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  • Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2022 by David Olusoga

      Article
    Professor David Olusoga is a revered TV historian, a writer and a practising academic at Manchester University. In 2022 he was the recipient of the Historical Association's annual Medlicott medal, awarded for outstanding contributions to history. The recipient of the medal provides the closing lecture of the HA's annual awards evening. Professor...
    Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2022 by David Olusoga

  • Modern Russia

      Selected Articles and Publications
    A selection of useful articles on modern Russia and the USSR:  1. Alexander II: Emancipation and Reform in Russia 1855-1881 The ‘great reforms' of Tsar Alexander II (1855-81) are generally recognised as the most significant events in modern Russian history between the reign of Peter the Great and the revolutions...
    Modern Russia

  • Dealing with the consequences

      Teaching History journal article
    Do GCSE and A-level questions that purport to be about consequences actually reward reasoning about historical consequences at all? Molly-Ann Navey concluded that they do not and that they fail to encourage the kind of argument that academic historians engage in when reaching judgements about consequences. Navey decided that it...
    Dealing with the consequences

  • The Historian 10

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Henry Vll's Dynastic Hieroglyphs, Sydney Anglo  10 Local History: Industrial Archaeology, Marilyn Palmer  14 Westminster Diary: The Importance and Content of History Teaching, Ralph Dauis  15 Update: Chartism, Peter Searby  19 Report: History and Higher Education, Michael Biddiss 21 Personalia: Profile of Henry Loyn  31 Spotlight: Malmesbury, Nigel...
    The Historian 10

  • Using oral history in the classroom

      Multipage Article
    The Oral History Society has kindly agreed to produce two new films aimed at history teachers who are new to carrying out or using oral histories either in their teaching or with students. These two films will equip teachers with the essential tools and knowledge for using and devising effective...
    Using oral history in the classroom

  • Amphibious Warfare in British History

      Classic Pamphlet
    The term "Amphibious Warfare" was adopted a few years ago to indicate a form of a strategy of which the characteristic was the descent of the sea-borne armies upon the coasts and ports of an enemy. It is not a method peculiar to Great Britain, for all maritime nations from...
    Amphibious Warfare in British History

  • Helping Year 9 to engage effectively with ‘other genocides’

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Andy Lawrence returns to arguments made in Teaching History 153 about the importance of teaching young people about other modern genocides in addition to the Holocaust. Building on those arguments with his own rationale, Lawrence also acknowledges the constraints on curriculum time that compel all departments to...
    Helping Year 9 to engage effectively with ‘other genocides’

  • History of Electricity

      The History of the Royal Society
    In this series of podcasts Dr Patricia Fara of Clare College, Cambridge, examines the role of the Royal Society in the development of electricity.
    History of Electricity

  • Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967

      Virtual Branch
    In the centenary year of the BBC, this Virtual Branch talk from Marcus Collins relates the strange tale of how the BBC did and did not broadcast about homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s and what it tells us about sexuality, broadcasting and the origins of permissiveness in mid-twentieth century Britain.  Marcus Collins...
    Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967

  • TREE-mendous history!

      Primary History article
    Since the nineteenth century there has been a rich heritage of outdoor learning pedagogy in Europe, and today in Scandinavia the open air culture (frulitsliv) permeates Early Years education. In 1993 Bridgewater College nursery nurses returned from a visit to Denmark enthused by the outdoor educational settings and started their own ‘Forest School'. From 1995 the college...
    TREE-mendous history!

  • What do we do?

      Our work
    There are many ways you can support our work to bring history to all: Become a Member Make a donation Contribute an article Other ways to support us We bring together people who share an interest in, and love for the past and to further the study and teaching and enjoyment...
    What do we do?

  • Ancient Egypt

      Reference guide for primary
    This resource 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 Please note: this guide was written before the new National Curriculum...
    Ancient Egypt

  • Approaches to the History Curriculum: skills based curriculum

      Briefing Pack
    In 2010 many schools were adopting thematic or skills based curricula in England. This is one way of organising a curriculum. Some of the pros and cons of this approach are elaborated here.  There are an increasing number of schools now adopting a thematic or skills based curriculum for year...
    Approaches to the History Curriculum: skills based curriculum

  • The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2

      Journal
    The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education. Articles in the edition: Erinc Erdal and Ruken Akar Vural Teaching History through Drama: the ‘Armenian Deportation' Terry Haydn and Richard Harris Children's ideas about what it means...
    The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2

  • Mini Scaffolds: Charts, Concept webs, Diagrams, Mini-Frames

      Primary History article
    The language of History develops subject content knowledge and associated vocabulary & phraseology, p. 30. Pupils can record, extend and develop their historical language through using a range of mini-scaffolds or frameworks that they flesh out with teacher guidance and support. A class can build upon basic historical vocabulary through questioning,...
    Mini Scaffolds: Charts, Concept webs, Diagrams, Mini-Frames

  • How my interest in what I don't teach has informed my teaching and enriched my students' learning

      Teaching History article
    How my interest in what I don't teach has informed my teaching and  enriched my students' learning Flora Wilson argues here for the importance of maintaining a fascination with history as an academic subject for experienced, practising history teachers. Just as medical professionals keep their knowledge up to date by...
    How my interest in what I don't teach has informed my teaching and enriched my students' learning

  • Primary History 69 - Editorial

      Article
    When was the last time there was no war anywhere on Earth? Estimates are that there have been 230 years of peace during the last 3,500 years. Of war fatalities over the past 500 years, it is estimated that three quarters occurred during the twentieth century - including roughly 16...
    Primary History 69 - Editorial

  • Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2024 – the winners

      The HA's writing competition for children aged 10-15 years
    Real history contains some of the most fanciful, exciting, worrying and incredible stories – learning about the past can open our eyes to how people have interacted with the world and each other for centuries. It is not surprising that alongside the real history most cultures and traditions have a...
    Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2024 – the winners

  • Creating a progression model for teaching historical perspectives in Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Jacob Olivey set out to design enquiries which would enable his pupils to reconstruct, using evidence, the perspectives of people in the past. In this article he shares in detail the planning and outcomes of two enquiries: one for Year 7 and one for Year 8. Olivey offers a example...
    Creating a progression model for teaching historical perspectives in Key Stage 3

  • The return of King John: using depth to strengthen overview in the teaching of political change

      Teaching History article
    Dale Banham's article in Teaching History 92, ‘Getting ready for the Grand Prix: learning to build a substantiated argument in Year 7' has influenced much debate about extended writing. It has been influential way beyond the history education community. It also raised new questions about the management of historical content....
    The return of King John: using depth to strengthen overview in the teaching of political change

  • 'Be bloody, bold and resolute': Two possible interpretations of 'local history'

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. As a pre-Plowden primary teacher who queued to get my copy of that report in 1967 and as a contributory author to the Cambridge Primary Review (Alexander, 2009) forty-two years later I can claim, not an...
    'Be bloody, bold and resolute': Two possible interpretations of 'local history'

  • Passive receivers or constructive readers?

      Teaching History article
    Rachel Foster reports here on research that she conducted into how students engage with academic texts. Unhappy with the usual range of texts that students encounter, often truncated and ‘simplified' in the name of accessibility, she designed a scheme of work which sought to find out how her students responded...
    Passive receivers or constructive readers?

  • Where are we and where are we going?

      Teaching History article
    Richard Harris draws on their own and others’ research to take stock of where the history teaching community is in terms of curriculum thinking. Harris argues that despite a number of positive developments in recent years, certain issues continue to have undesirable effects on curriculum design. Such issues include inertia...
    Where are we and where are we going?

  • Ideas for Assemblies: historical events

      Article
    Here are a few suggestions for assemblies over the next few months (March-June); each idea is linked to a specific historical event from that month...
    Ideas for Assemblies: historical events

  • The International Journal Volume 12, Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial Sweden Ethical Values and History: a mutual relationship? Niklas Ammert, Linnaeus University (Kalmar)   Australia  Teaching History Using Feature Films: practitioner acuity and cognitive neuroscientific validation Debra Donnelly, University of Newcastle   Greece  The Difficult Relationship Between the History of the Present and School History in Greece: cinema as...
    The International Journal Volume 12, Number 1