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  • What’s The Wisdom On… using material culture in the classroom?

      Teaching History feature
    How often do you refer to objects in the classroom? When did you last explore with your pupils the materiality of past lives? The ‘material turn’ in historical research and scholarship opens up different lines of enquiry and different kinds of history from those revealed by documentary evidence. It can...
    What’s The Wisdom On… using material culture in the classroom?

  • Cunning Plan 142: Why do historical interpretations change over time?

      Teaching History feature
    History teachers have been talking about the need to teach broad narratives, overview and chronology for a long time. They have also recognised how essential it is for students to have an opportunity to study the ways in which the past has been interpreted, and the reasons why these interpretations...
    Cunning Plan 142: Why do historical interpretations change over time?

  • Early Modern History

      Article
    Early Modern History

  • Story time? Investigating using stories about the French Revolution with Year 12

      Teaching History article
    Recognising a significant return to stories in the history classroom, Holliss and Carroll wanted to think carefully about what this meant for A-level history. While stories had always been present in their classrooms, they wanted to experiment with the methods of the ‘new storytellers’, building lessons, then sequences of lessons,...
    Story time? Investigating using stories about the French Revolution with Year 12

  • Does the grammatical ‘release the conceptual’?

      Teaching History article
    Jim Carroll noticed basic literacy errors in his Year 13s’ writing, but on closer examination decided that these were not best addressed purely as literacy issues. Through an intervention based on clauses, Carroll managed to enable his students to write better, but he did this by teasing out principles of...
    Does the grammatical ‘release the conceptual’?

  • Triumphs Show 164: interpretations at A Level

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    Julia Huber and Katherine Turner found that their A-level students struggled to identify the line of argument in a passage of historical scholarship, an essential prerequisite for answering their coursework question. They devised an activity that helped students to unpick and visually contrast historians’ interpretations of the relative importance of...
    Triumphs Show 164: interpretations at A Level

  • Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history

      Article
    Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people are the largest minority ethnic group in some communities (and therefore in some schools) in the UK. Yet the past of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller people may rarely be part of history lessons. The result is that pupils of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritage may not...
    Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history

  • History Journal Film: The Letters, Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell

      History journal blog
    The History journal team are delighted to launch their first in a series of films interviewing the authors at the cutting edge of historical research. Today, we are thrilled to welcome John Morrill, professor emeritus of the University of Cambridge and emeritus fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Dr Joel...
    History Journal Film: The Letters, Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell

  • The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1

      Journal
    The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education. Articles included in this edition:  Editorial: History Education, Identity and Citizenship in the 21st Century, Bahri Ata The Turkish prospective History teachers' understanding of analogy in History education, Isabel...
    The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1

  • The digital revolution

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Developments in information technology continue at an extraordinary pace. Many young children will have little or no idea of what it was like to live in a world without mobile phones, computers and the Internet. Most children will regularly make use...
    The digital revolution

  • Thinking beyond boundaries

      HA Update
    In October of last year, the Royal Historical Society (RHS) published an important report highlighting the racial and ethnic inequalities in the teaching and practice of history in the UK (RHS, 2018). Focused on history teaching at university, it nevertheless highlighted the need for thinking to occur at all levels...
    Thinking beyond boundaries

  • 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

  • On-demand webinar: Making it stick: enhancing memory retention for pupils with SEND in GCSE history 

      Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
    Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4 Session 2: Making it stick: enhancing memory retention for pupils with SEND in GCSE history  Presenter: Dale Banham This session explores how to help SEND learners retain historical knowledge by applying research-informed strategies that reduce cognitive overload...
    On-demand webinar: Making it stick: enhancing memory retention for pupils with SEND in GCSE history 

  • History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP)

      Immersive online course for history teachers looking to develop beyond their early career
    Book now Autumn 2026 cohort - Thursday 15 October, 4.45pm-5.45pm- Thursday 3 December, 4.45pm-5.45pm- Thursday 21 January, 4.45pm-5.45pm Spring 2027 cohort - Thursday 4 March, 4.45pm-5.45pm- Thursday 22 April, 4.45pm-5.45pm- Thursday 11 June, 4.45pm-5.45pm What is the History Teacher Development Programme? The History Teacher Development Programme is an immersive online programme aimed...
    History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP)

  • 200 editions of Teaching History!

      Teaching History feature
    In 1968, Mary Price wrote an article for the HA journal, History. Entitled ‘History in danger’, it told a shocking story. The subject of history in Britain’s schools was losing its identity, argued Price, disappearing into various species of integrated humanities and civics. Pupils could see little purpose for it,...
    200 editions of Teaching History!

  • Designing an enquiry in a challenging setting

      Teaching History article
    The Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR) is a Cyprus-based organization that works to foster dialogue among history teachers and other educators across the divide in Cyprus. In one of their UN-funded projects, ADHR members worked with UK colleagues to shape a lesson sequence and resources on the Ottoman period...
    Designing an enquiry in a challenging setting

  • Film: Blood and Iron

      Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
    Katya Hoyer recently gave a lecture for the HA Virtual Branch on Weltkrieg: the German home front during the First World War and the devastating effects of total war on a divided and insecure society. This talk provides an insight into the First World War that is often overlooked, reminding us that...
    Film: Blood and Iron

  • Effective implementation in primary history

      Primary History article
    In this useful article, Matt Flynn uses the Education Endowment Foundation implementation process (2024) to exemplify how history subject leaders can affect positive whole school change and develop their history provision in line with their school’s needs. He shares the process through a developed example, providing an excellent scaffold that history...
    Effective implementation in primary history

  • ‘Golden threads’ in primary history

      Primary History article
    The term ‘golden threads’ has become increasingly part of primary history planning. It is often recommended as a means of avoiding curriculum atomisation and aiding retrieval. In this article Tim Lomas attempts to unpack what is meant by the term, what are some of the most popular ‘golden threads’ and...
    ‘Golden threads’ in primary history

  • Using turning points in anti-racist history to explore historical significance at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Joel Sharples explains the organising principles that underpinned his planning for a new enquiry sequence inspired by a local photography exhibition. The exhibition’s title ‘Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point’ prompted him to think afresh about the idea of ‘a turning point’ – a concept that he...
    Using turning points in anti-racist history to explore historical significance at Key Stage 3

  • Beyond the classroom: developing student teachers' work with museums and historic sites

      Teaching History article
    Working visits to historical sites for the purposes of developing pupils’ historical understanding can be extremely useful. As part of their training, student teachers need to acquire understanding and skills in the planning and management of worthwhile ‘fieldwork’. This work can be very powerful indeed if it emerges from co-operation...
    Beyond the classroom: developing student teachers' work with museums and historic sites

  • Artificial intelligence’s ChatGPT program: a powerful tool for teaching 7- to 11-year-olds history

      Primary History article
    This article is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today In Jon Nichol’s ‘Voice from the past’, he considers how...
    Artificial intelligence’s ChatGPT program: a powerful tool for teaching 7- to 11-year-olds history

  • Disability history resources

      Article
    Disabled people are part of the fabric of every society past and present, yet the stories, achievements and struggles of disabled people have often been hidden or marginalised by societies who refuse to adapt. Coping with disability, societal attitudes towards disability and the stories, voices and contributions of disabled people...
    Disability history resources

  • The International Journal Volume 9 Number 1

      International Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 9, Number 1 - July 2010 ISSN 1472-9466 1. Editorial - Hilary Cooper and Jon Nichol 2. Articles Current reflections - 2010, on John Fines' Educational Objectives for the Study of History: A Suggested Framework and Peter Rogers' The New History,...
    The International Journal Volume 9 Number 1

  • Disability in primary history teaching

      Primary History article
    This article is based on a session by Bev Forrest and Mel Jones at the HA Conference in May 2024. The central concern is to support teachers to weave the experiences and lives of disabled people in the past into the primary curriculum. It looks at possible opportunities in EYFS, Key Stage 1...
    Disability in primary history teaching