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  • Emotional response or objective enquiry? Using shared stories and a sense of place

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In this article, Andrew Wrenn explores some issues that teachers might consider when supporting 14 and 15 year olds in their study of war memorials as historical interpretations. Tony McAleavy has argued that ‘popular' and...
    Emotional response or objective enquiry? Using shared stories and a sense of place

  • 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

  • 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

  • Communicating about the past: Resource G

      Article
    James Woodcock, 'Does the linguistic release the conceptual? Helping Year 10 to improve their causal reasoning' in Teaching History 119: Language issue (June, 2005) In this subtle article, James Woodcock experiments with introducing new vocabulary to a mixed-ability year 10 class working towards the enquiry question '"Hitler was not to...
    Communicating about the past: Resource G

  • Britain's Olympic visionary

      Historian article
    Forty-six years before the modern Olympics began, the small Shropshire market town of Much Wenlock was the seemingly unlikely setting for the establishment of an ‘Olympian Games'. Commencing in 1850, they were to become an annual festival in the town. The architect of this sporting enterprise was a local surgeon...
    Britain's Olympic visionary

  • From tragedy to triumph: The courage of Henrietta, Lady of Luxborough 1699-1756

      Historian article
    Why is Henrietta Luxborough, who was born in 1699, of interest today? In the first place because of whom she was; in the second because of what happened to her; and in the third because of her courage which enabled her to overcome adversity and lead a life utterly different...
    From tragedy to triumph: The courage of Henrietta, Lady of Luxborough 1699-1756

  • 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

  • Teaching and learning through personal, family and local history

      E-CPD
    N.B. This unit was produced before the 2014 curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links.  This unit is concerned with the way that primary age pupils can make use of their own personal, family and local history...
    Teaching and learning through personal, family and local history

  • Hertfordshire Branch Programme

      Article
    Meetings are held at the Backhouse Room, 116 Handside Lane, Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire AL8 6SZ on Saturdays at 3pm Meetings are free for members, £3 for visitors. Associate membership £15 per season.  For more information contact Barbara Wiltshire barbarag.wiltshire@btinternet.com or telephone 01438 716020     Hertfordshire Branch Programme 2025-6     Saturday...
    Hertfordshire Branch Programme

  • Hull & East Riding Branch Programme

      Article
    The Hull and East Riding branch meets at the Nordic Centre (The Danish Church), Osborne Street, HULL. HU1 2PN. This is a five-minute walk from the train, coach and bus Interchange. There is a small car park, free to all attending events, and parking on Osborne Street is quite easy....
    Hull & East Riding Branch Programme

  • Support Us

      Information
    As a charity the HA is completely independent of any government or statutory support, so we rely heavily on the work of volunteers (branch officers, workshop leaders and contributors to our publications). We also need donations and legacies to develop new resources and to help ensure everyone can access great...
    Support Us

  • Who do we represent?

      Information
    You don’t have to be an historian or history teacher to join the HA; you just need to love history. Our membership includes many thousands of history teachers and schools, academic historians, museum and heritage organisations, students of history of all ages – and many other individuals who just love...
    Who do we represent?

  • Teaching history through photographs in the internet and digital age

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. Images allow us to step back in time and ask important historical questions such as ‘Were the Victorians just like us?' Growing digitisation and the spread of the internet allow teachers and learners...
    Teaching history through photographs in the internet and digital age

  • Think Bubble 49: Frozen moments

      Primary History article
    Whenever I look at an old sepia photograph or one of those amazing 19th century genre pictures like William Powell Frith's Ramsgate Sands, it is not the immediate images that grab my attention. Although the detail is often remarkable, in the case of Ramsgate Sands the attentive mother gently introducing...
    Think Bubble 49: Frozen moments

  • Teaching History 131: Assessing Differently

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Speed cameras, dead ends, drivers and diversions: Year 9 use a ‘road map’ to problematise change and continuity – Rachel Foster (Read article) 09 The Holy Grail? GCSE History that actually enhances historical understanding! – Katie Hall (Read article) 17 ‘Create something interesting...
    Teaching History 131: Assessing Differently

  • Helping pupils with Special Educational Needs to develop a lifelong curiosity for the past

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Pupils in England have an entitlement to study history or geography until the age of sixteen. However, increasingly, some pupils seem to be discouraged from taking up this opportunity as it can be seen as...
    Helping pupils with Special Educational Needs to develop a lifelong curiosity for the past

  • Bolton Branch History

      Branch History
    The Bolton Branch of the Historical Association, having been founded in 1927, celebrated its 80th birthday suitably spectacularly in October 2007. Not only did it have, for the occasion, a distinguished Chief Guest as visiting lecturer, and an audience of nearly 200, but it also had a large, decorative and...
    Bolton Branch History

  • A Guide to the Key Stage 3 programme (pre-2014)

      Key Stage 3 Guide
    Please note: this unit was produced for a previous national curriculum (pre-2014). However, much of the advice remains useful and it provides a context to topics that continue to be very important for history teachers. Subject leaders, ITE providers and others may find it useful to consider how currently relevant topics were...
    A Guide to the Key Stage 3 programme (pre-2014)

  • 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

  • Manchester Branch Programme (with Liverpool and Chester)

      Article
    Entry to meetings is free to HA members, non-members £4 per meeting. We are delighted to be able to welcome our members and interested members of the public to our 2025-2026 series of events! Of course, circumstances are always changeable and so events may be changed or cancelled at short...
    Manchester Branch Programme (with Liverpool and Chester)

  • Taunton Deane Branch Programme

      Article
    All enquiries to Mr Geoff Bisson (geoff.bisson51@gmail.com), tel. 01823 353749 All talks start at 7.30pm on Wednesdays and take place in the Birchall Hall, Queen's College, Trull Road, Taunton, TA1 4QS unless otherwise stated. There is free car parking on site. Associate Membership: £10 per year. Talks free to national...
    Taunton Deane Branch Programme

  • Essex Branch Programme

      Article
    Talks on Saturdays, 2.30pm, Trinity Methodist Church, Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, CM1 2XB. Please check the calendar on this website for details. Visitors and prospective members warmly welcomed - £5, Associate Members fee £15.00 / £20.00 for 2 members at same address Branch Contact: Tony Tuckwell: 01245 256423  tonytuckwell28@outlook.com    For further...
    Essex Branch Programme

  • Bath Branch Programme

      Article
    Entry to lectures is free for national HA members and Bath branch local members who have paid an annual subscription. Visitors are welcome and are asked to pay £5 per lecture. For more information please contact Mike Short, Branch Secretary, mikeshort20@btinternet.com or 01225 812945. Lectures begin at 7.30 pm at...
    Bath Branch Programme