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  • Reading at A-Level

      Student Guides
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to a wealth of other online resources from podcasts to articles and publications, plus support and advice though our “How To”, examination and transition to university guides and careers resources, join the Historical Association today At A-Level, in most subjects there is...
    Reading at A-Level

  • German universities under the Nazis

      Historian article
    In this article A.D. Harvey draws out the influence that Nazism and Nazi practices had on German universities and their staff. He explores how some university professors were active members of the party while others saw a chance of advancement by becoming conduits of the Nazi ideas. Finally he considers...
    German universities under the Nazis

  • Ealing Branch Programme

      Article
    Meetings are usually held on the second Tuesday of each month at Ealing Green Church, W5 5QT at 7.30pm, with the exception of the October meeting which takes place at Twyford School at 6.30pm Members (£15 annual fee) and Visitors (£5 per talk) Students free. Bookings for meetings are via...
    Ealing Branch Programme

  • Primary Curriculum Schemes of Work

      Article
    All schemes of work are free to HA Members, along with a host of other resources and benefits. If you are not yet an HA Member, you can get a taster of our schemes of work through our open-access Anglo-Saxons unit, our open-access Great Fire of London unit and our...
    Primary Curriculum Schemes of Work

  • Young Historian Awards 2022 – the winners

      Annual history competition for schools
    This was a very positive year for the Young Historian Awards. The judging panel continue to be delighted by the quality of the work submitted in a variety of formats by young historians. Although entry levels were lower than during the pandemic, the data confirms that, with the exception of...
    Young Historian Awards 2022 – the winners

  • Essex Branch Programme

      Article
    Essex Branch Programme 2024 - 25 Talks on Saturdays, 2.30pm, Trinity Methodist Church, Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, CM1 2XB. Please check the calendar on this website for details. Visitors and prospective members warmly welcomed - £3, Associate Members fee £10.00 / £15.00 for 2 members at same address Branch Contact: Tony Tuckwell...
    Essex Branch Programme

  • Announcing the winners of the Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2021

      The HA's writing competition for children ages 10-19 years
    This writing competition seeks to encourage young people to express their creative sides alongside a strong understanding of a historical period, event or theme. This year despite restrictions, further lockdowns and uncertainty the number and quality of entries remained high, as well as being imaginative, exciting, well researched and a...
    Announcing the winners of the Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2021

  • 1497, Cornwall and the Wars of the Roses

      Article
    Ian Arthurson reasseses the Cornish rising of 1497 on its 500th anniversary. On the 400th anniversary of this rebellion there was a good deal of agreement about the Wars of the Roses: ‘The slaughter of people was greater than in any former war on English soil ... The standard of...
    1497, Cornwall and the Wars of the Roses

  • HA Podcast Series: James VI & I to Anne

      James VI & I to Anne
    In this series of podcasts we look at British and Irish History from the Union of the Crowns to Queen Anne. This series features: Mr Simon Healy, Dr Frank Tallett, Professor Jackie Eales, Dr Andrew Hopper, Professor Michael Braddick, Dr Jason Peacey, Professor Peter Gaunt, Professor Barry Coward, Professor John...
    HA Podcast Series: James VI & I to Anne

  • Teaching History 195: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 195: Perspectives in Time In the giant annual ‘card sort’ through which we editors shape numerous article proposals into themes, we found ourselves readily linking the pieces that now fall into this edition. There was a striking commonality; the theme was there. But what should we call...
    Teaching History 195: Out now

  • Podcast series: Religion in England Through Time

      Religion through Time
    This set of podcasts looks at religion in England from the ancient to the modern world and features: Professor Ronald Hutton of the University of Bristol, Professor Joanna Story of the University of Leicester, Professor Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia, Dr Steven Gunn of the University of...
    Podcast series: Religion in England Through Time

  • Working with sources: scepticism or cynicism? Putting the story back together again

      Article
    Many history teachers will remember the feature on Jamie Byrom's teaching in Times Educational Supplement of July 1996 where he attacked the recent fashion of history textbooks for encouraging only short (and usually formulaic) responses about reliability of sources. He demonstrated the systematic teaching that pupils need if they are...
    Working with sources: scepticism or cynicism? Putting the story back together again

  • Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme

      Article
    Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme 2024-25   Entry to meetings is free for HA members and £2 for visitors. Associate membership of the branch is £12 for 2024/25 or £19.50 with our monthly news bulletin, the Beckenham Historian. All meetings take place at 7.45 pm in Christ Church Hall, Fairfield...
    Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme

  • Manchester Branch History

      Branch History
    Manchester Branch is proud of its role in the foundation of the Historical Association (HA) in 1906.  Professor Thomas Frederick Tout and others at Manchester University had been discussing the idea of forming an Association to promote the teaching of a more relevant and vibrant form of history than was...
    Manchester Branch History

  • 70 years of the Isle of Wight Branch

      1st July 2020
    In June 2020 the HA Isle of Wight branch celebrated its 70th birthday. Here, Honorary Secretary of the branch Terry Blunden looks back at the history and development of the branch since 1950. Although the Historical Association was formed in 1906 sixteen years elapsed before a branch was established on...
    70 years of the Isle of Wight Branch

  • What is a Synoptic Essay and How Do I Write One?

      Student Guides
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to a wealth of other online resources from podcasts to articles and publications, plus support and advice though our “How To”, examination and transition to university guides and careers resources, join the Historical Association today Part of the A-Level History course now...
    What is a Synoptic Essay and How Do I Write One?

  • Camels, diamonds and counterfactuals: a model for teaching causal reasoning

      Teaching History article
    In the last edition of Teaching History, Arthur Chapman described how he uses ICT to develop sixth form students’ conceptual understanding of interpretations, significance and change. In this article, he turns his attention to causal reasoning and analysis. Drawing on the work of historians such as Evans and Carr, he...
    Camels, diamonds and counterfactuals: a model for teaching causal reasoning

  • Northampton Branch Programme

      Article
    Northampton Branch Programme 2023-24 Branch contact:  All enquiries to Mr David Waller david@davidwaller.org.uk  tel 07855 898834 Venue:  Unless otherwise indicated, all meetings will be online at 7 p.m. (details available via Eventbrite registration). Branch website:  https://historyatnorthampton.com/2023/08/08/northampton-historical-association-programme-2023-24/   Thursday 19 October 2023 Banners in British Left-Wing Politics since 1800 Kerry Love,...
    Northampton Branch Programme

  • The Historian 155: Out now

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Read The Historian 155: Women and power Since the publication of our Jubilee edition in the summer, the nation has mourned the passing of Queen Elizabeth II. Her death marks the end of an era that will, no doubt, be studied in the future as a self-contained unit, like the...
    The Historian 155: Out now

  • Dimensions of diversity - How do we improve our teaching of social complexity in history?

      E-CPD
    This E-CPD unit has been devised to support teachers in developing their teaching of diversity within history programmes of study from Key Stage 3 to A level. Click on the introduction below to see three video clips in which the authors introduce the resource and set the context!
    Dimensions of diversity - How do we improve our teaching of social complexity in history?

  • Developing conceptual understanding through talk mapping

      Teaching History article
    As history teachers, we talk about concepts all the time. We know that pupils need to understand them in order to make sense of the past. Precisely what we mean when we talk about concepts is less clear, however. Research into how history teachers talk about their practice suggests that,...
    Developing conceptual understanding through talk mapping

  • The Reformation: Key Figures and Groups

      The History of Christianity
    In this podcast Dr Penny Roberts of Warwick University takes you through the other key contributors to the international appeal of the reform movement aside from Calvin or Luther: Zwingli , Bullinger, Theodore Bezer, Martin Bucer and also radicals, rebels and resistance: the Huguenots, the Dutch rebellion, the Anabaptists and...
    The Reformation: Key Figures and Groups

  • 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

  • Nuneaton Branch History

      Branch History
    The  Nuneaton Branch of the H.A. was originally founded in November 1919 as one part of a county wide Warwickshire branch.  Instrumental in this was the editor of the Nuneaton Chronicle, Albert Francis Cross, assisted by local doctor turned local historian, Edward Nason. After this arrangement ended Nuneaton was re-founded...
    Nuneaton Branch History

  • Manchester (with Liverpool and Chester) Branch History

      Branch History
    The Branch is proud of its role in the foundation of the Historical Association in 1906.  Professor Thomas Frederick Tout and others at Manchester University had been discussing the idea of forming an Association to promote the teaching of a more relevant and vibrant form of history than was currently...
    Manchester (with Liverpool and Chester) Branch History