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  • Urban spaces cross-curricular work: Art & Design

      Lesson Resources
    Please note: these free resources pre-date the 2014 National Curriculum. This is part of a set of subject areas also covering History, Science and Literacy. See also Cross-curricular learning Public spaces offer a range of opportunities for children's learning, and can enable children to investigate, observe, wonder, record and create. The suggested activities in this section...
    Urban spaces cross-curricular work: Art & Design

  • Ancient Egypt

      Reference guide for primary
    This resource 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 Please note: this guide was written before the new National Curriculum...
    Ancient Egypt

  • Victorian Britain: a brief history

      Reference guide for primary
    Victorian era | Questions | Industrial revolution | Social reforms | Empire | Teaching the Victorians | Citizenship | Victorian achievements | Key concepts < This resource is free for everyone For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and...
    Victorian Britain: a brief history

  • Visual image and discussion exemplar: questioning a photograph

      Exemplar
    Almost more than any other source a photograph provides an incentive to dig, to burrow, to stretch, to tease out, to investigate and follow up leads. A good starter activity. We used a photo in this way to begin our Britain since 1930 unit with a mixed Year 5/6 class....
    Visual image and discussion exemplar: questioning a photograph

  • Britain and the Wider World in Tudor Times

      Reference
    The wider world: The Tudors ruled Britain during a fascinating and fast-changing century. Europe emerged from the Middle Ages, and Europeans sailed across the oceans, reaching the East, discovering the New World of America, establishing colonies, and circumnavigating the world for the first time (Ferdinand Magellan in 1517, and Francis...
    Britain and the Wider World in Tudor Times

  • Changes within Living Memory

      Reference guide for primary
    This resource 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 Overview  Post-1930s Britain has been transformed by a technological revolution...
    Changes within Living Memory

  • Aztec Experience

      Lesson Plan
    Take a holiday with the Aztecs! Children design holiday brochures. History providing a context for literacy. Demonstration and modelling of the holiday brochure genre, and the transfer of understanding of the generic form into an historical context. Pupils produced their own brochures giving information about life in the Aztec capital,...
    Aztec Experience

  • Olympic Games

      Lesson Plan
    This was the fourth lesson in a ten-week unit about the ancient Greeks. We had already looked at Homer's Iliad, examining Greek ideas about heroes and roles; investigated the evidence for the Trojan War; and used topic books to identify and classify the main features of ancient Greek life. Throughout...
    Olympic Games

  • Taunton Deane Branch Programme

      Article
    All enquiries to Mr Geoff Bisson (geoff.bisson51@gmail.com), tel. 01823 353749 All talks start at 7.30pm on Wednesdays and take place in the Birchall Hall, Queen's College, Trull Road, Taunton, TA1 4QS unless otherwise stated. There is free car parking on site. Associate Membership: £10 per year. Talks free to national...
    Taunton Deane Branch Programme

  • Children in the Second World War

      Lesson Plan
    This resource 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 These lessons with Year 6 children at a voluntary-aided primary...
    Children in the Second World War

  • Essay writing for everyone: an investigation into different methods used to teach Year 9 to write an essay

      Teaching History article
    Essay writing is at the very heart of school history, yet despite the wide range of developments in this area over the past decade, pupils still struggle. Alex Scott and his department decided to investigate a variety of methods to see what methods worked in enabling pupils to construct essays...
    Essay writing for everyone: an investigation into different methods used to teach Year 9 to write an essay

  • Key Stage 2-3 History Transition Project

      Guide to KS2-KS3 Transition
    Please note: these resources pre-date the 2014 National Curriculum. For more recent resources on Transition KS2-KS3 please see: Transition KS2–KS3 (Primary History article, 2021) Smooth Transitions: Key Stage 2 to 3 (Primary History article, 2020) Transition Key Stage 2 and 3 (Primary History article, 2016) Before 1066 & All That: Transition between...
    Key Stage 2-3 History Transition Project

  • Identifying the potential of history in teaching Citizenship at KS1 and KS2

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Following the publication of the QCA guide ‘Citizenship and PSHE at KS1 & 2’ (QCA:2000) which identified history as being a suitable vehicle for the teaching of the non-statutory citizenship framework in primary schools, and...
    Identifying the potential of history in teaching Citizenship at KS1 and KS2

  • Putting life into history: how pupils can use oral history to become critical historians

      Teaching History article
    However imaginative and enquiring classroom history may be, the history itself is usually constructed by a historian, a textbook author or a teacher. It is rare that pupils gain the opportunity to construct original histories of their own. Oral history can offer this opportunity. Yet as a methodology, oral history...
    Putting life into history: how pupils can use oral history to become critical historians

  • Essex Branch Programme

      Article
    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 - £5, Associate Members fee £15.00 / £20.00 for 2 members at same address Branch Contact: Tony Tuckwell: 01245 256423  tonytuckwell28@outlook.com    For further...
    Essex Branch Programme

  • The Great Plague of London (KS1)

      Article
    This resource 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 This was originally part of a 7-week unit looking at...
    The Great Plague of London (KS1)

  • Discussion and debate exemplar: Columbus: was he a hero?

      Short Lesson Exemplar
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Lynn Cowell's Year 2 class had been doing a topic on a famous person from the past: Christopher Columbus. It began with a story and picture sequencing, followed by some research into the life of Columbus. Lynn had invited Ray Verrier...
    Discussion and debate exemplar: Columbus: was he a hero?

  • Topic book blitz: asking and answering questions and Tudor Britain

      Short Lesson Exemplar
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The topic book blitz approach, where children freely scan a range of topic books, provides both a marvellous stimulus to curiosity and questioning, and an authentic purpose for using research skills. One of our key principles is Questions and Questioning.In this...
    Topic book blitz: asking and answering questions and Tudor Britain

  • Mystery Suitcase

      Lesson Plan exemplar
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. This resource 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...
    Mystery Suitcase

  • Canterbury Branch Programme

      Article
    Branch contact: Mike Gallagher mike.gallagher79@yahoo.co.uk Venue: All talks start at 7.00pm, unless otherwise stated, at venues in Canterbury individually specified. Associate membership: £10 per year. Talks free to national HA members and students. Visitors £5. Twitter: @CanterburyHA   Canterbury Branch Programme 2025 -26   Thursday 9th October 2025 (Preceded by...
    Canterbury Branch Programme

  • Sheffield Branch Programme

      Article
    All enquiries to Janine Baigent janine.baigent@hotmail.com     Meetings are held at the Lecture Theatre, Grayson Building, Birkdale School, Oakholme Road, S10 3DH. Entrance via the Endcliffe Grange Crescent gate.  Parking available. Date is usually the first or second Thursday of the month, doors will open at 7 pm and the...
    Sheffield Branch Programme

  • Isle of Wight Branch Programme

      Article
    All enquiries to Caroline Jacobs, Secretary  email: jacobscme@gmail.com phone: 07988171708 Unless otherwise stated, meetings take place at Newport Minster, St Thomas’ Square, NEWPORT, IW PO30 1BG, starting at 7.30pm and finishing at approximately 9.00pm.  Doors open at 7.00pm Associate branch membership: £10 per year.  Talks free to national HA members and students, visitors...
    Isle of Wight Branch Programme

  • The Second World War

      Classic Pamphlet
    On 5 September 1939 the German Führer, Adolf Hitler, paid a surprise visit to the corps which was in the forefront of his army's ferocious assault upon Poland. As they passed the remains of a smashed Polish artillery regiment, the corps commander, General Guderian, astonished Hitler by telling him that...
    The Second World War

  • The Historian 107: The Price of Reform: The People's Budget and the Present Trauma

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Editorial 5 The President's Column - Anne Curry 6 The price of reform: the people's budget and the present trauma - Hugh Gault (Read Article) 9 The Journey to Icarie and Réunion: A Romance of Socialism on the Texas Frontier - Donald J. Kagay (Read Article) 15 Arnold Wilkins:...
    The Historian 107: The Price of Reform: The People's Budget and the Present Trauma

  • Bruce! You're history.' The place of history in the Scottish curriculum

      Teaching History article
    History teachers in Scotland are feeling vulnerable. A curriculum review is leading to debates about history’s place in schools – will it or should it be a statutory part of Scotland’s curriculum for 11-14 year olds? Many of the concerns in Sam Henry’s article will ring true for teachers throughout...
    Bruce! You're history.' The place of history in the Scottish curriculum