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  • Was the workhouse really so bad? An encounter with a cantekerous tramp

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Have you stuggled to find an invigorating, exciting local enquiry to motivate your Year 9 class ? How do you engage students in lively debate? This was the challenge for one Norfolk school who wanted...
    Was the workhouse really so bad? An encounter with a cantekerous tramp

  • Podcast Series: Goths, Huns and the fall of the Roman Empire

      Multipage Article
    In this series of podcasts Professor Peter Heather of King's College London looks at the history of the Goths, the Huns, the division of the Roman Empire and the fall of the Roman Empire.
    Podcast Series: Goths, Huns and the fall of the Roman Empire

  • Polychronicon 130: Dental, transcendental, regimental: Making Mangal Pandey

      Teaching History feature
    Have you stuggled to find an invigorating, exciting local enquiry to motivate your Year 9 class ? How do you engage students in lively debate? This was the challenge for one Norfolk school who wanted to develop a local study on the Poor Law and to create opportunities for students...
    Polychronicon 130: Dental, transcendental, regimental: Making Mangal Pandey

  • Podcast Series: The Rise of an Islamic Civilisation

      Early Islam
    An HA Podcasted History of the Rise of an Islamic Civilisation featuring Dr Caroline Goodson of Birkbeck, University of London.
    Podcast Series: The Rise of an Islamic Civilisation

  • The T.E.A.C.H. Project

      A Report from The Historical Association on the Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching Emotive and Controversial History 3-19
    The report look at approaches that enable teachers to tackle these issues in ordinary lessons through rigorous and engaging teaching while at the same time challenging discrimination and prejudice.
    The T.E.A.C.H. Project

  • Podcast Series: The Spanish Golden Age

      Multipage Article
    An HA Podcasted History of the Spanish Golden Age featuring Dr Glyn Redworth of Manchester University and Dr Francois Soyer of the University of Southampton.
    Podcast Series: The Spanish Golden Age

  • GCSE Podcasts: The Road to World War II

      The Road to WW2
    Aaron Wilkes and Katrina Shearman of Castle High School in Dudley discuss one of the key topics for modern world history students: The Road to World War II.
    GCSE Podcasts: The Road to World War II

  • Podcast Series: The Tudors

      Multipage Article
    An HA Podcasted History of the Tudors featuring Dr Sue Doran, Dr Steven Gunn, Dr Michael Everett & Dr Anna Whitelock.
    Podcast Series: The Tudors

  • Move Me On 128: Assessment without Levels

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Meg Dawson is keen to find ways of recognising and recording students’ progress and achievements without resorting to ‘levels’.
    Move Me On 128: Assessment without Levels

  • The Cromwell Discussions: podcast series

      The Cromwell Association round-table discussions
    On the 30th June 2015, The Cromwell Association, held a series of round table discussions at Selwyn College, Cambridge. This set of podcasts feature Professor Ronald Hutton of the University of Bristol, Professor John Morrill and Dr David Smith of the University of Cambridge and Dr Patrick Little from the...
    The Cromwell Discussions: podcast series

  • Animated Guide: Become a Museum Curator

      Multipage Article
    Have you ever visited a museum or exhibition and wondered who puts it all together? Being a museum, library or archive curator is a very responsible job. Not only do they have to look after rare and precious items in their care, but they must also know all about their...
    Animated Guide: Become a Museum Curator

  • A Guide to the Key Stage 3 programme

      Key Stage 3 Guide
    This unit was produced for a previous national curriculum. However, much of the advice remains useful and it provides a context to topics that continue to be very important for history teachers. Subject leaders, ITE providers and others may find it useful to consider how currently relevant topics were thought about...
    A Guide to the Key Stage 3 programme

  • Move Me On 127: Using PowerPoint as anything more than glorified chalk and talk

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Nat Turner is feeling confused and aggrieved about what is expected of him in using ICT in his teaching.
    Move Me On 127: Using PowerPoint as anything more than glorified chalk and talk

  • 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

  • Bristol and the Slave Trade

      Classic Pamphlet
    Captain Thomas Wyndham of Marshfield Park in Somerset was on voyage to Barbary where he sailed from Kingroad, near Bristol, with three ships full of goods and slaves thus beginning the association of African Trade and Bristol. In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Bristol was not a place of...
    Bristol and the Slave Trade

  • Revising the Elizabethans

      Revising the Elizabethans
    In this series of podcasts Andy Harmsworth offers some advice and suggestions to help you when revising the Elizabethans for the GCSE History Exam.
    Revising the Elizabethans

  • Podcast Series: The Crusades

      Multipage Article
    An HA Podcasted History of the Crusades featuring Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith, Professor Jonathan Phillips of Royal Holloway, University of London and Dr Tom Asbridge of Queen Mary, University of London.
    Podcast Series: The Crusades

  • Podcast: Roman Britain

      Multipage Article
    An HA Podcasted History of Roman Britain featuring Guy de la Bédoyère.
    Podcast: Roman Britain

  • Podcast Series: The Reformation

      Multipage Article
    An HA Podcasted History of the Reformation featuring Professor Peter Marshall, Dr Henry Cohn, Dr Penny Robert and Professor Beat Kümin of Warwick University.
    Podcast Series: The Reformation

  • National Memory - Local Stories?

      Link
    National Memory - Local Stories is a project, funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and led by the National Portrait Gallery, London, in partnership with five national and local museums across the UK. The project explores how collection objects with local stories can inspire young people to make their own work...
    National Memory - Local Stories?

  • Podcast Series: Modern China

      Multipage Article
    An HA Podcasted History of Modern China  featuring Dr Yangwen Zeng of the University of Manchester, Professor Rana Mitter and Professor Patricia Thornton of the University of Oxford and Professor Arne Westad of the London School of Economics. 
    Podcast Series: Modern China

  • Recorded Webinar: New Approaches to Classical Sparta

      Article
    This webinar starts with a basic overview of the city-states of Classical Greece (roughly 500 to 350 BC) and Sparta’s place within their geography and history. It then looks at some common myths about the nature of Spartan society and politics, focusing on areas where recent research has transformed our...
    Recorded Webinar: New Approaches to Classical Sparta

  • BBC Film of Belfast Great Debate Heat 2011

      Great Debate Belfast Heat
    In Autumn 2011 BBC Northern Ireland interviewed the contestants from our Great Debate Belfast Heat. Click on the links below to find out more about these students and why history matters to them!
    BBC Film of Belfast Great Debate Heat 2011

  • Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare

      Presidential Lecture - Annual Conference 2014
    In Twelfth Night Shakespeare gently mocked the Puritans, who objected to stage plays and other entertainments. Yet within four decades, the Puritans had closed the London theatres and were about to seize power from Charles I. Among their many reforms were the banning of Christmas celebrations and of Twelfth Night itself....
    Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare

  • The Role of New Technology - 'another teaching aid just like a textbook or video'

      E-CPD
    N.B. This unit was produced before the new curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links. Some of the ICT references are now dated. How do we use new technology to enhance our History teaching? New technology...
    The Role of New Technology - 'another teaching aid just like a textbook or video'