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  • Teaching History 178: Constructing Accounts

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Beneath the surface: unravelling the complexity of the causes of British abolition with Year 8 – Elizabeth Marsay (Read article) 16 What’s The Wisdom On... enquiry questions? (Read article) 20 Training for the marathon: history at Michaela – Michael...
    Teaching History 178: Constructing Accounts

  • Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month

      22nd May 2025
    Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month (GRTHM) is an important way of highlighting the history and cultural traditions of groups of people who have identified as being non-stationary, and who have long been marginalised in British and European history. While Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are distinct groups with their own...
    Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month

  • The Historian 141: New approaches to local history

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Contents 4 Reviews (See all reviews online) 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 A European dimension to local history – Trevor James (Read article) 11 The President’s Column 12 The Diabolical Cato-Street Plot: the Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820 – Richard A. Gaunt (Read article) 16 George Eliot and Warwickshire history – David Paterson (Read article)...
    The Historian 141: New approaches to local history

  • Film: Teaching history in the time of Covid

      Experiences at KS5 and University
    The Covid-19 pandemic hit universities and university students hard, especially those making the transition from 6th form study. In addition to all the usual transitional concerns, lecturers and students had to navigate changed teaching and assessment practices. The remote learning that many students over the last 2 academic years have...
    Film: Teaching history in the time of Covid

  • Historical Association Privacy Notice

      Information
    The Historical Association is committed to the protection of your privacy. We take your rights seriously and treat all the information you give us with care. This privacy notice explains how and why we collect, store and use the personal data you give us, to ensure you stay informed and...
    Historical Association Privacy Notice

  • The Royal Historical Society (RHS)

      History Network
    The Royal Historical Society (RHS)

  • Doing History with Objects

      Article
    IntroductionI was talking about ‘Doing History' with historical artefacts and objects with a young teacher when she closed the discussion with the statement ‘It's alright for you, you're old, your house is full of old things - how do I get them?' Alas - I had to agree with her,...
    Doing History with Objects

  • Pedagogical framework for stimulating historical contextualisation

      Teaching History article
    'Why am I accused of being a heretic?' A pedagogical framework for stimulating historical contextualisation One of the challenges facing students who want to make sense of a source or an interpretation of the past is the need to place it in its context. Various research studies have shown that students...
    Pedagogical framework for stimulating historical contextualisation

  • Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4

      HA webinar series for history teachers, leaders and SENDCos
    What does this series cover and why should I attend? In recent years, the UK’s SEND system has been under the spotlight. As numbers of students with identified special educational needs increase, attention has been given to how to best embed inclusive practice, enabling teachers to support all students to...
    Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4

  • Britain’s forgotten colony? Why Hong Kong deserves a place in the story of empire

      Teaching History article
    Ollie Barnes encountered Hong Kong history on honeymoon and, powerfully, in the classroom in Nottinghamshire. Historical changes in the former colony’s present had resulted in increasing numbers of Hong Kongers arriving in school. This history demanded attention – important historical changes were in process and pupils needed to understand them....
    Britain’s forgotten colony? Why Hong Kong deserves a place in the story of empire

  • Course: Becoming an effective primary history subject leader

      Immersive online course for new, experienced and aspiring history leaders
    Book Now (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window. Please read the HA CPD terms and conditions before registering) Autumn 2025 cohort Start date: Wednesday 15 October 2025, 4pm–5.30pm What does this course cover? This is an immersive online course for developing history leadership in primary teaching. It covers the...
    Course: Becoming an effective primary history subject leader

  • Subject Co-Ordinators for History

      Primary History Leaders
    Welcome to the online CPD for Primary History Leaders On behalf of myself, and the team here at the Historical Association, welcome. This is the start of what we hope will be four very interesting weeks together. This course is designed to engage you on several levels and is designed...
    Subject Co-Ordinators for History

  • Talking History competition 2025 – the winners

      11th September 2025
    Talking History is now into its second year and gathering speed. Following the pattern of The Great Debate but adapted for Years 5 and 6 the competition seeks to encourage young people’s history and oracy skills through a public presentation. Schools are encouraged to enter their pupils into the online...
    Talking History competition 2025 – the winners

  • Historical scholarship, archaeology and evidence in Year 7

      Teaching History article
    The stimulus for this article came from two developmental tasks that Barbara Trapani was set during the course of her initial teacher education programme: planning her first historical enquiry and bringing the work of an historian into the classroom. Trapani chose to tackle the two tasks together, using Susan Whitfield’s...
    Historical scholarship, archaeology and evidence in Year 7

  • Expertise in its development stage: planning for the needs of gifted adolescent historians

      Teaching History article
    The Director of the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY), Deborah Eyre, is one of the foremost advocates of gifted and talented children, and their education, in the UK. She plans to improve the education of the most able students by asking subject communities to work on how...
    Expertise in its development stage: planning for the needs of gifted adolescent historians

  • Making History

      New Website
    Making History Making History, developed by the Institute of Historical Research, is dedicated to the history of the study and practice of history in Britain over the last hundred years and more, following the emergence of the professional discipline in the late 19th century. Contents This website contains cross-referenced entries...
    Making History

  • Move Me On 199: handling differences between history lead's advice and history teachers' approaches

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
    Move Me On 199: handling differences between history lead's advice and history teachers' approaches

  • Historical and interdisciplinary enquiry into the sinking of the Mary Rose

      Teaching History article
    The raising of Henry VIII’s warship, the Mary Rose, from the sea bed set in train an extraordinary programme of interdisciplinary research, relentlessly pursuing the clues to Tudor life and death provided by the remains of the ship, its cargo and crew. In this article Clare Barnes offers fascinating insights...
    Historical and interdisciplinary enquiry into the sinking of the Mary Rose

  • Scheme of work: Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality

      Primary history scheme of work, Key Stage 1 (unresourced)
    Children can be introduced to the idea that schools have been in the locality for some time but they have not always been the same. They can look at similarities and differences, as well as be introduced to some of the events that affected the schools. The theme allows children...
    Scheme of work: Significant historical events, people and places in their own locality

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 101

      The British Civil Wars; Young Quills 2025
    Poster 1: The British Civil Wars Poster 2: Young Quills 2025
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 101

  • What makes good primary history?

      Transition Training Session 5
    This is the 5th in a series of 5 sessions arising from the 2005 KS2-KS3 History Transitions Project: Transition training session 1: Historical Enquiries & Interpretations Transition training session 2: Using ICT in the teaching of history Transition training session 3: Extended writing in history Transition training session 4: Joan of Arc -...
    What makes good primary history?

  • On-demand webinar: Histories of the African continent

      Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
    Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum Session 4: Histories of the African continent This 90-minute recorded webinar will cover three elements: an introductory discussion about the scope and opportunities for exploring African history; Enquiry One: Africa and the development of religion; Enquiry Two: Decolonisation, Ideology and Race in Africa: the struggles...
    On-demand webinar: Histories of the African continent

  • Raising the profile of history in your school

      Primary History article
    All too often, with increasing pressure to obtain the ‘best’ results, primary schools allow English and mathematics to steal the limelight, unwittingly pushing other subjects to one side. As a consequence, these ‘other’ subjects are squeezed into vehicles to teach English or maths – barely recognisable under the guise of...
    Raising the profile of history in your school

  • Remembering and sharing an enthusiasm for history

      Teacher's family honour his memory with a wonderful gift to support the HA Quality Mark
    The role that many teachers carry out without realising is as an advocate for their subject, sharing their enthusiasm for learning with children day after day and year after year. The majority of those teachers do not have plaques put up for them or memorials in the town square, but...
    Remembering and sharing an enthusiasm for history

  • The History around us: Local history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. History is an important aspect of the development of even very young children. They need to begin to develop the foundations of an understanding of the past and how it has developed and affected our present....
    The History around us: Local history