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  • Democracy is not boring

      Teaching History article
    Seán Lang argues that whilst history teachers have expressed much support for the citizenship education proposals, and whilst their practice already addresses the skills of evidence-weighing, debate and argument, there are huge gaps in our coverage of relevant content. He argues that the freedom with which teachers may currently interpret...
    Democracy is not boring

  • Teaching History 63

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    Articles: 8 Using Evidence in the GCSE History Classroom - Heather Fry  18 Preparing to Teach about Causation - Ian Davies and Margaret Marshall  23 History Through Drama: A Curriculum Development Project - Graeme Easdown  28 The Appliance of Science: History and the Use of Artefacts in the Primary Curriculum - Peter Vass  33...
    Teaching History 63

  • 'Really weird and freaky': using a Thomas Hardy short story as a source of evidence in the Year 8 classroom

      Teaching History article
    Can 25 so-called ‘low ability’ girls access 30 pages of difficult text? Yes, much more easily they can access the tiny, sanitised, made-easy ‘gobbets’ that they are normally exposed to in the name of ‘access’. Mary Woolley makes the point that boring texts are those that tell you only essential...
    'Really weird and freaky': using a Thomas Hardy short story as a source of evidence in the Year 8 classroom

  • Significant people: Mary Wollstonecraft

      Primary History article
    ‘I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves’ – Mary Wollstonecraft The National Curriculum gives the freedom to select any significant individual and many schools have already chosen those outside the commonly-used ones such as Florence Nightingale, Christopher Columbus and Queen Victoria. There is also...
    Significant people: Mary Wollstonecraft

  • Creating Stories For Teaching Primary History

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated. With primary history contributing to writing, some research by Sandra Dunsmuir and Peter Blatchford into pupils aged 4-7 has relevance to history teaching. The findings were published in the "British Journal of Educational Psychology", edition...
    Creating Stories For Teaching Primary History

  • Secondary Committee biographies

      Information
    Find out more about the HA's committees here  Sally Burnham (committee chair) Sally is a history teacher in a school in Lincolnshire and also works one day a week at the University of Nottingham on the History PGCE. Sally has been a Head of Department and is now a Lead...
    Secondary Committee biographies

  • Primary History 90: Out now

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    Read Primary History 90 As head of state the Queen stands as our figurehead, a role she has held for seventy years. During that time much has changed. For most of us reading this journal we have known no other sovereign, never had a time when the Queen was not...
    Primary History 90: Out now

  • An Introduction to Women in Greece and Rome

      Podcast
    In this podcast Dr Richard Hawley of Royal Holloway, University of London examines some of the difficulties we have with the evidence when constructing the history of Women in Ancient Greece & Rome.
    An Introduction to Women in Greece and Rome

  • Teaching History 184: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 184: Different lenses For millennia, human beings have used lenses as tools: to help them see further, to magnify or to correct defects of vision. Yet lenses can distort as well as illuminate the unseen. Robert Hooke, the seventeenth-century scientist who helped popularise the microscope through his...
    Teaching History 184: Out now

  • 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

  • Isle of Wight Branch Programme

      Article
    Branch contact: All enquiries to Caroline Jacobs jacobscme@gmail.com tel: 07988 171 708 Venue: All talks take place at Newport Minster, St Thomas’ Square, NEWPORT, IW PO30 1BG, starting at 7.30pm and finishing at approximately 9.00pm, unless otherwise stated.  Doors open at 7.00pm Associate membership: £10 per year.  Talks free to...
    Isle of Wight Branch Programme

  • Teaching History 181: Handling Sources

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial: Handling Sources (read article for free) 03 HA Secondary News   04 HA Update   08 Being an historian: can online source banks help us to replicate the research experience of historians in the post-16 classroom? – Robin Conway and Amy Scott (read article) 17 'What is history': Africa and the excitement of sources with Year 7 – Adbul Mohamud and Robin...
    Teaching History 181: Handling Sources

  • Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical approach to 'layers of inference' for Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Claire Riley explains how she developed and improved the ‘layers of inference' diagram-already a popular device since Hilary Cooper's work-as a way of getting pupils fascinated by challenging texts and pictures. Working with the whole ability range in Year 9 she analyses her successes and failures, offering many practical suggestions...
    Evidential understanding, period knowledge and the development of literacy: a practical approach to 'layers of inference' for Key Stage 3

  • Stalin, Propaganda, and Soviet Society during the Great Terror

      Historian article
    Sarah Davies explores the evidence that even in the most repressive phases of Stalin’s rule, there existed a flourishing ‘shadow culture’, a lively and efficient unofficial network of information and ideas. 'Today a man only talks freely with his wife — at night, with the blankets pulled over his head.’...
    Stalin, Propaganda, and Soviet Society during the Great Terror

  • Teaching History 53

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: Multiculturalism and the Lower School History Syllabus: Towards a Practical Approach. - Paul Goalen 8 Using Audio-Visual Media with Slow Learners: A New Approach in History - Keith Hodgkinson 17 New History and Media Education - Derek McKiernan 20 Local History Studies in the Classroom...
    Teaching History 53

  • Nazi aggression: planned or improvised?

      Historian article
    Read more like this: Nazism and Stalinism Fascism in Europe 1919-1945 Kristallnacht Anti-semitism and the Holocaust The Coming of War in 1939 Political internment without trial in wartime Britain Neville Chamberlain: villain or hero? The Mechanical Battle of Britain Since the 1960s, there have been two main schools of thought...
    Nazi aggression: planned or improvised?

  • Real Lives: Alice Daye: mother of the English book trade

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected to greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: Alice Daye: mother of the English book trade

  • Subject Leader Development Programme (SLDP)

      News Item
    Teach Secondary Awards 2024: Highly Commended We're delighted that the HA's Subject Leader Development Programme won Highly Commended in the 2024 Teach Secondary awards. Here's what the judges said: "A really useful, evidence-based and academically rigorous exploration of subject leadership, with a nice balance of theory and practical guidance. The online content...
    Subject Leader Development Programme (SLDP)

  • History 359

      The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 104, Issue 359
    Guest editors: Catherine Kelly and Joan Tumblety Articles All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:  1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.   NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new...
    History 359

  • Ofsted and History in Schools

      Article
    HM Inspector John Hamer reviews the evidence. In a lecture marking the 150th anniversary of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Schools, Peter Gordon recalled a nineteenth century HMI, the Reverend W.H. Brookfield. His circle of friends included Tennyson, the Hallams and Thomas Carlyle.
    Ofsted and History in Schools

  • A treasure trove of local history - how to use your local record office

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. In her article in Primary History No 21, Jayne Woodhouse highlighted that the study of history needn’t be all about national events. Essentially it is a series of stories, often about ordinary people and their ordinary lives, which can be built up...
    A treasure trove of local history - how to use your local record office

  • Oral history, a powerful tool or a double edged sword?

      Primary History article
    We all agree that oral history is a particularly powerful and attractive method for children to gather evidence and appreciate the real life relevance of history. From the Early Years to Year 6, many of us look deliberately for the opportunities to bring a visitor into the classroom, who will...
    Oral history, a powerful tool or a double edged sword?

  • Tripping over the levels: experiences from Ontario

      Teaching History article
    Here in the United Kingdom, we are used to the idea of assessing pupils’ work against Levels. In fact, perhaps we are a little too used to it. Our familiarity with the Level Descriptions in the National Curriculum, and the ways they might inform our Key Stage 3 assessments, can...
    Tripping over the levels: experiences from Ontario

  • 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

  • The Personal Study Dealing With Significance

      Student Guides
    To access the PDF resources attached to this guide, along with 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 History courses at A-Level contain...
    The Personal Study Dealing With Significance