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  • Debates: Narratives - what matters most in school history education?

      Teaching History article
    In England, a curriculum review is imminent. Following a recent ‘call for evidence' by the government, further consultation on the future shape of history in schools will follow. The HA is currently consulting its membership and will be publishing discussion papers in January 2012. At such a time, everyone in...
    Debates: Narratives - what matters most in school history education?

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 75

      Posters: Sources, and How to read a house
    1. How to 'read' a house; 2. What sources can we use to learn about railways?
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 75

  • Film: Discussion: Historical memory of key individuals in the Civil Rights Movement

      Film series: The African-American Civil Rights Movement
    Professor Tony Badger, Professor Joe Street and Professor Brian Ward discuss the African-American Civil Rights movement and examine different ways we might interpret the significance of key individuals, groups, institutions and events that played a role in its development and progress. This section reflects on how the past is portrayed...
    Film: Discussion: Historical memory of key individuals in the Civil Rights Movement

  • Teaching History 134: Local Voices

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Relevant, rigorous and revisited: using local history to make meaning of historical significance – Geraint Brown and James Woodcock (Read article) 12 Cunning Plan: Local history at KS3 – Dan Moorhouse (Read article) 15 Nutshell 16 Riots, railways and a Hampshire hill fort: exploiting local...
    Teaching History 134: Local Voices

  • Teaching History 130: Picturing History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Redrawing the Renaissance: non-verbal assessment in Year 7 – Matt Stanford (Read article) 13 Nutshell 14 Thinking across time: planning and teaching the story of power and democracy at Key Stage 3 – Ian Dawson (Read article) 24 Stepping into the past: using...
    Teaching History 130: Picturing History

  • A modest proposal for change in Canadian history education

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Peter Seixas recounts the development of a history education reform project in Canada. Like all good histories, it is a complex story and a matter of unanticipated consequences and ironic narrative twists. Seixas' history is,...
    A modest proposal for change in Canadian history education

  • Food, history and a sense of place?

      Historian article
    It ought to be possible to match many of the letters of the alphabet to an English place-name and its particular food-stuff. From Bath Buns to Yorkshire Pudding, this puzzle might go, by way of cakes from Eccles and Pontefract. Can you think of other letters of the alphabet and...
    Food, history and a sense of place?

  • Two women linked across three thousand years of history

      Primary History article
    16 May 1976 – a warm sunny day as Zheng was to recall – began as a typical day on site and ended with a remarkable discovery. Zheng Zhenxiang was leading an archaeological team at Yinxu, Anyang in China looking for evidence of tombs from the Shang Dynasty period. This...
    Two women linked across three thousand years of history

  • Webinar recordings: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum (full series)

      Article
    Purchase all 5 recorded webinars in this series for £139 (HA Secondary members), £303 (non-members).  Or if you wish to purchase individual recordings, follow these links: Session 1: Introductory webinar Session 2: Black British history Session 3: Histories of Islamic societies Session 4: Histories of the African continent Session 5: New...
    Webinar recordings: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum (full series)

  • Decolonise, don’t diversify: enabling a paradigm shift in the KS3 history curriculum

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Dan Lyndon-Cohen makes the case that history departments should move from diversifying the curriculum to decolonising it. After reflecting on some examples of how he made the content of his lessons more representative, he explores how the influence of writers such as Michel-Rolph Trouillot and Emma Dabiri...
    Decolonise, don’t diversify: enabling a paradigm shift in the KS3 history curriculum

  • Move Me On 183: sees no reason to include Black or Asian British history

      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 183: sees no reason to include Black or Asian British history

  • The Planning of a History Syllabus for Schools

      Classic Pamphlet
    In 1944, in response to the Education Act, the HA issued a report with input from teachers and academics on the planning of a school history syllabus. In the context of current discussions about a review of the school curriculum the 1944 report makes interesting reading.
    The Planning of a History Syllabus for Schools

  • Teaching History 147: Curriculum Architecture

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial  03 HA Secondary News  04 HA Update  08 Beth Baker and Steven Mastin - Did Alexander really ask, ‘Do I appear to you to be a bastard?' Using ancient texts to improve pupils' critical thinking (Read article) 14 Cunning Plan: Getting students to use classical texts - Beth Baker...
    Teaching History 147: Curriculum Architecture

  • Teaching History 111: Reading History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    06 ‘Really weird and freaky’: using a Thomas Hardy short story as a source of evidence in the Year 8 classroom - Mary Woolley (Read article) 13 Reading and enquiring in Years 12 and 13: a case study on women in the Third Reich - Alison Kitson (Read article) 20...
    Teaching History 111: Reading History

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 73

      Map of ancient civilisations
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 73

  • Recorded Webinar: What does great oracy look like in history?

      Article
    This session explores the features of good student oracy in a non-disciplinary sense, but also within the setting of a history classroom. It explores how to identify these features in the day to day of teaching history and is part of our CPD series on effective oracy in the secondary history classroom.
    Recorded Webinar: What does great oracy look like in history?

  • Teaching history and geography together in a meaningful way

      WHEN 2 + 2 = 5!
    This article explores some of the  ways history and geography can be taught side by side, so that the sum of the parts adds up to more than the original. How can we teach history with geography and vice  versa, to the benefit of both, while fulfilling the aims of...
    Teaching history and geography together in a meaningful way

  • The death of a hero: Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson

      Historian article
    Michael Crumplin comments on the injuries and illnesses that Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson suffered during his shortened career. His bold leadership style, much admired by his naval companions, inevitably led to a series of wounds. Using a combination of contemporary accounts and current clinical, anatomical and physiological interpretation, this article...
    The death of a hero: Vice-Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson

  • Writing Letchworth's war: developing a sense of the local within historical fiction through primary sources

      Teaching History article
    Writing Letchworth's war: developing a sense of the local within historical fiction through primary sources Local history, historical fiction, and one of the most significant events of the twentieth century come together in this article as Jon Grant and Dan Townsend suggest a way to enable students to produce better...
    Writing Letchworth's war: developing a sense of the local within historical fiction through primary sources

  • Cunning Plan... for teaching about climate change through the history curriculum

      Teaching History feature
    Is this climate change lesson geography or history, Miss? When thinking about teaching climate change in schools we often associate it with subjects like geography or even science, but we hardly think about history. And yet, history has as much claim on this topic as other subjects do, especially when...
    Cunning Plan... for teaching about climate change through the history curriculum

  • The potential of secondary history to respond to the current ecological and climate crisis

      Teaching History article
    In this article Michael Riley and Alison Kitson seek to unlock the potential of the secondary history curriculum to educate young people about the current ecological and climate crisis in ways that might also inform their thinking about how to create a more sustainable future. The article (which mirrors a parallel...
    The potential of secondary history to respond to the current ecological and climate crisis

  • Are we creating a generation of 'historical tourists'?

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. A trip to the battlefields of the First World War throws into stark relief the challenges presented by work on interpretations related to historical sites. Andrew Wrenn first drew attention to the difficulties of promoting...
    Are we creating a generation of 'historical tourists'?

  • Teaching History 125: Significance

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    06 ‘Maybe they haven’t decided yet what is right:’ English and Spanish perspectives on teaching historical significance – Lis Cercadillo (Read article) 10 What they think they know: the impact of pupils’ preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance – Robin Conway (Read article) 16 Polychronicon: The Norman Conquest - Tony McConnell 18...
    Teaching History 125: Significance

  • Engaging places with KS2

      Article
    Engaging Pupils: An A Level student describes her experience of collaborative working with Key Stage 2.When the students at Thamesview Vocational Centre found out we were working with the local junior school, Riverview Primary, we were quite surprised. We had been working on the Engaging Places project which was a...
    Engaging places with KS2

  • Why we need to teach about the history of trees and woodland...

      Primary History article
    Michael Riley highlights the importance of educating children about the history of trees and woodland. He explores the potential of primary history to develop an understanding of our changing relationship with trees. The article shows how a focus on trees and woodland could enhance an existing history study, and suggests...
    Why we need to teach about the history of trees and woodland...