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My Favourite History Place: Swarkestone Bridge
Historian feature
Trevor James reveals his continued fascination with this major Midland scheduled monument.
Almost 40 years ago, my role as a Nottingham University extra-mural tutor took me to Melbourne in Derbyshire. For the first few weeks I followed a cross-country route to Melbourne, via Burton-upon-Trent, Woodville and Hartshorne, but, on a dark November...
My Favourite History Place: Swarkestone Bridge
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Sustaining Missions: Cuthbert G. Young and Transnational Evangelical Collaboration in the Ottoman Empire
Article
In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuthbert George Young emerged as a quietly influential figure in the world of Christian missionary work. Unlike the missionaries who travelled to distant lands to spread their religious doctrines, Young played a behind the scenes role. Yet his contributions were crucial to sustaining evangelical efforts in...
Sustaining Missions: Cuthbert G. Young and Transnational Evangelical Collaboration in the Ottoman Empire
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Promoting self-efficacy through combined literacy and oracy projects
Teaching History article
In this article, Jonty Haywood shows how his pupils have used literacy and oracy to create their own history. By giving them engaging (and age- and attainment-appropriate) secondary source material, Haywood enabled his pupils to create something of their own about an area of history that interested them. He shows...
Promoting self-efficacy through combined literacy and oracy projects
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HA Secondary History Survey 2015
Survey Report
*Full Survey Report attached below
1.1 Data on which this report is based
This survey was conducted during the summer term 2015. Responses were received from 455 history teachers working in a wide range of different contexts, including sixth form and tertiary colleges. The rapid expansion of the academies programme...
HA Secondary History Survey 2015
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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?
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New approaches to teaching the History of Appeasement in the classroom
Multipage Article
This project has been created on the initiative of Professor Julie. V. Gottlieb, Dept. of History, University of Sheffield. British political history, political conflict, appeasement and the Munich Crisis (1938) itself is the focus of her research and publications. Rather than approach these topics from ‘traditional’, elite and history from...
New approaches to teaching the History of Appeasement in the classroom
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History, ICT and the digital age
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum.
Three things are important
1.Don't fall for the hype
You are not a bad teacher if you are not using a lot of technology in history or any other area! Research evidence does not support many of the claims made about...
History, ICT and the digital age
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Fundamental British Values and history teaching
Article
In this article, Michael Maddison provides an overview of what schools must do in relation to promoting British values, as well as preventing extremism and radicalisation, and why it is so important that opportunities are taken in history to deal with these two pressing issues. It is an updated version...
Fundamental British Values and history teaching
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One of my favourite history places: Oakham Castle
Primary History feature
Standing by the stocks in the historic Buttercross of the market-town of Oakham, it would be easy to miss the hidden gem of Norman architecture that lies just a few metres away. Oakham Castle may be far removed from the traditional image of knights and castles, but there is something...
One of my favourite history places: Oakham Castle
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Primary History 57: What History Should We Teach, 5-14?
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
Contents, Editorial, In My View, Article
04 Editorial
05 In my view: Campaign! Make an Impact and History - Alison Bodley (Read article)
06 In my view: Principles for a history curriculum - Jon Nichol (Read article)
07 Doing History: story telling How can we imagine the past? - Grant Bage (Read...
Primary History 57: What History Should We Teach, 5-14?
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My Favourite History Place - Magdeburg
Historian feature
Magdeburg (‘Magdeburg überascht') is situated on the banks of the River Elbe in the state of Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany. First mentioned by Charlemagne in 805, Magdeburgtoday attracts much attention by being a major historic venue on the Straße der Romanik or Romanesque Route that has opened up a large number of...
My Favourite History Place - Magdeburg
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Film: The use of educational talk in history learning and teaching
Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
This film continues our Teaching History for Beginners filmed webinar series. In this episode, David Ingledew, senior lecturer in history education and ITE lead at the University of Hertfordshire explores education talk as a follow up from his earlier film on questioning in the history classroom.
Film: The use of educational talk in history learning and teaching
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Hull & East Riding Branch History
Branch History
The origins of the Hull branch of the HA go back to 1921. However the branch really came to life when Dr Fred Brooks arrived as Reader in Medieval History at the new University College of Hull. From 1930 to 1977 he was the mainspring of the activities and growth...
Hull & East Riding Branch History
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Primary History 61: Museums and Visits
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
Editorial and In My View
04 Editorial Museums, identity and freedom - museums matter
05 A museum of British history - Lord Baker
06 Museums: Entries to learning - Mick Waters (Read article)
07 Using sites and the environment - John Fines (Read article)
08 Visits and museums - Jerome...
Primary History 61: Museums and Visits
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Nottingham Branch History
Article
A major feature of the Historical Association's branches has been their strong links with a variety of voluntary organisations focused on, or with interests in, history. The Association's initial aims drawn up in June 1906 included 'Co-operation for common objects with the English Association, the Geographical Association, the Modern Language...
Nottingham Branch History
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What sort of history should school history be? Debate Podcast
Debate Podcast
On July 18 2011 the Historical Association hosted a public debate chaired by Professor Simon Schama at the Institute of Education, Bedford Way, London.
With the history curriculum being the focus of intense interest the following series of podcasts from the debate examine what that curriculum might look like. Joining Simon Schama was five...
What sort of history should school history be? Debate Podcast
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The Historical Association Response to the Initial Teacher Training Market Review Consultation
26th August 2021
On 5 July 2021 the government launched a consultation into proposals for reform of initial teacher training in England following a review of the market. The recommendations are part of wider reforms to initial teacher training.
The proposals outlined in the consultation included the extension of courses to allow for...
The Historical Association Response to the Initial Teacher Training Market Review Consultation
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Creating the 'creative history' website
Primary History article
Editorial note: The role of ICT in the Digital Age is a major, perhaps even, the major factor, in enhancing creativity in the learning and teaching of history. This paper illuminates another dimension of ICT in the Digital Age and creativity. It shows how a teacher's creativity has produced a...
Creating the 'creative history' website
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OFSTED, primary history and creativity
Primary History article
Co-ordinators concerns: OFSTED, primary history and creativity
I'm told the emphasis in schools now is for a rigorous approach to history where the children are taught the main facts and features of history. I recall a time not so long ago when the whole curriculum was about creativity but surely...
OFSTED, primary history and creativity
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In My View: Creativity & History
Article
Introduction
A great deal has been written recently defining what is meant by creativity in primary education. And much has been written urging us to ‘teach creatively'. Yet there had been no exploration of what teaching creatively means in terms of teaching history until a group of colleagues and I...
In My View: Creativity & History
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On-demand webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
On-demand webinar series for primary teachers and history subject leaders
What does this series cover?
This series of webinars will consider how disciplinary knowledge is slowly introduced into the primary curriculum, built upon and strengthened.
We know that substantive knowledge in history is the substance ('the stuff') we teach: the facts which we are sure about and which all have...
On-demand webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
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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
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In search of Alice Molland: an English witchcraft will o’ the wisp
Historian article
As the Historical Association runs its short course on Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History, Mark Stoyle investigates an apparent turning point in the history of English witchcraft: the case of a woman accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Devon.
We also include Mark Stoyle's 'Doing History' companion piece to his...
In search of Alice Molland: an English witchcraft will o’ the wisp
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Teaching History 122: Rethinking History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 Why don’t the Chinese play cricket? Rethinking progression in historical interpretations through the British Empire – Steven Mastin and Pieter Wallace (Read article)
15 More than just the Henries: Britishness and British history at Key Stage 3 – Robert Guyver (Read article)
24 Polychronicon: Whose conspiracy? The plot of...
Teaching History 122: Rethinking History
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Teaching History 162: Scales of Planning
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 From the history of maths to the history of greatness: towards worthwhile cross-curricular study through the refinement of a scheme of work - Harry Fletcher-Wood (Read article)
16 The whole point of the thing: how nominalisation might develop students’ written...
Teaching History 162: Scales of Planning
