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  • Slaying dragons and sorcerers in Year 12: in search of historical argument

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Reflecting on his GCSE and post-16 students' essays, Michael Fordham began to wonder if there were something missing in the way he taught students to write. Work on structure that was designed to strengthen argument...
    Slaying dragons and sorcerers in Year 12: in search of historical argument

  • History in Schools - Present and Future

      Conference Report
    History in Schools - Present and future: Event report This one day conference was organised by the sponsors to raise awareness of the changes in the 14-19 curriculum and initiate discussion on how history, taught from Key Stage 3 to HE level, could be best served and enhanced by the...
    History in Schools - Present and Future

  • Podcast: Why Medieval History Matters?

      Medieval History
    Why Medieval History Matters, Professor Anne Curry, President of the HA ‘I don't mind there being some medievalists around for ornamental purposes, but there is no reason for the state to pay for them'. So, allegedly, said Charles Clarke when Education Secretary in 2003. In fact, medieval history has never...
    Podcast: Why Medieval History Matters?

  • Case Study: Working with gifted and talented children at an Iron Age hill fort in north Somerset

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The phone call was over - manna from heaven. The opportunity to work with a ‘real' archaeologist on a ‘real' Iron Age site seemed far too good to be true. The cluster of eight South...
    Case Study: Working with gifted and talented children at an Iron Age hill fort in north Somerset

  • Relevant, rigorous and revisited: using local history to make meaning of historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The idea of engaging pupils with the relevance of local memorials is becoming commonplace in the history classroom. In Teaching History 109, Examining History  Edition, Dale Banham's pupils used First World War memorials to assess...
    Relevant, rigorous and revisited: using local history to make meaning of historical significance

  • Out and about in Sheffield

      Historian feature
    This article was commissioned by the Sheffield Branch of the Historical Association in response to an editorial invitation for items of wide Local History interest to be submitted for publication. It is hoped that John Salt's insight will encourage members to visit Sheffield and also give them ideas on what...
    Out and about in Sheffield

  • Revolutionaries In Europe: 1815-1848

      Classic Pamphlet
    In the three and a half decades which followed the defeat of Napoleon, conspiracy, riot and revolt were constant features of the European scene. No prison was storng enough to prevent Blanqui from plotting, no place of excile distant enough to seperate Mazzini from his revolutionary agents. Cities were insubordinate,...
    Revolutionaries In Europe: 1815-1848

  • History of the Cumbria Branch

      Branch History
    Cumbria Branch was founded in November 1971 as a result of a very successful tour of Hadrian's Wall, led by Peter Southern. We decided we needed a more permanent influence of the H.A. in Carlisle and Cumbria. There had been a Carlisle Branch earlier in the C20th but it folded...
    History of the Cumbria Branch

  • The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1

      Journal
    The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education. Articles included in this edition:  Editorial: History Education, Identity and Citizenship in the 21st Century, Bahri Ata The Turkish prospective History teachers' understanding of analogy in History education, Isabel...
    The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1

  • Teaching history to young children

      Article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. History is a subject whose meaning is properly appreciated only in our maturity. In their old age we find those we consider wisest turning to Gibbon, Burckhardt, and Thucydides. The richness and endlessly elaborated meaning of...
    Teaching history to young children

  • London and the English Civil War

      Historian article
    In the spring of 1643 William Lithgow, a Scot born in Lanark in 1582, who had spent most of his life travellingaround Europe, often on foot and having many fantastic adventures, decided to return to Britain. Having just turned sixty, he was obviously feeling pretty gloomy. ‘After long 40 years...
    London and the English Civil War

  • No puzzle, no learning: how to make your site visits rigorous, fascinating and indispensable

      Teaching History article
    Chris Culpin builds on recent articles by Andrew Wrenn and Mike Murray with numerous practical ideas for good quality site visits at Key Stage 3 and GCSE. But this article offers much more than practical tips. Chris Culpin sets out a rationale for the centrality of site visits in the...
    No puzzle, no learning: how to make your site visits rigorous, fascinating and indispensable

  • Move Me On 97: Having difficulty evaluating own lessons

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On 97 This Issue's problem: Maggi Paton, PGCE student, is having difficulty evaluating her lessons Problem: It is the first term of Maggie's PGCE course and she is a few weeks into her first school placement. Initially, her mentor and other staff were impressed by her: she had...
    Move Me On 97: Having difficulty evaluating own lessons

  • Pride and delight: motivating pupils through poetic writing about the First World War

      Teaching History article
    This project emerged from team-teaching with history teachers in history lessons. Gill Minikin draws upon her expertise as an English teacher to help pupils become excited by the challenge of ‘squeezing language' into poems. History teachers often ask pupils to write poems but they do not necessarily draw upon all...
    Pride and delight: motivating pupils through poetic writing about the First World War

  • Analysing Anne Frank: a case study in the teaching of thinking skills

      Teaching History article
    For those lucky history departments in and around Newcastle this article will not be news. Peter Fisher alludes to the quasi-religious atmosphere that is often discernible amongst history teachers who have been working with the Thinking Skills groups linked to University of Newcastle Department of Education. He is not exaggerating...
    Analysing Anne Frank: a case study in the teaching of thinking skills

  • Cultivating curiosity about complexity

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. A great deal has been written recently about the importance of encouraging and enabling all students to read beyond their comfort zones, beyond the textbook and certainly beyond the obvious requirements of an examination specification....
    Cultivating curiosity about complexity

  • Reading Branch History

      Branch History
    Brief outline history of the Reading Branch of the Historical Association Reading 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...
    Reading Branch History

  • KS2 Egyptian Story & Lesson Resource

      Book & Lesson Resource Review
    Ma'at's Feather: A story set in Ancient Egypt by Juliet Desailly, The Book Guild,  p/b £6.99 Pub 2008, ISBN: 978 1 84624 273 1 and accompanying lesson resource Ma'at's Feather: Cross-Curricular Lesson Ideas by Juliet Desailly Pub 2008, ISBN: 978 0 955668 0 4 Reviewed by Alf Wilkinson Ma'at's Feather...
    KS2 Egyptian Story & Lesson Resource

  • Plymouth Branch Programme

      Article
    website: http://www.ha-plymouth.org.uk   contact: Alan H. Cousins 1 Russell Court, Russell Close, Saltash PL12 4LZ, Tel. 01752 843750 a.cousins345@btinternet.com    Meetings are open to all and are free for national or local members of the Historical Association, and for University of Plymouth students. The “Liberation Line” talk on October 7...
    Plymouth Branch Programme

  • Nuneaton Branch Programme

      Article
    Enquiries to Branch Secretary Michael Arnold. michael.arnold@cantab.net tel 07785 337147 Venue:  Unless otherwise stated talks start at 7.30pm on Thursdays at Chilvers Coton Heritage Centre 4 Avenue Road, Nuneaton CV11 4LU. Ample parking available. Associate membership is £15 per year. Talks free to national HA members and students, visitors: voluntary...
    Nuneaton Branch Programme

  • Winchester Branch Programme

      Article
    All enquiries to Branch Secretary Eleanor Yates – email historicalassocwinchester@outlook.com or text or call 07973 427915 Lectures will be at 7.30pm. Unless otherwise stated, the venue is The Science Lecture Theatre, Kingsgate Street, Winchester SO23 9PG, and sometimes online additionally. Lectures are free to members and students, visitors are asked for a...
    Winchester Branch Programme

  • Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme

      Article
    All enquiries to Mrs A Wagstaff 020 8777 7742 BeckenhamHA@uclmail.net Entry to meetings is free for HA members and £2 for visitors. Associate membership of the branch is £14 for 2025/2026 or £24 with our monthly news bulletin, the Beckenham Historian. All meetings take place at 7.30 p.m. in Christ...
    Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme

  • Contact Us

      Information
    Normal HA office opening hours: 9.30am–5.30pm Monday–Friday If you have a general enquiry please contact us using enquiries@history.org.uk, or if the query is in relation to membership please email membership@history.org.uk. Alternatively you can call 0300 100 0223. Unfortuately we are unable take calls or respond to emails outside of office hours. Our target...
    Contact Us

  • What do we do?

      Our work
    There are many ways you can support our work to bring history to all: Become a Member Make a donation Contribute an article Other ways to support us We bring together people who share an interest in, and love for the past and to further the study and teaching and enjoyment...
    What do we do?

  • Ealing Branch Programme

      Article
    Branch contact: All enquiries to Dr Philip Woods philipgwoods@outlook.com tel. 07922046578 Venue: All talks (with the exception of November meeting) start at 7.30pm on the second Tuesday of the month, and take place at Ealing Green Church, The Green, Ealing, W5 5QT. For details of transport and parking please see...
    Ealing Branch Programme