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  • My Favourite History Place: Sawley Abbey

      Historian feature
    Steve Illingworth highlights the importance of a remote Lancashire ruin which might have changed the course of history. Sawley Abbey in east Lancashire can appear to be an unassuming and insignificant place at first sight. Its main attraction appears to be aesthetic, with the Cistercian abbey being surrounded by fields and hills...
    My Favourite History Place: Sawley Abbey

  • Year 12 write Zambia's history for Zambian students

      Teaching History article
    Peter Gray explains how his Year 12 students came to research and write a resource on the history of Zambia, for history teachers in Zambia. The construction of the resource stretched the Year 12 students in new ways: the Internet was useless and there were no easy digests in A-Level...
    Year 12 write Zambia's history for Zambian students

  • Primary History 58: The Olympics

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    THE OLYMPICS: TEACHING HISTORY TODAY 04 Editorial: Nelson Mandela, Apartheid and the Olympics 05 Think Bubble: What ever happened to the Standing Long Jump? - Peter Vass 06 Public celebration of the 1864 Olympian Festival - Dominic Wallis PLANNING FOR THE OLYMPICS 08 Primary History and planning for teaching the...
    Primary History 58: The Olympics

  • Employment, employability and history

      Teaching History article
    Employment, employability and history: helping students to see the connection Five years ago, in Teaching History 132, Harris and Haydn drew attention to the fact that while the vast majority of Key Stage 3 students claimed to enjoy history and even to regard it as a useful subject, relatively few...
    Employment, employability and history

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 90

      Timeline of Queen Elizabeth II; Queen and Commonwealth
    Timeline of Queen Elizabeth II Queen and Commonwealth
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 90

  • Children's Thinking: Developmental psychology and history education

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Editorial note: Hilary Cooper outlines the main features of historical thinking. These ideas are embedded in the government's current requirements for teaching National Curriculum History [England] Introduction It is important that children develop a coherent, chronological...
    Children's Thinking: Developmental psychology and history education

  • Ideas for assemblies: significant women in history

      Primary History feature
    For this edition we have chosen an overarching theme of significant women in history to link your assemblies. We have also looked for a link between the women to the month in which your assembly is being delivered. A common approach when introducing each of the women could be to...
    Ideas for assemblies: significant women in history

  • Report on the Historical Association Tour of Cardiff and its environs

      31st August 2018
    Twenty-three  people met in the comfortable Clayton Hotel in central Cardiff in June to attempt to assimilate two thousand years of Welsh history in a week. We were blessed with a heatwave, a bustling city environment, and a lot to see. We started on the eastern edge of South Wales...
    Report on the Historical Association Tour of Cardiff and its environs

  • Cunning Plan 140: bringing history to life

      Teaching History feature
    Whether you are have been inspired to emulate the achievements of the Living History group described in this issue's Triumphs Show, or are simply seeking to create some ‘authentic' props for an intriguing starter, or exploratory role-play, Jonathan Davies here explains how you can find out more about historical re-enactment...
    Cunning Plan 140: bringing history to life

  • Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Branch History

      Branch History
    History of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Branch of the Historical AssociationThe Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole branch of the HA was founded in December 1922 and has been in existence ever since. Its history can be followed in the annual reports sent to HQ, in the complete set of committee...
    Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Branch History

  • Dialogue, engagement and generative interaction in the history classroom

      Teaching History article
    Michael Bird has a long-standing interest in the power of classroom dialogue, not only as a means of elicting students’ prior knowledge or checking their understanding of new ideas and information, but also as a powerful tool for generating new knowledge through a collective process of meaning-making. In this article, he...
    Dialogue, engagement and generative interaction in the history classroom

  • Birmingham Branch History

      Branch History
    The Branch was founded in May 1907, a few months after the Historical Association was established. The founding Branch President was Professor John Masterman, Professor of History (1902-09) in the University of Birmingham's Department of Commerce, as it was designated in those days. He was one of several historians in...
    Birmingham Branch History

  • One of my favourite history places: Luxor, Egypt

      Primary History feature
    History teacher in Cairo; oh, my word! Living in Cairo for the past four years enabled me to explore the country to a degree not possible as a visitor. Based in Maadi to the south of the old Islamic city, I live about 20 minutes’ walk from the Nile. A...
    One of my favourite history places: Luxor, Egypt

  • My Favourite History Place: the Berlin Wall

      Historian feature
    Military history enthusiast David Wilson writes about why the Berlin Wall is still such an important symbol and reminder. I first visited Berlin in the mid 1980s when I was stationed in Germany as part of the British Army. It was an interesting place to go because until then the Cold...
    My Favourite History Place: the Berlin Wall

  • Teaching pre-history outside the classroom

      Primary History article
    From a visit to a local museum or heritage site, to using bushcraft skills to give pupils first-hand experience of what it might have been like to live in ancient times, teaching prehistory outside the classroom can really give this area of the curriculum the wow factor. The inclusion of...
    Teaching pre-history outside the classroom

  • Pupil-led historical enquiry: what might this actually be?

      Teaching History article
    The current National Curriculum for history requires pupils to ‘identify and investigate specific historical questions, making and testing hypotheses for themselves'. While Kate Hammond relished the encouragement that this gave to her pupils to engage in the process of historical enquiry, she was keen to develop a much clearer sense...
    Pupil-led historical enquiry: what might this actually be?

  • HA Update: History for all – a wider view

      Teaching History feature
    In this update, I plan to share ideas and practice from colleagues who lead and teach history in special schools in the northeast of England. Ten years have passed since the publication of History for All and this therefore seems a good moment for reflection. By 2011, in many of England’s schools,...
    HA Update: History for all – a wider view

  • ‘Power to the people’? Disputed presidential elections in US history

      Historian article
    Michael Dunne reveals the complex background to the modern elaborate constitutional process of electing a United States President. On Wednesday, 20 January 2021, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States of America.  In years to come these simple words may seem prosaic and...
    ‘Power to the people’? Disputed presidential elections in US history

  • Contribute an article to the History Education Research Journal

      Contribute
    The History Education Research Journal (HERJ) invites submission of articles on all aspects of theory, scholarship and research in history education. We publish general papers alongside those for special features, so please feel free to submit a paper at any time on any subject relevant to the journal. We especially welcome articles of...
    Contribute an article to the History Education Research Journal

  • Write Your Own Historical Fiction 2020 – Winners Announced

      HA competitions news
    This has been one of our best years for entries ever!  With children stuck at home needing a little extra something to do we decided to extend the competition to accommodate home learning, as well as a new age category for pupils in years 10-13. We received well over a...
    Write Your Own Historical Fiction 2020 – Winners Announced

  • History Abridged: Salt mines in Eastern Europe

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. See all History Abridged articles Towards the end of the Bronze Age, the climate across Europe began to warm. This...
    History Abridged: Salt mines in Eastern Europe

  • Great Debate Final 2025

      14th April 2025
    Winner: Quinn Scott – Chesterton Community College, Cambridge  Runners up: Anya Bensouiah – Kendrick School, Reading Fred Bosley – The King’s School, Canterbury Aimee Nelson – Bablake School, Coventry  Finalists:  Emily Tweddle, Earlston High School, Scottish Borders  Hannah Brearton, Upton Hall, Oxford Rosie Thomson, The Maynard School, Exeter Isabella Passarelli, Torquay Girls Grammar School,...
    Great Debate Final 2025

  • History GCSE Specification Comparison Tool

      GCSE Resource
    This short guidance is designed to help you compare the 9-1 GCSE specifications. The first examinations of these new linear GCSEs was in the summer of 2018.
    History GCSE Specification Comparison Tool

  • Teaching History 151: Continuity

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Rachel Foster - The more things change, the more they stay the same: developing students' thinking about change and continuity (Read article) 18 Polychronicon: The Revolution of 1688 - Ted Vallance (Read article) 20 Cunning Plan: The 'Glorious' revolution of 1688...
    Teaching History 151: Continuity

  • Drama: Ancient Egypt - Akhenaten

      Exemplar
    This exemplar outlines a lesson John Fines taught to a class of Year 3 children. He was visiting them for the first time to do some drama work. The children already knew a great deal about the Ancient Egyptians and were also used to learning through drama. John writes:After a...
    Drama: Ancient Egypt - Akhenaten