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  • Report on the Bristol Branch's A-level Russian History Conference

      16th May 2024
    The Bristol Branch of the HA’s A-level Russian History Conference27 March 2024  ‘Such a great event – both for students and teachers. Many thanks…for organising it, and for sharing excellent resources’ (Mark Kauntze, Head of History Redland Green School, Bristol) ‘Brilliant, thank you… our students really enjoyed the experience.’ (Phill...
    Report on the Bristol Branch's A-level Russian History Conference

  • My Favourite History Place and Out & About

      Historian regular features
    'My Favourite History Place' and 'Out and About' are two of the regular features in The Historian magazine. 'My Favourite History Place' showcases a location of particular historical interest selected by history experts and enthusiasts, and 'Out and About' describes an actual visit to a historical site. All the places that...
    My Favourite History Place and Out & About

  • 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

  • Lecture: From sex to the suffragettes

      Podcast: Keynote Lecture Annual Conference 2019
    Over the last few years, we have seen a widespread cultural failure in our history. From the rose-tinted nostalgia of politicians to a rise in destructive ideologies, history has become weaponised by those who seek to misuse, misrepresent and misunderstand it. At the same time, the field of history is...
    Lecture: From sex to the suffragettes

  • Young Quills 2024 – the longlist

      HA annual awards for best historical fiction for young people
    Each year, the Historical Association runs ‘Young Quills’, a competition for published historical fiction for children and young adults (14+). The Young Quills books for each year must be published for the first time in English in the year preceding the competition – so 2023 for this year’s selection.  Our...
    Young Quills 2024 – the longlist

  • Kilpeck Church: a window on medieval 'mentalite'

      Historian article
    In the village of Kilpeck, about eight miles south-west of Hereford, may be found the small parish church of St Mary and St David, justifiably described by Pevsner as ‘one of the most perfect Norman village churches in England’ (Pevsner 1963, 201). Seemingly remote today, in the twelfth century the...
    Kilpeck Church: a window on medieval 'mentalite'

  • Child Health & School meals: Nottingham 1906-1945

      Historian article
    Following Jamie Oliver’s devastating television series on the inadequacy of school meals the present government has been quick to be seen to address the situation. In September 2005, Ruth Kelly, the then Education Secretary, announced a war on junk food in schools.1 This was nothing new, because the history of...
    Child Health & School meals: Nottingham 1906-1945

  • HA short courses: Terms and conditions

      Information
    Please read the short course terms and conditions carefully before you register for a place on the short course. By booking a place, you agree to adhere to these terms and conditions. Please note that these terms and conditions are only applicable to the HA’s short course and do not...
    HA short courses: Terms and conditions

  • History 359

      The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 104, Issue 359
    Guest editors: Catherine Kelly and Joan Tumblety Articles Medical Doctors and Persuasion: Introduction (pp 5-18),Catherine Kelly, Joan Tumblety – Free access Surgery, Identity and Embodied Emotion: John Bell, James Gregory and the Edinburgh ‘Medical War’ (pp 19-41), Michael Brown – Open access ‘Upon my word, I do not see the use of...
    History 359

  • Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum

      Guidance for history teachers
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of history teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today  With Ofsted incorporating curriculum into inspections from September 2019 and finally...
    Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum

  • Young Historian Awards 2025 – take part (Primary prizes)

      History competition for primary schools
    We want young people to get the bug for writing about history in an interesting and critical way. Each year the Historical Association in collaboration with the Spirit of Normandy Trust offers a series of awards to Primary school children for outstanding history scholarship. Children are asked to investigate, think and write about history. The...
    Young Historian Awards 2025 – take part (Primary prizes)

  • Young Historian Awards 2025 – take part (Secondary prizes)

      History competition for students
    Researching, writing and presenting ideas about a historical theme or period is one of the best parts about studying history. We want young school and college aged students to get the bug for writing about history in an incisive, interesting and critical way. That is why each year the Historical...
    Young Historian Awards 2025 – take part (Secondary prizes)

  • Disability History Month

      News Item
    Physical, mental and neurological disability and differences have existed for as long as people have roamed the earth, with different cultures, groups and communities responding differently to how to support those individuals. How disability has been recognised and treated is not something that has always been recorded over human history,...
    Disability History Month

  • Polychronicon 173: From American Indians to Native Americans

      Teaching History journal feature
    Few sub-fields of American history have undergone as many changes over time as the study of Native Americans/American Indians. While nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historians portrayed Native Americans as savage barbarians or ignored them entirely, late twentieth-century historians portrayed them as victims of circumstance and aggressive European conquest. Today, modern...
    Polychronicon 173: From American Indians to Native Americans

  • Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2023 – the winners

      The HA's writing competition for children aged 10-19 years
    Being inspired by stories of the past to tell stories for today has kept people entertained for hundreds of years. Take a look at the shelves in any bookshop and there will be plenty of historical fiction. That is why we believe in starting them young at the HA, and...
    Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2023 – the winners

  • Young Historian Awards 2023 – the winners

      Annual history competition for schools
    Each year the Historical Association partners with The Spirit of Normandy Trust to recognise young historians who have shown excellent knowledge and demonstrated historical argument around a subject associated with a series of themes. The competition is divided into age brackets and the entry at secondary level is by essay,...
    Young Historian Awards 2023 – the winners

  • The Handing Back of Hong Kong: 1945 and 1997

      Article
    Andrew Whitfield examines the recovery of Hong Kong from the Japanese, 52 years before its return to China. As the clock ticks ever closer to midnight on 30 June 1997, the sun will set on Britain’s last major colonial outpost. Thousands of miles from the motherland, the colony originally acted...
    The Handing Back of Hong Kong: 1945 and 1997

  • Primary History 14

      Journal
    4 Not Henry VIII!  Ann Darrant 6 History Through the Streets Robin Coulthard 8 We Plough the Fields Patrick Wood & Norma Bell 10 Digging for Victory Erica Pounce 15 An Active Approach to Ancient History: the Greeks Harriet Martin 18 Grace Darling and Reception Children Karen Salter 20 Take...
    Primary History 14

  • Women in parliament since 1918

      Primary History article
    At the 1918 election just one woman, Constance Markievicz, won a seat, in Dublin, for Sinn Fein. She was in prison at the time. At the time, of course, the whole of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom. All 73 Sinn Fein MPs refused to take up their seats, and...
    Women in parliament since 1918

  • Teaching Stalinism: knowledge and pedagogy rebooted

      Joint event from the Historical Association, Northumbria University and the Study Group of the Russian Revolution
    Book your place // This joint event from the Historical Association, Northumbria University and the Study Group on the Russian Revolution is aimed at secondary and sixth-form history teachers, lecturers, and trainee teachers. It will focus on the changes in research and pedagogy on Stalinism. Under Stalin’s leadership from 1929...
    Teaching Stalinism: knowledge and pedagogy rebooted

  • Polychronicon 172: Health in the Middle Ages

      Teaching History feature
    The history of medicine, health, and illness between c. 500 AD and 1500 has received a great deal of scholarly attention in recent decades. It’s a fascinating field that can tell us a great deal about medieval people’s everyday lives and their day-to-day worries: after all, everyone is ill or...
    Polychronicon 172: Health in the Middle Ages

  • A South African, a Welshman and a Scotsman and the birth of the Royal Air Force

      Historian article
    In this article Sebastion Cox explores the significant role of international involvement in the creation of the Royal Air Force. The RAF owes its existence to a number of people but high among those deserving of credit are a South African Field Marshal, a Welsh politician and a Scottish soldier.
    A South African, a Welshman and a Scotsman and the birth of the Royal Air Force

  • Thinking through history: Story and developing children's minds

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated. Story is the crucial factor in children’s awareness of past times in their ‘mythic’ phase of mental development, see page 4. Everyone loves a story, stories ‘open out fresh fields, the illimitable beckoning of horizons to imagination…...
    Thinking through history: Story and developing children's minds

  • Dora Thewlis: Mill girl activist

      Primary History article
    Dora Thewlis was born in 1890 in Yorkshire to a family of textile workers employed in the mills around the Huddersfield Canal. She followed her mother and elder siblings into the mill at the age of 10, earning around £1 a week. Dora’s family, and especially her mother, were very...
    Dora Thewlis: Mill girl activist

  • The Medlicott Medal 2023

      3rd April 2023
    We are pleased to announce that Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch is to be awarded the Medlicott Medal for outstanding services and current contributions to history.   The award seeks to recognise individuals from a diversity of backgrounds in their service to history. Professor MacCulloch has an extensive academic CV, some of which is included at...
    The Medlicott Medal 2023