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  • Teaching the very recent past

      Teaching History article
    ‘Miriam's Vision' is an educational project developed by the Miriam Hyman Memorial Trust, an organisation set up in memory of Miriam Hyman, one of the 52 victims of the London bombings of 2005. The project has developed a number of subject-based modules, including history, which are provided free to schools...
    Teaching the very recent past

  • The Byzantine World War

      Podcast
    In this podcast, Nick Holmes, suggests that the Crusades formed part of amedieval world war that stretched from Asia to Europe. At its centre was the ancient empire Byzantium. Nick Holmes links three great events that changed history: the fall of Byzantium in the eleventh century, the epic campaign of...
    The Byzantine World War

  • The Spanish Armada

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. This is a highly interactive and stimulating simulation for years 3 and 4, and a very effective way of involving children in a range of issues. We introduced the story of the Armada, outlining the main parties involved and the nature...
    The Spanish Armada

  • Vikings: who were they?

      Lesson Plan (KS2)
    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. This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free...
    Vikings: who were they?

  • 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!

  • The evolution of surgery

      Podcast
    In this podcast, Michael Crumplin explores the development of military surgery during the Napoleonic Wars. He provides a brief context of the evolution of surgery and outlines the changes in training, surgical knowledge, militarisation, apparatus and patient experience. 
    The evolution of surgery

  • Teaching about the climate emergency

      Resources for teaching about climate change
    The climate emergency is being talked about across the media. But how do we as educators talk with learners, and sort the truth from misinformation? Here are some of Global Dimension's top picks of sites with high quality resources for tackling this most topical subject in your classroom: Campaign Against Climate...
    Teaching about the climate emergency

  • The Historian 125: Magna Carta

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    All the linked individual articles in this edition are available open-access. 4 Reviews 5 Editorial 6 The making of Magna Carta - Sophie Ambler (Read Article) 12 Magna Carta: oblivion and revival -  Nicholas Vincent (Read Article) 15 The President's Column 16 Reinventing the Charter: from Sir Edward Coke to ‘freeborn...
    The Historian 125: Magna Carta

  • The importance of history vocabulary

      Primary History article
    Teachers and schools should surely be forgiven for quickly turning to the pages containing the ‘subject content' - within the new 2014 history curriculum - and finding out ‘what' they should be teaching. This is especially true for Key Stage 2 where children must now learn British history from the...
    The importance of history vocabulary

  • The Swansea Branch Chronicle 8

      Branch Publication
    This edition features articles on the following:From the EditorContentsAn (ex) Chairman Reflects - Dr John Law‘O Canada' - Professor Ralph GriffithsDid the Swinging 60s Reach Wales? Anthea SymondsMatters on the Move - Dr Robert McCloyWe are All Equal Here - Ian SmithThe Sixties? Alun RichardsOn the Road Again - Rod...
    The Swansea Branch Chronicle 8

  • The making of Magna Carta

      Historian article
    Magna Carta provided a commentary on the ills of the realm in the time of King John. Sophie Ambler looks at what grievances were addressed in the Charter, how the Charter was made, and what the Charter tells us about King John himself.  The world from which Magna Carta came...
    The making of Magna Carta

  • What is the Great Debate?

      The Great Debate
    In this short film from 2015 Heather Scott (former Deputy President of the HA and compere of our Great Debate Finals) & Martin Spafford (Judge from our London Heats) introduce the Great Debate, talk about why students should get involved and discuss what they enjoy about the Great Debate.
    What is the Great Debate?

  • The New Elizabethans

      Year 6 Scheme of Work
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. This unit centres on life in Britain at the 1953 coronation and how people at the time looked back to the reign of Elizabeth I. This is one a set of Year 6 schemes of work arising from the 2005 KS2-KS3 History Transitions Project.
    The New Elizabethans

  • The Swansea Branch Chronicle 7

      Branch Publication
    This edition features articles on the following:From the EditorA Deeper Unrest, Richard NyeA Great War Swansea Pot Pourri, Bernard LewisThe Crimson Shadow of Mametz Wood, Giles ReesGeorge Arthur EvansHedd WynAs it Looked to Me; France and Belgium 1917, John LawThere Were Hundreds of Us in the Queue Trying to Enlist,...
    The Swansea Branch Chronicle 7

  • Teaching History 201: Interpreting the Past

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Please note: the print version of this edition will be arriving with members from 9 January. 03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 HA Update: SEND matters 08 Working 9–5: how painters, plumbers and programmers help our pupils understand the role of the historian – Jessie Phillips and Sarah Jackson-Buckley 18...
    Teaching History 201: Interpreting the Past

  • Podcast Series: The Anglo-Saxons

      The Anglo-Saxons
    In this HA Podcast Series Professor Joanna Story of the University of Leicester looks at the history of the Anglo-Saxons.
    Podcast Series: The Anglo-Saxons

  • Teaching the Assyrians for KS2

      Pamphlet
    Assyria was one of the Great Powers of the Ancient World. (They have been called the 'Romans of the East'.) From the early ninth to the lat seventh century BC they played an important part in history. At the heigh of their power the Assyrians controlled a vast area from...
    Teaching the Assyrians for KS2

  • The Swansea Branch Chronicle 6

      Branch Publication
    This edition features articles on the following:Margaret McCloy - Letter from the EditorAndrew Green - Wales Coast PathCopper Ore Barques SponsorsMark Williams - The Falkland IslandsTrevor Fishlock - AfghanistanEna Niedergang - Griffith John and WuhanRobert Leonard - Peripatetic PottersJohn Ashley - Ethiopian TravelsSid Kidwell - Edgar EvansDr Fred Cowley -...
    The Swansea Branch Chronicle 6

  • Interpretations of the French Revolution

      Classic Pamphlet
    The French Revolution raises many questions not least: What sort of Revolution was it - one of "poverty" or "prosperity" ? a bourgeois revolution that overthrew feudalism?  A national struggle for liberty, democracy, or "eternal Justice" ? or, again, a criminal conspiracy against the old social order? What did it...
    Interpretations of the French Revolution

  • Social Darwinism: the myth and its reinvention

      Historian article
    ‘Social Darwinism’ has been associated in academia and popular consciousness with negative concepts such as hyper-nationalism and eugenics. Geoffrey M. Hodgson challenges the notion that Social Darwinism or its proponents were ever well-defined. By tracing the use of ‘Social Darwinism’ across academic disciplines and globally over a long period, Hodgson...
    Social Darwinism: the myth and its reinvention

  • Update: The Princes in the Tower

      Historian feature
    A subject of endless fascination for the historian, the story of the ‘princes in the Tower’ hit the news again recently, following the discovery of Richard III’s body in Leicester and Philippa Langley’s ensuing quest to show that the much-maligned king was not responsible for the princes’ deaths. In this...
    Update: The Princes in the Tower

  • Recorded webinar: Revisiting the witch trials

      Article
    The East Anglian witch hunt under Matthew Hopkins, self-appointed Witchfinder General, has garnered a great deal of popular and historical interest over the years. An image has developed of a zealous, misogynistic young man serving crazed 'justice' against supposed witches, whipping up panic and turning neighbours against each other in...
    Recorded webinar: Revisiting the witch trials

  • Learning history through the lens of artefacts

      Primary History article
    Lindsay Marshall is a primary school teacher and subject leader for history in a primary school on the Wirral. She has embedded the use of artefacts throughout her school’s curriculum. In this article Lindsay outlines the importance of allowing children to ‘get up close and personal’ with history in order...
    Learning history through the lens of artefacts

  • Ofsted consultation – the HA response

      30th April 2019
    It is important that Ofsted responds to teachers' and schools' concerns and thoughts and updates its procedures. That is a key reason why we have been happy to draw together the thoughts of the history teaching community to the recent Ofsted public consultation. Much of what they are proposing to...
    Ofsted consultation – the HA response

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The Lines we Draw

      Article
    In this Virtual Branch Tim Franks, acclaimed BBC Journalist, talks about his personal history and identity drawing on his new biography The Lines we Draw: The Journalist, The Jew and an argument about identity.  We will delve into Tim's experiences as a journalist in some of the world's major conflict zones,...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The Lines we Draw