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  • Teaching History 193: Mediating History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (read article - open access) 04 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Laughing muppets, lost memories and lethal mutations: rescuing assessment from ‘knowledge-rich gone wrong’ – Christine Counsell (Read article) 26 ‘If we’ve been getting their name wrong, how else have they been misrepresented?’: Year 7 challenge stereotypes about the Mexica –...
    Teaching History 193: Mediating History

  • Exploring the relationship between historical significance and historical interpretation

      Teaching History article
    Jane Card’s previous work on the power of images in conveying particular interpretations and her advice about how to use visual material effectively in classrooms will be familiar to readers of Teaching History. In this article she focuses specifically on the capacity of visual representations to convey a compelling message about the...
    Exploring the relationship between historical significance and historical interpretation

  • Move Me On 196: incorporating historical artefacts into worthwhile historical enquiries

      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 196: incorporating historical artefacts into worthwhile historical enquiries

  • Exploring the history of space

      Primary History article
    Children have long been captivated by the idea of space exploration and this year marks the anniversary of several significant events, including the 50th anniversary of the European Space Agency and the 10th anniversary of Tim Peake’s launch to the International Space Station. In this article, Kate Rigby explores how...
    Exploring the history of space

  • Is primary history thriving?

      Article
    The 2022 Historical Association survey of primary schools drew a good response. The results have been evaluated. The full report has been published on the website but this article summarises the main findings and suggested strategies to take the subject further. Its findings help direct the resources of the HA....
    Is primary history thriving?

  • Formation of the Public History Committee

      Public History Committee
    The Historical Association is pleased to announce the formation of a Committee for Public History which held its first meeting in May 2009.  Dr Andrew Foster, a member of Council, is the first chair of this committee and gave a brief account of its purpose at the AGM held in...
    Formation of the Public History Committee

  • Are historical thinking skills important to history teachers?

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research IJHLTR, Volume 14, Number 2 – Spring/Summer 2017 ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract This article presents some findings of a qualitative interview study with 42 Austrian history teachers, conducted in the framework of an on-going three-year research project (2015–2018) funded by the Austrian Science Fund. The study...
    Are historical thinking skills important to history teachers?

  • Cultural and historical heritage of Ukraine

      Historian article
    Olha Makliuk outlines the challenges faced by Ukraine as Russia tries to rewrite the narrative of Ukrainian sovereignty. Through a process of historical and cultural appropriation as well as the destruction of monuments, she explores how history has been weaponised by the Putin regime. Finally, she considers how the impact...
    Cultural and historical heritage of Ukraine

  • New Saxon, Viking and Medieval GCSE Content

      GCSE Resources
    As you will no doubt be aware, GCSEs are changing. New specifications (subject to accreditation) will require students to learn history from a range of different time periods. Different specifications will specify different content, but whichever specification you end up teaching, you are very likely to be teaching some medieval...
    New Saxon, Viking and Medieval GCSE Content

  • On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with historical interpretations in primary history

      Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
    Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history Session 3: Avoiding confusion with historical interpretations in primary history This practical webinar will identify what confuses pupils in the teaching of the disciplinary concept of historical interpretations and will show how such confusion and misconceptions can be avoided and challenged. Examples...
    On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with historical interpretations in primary history

  • History and the climate crisis

      Teaching History article
    Kate Hawkey has long been an advocate for teaching about the history of climate change. This article, co-authored with Paula Worth, David Rawlings and Dan Warner-Meanwell, first outlines key arguments from her pioneering book History and the Climate Crisis, before illustrating the range of ways in which a group of...
    History and the climate crisis

  • Integrating the historical Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    How can we help students understand the Holocaust in its full historical complexity, particularly when they often come to class with misconceptions arising from the representation of the Holocaust in popular culture? Over a three-year period, Sam Ineson set out to integrate the historical Holocaust into his school’s formal and informal...
    Integrating the historical Holocaust

  • Maximising the power of storytelling in the history classroom

      Teaching History article
    James Hopkins’s Year 10 class had been excited by their course on medicine through time, but were less enthused about their new study of Norman England. They told him that the topic felt ‘distant’ and ‘not real’. Recalling his own experience as a student, Hopkins was interested in the ways...
    Maximising the power of storytelling in the history classroom

  • Teaching History 158 - A Grounding in History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Andrew Stacey-Chapman - From a compartmentalised to a complicated past: developing transferable knowledge at A-level (Read article) 16 Cunning Plan: teaching about the history of the UK Parliament - Tony McConnell (Read article) 18 Dominik Palek - 'What exactly is parliament?'...
    Teaching History 158 - A Grounding in History

  • Teaching History 196: Out now

      Article
    Read Teaching History 196: Demanding history  History can be a very demanding subject, in a number of senses. The past can make demands on us – it can demand attention and demand to be addressed. There can, as it were, be historical as well as financial ‘final demands’, reminders of...
    Teaching History 196: Out now

  • Who only history know? Cricket, society, and the historical oversight of sport

      Historian article
    The early 2020s have seen various investigations and reports about discrimination in English cricket. As well as finding many examples of racial and gender prejudice, these investigations have unearthed a long history of social elitism in the sport. In this article, Duncan Stone explores some of the historical background to...
    Who only history know? Cricket, society, and the historical oversight of sport

  • Bringing environmental history into the classroom

      Teaching History article
    Curious about the absence of the physical environment in her school’s schemes of work, and fascinated by the changing relationships between humans and landscapes in the past, history teacher and PhD researcher Verity Morgan decided to design new lessons that brought environmental history into her classroom. Rather than ‘bolting on’ new enquiries...
    Bringing environmental history into the classroom

  • The Roman army: Spy!

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here. The year 5/6 class visited Julius Caesar's camp before he invaded Britain in 55 BC. I wanted the children to get...
    The Roman army: Spy!

  • Teaching History 197: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 197: Public History Public history is history facing outwards: engaging with the public sphere beyond the ivory tower of research and scholarship in universities. In a recent essay entitled ‘Glorious memory’, Hicks writes of ‘an explosion of new public histories’ in recent decades, ‘led by communities from...
    Teaching History 197: Out now

  • Teaching History 190: Ascribing significance

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 HA Update 08 Falling forward: three strategies to support pupils’ study of historical significance – Paula Worth (Read article) 22 Bringing historical method into the classroom: how the spectacle of teachers debating can help A-level students to understand the nature of interpretations –...
    Teaching History 190: Ascribing significance

  • Teaching History 192: Breadth

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 1093 and all that: broadening Year 7’s British history horizons with Welsh medieval sources – Holly Hiscox (Read article) 18 Why I teach pupils things I don’t need them to remember forever: the role of takeaways in shaping a history curriculum...
    Teaching History 192: Breadth

  • Navigating the ‘imperial history wars’

      Teaching History article
    Concerned by the growing tendency of politicians and press to revive the moral balance-sheet approach to British imperial history and by some evidence of its resurgence in schools, Alex Benger set about devising a framework which would keep pupils’ analysis rigorously historical, rather than moral and politicised. In this article,...
    Navigating the ‘imperial history wars’

  • Bolingbroke

      Classic Pamphlet
    There were three Bolingbrokes: (1) The politician and minister of Queen Anne's reign, whose career ended with his flight to France in April 1715; (2) The exile, after his brief service under "The Old Pretender," who was permitted in 1723 to return to England, but not to his seat in...
    Bolingbroke

  • History 390

      The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 110, Issue 390
    All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:  1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.   NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new window or tab. Access the full edition online Editorial...
    History 390

  • History 389

      The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 110, Issue 389
    All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:  1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.   NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new window or tab. Access the full edition online Invited...
    History 389