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Student teacher experiences at the Historical Association Conference 2025
Primary History article
Three student teachers from Liverpool John Moores University had the chance to attend the recent Historical Association Conference held at the Hilton in Liverpool. In this article, they outline the sessions and the benefits of attending, focusing on the sessions that they found most useful. The next conference is being...
Student teacher experiences at the Historical Association Conference 2025
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Teaching History 172: Cause and consequence
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Teaching History is the UK’s leading professional journal for history teachers at secondary level.It is free to HA Secondary Members.
Read an edition of Teaching History for free
02 Editorial (Read article)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 ‘Its ultimate pattern was greater than its parts’: using a patchwork quilt analogy...
Teaching History 172: Cause and consequence
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Italian history teachers day
Partnership CPD from the Historical Association, Association for the Study of Modern Italy, University College London and Royal Holloway, University of London
Saturday 12 October 2024, 10am–3pmUniversity of London
This event will feature lectures from academics from the University of Leicester, UCL and Royal Holloway on a variety of topics within Italian history from 1900-1946. It will provide up to date academic knowledge on key topics within this period of Italian history...
Italian history teachers day
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Teaching History 159: Underneath the essay
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Pipes's punctuation and making complex historical claims: how the direct teaching of punctuation can improve students' historical thinking and written argument - Rachel Foster (Read article)
14 Triumphs Show: teaching paragraph construction - Kirstie Murray (Read article)
16 New, Novice or Nervous? 3 decades of...
Teaching History 159: Underneath the essay
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Primary History 76
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article)
05 HA Primary News
06 Learning about the past through a study of houses and homes by Helen Crawford (Read article)
08 Coherence in primary history: what is it and how can it be achieved? By Tim Lomas (Read article)
14 Ideas for teaching at key stage...
Primary History 76
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'Doing justice to history': the learning of African history in a North London secondary school
Teaching History article
‘Doing justice to history': the learning of African history in a North London secondary school and teacher development in the spirit of ubuntu
The medium is the message, Marshall McLuhan observed many years ago and the ‘form' of what we do carries ‘content' as Hayden White has argued. This article...
'Doing justice to history': the learning of African history in a North London secondary school
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History 328
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 97, Issue 328
All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:
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Editorial...
History 328
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One of my favourite history places: Glastonbury
Primary History feature
Glastonbury, whether as a fleeting glimpse across the Somerset Levels from the M5, or up close and personal, walking within the town, holds a power that goes some way towards explaining why it has been of interest to so many people across its history. There are certain places that seem...
One of my favourite history places: Glastonbury
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Exploring and Teaching Medieval History in Schools
A secondary education publication of the Historical Association
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
Three words sum up the approach of this publication to the...
Exploring and Teaching Medieval History in Schools
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Teaching History 198: Curriculum Journeys
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
03 Editorial (Read article)
04 HA Secondary News
06 HA Update
08 Unpacking the enquiry puzzle – Ben Arscott (Read article)
16 ‘What’s the point of learning history?’ Establishing a dialogue with Year 9 about why environmental history matters – Alex Benger (Read article)
26 Cunning Plan… for using the story of Eunice Foote...
Teaching History 198: Curriculum Journeys
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HA Secondary History Survey 2010
HA Survey
The Historical Association publishes a major survey into the state of history teaching in English secondary schools today and reports some very worrying trends. A significant number of teachers report serious concerns that history is disappearing in their schools, with senior managers assuming that the study of the past has...
HA Secondary History Survey 2010
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Teaching History 145: Narrative
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 Lynda Abbott and Richard S Grayson - Community engagement in local history: a report on the Hemel at War project (Read article)
14 Paul Barrett - ‘My grandfather slammed the door in Winston Churchill's face!' using family history to provoke rigorous enquiry (Read...
Teaching History 145: Narrative
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The Effect of Prior Knowledge on Teaching International History
IJHLTR Article
International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 15, Number 1 – Autumn/Winter 2017ISSN: 14472-9474
Abstract
The students’ prior knowledge is considered to be a factor of paramount importance to the learning process, particularly when teaching history in a diverse and multicultural learning environment. This paper explores the issue...
The Effect of Prior Knowledge on Teaching International History
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How do pupils understand historical time?
Some evidence from England and the Netherlands
One of the key aims of the English history National Curriculum is to ensure that pupils ‘know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative’. Teaching chronology is also important in the Netherlands. In this article we cover some aspects of teaching and recent research from...
How do pupils understand historical time?
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Primary History 75
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article)
05 HA Primary News
06 Learning about the past through ‘ourselves and our families’ by Sandra Kirkland (Read article)
08 Why is diversity so important? How can we approach it? by Alison Gove-Humphries, Paul Bracey and Darius Jackson (Read article)
13 Charles Darwin: Exploring the man...
Primary History 75
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How do you construct an historical claim?
Teaching History article
While preparing her Year 12 students for an International Baccalaureate paper on early Islam, Kirstie Murray became concerned that students' weaknesses in making claims would be particularly exposed by the challenging complexity of this topic's source record and its contested historiography.
Drawing on the practice of other history teachers, especially...
How do you construct an historical claim?
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History 327
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 97, Issue 327
All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:
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History 327
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A revolution in primary history teaching, quietly consolidated over the past 35 years
Primary History article
This article is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today
In my 38 years in history education, the most profound...
A revolution in primary history teaching, quietly consolidated over the past 35 years
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Using oral history in the classroom
Multipage Article
The Oral History Society has kindly agreed to produce two new films aimed at history teachers who are new to carrying out or using oral histories either in their teaching or with students. These two films will equip teachers with the essential tools and knowledge for using and devising effective...
Using oral history in the classroom
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HA Secondary History Survey 2009
HA Survey
Pupils are receiving fewer and fewer hours of history teaching across secondary schools in England according to research by the Historical Association. The specially commissioned report discovered that:Many children receive little or no history education after only two years of secondary school48% of academies report 11-12 year olds spend less...
HA Secondary History Survey 2009
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Examining the Value of Teaching Sensitive Matters in History
IJHLTR Article
International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 14, Number 2 – Spring/Summer 2017
ISSN: 14472-9474
Abstract
Driven by the overarching objective of promoting reconciliation through education, this paper explores the impact of history teaching on youth identity and ethnic relations in Sri Lanka. Building on the arguments of scholars the...
Examining the Value of Teaching Sensitive Matters in History
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Teaching History 178: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
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Constructing Accounts
Teachers of history have long recognised the tensions inherent in our role. We must deal with the existence of notions of a core narrative (or narratives) of areas of the past, communicating what those notions are while enabling our students to engage critically with...
Teaching History 178: Out now
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Choosing History
Information
Just as history has made our world what it is, history can also be a key part of your future. Learn how studying history informs the present and gives you the skills you need to prepare for the future.
Apart from being very interesting, history is useful for a host of...
Choosing History
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'Victims of history': Challenging students’ perceptions of women in history
Teaching History article
As postgraduate historians with teaching responsibilities at the University of York, Bridget Lockyer and Abigail Tazzyman were concerned to tackle some of the challenges reported by their students who had generally only encountered women’s history in a disconnected way through stand-alone topics or modules. Their response was to create a...
'Victims of history': Challenging students’ perceptions of women in history
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History 326
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 97, Issue 326
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.
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Editorial...
History 326
