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  • Webinar series: Making history accessible

      On-demand webinar series for subject leaders and teachers of history
    What does this series cover and why should I attend? In recent years, the UK’s SEND system has been under the spotlight. As numbers of students with identified special educational needs increase, attention has been given to how to best embed inclusive practice, enabling teachers to support all students to...
    Webinar series: Making history accessible

  • Cunning Plan 152.2: using Gillray’s cartoons with Year 8

      Teaching History feature
    The past 30 years have seen a general revival in scholarly activity relating to ‘all aspects of 18th-century British history'. However, this increase in academic study, which has broadly coincided with the introduction and development of the National Curriculum in England, has not resulted in the period being studied in great...
    Cunning Plan 152.2: using Gillray’s cartoons with Year 8

  • The International Journal Volume 4 Number 2

      Journal
    Jannet van Drie and Carla van BoxtelEnhancing Collaborative Historical Reasoning by Providing Representational Guidance   Nadine Fink  Pupils' Conceptions of History and History Teaching   Alan HodkinsonMaturation and the Assimilation of the Concepts of Historical Time: a Symbiotic Relationship, or Uneasy Bedfellows? An Examination of the Birth-Date Effect on Educational...
    The International Journal Volume 4 Number 2

  • Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)

      Immersive online course for experienced history teachers
    Autumn 2025 Cohort Start date: Wednesday 12 November, 5.15pm–6.30pm Book Now What is the Experienced Teacher Programme? This six-week online course is designed to energise your teaching and help you engage with the history education community. In this programme you will access rich, subject-specific professional development designed specifically for experienced teachers: an...
    Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)

  • Film: Henry VII and Tudor Royal Authority

      Development of Tudor Royal Authority film series
    In this film Professor Steven Gunn, Merton College, University of Oxford, looks at the life and reign of Henry VII and examines the role and significance of religion, foreign relations, domestic politics and the nobility on Henry's establishment of the Tudor dynasty. If you're unable to see the film below, please use...
    Film: Henry VII and Tudor Royal Authority

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic

      Article
    Oliver Cromwell’s death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of Englishmen faced each other across the Scottish border; and the Long Parliament was finally dissolved after two decades.  Why...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic

  • What Does the English Baccalaureate mean for me?

      Briefing Pack
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Some content may be outdated and some links may no longer work. History constitutes a key player in the new English Baccalaureate, being one of the two choices that students may opt for in the Humanities section. The English Baccalaureate is a...
    What Does the English Baccalaureate mean for me?

  • Two Realms and an empire: history, geography and an investigation into landscape

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The idea that subjects should abandon their ‘silos' and work together is bandied about currently a great deal - ‘subjects' and ‘silos' alliterate after all and so, of course, does the word ‘slogan'. What might...
    Two Realms and an empire: history, geography and an investigation into landscape

  • Your Secondary CPD calendar Spring 2026

      News Item
    We know that it's not easy for teachers to get out of school or have budgets to afford a plentiful supply of CPD. We know how essential your CPD is to you and that is why we have worked to provide a wide range of online learning and webinar-based CPD...
    Your Secondary CPD calendar Spring 2026

  • International relations

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    An HA Podcasted History: The Cold War The Road to World War II The World War I peace treaties The League of Nations
    International relations

  • On-demand webinar: Histories of the African continent

      Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
    Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum Session 4: Histories of the African continent This 90-minute recorded webinar will cover three elements: an introductory discussion about the scope and opportunities for exploring African history; Enquiry One: Africa and the development of religion; Enquiry Two: Decolonisation, Ideology and Race in Africa: the struggles...
    On-demand webinar: Histories of the African continent

  • The International Journal Volume 3 Number 2

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 3 Number 2 July 2003 ISSN 1472 - 9466 Editorial Keith Crawford - The Role and Purpose of Textbooks   Articles Jason Nicholls  - Methods in School Textbook Research   Penelope Harnett - History in the Primary School: the Contribution of...
    The International Journal Volume 3 Number 2

  • Key Stage 2-3 History Transition Project Final Report

      Final Report
    The project was steered and edited on behalf of the Historical Association by Andrew Wrenn, General Adviser for History, Cambridgeshire Advisory Service. It was funded by the Innovation Unit of the Department for Education and Skills.
    Key Stage 2-3 History Transition Project Final Report

  • 'The end of all existence is debarred me': Disraeli's depression 1826-30

      Historian article
    During the years from 1826 to 1830 Benjamin Disraeli went through the slough of despond. His first major biographer,William Flavelle Monypenny, observed the ‘clouds of despondency which were now settling upon Disraeli's mind'. In his magisterial life of the great tory leader Robert Blake commented that ‘after completing Part II...
    'The end of all existence is debarred me': Disraeli's depression 1826-30

  • Film: Germany 1945-1991: Introduction

      Film series: Power and authority in Germany, 1871-1991
    Germany as a divided and defeated nation is explored through the lens of how the two new Germanys rebuilt their States politically and culturally. Professor Anna Saunders reflects on the different inequalities that existed between the two states and how stability was established between political leaders, even when political dissent...
    Film: Germany 1945-1991: Introduction

  • The International Journal Volume 2 Number 1

      IJHLTR
    Editorial  - Professionalism, Scholarship, Theory and Research   Ismail DemircioÄŸlu - Does the Teaching of History in Turkey Need Reform?   Terry Haydn - Subject Discipline Dimensions of ICT and Learning: History, a Case Study   Sonia Kerrigan - Creating a Community School Museum: Theory into Practice   Romero Morante...
    The International Journal Volume 2 Number 1

  • The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

      Journal
    Editorial  - History and the History Curriculum Articles Isabel Barca - Prospective teachers' ideas about assessing different accounts    Keith Barton - Primary children's understanding of the role of historical evidence: Comparisons between the United States and Northern Ireland    Carley Dalvarez - The Contribution of History to Citizenship Education ...
    The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

  • Harold Son of Godwin

      Classic Pamphlet
    To lecture on Harold Godwinson, earl of Wessex, King Harold II of England, in the year 1966 at Hastings is a presumption. We appear to know much about him, and yet in fact there are many gaps in knowledge. Much information, so plausible at first sight, proves unreliable on closer...
    Harold Son of Godwin

  • Communities of inquiry: creating the conditions for meaningful collaboration

      Teaching History article
    When Will Bailey-Watson (a history ITE tutor) and Charlie Crouch (a history PhD student) worked together to improve a history undergraduate course at their university, they realised that the benefits of collaboration between teachers and historians can flow both ways. In this article they offer an account of how they sought...
    Communities of inquiry: creating the conditions for meaningful collaboration

  • Film: Bricks and the making of the city - London in the 19th century

      Virtual Branch
    In this HA Virtual Branch talk Peter Hounsell drew on his recently published book Bricks of Victorian London, exploring the crucial role brick production played in the creation of Britain's capital and why the important place of bricks in the fabric of the city isn't always obvious. Peter Hounsell has published...
    Film: Bricks and the making of the city - London in the 19th century

  • 11 Ways to Use Multimedia Videos in History Lessons

      Article
    Dan Moorhouse provides: 11 ways to use multimedia videos in lessons: 1)      To develop an understanding of the ways in which different interpretations of events are formed. For example, pupils may study Cromwell and his times and may then be asked to consider how and for what purpose a particular interpretation...
    11 Ways to Use Multimedia Videos in History Lessons

  • The Normans

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Norman Conquest The Origins of the Norman Conquest The Norman Conquest: why did it matter? KeynoteSpeech from the Historical Association 2013 Annual Conference - Podcast 1066: The Limits of our Knowledge Edward the Confessor and the Norman Conquest The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of...
    The Normans

  • Write Your Own Historical Fiction 2025 – The winners

      The HA’s writing competition for children aged 10-15 years
    Take time, a place and a character or two, and you can create some of the most exciting stories ever told – and by telling a story you unleash a desire to seek knowledge, to entertain, to inform and to enrich the lives of others. Storytelling is one of the oldest...
    Write Your Own Historical Fiction 2025 – The winners

  • Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers

      Teaching History article
    Kate Hawkey and Helen Snelson, who have both worked for many years in initial teacher education, wanted to find ways of supporting recently qualified teachers in continuing to develop their practice. Working in two different parts of the country, they established different kinds of informal, but well-focused history-specific, support groups....
    Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers

  • Historical scholarship, archaeology and evidence in Year 7

      Teaching History article
    The stimulus for this article came from two developmental tasks that Barbara Trapani was set during the course of her initial teacher education programme: planning her first historical enquiry and bringing the work of an historian into the classroom. Trapani chose to tackle the two tasks together, using Susan Whitfield’s...
    Historical scholarship, archaeology and evidence in Year 7