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  • Charles I, Civil War and Restoration England

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr? King Charles I The Personal Rule of Charles I 1629-40 Polychronichon – interpreting the revolution of 1688 Cunning Plan King Charles II Jacobinism The Jacobites Oliver Cromwell HA Podcasts: From James to Anne
    Charles I, Civil War and Restoration England

  • 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

  • On-demand webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom

      HA webinar series for secondary history teachers and leaders
    In recent years, many history teachers have done lots of exciting work to develop the curriculum they teach, incorporating new content, new scholarship and new enquiries. As part of this work, it is vital to uncover how far pupils are learning all that was intended, and the ways in which...
    On-demand webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom

  • Building St James's spire: Louth's guilds and popular piety in the later middle ages

      Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
    Medieval historian Dr Claire Kennan continued our Virtual Branch series with a local history talk on the building of St James's spire, Louth.  In her talk Kennan traces the important role that Louth's major guilds of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Holy Trinity played in the building of the St James’s spire. Throughout the...
    Building St James's spire: Louth's guilds and popular piety in the later middle ages

  • Joan of Arc: Woman Warrior, Witch

      Branch Podcast
    In 2011 Professor Anne Curry, President of the Historical Association, gave a lecture on Joan of Arc to the Swansea Branch. This is a podcast of that lecture.
    Joan of Arc: Woman Warrior, Witch

  • HA News, Autumn 2024

      Welcome to the autumn 2024 edition of HA News magazine
    Welcome to the autumn edition of HA News. We have updates on the office team's move back into 59a, and HA President Alexandra Walsham's busy six months travelling the country supporting the HA and its activities, as well as membership, education and competition updates. Dr Dean A. Irwin shares ‘What got me into...
    HA News, Autumn 2024

  • Filmed Interviews: The Women of Bletchley Park

      The Women of Bletchley Park
    Bletchley Park was the most important of the top secret intelligence sites during the Second World War. The quiet Buckinghamshire village hosted 10,000 people dedicated to defeating the Nazis, 75% of those were women. In this podcast we are lucky enough to have some of those women talking about their...
    Filmed Interviews: The Women of Bletchley Park

  • Age of Revolutions Resources

      Information
    The Age of Revolutions is a period in history between c.1775-1848. Over the course of these years, society underwent a series of revolutions in almost all theatres of life: political, war, social and cultural, and economic and technological. Revolutionary ideas and revolutionary actions swept across the world, and historians still discuss and...
    Age of Revolutions Resources

  • England's Immigrants 1330-1550

      Multipage Article
    An HA Podcast with Professor Mark Ormrod of the University of York looking at the research project England's Immigrants 1330-1550.  In this podcast Professor Ormrod explores the extensive archival evidence about the names, origins, occupations and households of a significant number of foreigners who chose to make their lives and livelihoods in...
    England's Immigrants 1330-1550

  • The Life & Significance of Alan Turing

      The History of Science
    In this podcast, Dr Tommy Dickinson of the University of Manchester, discusses the life and significance of Alan Turing.
    The Life & Significance of Alan Turing

  • Webinar series: Making substantive and disciplinary knowledge work together in the secondary history curriculum

      HA on-demand webinar series for secondary history teachers
    The last few years have, rightly, seen a lot of discussion about 'what' we include in the history curriculum. This has meant that many schools now teach a wider-ranging and more inclusive form of history. As this work has an impact, it is important to continue to think about how...
    Webinar series: Making substantive and disciplinary knowledge work together in the secondary history curriculum

  • 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

  • What about history? Lessons from seven years with project-based learning

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Alternative curriculum models can take many forms. Some seem to be imposed on reluctant history teachers with little opportunity for planning. Other teachers are given the opportunity to really embed and revise models that might...
    What about history? Lessons from seven years with project-based learning

  • Polychronicon 136: Interpreting the Beatles

      Teaching History feature
    ‘The Beatles were history-makers from the start,' proclaimed the liner notes for the band's first LP in March 1963. It was a bold claim to make on behalf of a beat combo with one charttopping single, but the Beatles' subsequent impact on 1960s culture put their historical importance (if not...
    Polychronicon 136: Interpreting the Beatles

  • Bill Hall - Empire at War

      Empire at War
    Bill Hall was born in Coventry in 1944. His grandfather came to Britain in 1901, and worked in the Daimler car factory. In this video Bill talks about the part his family played in supporting the war effort during World War Two.
    Bill Hall - Empire at War

  • Gary Sheffield: Origins of the First World War

      Podcast
    Gary Sheffield, Professor of War studies, the University of Wolverhampton, is one of the UK's foremost historians on the First World War.  He is the author of numerous books and previously held posts at the University of Birmingham and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. In April 2014 he spoke at an HA event for teachers...
    Gary Sheffield: Origins of the First World War

  • Find out more about Corporate Secondary Membership

      Supporting high quality history
    Read Simon's 4 reasons for taking out Corporate membership  Watch the film above for an overview of corporate membership benefits. Corporate membership supports quality history provision across your school. It's the ideal option if you'd like multiple staff in your department to benefit from available resources and CPD support, while enjoying enhanced...
    Find out more about Corporate Secondary Membership

  • Themes over Time

      HA Resources
    The study of an aspect or theme in British history that consolidates and extends pupils'chronological knowledge from before 1066While the 2014 Curriculum sets out the broad focus of each particular content area, considerable choice has been left to history departments in determining which particular events or developments to include and...
    Themes over Time

  • Supporting resources

      Information
    A wealth of resources exist on the rest of the HA website and on the HA Secondary Committee’s blog onebighistorydepartment (OBHD) to help teachers and to support better history teaching. In addition, many books and articles have been published that are easily available to school history teachers. On this page you...
    Supporting resources

  • How does history shape our perceptions of national identity?

      History, Perceptions & Identity
    A series of podcasts of British students and their peers around the world discussing how a study of history has influenced their perceptions of their national identity and how it has influenced their perceptions of each other. This project has been started by The Mount and Millthorpe Schools in York and Philipp Melanchthon Gymnasium...
    How does history shape our perceptions of national identity?

  • Women and Gender in the French Wars

      The Napoleonic Wars
    In this podcast Dr Louise Carter critically examines the role of women in Britain during the French Revolution. During these wars, women were typically called on for army cooking, laundry, nursing and spying, and as such were considered part of the war machine. While women in the French wars accounted for...
    Women and Gender in the French Wars

  • History in Schools: What is the Future?

      History Debate Podcast
    The Future of history in our schools Whether you have children or not, whether you're a teacher or not, if you have a love of History this debate matters to you.
    History in Schools: What is the Future?

  • The Great Debate Final 2024

      25th March 2024
    Winner:  Emma Crow of Broxburn Academy, Broxburn, Scotland  Runners up:  Abigail Powers of The Ladies’ College, Guernsey  Erica Wright of William Farr School, Lincolnshire  Rachel McGarry of Shavington Academy, Crewe, Cheshire  Finalists Sofia Ntege, North Oxfordshire Academy, Banbury Harry Gray, Exeter School, Exeter Rhea Cherrington, Bablake School, Coventry Molly Grimshaw,...
    The Great Debate Final 2024

  • Film: Acts of Union and Disunion

      An Interview with Linda Colley
    Professor Linda Colley CBE, FBA, FRSL, FRHistS is a British Historian and a Fellow of the Historical Association. At the start of 2014 she wrote and presented a BBC Radio 4 series about the Acts of Union and Disunion, now a book. Over the summer she came into the HA...
    Film: Acts of Union and Disunion

  • Queen Anne

      18th Century British History
    In this podcast Lady Anne Somerset looks at the life, reputation and legacy of Queen Anne – the last of the Stuart monarchs, and the first sovereign of Great Britain. Anne was born on 6 February 1665 in London, the second daughter of James, Duke of York, brother of Charles II. Like many...
    Queen Anne