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  • Teaching History 184: Different lenses

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article for free) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Beyond myth and magic: Year 7 use oral traditions to make claims about the rise and fall of the Inka empire – Paula Worth (Read article) 22 They sometimes clashed, and ultimately blended: planning a more...
    Teaching History 184: Different lenses
  • On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with cause and consequence in primary history

      Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
    Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history Session 2: Avoiding confusion with cause and consequence in primary history This practical webinar will identify what confuses pupils in the teaching of the disciplinary concept of cause and consequence and will show how such confusion and misconceptions can be avoided and...
    On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with cause and consequence in primary history
  • Pupil Voice Survey: Views of history – within and beyond school

      21st March 2023
    The Historical Association (HA) in conjunction with the University of Oxford Education Department are looking for schools to help carry out two very short questionnaires: (1) with any students willing to share their views of the subject including, where relevant, their decision about whether or not to choose the subject...
    Pupil Voice Survey: Views of history – within and beyond school
  • Teaching History 143: Constructing Claims

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Gary Howells - Why was Pitt not a mince pie? Enjoying argument without end: creating confident historical readers at A Level (Read article) 15 Jane Card - Seeing the point: using visual sources to understand the arguments for women's suffrage (Read article) 20...
    Teaching History 143: Constructing Claims
  • How introducing cultural and intellectual history improves critical analysis in the classroom

      Teaching History article
    In his article in this journal just over a year ago, Steven Driver set out his vision for a less myopic range of topics in A-level coursework. In this edition, Driver demonstrates how he has built student enthusiasm for, and knowledge of, a topic which he had previously identified as...
    How introducing cultural and intellectual history improves critical analysis in the classroom
  • Building history connections with the local community

      Primary History article
    St George’s is a Quality Mark school. Part of what impressed the assessors was the way that the school was able to extend its 150th anniversary to include the wider community of Mossley. Many schools have links with their local community but this article shows that sometimes this can be more...
    Building history connections with the local community
  • Flight from Kabul: a historical perspective

      Historian article
    In this article, Matt Jux-Blayney compares the British retreat from Kabul in 1842 with the most recent flight of NATO from Kabul in August 2021. Matt explores the various similarities between the two campaigns and includes personal recollections from his service in Afghanistan with the British Army. On 6 January...
    Flight from Kabul: a historical perspective
  • Writing & History Overview

      Primary History article
    History provides an extremely rich context for literacy and writing, see Case Study 3: Evacuees. As such, Writing History is an element in a whole school policy towards literacy that emphasises Language Across the Curriculum for all subjects and areas. references. Case Study 1 illuminates the concept that pupil writing permeates...
    Writing & History Overview
  • Out and about in Trowbridge

      Historian feature
    This is more than one of our conventional ‘Out and About in Local History' items because Ken Rogers introduces us to a process whereby visual architectural and industrial history of Trowbridge has been saved from destruction; and then he gives us some clear guidance as to where to go and...
    Out and about in Trowbridge
  • A local history toolkit

      Toolkit
    Produced by the Historical Association for the National Literacy Trust's "The Olden Times" newspaper resource, May 2011. For more recent resources on local history enquiries see: Local significant individuals Local history scheme of work: your local high street Local history scheme of work: transport Incorporating local history into a scheme...
    A local history toolkit
  • Primary History 67

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    04 Editorial 05 HA Primary News 06 Why stories? Hilary Cooper (Read article) 08 Chronology: developing a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain's past and of the wider world - Hilary Cooper (Read article) 16 Teaching ancient Egypt - Karin Doull (Read article) 22 Ideas for Assemblies: significant women in...
    Primary History 67
  • Podcast: The Historical Medicalization of Homosexuality & Transvestism

      Podcast
    In this podcast, Dr Tommy Dickinson of the University of Manchester, looks at the historical medicalization of homosexuality and transvestism.  1. Introduction: the historical medicalization of homosexuality and transvestism  HA Members can listen to the full podcast here Suggested Reading:  Tommy Dickinson (2015) "Curing Queers": MentalNurses and their Patients  1935-1974.  Peter Conrad &...
    Podcast: The Historical Medicalization of Homosexuality & Transvestism
  • Teaching History 171: Knowledge

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition of HA's Teaching History journal is free to download via the link at the bottom of the page (individual article links within the page are not free access unless otherwise stated). For a subscription to Teaching History (published quarterly), plus access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials...
    Teaching History 171: Knowledge
  • Primary History 68

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    The range of articles in this edition as ever cover discreet methodology, subject knowledge enhancement and areas of innovation set within the context of excellence in the classroom. The inclusion of the Mayan and Indus Valley civilisations will hopefully encourage teachers to look at the rich source of learning to...
    Primary History 68
  • The Norfolk and Norwich Branch History

      Branch History
    The Norfolk and Norwich Branch - a short historyThe branch was founded in 1920, at the instigation of two local teachers, W. J. Blake (the father the famous historian, Robert, Lord Blake) and Walter Stephenson, the father of our most long-serving (1941-1962) president, Andrew Stephenson, who was himself a distinguished...
    The Norfolk and Norwich Branch History
  • Films: Careers with history

      Multipage Article
    History can open the door to a wide variety of careers and not just the obvious ones. Apart from being very interesting, history is very practical and teaches you vital skills that employers value. You can find out more about how history can help your career here.  At the HA,...
    Films: Careers with history
  • History and language

      Primary History article
    Literacy was at the heart of the Nuffield Primary History Project. The paper below summarises the eight linguistic areas which were a major focus. Here there is considerable congruence with the proposed 2014 NC for English and Literacy with its language across the curriculum focus...
    History and language
  • From Cyrus to Cleopatra: The ancient history adventure

      HA webinar series in partnership with The Classical Association
    Have you thought about offering Ancient History at Key Stage 3, GCSE or A-level? This webinar series, offered in collaboration with the Classical Association, explores how ancient history can be embedded across the key stages at secondary level. Across this series, we will show you how teaching ancient history is...
    From Cyrus to Cleopatra: The ancient history adventure
  • George Eliot and Warwickshire history

      Historian article
    David Paterson explains how George Eliot’s vivid memory of her childhood in north Warwickshire is revealed through her novels. George Eliot, born 200 years ago this year, is one of our greatest novelists, born and brought up in Warwickshire, a county in which she spent the first 30 years of...
    George Eliot and Warwickshire history
  • Teaching History regular features

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Teaching History includes a number of regular features for secondary history teachers. On these pages you can access all recent and many older editions of each of these features: What's the Wisdom On provides a short guide to an aspect of history teaching. What have historians been arguing about... (formerly Polychronicon) aims to help...
    Teaching History regular features
  • On-demand webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom

      HA webinar series for secondary history teachers and leaders
    In recent years, many history teachers have done lots of exciting work to develop the curriculum they teach, incorporating new content, new scholarship and new enquiries. As part of this work, it is vital to uncover how far pupils are learning all that was intended, and the ways in which...
    On-demand webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
  • Including the Muslim Contribution in the National Curriculum for History

      Article
    History education has a key role to play in creating the informed, critical attachment of young people to the nation and in creating the feeling that young people belong and can participate in national life. The Curriculum for Cohesion Team, comprising Muslim and non-Muslim academics and community leaders, believes that...
    Including the Muslim Contribution in the National Curriculum for History
  • A European dimension to local history

      Historian article
    Trevor James raises the prospect of broadening our approaches to local history to take a wider European perspective. When Professor W. G. Hoskins published his The Making of the English Landscape in 1955, he taught us how to observe and understand the topography of our landscapes, urban and rural, and...
    A European dimension to local history
  • History Education Research Journal

      Formerly the International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research
    History Education Research Journal
  • Hosting teacher development at historical sites: the benefits for classroom teaching

      Journal article
    Many previous contributors to Teaching History have demonstrated the power of site visits to stimulate young people’s engagement and enrich their understanding of history. It is usually assumed, however, that the young people themselves will have the opportunity to visit the site in question – an assumption that cannot always...
    Hosting teacher development at historical sites: the benefits for classroom teaching