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  • Move Me On 192: analytical focus with diverse histories

      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 192: analytical focus with diverse histories

  • 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

  • Young Historian Awards 2024 – take part (Primary prizes)

      History competition for primary schools
    We want young people to get the bug for writing about history in an interesting and critical way. Each year the Historical Association in collaboration with the Spirit of Normandy Trust offers a series of awards to Primary school children for outstanding history scholarship. Children are asked to investigate, think and write about history. The...
    Young Historian Awards 2024 – take part (Primary prizes)

  • HA Honorary Fellows 2024

      HA awards
    Each year the Historical Association awards Honorary Fellowships to a small group of people. These awards are to recognise and celebrate outstanding services to history and to the Historical Association. The awards cover services to the Historical Association Branches (of which there are over 45 across the country), our committees and...
    HA Honorary Fellows 2024

  • Magna Carta and the Origins of Parliament

      Historian article
    In February this year the four surviving originals of Magna Carta were briefly brought together in the Houses of Parliament. John Maddicott, examining the Charter's role in the early development of Parliament, shows that the setting was well chosen. What did Magna Carta contribute to the origins of parliament? If...
    Magna Carta and the Origins of Parliament

  • Teaching History 81

      Journal
    2 Editorial 3 News 7 Fiction, Empathy and Teaching History Victoria Mills 10 History and Language Sara Alston 11 Teaching Children About Time Terry Haydn 13 Art History as an Historical Discipline C.H. Kauffmann 14 Battling On: family history in the primary classroom Elizabeth M. Corrigan 19 A Tudor Feast...
    Teaching History 81

  • 'ICT Starter for 10' a primer for Secondary History Educators

      Article
    This resource is intended to provide a short ‘aide memoire’ to the hard pressed teacher providing a series of ‘launching pads’ for historical enquiry…
    'ICT Starter for 10' a primer for Secondary History Educators

  • Immerse yourself in history

      Information
    The Historical Association [HA] is a registered charity incorporated by Royal Charter. Since 1906 we have brought together people who share an interest in the past, and work to further the study, teaching and enjoyment of history in all guises and forms: professional, public and popular. As an independent charity we...
    Immerse yourself in history

  • Past Forward: History for all

      Article
    This paper takes four premises for granted: (i) that a coherent, motivating, demanding historical education is essential for all citizens in today’s society. This is not a luxury, it is a burning necessity in the interests of social inclusion, human rights and the preservation of democracy; (ii) that the present...
    Past Forward: History for all

  • Teaching History 128: Beyond the Exam

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    04 Teaching Year 9 about historical theories and methods – Kate Hammond (Read article) 11 Getting Year 7 to set their own questions about the Islamic Empire, 600-1600 – Sally Burnham (Read article) 18 Does scaffolding make them fall? Reflecting on strategies for developing causal argument in Years 8 and...
    Teaching History 128: Beyond the Exam

  • No more ‘doing’ diversity

      Teaching History feature
    Catherine Priggs and her history department colleagues were increasingly concerned that their curriculum was too narrow. They feared that major areas of history were being left out and that many of their own pupils were not seeing themselves, in their various ethnic, cultural and world identities, in the past. Priggs...
    No more ‘doing’ diversity

  • Significance

      Key Concepts
    Please note: these links were compiled in 2009. For a more recent resource, please see: What's the Wisdom on: Historical significance.  This selection of Teaching History articles on 'Significance' are highly recommended reading to anyone who wants to get to grips with this key concept. All Teaching History articles are free to HA Secondary Members...
    Significance

  • 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

  • The British Association for Local History (BALH)

      History Network
    The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serves local historians. Its purpose is to encourage and assist the study of local history as an academic discipline and as a rewarding leisure pursuit for both individuals and groups. Local history enriches our lives...
    The British Association for Local History (BALH)

  • Film: Introducing Professor Peter Mandler

      Peter Mandler becomes the new HA President in May 2020
    Professor Peter Mandler has accepted the position of President of the HA and will be taking over the position from Professor Tony Badger who will step down this later this year. Peter Mandler was born in the USA in 1958, educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities, and has taught in Britain...
    Film: Introducing Professor Peter Mandler

  • The Historian 156: Out now

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Read The Historian 156 The sadness that came with the death of our patron Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is tinged with our appreciation of her willingness many years ago to become our patron. Some of our older members will remember that she and the Duke of Edinburgh attended our...
    The Historian 156: Out now

  • A view from the classroom: Teachers TV, The Staffordshire Hoard And 'Doing History'

      Primary History article
    When the Historical Association was approached by Teachers' TV to produce ‘Great Ideas for Teaching History' at Key Stage 2, it was inevitable that I, as a full time teacher on the Primary Committee, would have no escape. My school agreed I could take part, with the involvement of two...
    A view from the classroom: Teachers TV, The Staffordshire Hoard And 'Doing History'

  • Bringing the Civil War to life in Somerset

      Primary History article
    As a lecturer in education teaching humanities at Plymouth University, I spend my time encouraging student teachers to move away from writing lesson plans with a focus on research and recording, to creating lessons that are dynamic – engaging children in historical activities to develop a passion for history. Student...
    Bringing the Civil War to life in Somerset

  • Polychronicon 145: Interpreting the history of the modern prison

      Teaching History feature
    On the morning of Sunday 24 January 1932 convicts paraded in the exercise yards at Dartmoor Convict Prison in Devon. Suddenly, inmates began to break ranks, encouraging others to do likewise. Some prisoners were shepherded into cell blocks by officers but control mechanisms quickly collapsed and the remaining inmates had...
    Polychronicon 145: Interpreting the history of the modern prison

  • 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’

  • OCR History A Level History: Democracy and Dictatorship in Germany 1919-63

      Review
    Professor Mary Fulbrook and David Williamson with Nick Fellows and Mike Wells Review by Barbara Hibbert This resource is one of a series produced by Heinemann to support the new OCR History A AS course.  It claims that it ‘exactly reflects the key issues and skills in the specification topics'. ...
    OCR History A Level History: Democracy and Dictatorship in Germany 1919-63

  • The Historian 143: Literature

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article – open access) 8 Linking Law: Viking and medieval Scandinavian law in literature and history – Keith Ruiter (Read article) 13 The Memory of a Saint: managing the legacy of St Bernard of Clairvaux – Georgina Fitzgibbon (Read article) 17 Blurred Lines: the ever-decreasing...
    The Historian 143: Literature

  • Teaching History 136: Shaping the Past

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 When were Jews in medieval England most in danger? Exploring change and continuity with Year 7 – Ben Jarman (Read article) 13 Shaping macro-analysis from micro-history: developing a reflexive narrative of change in school history – Hywel Jones (Read article) 22 Triumphs show: How...
    Teaching History 136: Shaping the Past

  • 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

  • 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