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  • Library and Information Studies

      Continuing Professional Development
    Please note: the HA is not responsible for the content of external websites, and we cannot guarantee that all information on this page is current. University College LondonMA/Postgraduate Diploma in Library and Information StudiesIf you want to progress in library or information work, you need a professional qualification, normally chartered...
    Library and Information Studies

  • Archives and Record Management

      Continuing Professional Development
    The University of Manchester gives the following advice on courses, careers and funding: Courses The choice for post-graduate courses is much more limited for archives and records management compared to those available for libraries and information studies. The Society of Archivists recommends just six: University College London, University College Dublin,...
    Archives and Record Management

  • Heritage Management & Education

      Continuing Professional Development
    1. Nottingham Trent University MA/PGCert/PGDip Museum and Heritage Management There is a need for multi-skilled, quality staff who combine a broad vision of the field in which they are working with practical expertise in the care and presentation of heritage. Their postgraduate heritage management courses combine the conceptual framework necessary...
    Heritage Management & Education

  • Museum & Gallery Courses

      Continuing Professional Development
    Museum & Gallery Courses

  • Volunteering in Heritage

      Briefing Pack
    How to: get a volunteering placement in heritage Rachel Clark, Volunteering Adviser, National Trust  has written a useful mini guide to getting a volunteering placement which can be found here... Volunteering with Heritage Organisations There are many different organisations across the UK dedicated to preserving our cultural heritage. If you want to...
    Volunteering in Heritage

  • Archives

      Briefing Pack
    1. Local Archives  Local Archives Offices contain an enormous amount of information including Census records, newspapers and property records. They are a useful point of call when either verifying information found on the internet or conducting deeper research beyond what is available on the main sources of family history such...
    Archives

  • Gloucestershire Branch Programme

      Article
    Image credit: The cloister of Gloucester Cathedral. Photograph by David Iliff, via Wikimedia Commons; license: CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported Enquiries about the Gloucestershire Branch to Andrea Robertston at histassocglos@gmail.com or Robert Sutton on 01242 574889 Members and students free entry to all talks, visitors £4 entrance fee. Venues for most talks are the University of...
    Gloucestershire Branch Programme

  • Telling tales: Developing students' own thematic and synoptic understandings at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Ed Brooker is as concerned as the other authors within this edition that students should be able to see and make meaning out of ‘big pictures' of the past. He is acutely aware, however, that...
    Telling tales: Developing students' own thematic and synoptic understandings at Key Stage 3

  • Building memory and meaning

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Sarah Gadd attempted to re-think her department's usual approach to the two-year Key Stage 3. Concerned that a thematic approach might not be securing the overview perspective it was designed to achieve, she decided instead...
    Building memory and meaning

  • Shaping macro-analysis from micro-history

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Many history teachers are inspired by the work of historians and want to share their stories and arguments with students in school. Hywel Jones found Malcolm Gaskill's Witchfinders ‘gripping and intriguing'. He decided to use...
    Shaping macro-analysis from micro-history

  • Cardiff Branch Programme

      Article
    Cardiff Branch Programme 2025-26     All enquiries to Professor Peter Edbury Edbury@cardiff.ac.uk or Dr Paul Webster WebsterP@cardiff.ac.uk All talks start at 7pm via Zoom or Teams. A link to the talk is provided by email from Dr Webster. All talks are free and Zoom/Teams allow us to have speakers...
    Cardiff Branch Programme

  • Teaching Red Scarf Girl

      Article
    Facing History and Ourselves is excited to announce a new study guide. Teaching Red Scarf Girl has been developed to help classrooms explore essential Facing History themes, including conformity, obedience, prejudice and justice. Red Scarf Girl, Ji-li Jiang's engaging memoir, provides an insightful window into the first tumultuous years of...
    Teaching Red Scarf Girl

  • The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2

      Journal
    The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education. Articles in the edition: Erinc Erdal and Ruken Akar Vural Teaching History through Drama: the ‘Armenian Deportation' Terry Haydn and Richard Harris Children's ideas about what it means...
    The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2

  • Interpretations

      Key Concepts
    Please note: these links were compiled in 2009. For a more recent resource, please see: What's the Wisdom on: Interpretations of the past.  A selection of useful Teaching History Articles on 'Interpretations' and are highly recommended reading to those who would like to get to grips with this key concept: 1....
    Interpretations

  • The Government of the Roman Empire

      Classic Pamphlets
    The Government of the Roman Empire, as everyone knows, was autocratic, and, like all autocracies, it was ‘tempered by assassination' or by military revolution. The emperor ruled through an imperial service, at once civil and military, in which several grades, corresponding to the social classes of the empire, were always...
    The Government of the Roman Empire

  • Sir Francis Fletcher Vane, anti-militarist: The great boy scout schism of 1909

      Historian article
    Sir Francis Patrick Fletcher Vane, fifth baronet (1861-1934), a man of wideranging but seemingly contradictory passions and interests, was an idealistic but also hard-working aristocrat who played a major role in shaping the early Boy Scout movement in London. While the name of the founder of the Boy Scouts, Robert...
    Sir Francis Fletcher Vane, anti-militarist: The great boy scout schism of 1909

  • What did you do in The Great War? A family mystery explored

      Historian article
    Research into family history is well-known as likely to dig up some uncomfortable evidence. Nearly every family has had its bastards; nearly every generation has had someone on poor relief. We had both. But more troubling was my recent suspicion that a hundred or so years ago not one but two...
    What did you do in The Great War? A family mystery explored

  • The snobbery of chronology: In defence of the generals on the Western Front

      Historian article
    Faced with the testimony of the huge casualty lists of the First World War, the desperate battles of attrition, the emotive evidence of the seemingly endless cemeteries and memorials, the moving war poetry of men such as Owen and Sassoon, and the memoirs of those who fought, it is not...
    The snobbery of chronology: In defence of the generals on the Western Front

  • Confounding expectation at Key Stage 3: flower-songs from an indigenous empire

      Teaching History article
    In this article Nicolas Kinloch examines aspects of an indigenous empire: that of Aztec Mexico. He attempts to persuade a group of mixed-ability Year 8 students to examine - and question - some of the assumptions they bring to the study of this empire. Their attitudes reflect quite widespread beliefs...
    Confounding expectation at Key Stage 3: flower-songs from an indigenous empire

  • Significance

      Key Concepts
    Please note: these links were compiled in 2009. For a more recent resource, please see: What's the Wisdom on: Historical significance.  This selection of Teaching History articles on 'Significance' are highly recommended reading to anyone who wants to get to grips with this key concept. All Teaching History articles are free to HA Secondary Members...
    Significance

  • Starting a new Branch

      Organising and running an HA branch
    The Historical Association and its branches Branches have been an essential part of the Historical Association since it began. They exist in all parts of the United Kingdom and take a variety of forms. A branch provides a local forum to bring together all those with an interest in history:...
    Starting a new Branch

  • Approaches to the History Curriculum: Project based learning

      Briefing Pack
    Rationale/Origins Project based learning has been around for decades; it is not a new idea. When we think back to the curriculum of the 1970s and early 80s, integrated Humanities was once again all the rage. As the Nuffield review of 2008 highlights "between 1975 and 1983, HMI tried to...
    Approaches to the History Curriculum: Project based learning

  • Enrichment Opportunities

      Briefing Pack
    Background History can be used to enrich students' experience of education in many ways.  Everything has a history and links can be made with, and support given to most other subjects.  Opportunities can be provided to classes, whole year groups, across year groups, or to individuals. Enrichment can be as...
    Enrichment Opportunities

  • One Year GCSE

      Briefing Pack
    Background A new development for curriculum change this year (2009) has been that many schools are now changing the pattern of GCSE/Key Stage 4 courses, following the ending of compulsory SATs for English, Maths and Science at the end of Key Stage 3. It is not yet clear how many...
    One Year GCSE

  • Were industrial towns 'death-traps'? Year 9 learn to question generalisations and to challenge their preconceptions about the 'boring' 19th century

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Kimberley Anthony and her history colleagues were troubled by Year 9's assumption that World War II was the only interesting thing that they were going to do in Year 9. Nineteenth-century industrialisation, even their own...
    Were industrial towns 'death-traps'? Year 9 learn to question generalisations and to challenge their preconceptions about the 'boring' 19th century