, interrupted Ernest Bevin’s history of the Palestine problem he was told by the Foreign Secretary: ‘over half a million Arabs have been turned by the Jewish immigrants into...
    The origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

  • Recorded Webinar: Mass-Observing Modern Britain

      Article
    Mass-Observation is probably the most consistently useful source for the study of mid and late 20th social lives Britain. It was established in 1937 with the aim of investigating ordinary life and developing an 'anthropology of ourselves.' It used a range of different methods to collect information, from recording overheard...
    Recorded Webinar: Mass-Observing Modern Britain

  • Podcast series & associated scheme of work: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Religion

      Ancient History
    These podcasts and the accompanying scheme of work provide an introduction to some of the key rituals of Ancient Greek religion. The podcasts are for advanced KS2, and KS3 students; Year 13 students (ancient languages) have also successfully used them for background, and they may be helpful in preparation for...
    Podcast series & associated scheme of work: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Religion

  • What do we feel we are?

      Article
    I was once told that family history was second only to pornography in the list of most visited websites. I'm not sure of the truth of this but if the popularity of the BBC 2's 'Who do you think you are?' is anything to go by, I wouldn't doubt it....
    What do we feel we are?

  • Mentioning the War: does studying World War Two make any difference to pupils' sense of British achievement and identity?

      Teaching History article
    All of this edition is based on the assumption that the teaching of history can have a significant impact upon the values, views and attitudes of our pupils. But how much impact does it have and of what type? And do we ever examine that impact in order to rethink...
    Mentioning the War: does studying World War Two make any difference to pupils' sense of British achievement and identity?

  • Year 9 use sources to explore contemporary meanings and understandings of appeasement

      Teaching History article
    After reflecting on the difference between his study of source extracts at university and how he was using source extracts in the classroom, Jonathan Sellin went in search of a new way to help his pupils to situate sources in context. Finding inspiration in the work of intellectual historian Quentin...
    Year 9 use sources to explore contemporary meanings and understandings of appeasement

  • Move Me On 145: Uncomfortable with Storytelling

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Claudia Jones is very uncomfortable with any kind of sustained story-telling. Claudia Jones is a quietly spoken and rather nervous trainee. She struggled from the beginning of the PGCE to establish a strong  presence in the classroom, and although she has become more assertive about insisting on basic...
    Move Me On 145: Uncomfortable with Storytelling

  • Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion

      Teaching History article
    How do we help pupils to write better paragraphs without actually doing it for them? How do we break down the process of essay writing into smaller steps without taking away pupils’ sense of the essay as a whole? How do we give lower-attaining pupils models, structures and frames without...
    Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion

  • Folens: Everyday People & Everyday Lives

      Book Review with CD Resource
    Folens: Everyday People & Everyday Lives, by Paul Turner, pub Folens 2008; ISBN: 978 1 85005 429 7 [supporting CD-Rom 978 1 85008 429 7] Reviewed by Alf Wilkinson This volume is the first in a series from Folens supporting the New Secondary Curriculum, which takes a thematic approach to...
    Folens: Everyday People & Everyday Lives

  • Ranking and classifying: teaching political concepts to post-16 students

      Teaching History article
    Sometimes it is precisely in the interest of building better historical knowledge that facts and detail need temporarily to be abandoned. Gary Howells aims to secure discernible foundation understandings in his students by getting them to engage quickly with those aspects of political concepts that they can grasp. He is...
    Ranking and classifying: teaching political concepts to post-16 students

  • Teaching Years 8 and 9 to write analytically about similarity and difference

      Teaching History article
    Reflecting on the quality of her pupils’ analyses of past diversity and complexity, Molly-Ann Navey was struck by the contrast with their writing geared to other types of disciplinary problem.  Navey therefore set out to develop entirely new sequences of lessons which would teach pupils to shape arguments about similarity...
    Teaching Years 8 and 9 to write analytically about similarity and difference

  • Become a Quality Mark School: Secondary

      The Historical Association Quality Mark
    The Historical Association Quality Mark (QM) is all about recognition of the excellent history provision you the teacher, your department and your school offer young people. The Quality Mark provides a framework for success whether you are looking to gain the acknowledgement you deserve, or whether you are looking to...
    Become a Quality Mark School: Secondary

  • Child Health & School meals: Nottingham 1906-1945

      Historian article
    Following Jamie Oliver’s devastating television series on the inadequacy of school meals the present government has been quick to be seen to address the situation. In September 2005, Ruth Kelly, the then Education Secretary, announced a war on junk food in schools.1 This was nothing new, because the history of...
    Child Health & School meals: Nottingham 1906-1945

  • Move Me On 164: Similarity & Difference

      Teaching History feature
    This issue’s problem: Sam Holberry is getting very confused about the concept of similarity and difference Sam Holberry has returned to his main training school after a short placement in another school. Although he found it challenging to work with students he didn’t know, he enjoyed seeing a wider range...
    Move Me On 164: Similarity & Difference

  • Widening the early modern world to create a more connected KS3 curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Readers of this journal will be familiar with a number of ways of approaching the Tudors. Kerry Apps provides here an article detailing her concerns about the differences between what she had been delivering at Key Stage 3 and the broader, connected experience she had as an undergraduate historian. How...
    Widening the early modern world to create a more connected KS3 curriculum

  • Polychronicon 175: Paris 1919 – a century on

      Teaching History feature
    The Paris peace conference resulted in five major treaties, each with one of the defeated Central Powers. Of these the most consequential was the Treaty of Versailles with Germany, signed on 28 June 1919, which was denounced by the young economist John Maynard Keynes in his bestselling polemic The Economic...
    Polychronicon 175: Paris 1919 – a century on

  • Podcast Series: The Vikings

      Podcasted history
    An HA Podcasted History of the Vikings featuring Professor Rosamond McKitterick, Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge.
    Podcast Series: The Vikings

  • Triumphs Show 192: Balancing micro- and macronarratives of the Holocaust

      Teaching History feature
    Lien de Jong celebrates her 90th birthday in September 2023. In lots of ways, her biography is similar to many Europeans of her generation. She was born, grew up and went to school in The Hague during the 1930s. She trained to work in a nursery. In the 1950s, she...
    Triumphs Show 192: Balancing micro- and macronarratives of the Holocaust

  • Allowing A-level students to choose their own coursework focus

      Teaching History article
    Faced with the introduction of the new A-levels in 2015 and with a move to a new school, Eleanor Thomas took the opportunity to embrace yet another challenge: giving her students a complete free choice about the focus of their non-examined  assessment (NEA). This article presents the rationale for her...
    Allowing A-level students to choose their own coursework focus

  • The Power of Context: using a visual source

      Teaching History article
    Drawing on her wealth of experience and expertise in using visual sources in the classroom, in this article Jane Card explores how a single painting, a portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay and her cousin Lady Elizabeth Murray, might form the basis for a sequence of lessons. Arguing that although highly...
    The Power of Context: using a visual source

  • HA Young Voices

      Listening to young people's voices about school history
    As part of our strategy, the HA wants to establish mechanisms to listen to young people’s views about their experience of school history. So far we have gathered peer research from pupils in 15 different secondary schools across the country.  Students were asked to carry out research among their peers....
    HA Young Voices

  • The British Communist Party 1920-1945

      Article
    With the collapse of communism in Russia and Eastern Europe, archival material is becoming available not only on these regimes but also on communist parties in the West. Matthew Worley surveys the latest writing on the Communist Party of Great Britain. Since the collapse of Communism, a number of books...
    The British Communist Party 1920-1945

  • Cunning Plan 159: Was King John unlucky with his Barons?

      Teaching History feature
    Typical teaching of King John and Magna Carta focuses either on the weakness of John or the importance (as Whig historians would see it) of Magna Carta. The first question is a bit boring and the second discussion unhistorical. This enquiry sequence is designed for students aged 11 to 13. It...
    Cunning Plan 159: Was King John unlucky with his Barons?