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  • Move Me On 92: Having problems teaching causation

      The problem page for history mentors
    This Issue's Problem: Melville Miles, student history teacher, is in Term 3 of his PGCE year. Melville has taught a number of excellent lessons in which he enabled pupils to reach high levels of historical understanding. His diagnostic assessment of pupils' work is unusually sophisticated for a PGCE student. Melville's...
    Move Me On 92: Having problems teaching causation

  • Young Quills winners and reviews 2023

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    It is with great pleasure that the HA is able to announce the winners of the Young Quills for Historical Fiction for 2023: Young readers category Winner: Tony Bradman for Bruno and Frida (Barrington Stoke)Highly Commended: Judith Eagle for Accidental Stowaway (Faber) Intermediate category Winner: Tom Palmer for Resist (Barrington Stoke)Highly Commended: Lesley Parr for When the...
    Young Quills winners and reviews 2023

  • Webinar series: Medieval political ideas and activity in global context

      Funded webinar series for secondary teachers from the HA and the Noblesse Oblige research network
    Medieval history is often a story of kings and their dates, primarily of England or, at best, western Europe. This funded webinar series aimed at secondary history teachers will introduce teachers to educational approaches to the Middle Ages that go beyond both kings and this narrow geographical range. It takes...
    Webinar series: Medieval political ideas and activity in global context

  • Move Me On 91: work with historical sources lacks focus

      The problem page for history mentors
    Problem: Mike Jones, student history teacher, is half-way through his PGCE year. He is making unusually good progress in his knowledge, understanding and practice with regard to the use of sources in history. He also appears to have no difficulty with classroom management and relationships with pupils. He easily creates...
    Move Me On 91: work with historical sources lacks focus

  • Teaching History 106: Citizens and Communities

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition deals with the complex debate about whether history should be taught for intrinsic or extrinsic reasons. Balancing the rationaland the emotional in the teaching of contentious topics, Historical significance, Local historical enquiry, Citizenship, Teaching political concepts to post-16 students and much more... ‘Don’t worry, Mr. Trimble. We can...
    Teaching History 106: Citizens and Communities

  • History GCSE Specification Comparison Tool

      GCSE Resource
    This short guidance is designed to help you compare the 9-1 GCSE specifications. The first examinations of these new linear GCSEs was in the summer of 2018.
    History GCSE Specification Comparison Tool

  • Cunning Plan 110: Imperial China

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of 'Cunning Plan' looks at teaching Imperial China at the beginning of Year 7.
    Cunning Plan 110: Imperial China

  • Triumphs Show 107: opening a new HA branch

      Teaching History feature
    Heather Scott gives a detailed account of the opening of a new HA branch in West Yorkshire.
    Triumphs Show 107: opening a new HA branch

  • Nutshell 105

      Article
    This edition of 'Nutshell' focuses on the development of speaking and listening skills in Year 9.
    Nutshell 105

  • Triumphs Show 105: Year 9s respond directly to 9/11

      Teaching History feature
    Caroline Godsell describes the reactions and concerns of two Year 9 classes after the 9/11 attack.
    Triumphs Show 105: Year 9s respond directly to 9/11

  • Cunning Plan 127: Abolitionist icons

      Teaching History feature
    What makes someone an Icon? A cunning plan to explore the relative significance of individuals involved in abolishing the slave trade.
    Cunning Plan 127: Abolitionist icons

  • Nutshell

      Article
    This edition of 'In a Nutshell' discusses 'Transforming Teaching and Learning in the Foundation Subjects'.
    Nutshell

  • Decoding medieval pilgrimage

      Historian article
    Pilgrimage played a significant role in medieval life and belief. Pilgrims travelled far and wide to express their devotion to saints and their cults. Who were the pilgrims and what did pilgrimage involve? Luke Daly makes sense of this fascinating and complex phenomenon...
    Decoding medieval pilgrimage

  • From our branches: Conwy Borough Branch

      Historian feature
    A new branch of the Historical Association has recently opened in North Wales. In this article, branch founders Morgan Ditchburn and Gemma Campbell introduce themselves and provide an exciting account of the present and future activities of the Conwy Borough Historical Association Branch...
    From our branches: Conwy Borough Branch

  • Recorded webinar: Survive and thrive in your initial teacher education

      Article
    In this open-access recorded webinar you’ll hear from teacher educators with advice and guidance to help you to make plans and get the most out of your history teacher training, whichever route you are taking.
    Recorded webinar: Survive and thrive in your initial teacher education

  • Nutshell

      Article
    This edition of 'Nutshell' discusses 'using Performance Management objectives to improve your history teaching'.
    Nutshell

  • Film: Lesson sequences

      Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
    In this latest film in the teaching history for beginners series, Helen Snelson from the University of York explores and unpacks the principles and process of planning across a sequence of lessons to provide a coherent unit of work that builds knowledge and progression in disciplinary thinking. 
    Film: Lesson sequences

  • Cunning Plan 120: Berlin after 1945

      Teaching History journal feature
    Anna Hamilton and Tony McConnell have created a 'Cunning Plan' to tackle to the question, 'Why was Berlin such a significant theatre of conflict after 1945?'.
    Cunning Plan 120: Berlin after 1945

  • A guide to Assessment Reform at Key Stage 4

      Briefing Pack
    Big changes in assessment at Key Stage 4 took place the last time specifications were reformed. If you want to compare the assessment approaches taken by different examination Boards, then this handy briefing guide will provide you with the introductory information you need to be able to make sense of...
    A guide to Assessment Reform at Key Stage 4

  • Interpretation and poor Victorian Children

      Year 6 Scheme of Work
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. This unit centres on the portrayal of poor, Victorian children. While factual knowledge about conditions in workhouses is an essential component of the unit, the main focus is on contrasting portrayals of one fictional Victorian child, Charles Dicken's Oliver Twist. The...
    Interpretation and poor Victorian Children

  • John Knox

      Classic Pamphlet
    During his own lifetime John Knox was engaged in violent disputes, and throughout the succeeding ages his character has been the subject of acrimonious controversy. While there is an infinite variety of opinion as to his character, there is complete unanimity as to his importance. This pamphlet discusses the life,...
    John Knox

  • Scottish Diplomatists 1689-1789

      Classic Pamphlet
    The object of this pamphlet is to show the gradual penetration of Scotsmen after the Union into a particular branch of the public service - what may be conveniently though not very accurately described as the diplomatic service. This essay makes a study of the actual negotiations conducted by Scottish...
    Scottish Diplomatists 1689-1789

  • Recorded webinar: Natural disasters in medieval Britain

      Article
    Natural disasters frequently affected medieval populations. This webinar explores some examples of what happened when meteorological hazards struck medieval communities, how they reacted and what steps they took to protect themselves against future risks. Through archaeological and historical sources of evidence, Peter Brown explores the diverse impacts unleashed by disasters...
    Recorded webinar: Natural disasters in medieval Britain

  • James Macpherson: a Scottish Robin Hood

      Historian article
    James Macpherson led a notorious gang of robbers in late seventeenth-century Scotland, and he became infamous for robbing rich lairds to give to the poor. Anne-Marie Kilday explains how his notoriety is also significant for revealing how people in early modern Scotland could hold complex attitudes towards the Gypsy Roma...
    James Macpherson: a Scottish Robin Hood

  • Tim Lomas: Effective Practice in Key Stage 3

      Article
    Vice President of the HA provides a presentation on how to ensure effective practice within the Key Stage 3 history classroom. Click the link below>>>
    Tim Lomas: Effective Practice in Key Stage 3