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  • Why history matters? Round Table discussion podcast

      Podcasts
    Podcast of the round table discussion available here!The History Matters Annual Conference in May saw the best turnout we've had for some time with a healthy and representative mix of HA members. Our thanks to all those who contributed their time and energy in delivering workshops and lectures. Our afternoon...
    Why history matters? Round Table discussion podcast

  • Numismatics and History

      Classic Pamphlet
    Numismatics may be defined as the science of money in its physical aspects. It is only indirectly connected with the theory of money, which belongs to the sphere of economics. Its subject-matter consists of the material objects which in most societies are used to measure the worth of goods and...
    Numismatics and History

  • Charles XII

      Classic Pamphlet
    The reputation of Charles XII who became king of Sweden before he was fifteen years old and had the responsibility of absolutist goverment thrust upon him within the next six months - contrary to the plans laid down for him by his father - has tended to attract political rather...
    Charles XII

  • 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

  • A Mid-Tudor Crisis?

      Classic Pamphlet
    This classic pamphlet takes you through the Mid-Tudor period focusing on foreign affairs and finance, the Dukes of Somerset and Northumberland, the risings of 1549, coups and commissions 1549-53, Edwardian Protestantism success and failure, Mary and the Catholic Restoration, the Marian Administration and the Spanish Marriage.
    A Mid-Tudor Crisis?

  • The National Curriculum Attainment Target (from 2008)

      HITT Resource
    Level 4 Pupils show their knowledge and understanding of local, national and international history by describing some of the main events, people and periods they have studied, and by identifying where these fit within a chronological framework. They describe characteristic features of past societies and periods to identify change and...
    The National Curriculum Attainment Target (from 2008)

  • Scott's 5-stage model for progression in conceptual understanding of causation

      Model
    The following model examines progression in learning within a particular domain - cause and consequence.  The Teaching History Research Group produced a series of stage descriptions which they tell us were based on a mixture of "personal experience, observation in many schools, discussions with teacher and research findings". It is...
    Scott's 5-stage model for progression in conceptual understanding of causation

  • Votes for Women in Britain 1867-1928

      Classic Pamphlet
    This classic pamphlet takes you through the Votes for Women in Britain movement from its origins to its eventual success, following the case for women's suffrage presented, tactics and strategies, the anti-suffragist argument, party political complications, international perspectives, the Pankhursts and militancy, the revival of non-militant suffragism, the impact of...
    Votes for Women in Britain 1867-1928

  • Developing Citizenship in Schools

      Article
    The HA would like to thank the Association for Citizenship Teaching for allowing us to reproduce this article on the HA Website! In a novel and revealing 'dialogue', Scott Harrison HMI, specialist adviser for history and citizenship at Ofsterd, and Liz Craft, lead consultant for citizenship at QCA, discuss the...
    Developing Citizenship in Schools

  • Move Me On 133: Relying too much on teacher talk and alienating students

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's problem: Margaret Cooper has struggled hard to realise her ambition to train to be a teacher but, now that she is taking responsibility for whole-class teaching, she is finding that her assumptions are being challenged and she is losing confidence...
    Move Me On 133: Relying too much on teacher talk and alienating students

  • Polychronicon 133: The Crusader States in the Levant

      Teaching History feature
    In my first Polychronicon article on ‘The Crusades' I pointed out that research historians are increasingly specialising either on the crusades themselves or on the crusader states. There are good reasons for this, but in my opinion it makes little sense for school or university teachers to treat these topics...
    Polychronicon 133: The Crusader States in the Levant

  • Triumphs Show 133: Getting more pupils choosing History at GCSE

      Teaching History feature
    It is often remarked that history is under pressure nationally at GCSE. Our history numbers have never been enormous, and we have recently gone down from 2 sets to one set. The crunch came in 2007 when we collapsed to a dismal 12 students. A variety of factors may have...
    Triumphs Show 133: Getting more pupils choosing History at GCSE

  • Challenging not balancing: developing Year 7's grasp of historical argument through online discussion and a virtual book

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. This article is about using story to construct a learning journey for a Year 7 class. It reports an innovative use of a virtual learning environment to construct a narrative e-book into which argument tasks...
    Challenging not balancing: developing Year 7's grasp of historical argument through online discussion and a virtual book

  • Making pupils want to explain: using Movie Maker to foster thoroughness and self-monitoring

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Sally Burnham shares her practice and reflections on the value of the software, ‘Movie Maker', for developing particular aspects of historical thinking and learning. In Teaching History 130, in the context of her Key Stage...
    Making pupils want to explain: using Movie Maker to foster thoroughness and self-monitoring

  • What do you think? Using online forums to improve students' historical knowledge and understanding

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In Teaching History 126, the Open University's Arguing in History project team demonstrated the power that discussion fora can have to develop pupil thinking. In this article, Dave Martin revisits this theme through a discussion...
    What do you think? Using online forums to improve students' historical knowledge and understanding

  • Raising the bar: developing meaningful historical consciousness at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. How can we help pupils make sense of the history that they learn so that the whole adds up to more than the sum of its parts? How can we help pupils develop and sophisticate...
    Raising the bar: developing meaningful historical consciousness at Key Stage 3

  • Nutshell 133

      Article
    Did we really need a new Attainment Target? Yes. The first one, developed in 1995, was a best effort to craft the old 1991 ‘statements of attainment' into holistic, ‘best fit' Level Descriptions. Since then, the history education community has learned a lot and some of the goals for pupils'...
    Nutshell 133

  • Stories and their sources: the need for historical thinking in an information age

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Information technology is of no value in itself or by itself: it needs questions to drive it and disciplined forms of thinking to make sense of the answers that it can provide. Inspired by the...
    Stories and their sources: the need for historical thinking in an information age

  • Background information: citizenship and history

      HITT Resource
    Citizenship was introduced as a National Curriculum subject at key stages 3 and 4 in 2002. Prior to that many schools had taught aspects of citizenship as a cross-curricular theme, often in the context of Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE). Much of the impetus for introducing citizenship as a...
    Background information: citizenship and history

  • What is Bias?

      Article
    There is a nice story about how Calvin Coolidge went to hear a clergyman preach on sin. "What did he say?" he was asked. 'He said he was against it', Coolidge replied. The history teacher or student, well used by now to the normal form of questions at GCSE, might...
    What is Bias?

  • SHP and 'What is history?'

      Article
    In the 1970s a new approach to history teaching was developed through the auspices of the Schools Council History Project (SCHP) later named the Schools History Project (SHP). In order to engage pupils (and reverse the perceived danger of a declining uptake of history amongst pupils) the project authors designed...
    SHP and 'What is history?'

  • British Defence and Appeasement Between the Wars 1919-1939

      Classic Pamphlet
    Armed forces never exist in isolation, but always operate against a background of political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and ideological conditions and attitudes, as well as in relation to diplomatic and strategic factors. Some governments regards their military forces especially their armies, more as instruments for maintaining internal order than...
    British Defence and Appeasement Between the Wars 1919-1939

  • Nazism and Stalinism

      Classic Pamphlet
    Is it legitimate to compare the Nazi and Stalinist regimes? There might seem little room for doubt. It is often taken as self-evident that the two regimes were variations of a common type. They are bracketed together in school and university courses, as well as text books, under labels such...
    Nazism and Stalinism

  • OCR History A Level History: Democracy and Dictatorship in Germany 1919-63

      Review
    Professor Mary Fulbrook and David Williamson with Nick Fellows and Mike Wells Review by Barbara Hibbert This resource is one of a series produced by Heinemann to support the new OCR History A AS course.  It claims that it ‘exactly reflects the key issues and skills in the specification topics'. ...
    OCR History A Level History: Democracy and Dictatorship in Germany 1919-63

  • Curriculum

      Information
    The Historical Association provides a wealth of resources to help teachers to develop and refine their subject knowledge for all areas of the secondary history curriculum. We also provide guidance related to key developments in the curriculum, such as revised version of the National Curriculum (2014) and on-going developments related...
    Curriculum