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  • Teaching History 188: Representing History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article for free) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update: History in England’s primary schools: What do secondary history teachers need to know? (Read article) 10 ‘We are invisible!’ Ensuring Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children do not feel unseen in the history classroom – Richard Kerridge and Helen...
    Teaching History 188: Representing History

  • Roman Baths

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here. The account tells how we recreated a Roman bath house in the Reception/Year 1 classroom during a ten-week unit learning about...
    Roman Baths

  • Viking travel

      Lesson Plan (KS2)
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here. How did the Vikings travel so far? Using photos to investigate a Viking longboat. (See Gokstad ship for links to photographs.) Key...
    Viking travel

  • Richard III and the Princes in the Tower: update

      Historian article
    Richard III is one of the most famous kings of England, as much for his Shakespearean mythology as for the reality of his reign. Here, the different accounts of him are explored to shed light on some of his actions and legacy. The fascination evoked by Richard III and the...
    Richard III and the Princes in the Tower: update

  • Exeter Branch History

      Branch History
    A Brief History of the Exeter BranchExeter was one of the seventeen pre-First World War branches, founded in November 1906, the same year as the Historical Association itself. The Exeter branch was founded by Professor Walter (W.J.) Harte who became President of the (national) Historical Association 1932-36. Harte was appointed...
    Exeter Branch History

  • Primary History summer resource 2020: Historical Fiction

      Article
    This year's free summer resource for primary members explores historical fiction and how we can use it in our teaching and learning. Historical fiction can be a potent tool for creating a ‘sense of period’, immersing us in the past through the power of narrative. When studying a particular historical period,...
    Primary History summer resource 2020: Historical Fiction

  • Cunning Plan 159: Putting the people into Magna Carta

      Teaching History feature
    Does your heart skip with excitement at the prospect of a Year 7 lesson on Magna Carta? No? Magna Carta may be an important part of the long-term story of royal power and individual liberties but it is not a topic that excites many teachers. If it were, teachers would...
    Cunning Plan 159: Putting the people into Magna Carta

  • Music and history combine at Key Stage 2

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Section 1: Introduction Music is a powerful, emotive subject to enrich Historical, Geographical and Social Understanding. The Historical Association has a long and proud tradition of working closely with the Schools Music Association. In 2005, to...
    Music and history combine at Key Stage 2

  • Webinar series: Weaving historical scholarship into primary history

      HA CPD for primary teachers
    Primary teachers are expected to be experts in everything. If you feel that your history subject knowledge could do with a brush up, then this series is for you. The Historical Association has teamed up with some leading historians and experienced teachers to bring you up to speed on the...
    Webinar series: Weaving historical scholarship into primary history

  • History 382

      The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 108, Issue 382
    Access all articles online (you first need to be logged in to the HA website and subscribed to History) Special issue papers (Hi)story-Telling: An Introduction to Italian Alternate and Counterfactual History (pp 355-364) – Adriano Vinale (Open Access) ‘Missed Revolutions’: Historical Narratives During Italian Fascism (from Delio Cantimori to Camillo Pellizzi) (pp 365-387) – Patricia...
    History 382

  • Vikings: Egils Saga

      Lesson Plan (KS2)
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here. Key questions in this lesson were: What did the Vikings value?  What can we discover from sagas and poetry? (These resources...
    Vikings: Egils Saga

  • Viking Burial Mound

      Lesson Plan (KS2)
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here. In this simulation of an excavation, the children investigate a past event and imaginatively reconstruct what happened, on the basis of the...
    Viking Burial Mound

  • Sutton Hoo: describing artefacts found

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here. Questions addressed in this lesson were: What would you expect archaeologists to find at Sutton Hoo? Why is it important to...
    Sutton Hoo: describing artefacts found

  • Teaching History 193: Mediating History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (read article - open access) 04 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Laughing muppets, lost memories and lethal mutations: rescuing assessment from ‘knowledge-rich gone wrong’ – Christine Counsell (Read article) 26 ‘If we’ve been getting their name wrong, how else have they been misrepresented?’: Year 7 challenge stereotypes about the Mexica –...
    Teaching History 193: Mediating History

  • Historical Diary: An Eighteenth-Century Gap Year

      Historian article
    Historical diaries written by children are rare and only seven from England and the United States written before 1800 are known to have survived. One of these, found tucked away in the London Metropolitan Archive, is the diary of William Hugh Burgess, a fifteen year-old boy who grew up in...
    Historical Diary: An Eighteenth-Century Gap Year

  • 'History on Trial'

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 14, Number 2 – Spring/Summer 2017 ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract This study discusses the relevance of morality in the explanation of controversial history. It presents a discourse analysis of two representative adolescents’ narratives from Mexico and Spain about the 16th century Spanish Conquest of...
    'History on Trial'

  • Is primary history thriving?

      Article
    The 2022 Historical Association survey of primary schools drew a good response. The results have been evaluated. The full report has been published on the website but this article summarises the main findings and suggested strategies to take the subject further. Its findings help direct the resources of the HA....
    Is primary history thriving?

  • Webinar series: Diversity in local history

      HA on-demand webinar series for primary teachers
    The Key Stage 1 and 2 history curriculum requires a local study. The local study is an opportunity for pupils to engage with their local area; to discover how it has been shaped by those who came before them and how their locality can reveal broader chronological and spatial contexts....
    Webinar series: Diversity in local history

  • Are historical thinking skills important to history teachers?

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research IJHLTR, Volume 14, Number 2 – Spring/Summer 2017 ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract This article presents some findings of a qualitative interview study with 42 Austrian history teachers, conducted in the framework of an on-going three-year research project (2015–2018) funded by the Austrian Science Fund. The study...
    Are historical thinking skills important to history teachers?

  • Exploring the relationship between historical significance and historical interpretation

      Teaching History article
    Jane Card’s previous work on the power of images in conveying particular interpretations and her advice about how to use visual material effectively in classrooms will be familiar to readers of Teaching History. In this article she focuses specifically on the capacity of visual representations to convey a compelling message about the...
    Exploring the relationship between historical significance and historical interpretation

  • Reading Branch History

      Branch History
    Brief outline history of the Reading Branch of the Historical AssociationReading is one of the places to have had a branch before the First World War, between 1908 and 1911 as was shown in The Historian, ‘The Branches of the Historical Association 1906-2006'. The story of the current Reading Branch,...
    Reading Branch History

  • The Origins of the Second Great War

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet provides a detailed account of  the events leading up to the outbreak of war in 1939, covering the various factors that played a role in the outbreak of war such as tension over Poland and the Spanish Civil War, as well as the nature and effect of diplomatic...
    The Origins of the Second Great War

  • History and the climate crisis

      Teaching History article
    Kate Hawkey has long been an advocate for teaching about the history of climate change. This article, co-authored with Paula Worth, David Rawlings and Dan Warner-Meanwell, first outlines key arguments from her pioneering book History and the Climate Crisis, before illustrating the range of ways in which a group of...
    History and the climate crisis

  • Teaching History 158 - A Grounding in History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Andrew Stacey-Chapman - From a compartmentalised to a complicated past: developing transferable knowledge at A-level (Read article) 16 Cunning Plan: teaching about the history of the UK Parliament - Tony McConnell (Read article) 18 Dominik Palek - 'What exactly is parliament?'...
    Teaching History 158 - A Grounding in History

  • Maximising the power of storytelling in the history classroom

      Teaching History article
    James Hopkins’s Year 10 class had been excited by their course on medicine through time, but were less enthused about their new study of Norman England. They told him that the topic felt ‘distant’ and ‘not real’. Recalling his own experience as a student, Hopkins was interested in the ways...
    Maximising the power of storytelling in the history classroom