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Doing History at University 2025
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We are pleased to be hosting a Doing History at University event for students and teachers in partnership with the University of Sheffield. The aim of the event is to...
Doing History at University 2025
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Triumphs Show 133: Getting more pupils choosing History at GCSE
Teaching History feature
It is often remarked that history is under pressure nationally at GCSE. Our history numbers have never been enormous, and we have recently gone down from 2 sets to one set. The crunch came in 2007 when we collapsed to a dismal 12 students. A variety of factors may have...
Triumphs Show 133: Getting more pupils choosing History at GCSE
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Spencer Perceval: private values and public virtues
Historian article
The public man and his career Spencer Perceval's career as a public figure lasted from 1796 when he became a King's Counsel and MP for Northampton until his murder sixteen years later at the age of 49. He was shot in the lobby of the House of Commons at 5.15pm...
Spencer Perceval: private values and public virtues
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The Historian 128: The Sykes-Picot agreement
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews
5 Editorial
6 A precious jewel: English Calais, 1347-1558 - Dan Spencer (Read article)
11 The President's Column
12 Britain: the regional battlefields that helped to create a nation - Geoffrey Carter (Read article)
17 St Peter's-ad-murum, Bradwelljuxta-Mare - Marie Paterson (Read article)
18 The Sykes-Picot agreement and lines...
The Historian 128: The Sykes-Picot agreement
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Films: Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian Myths, Stories & Letters
Article
To accompany our series of podcasts looking at the ancient Near East we have put together a few films that give you a sense of the incredible literature and mythology that emerged from Mesopotamia and Egypt over their long histories.
We have also put together a few films that give voice to the ancient...
Films: Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian Myths, Stories & Letters
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Irish Unionism 1885-1922
Classic Pamphlet
It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of Irish unionism for British and Irish politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The movement was supported almost exclusively by Irish Protestants who were of Anglo-Irish or Scotch-Irish descent and who comprised roughly one-quarter of the population of Ireland. Its...
Irish Unionism 1885-1922
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Factors influencing pupil take-up of history post Key Stage 3: an exploratory enquiry
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Last year, in Teaching History 132, Richard Harris and Terry Haydn shared their findings from a research project exploring children's views of school history. Here they report on further research, seeking to explain the wide...
Factors influencing pupil take-up of history post Key Stage 3: an exploratory enquiry
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Relevant, rigorous and revisited: using local history to make meaning of historical significance
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
The idea of engaging pupils with the relevance of local memorials is becoming commonplace in the history classroom. In Teaching History 109, Examining History Edition, Dale Banham's pupils used First World War memorials to assess...
Relevant, rigorous and revisited: using local history to make meaning of historical significance
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History 362
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 104, Issue 362
All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:
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The...
History 362
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Success with primary history: overcoming the challenges
Article
Primary history seems to be a curious mixture of the successful and successful. On the one hand most children seem to love it and many teachers claim to enjoy teaching it. There is certainly no shortage of good practice in many schools and exciting and stimulating resources are plentiful. On...
Success with primary history: overcoming the challenges
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History 357
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 103, Issue 357
All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:
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A...
History 357
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Magellan at KS1
Lesson Plan
The Year 2 story of Magellan and his voyage round the world. The lessons provided part of the history and geography element in a wider topic on ‘Water'.
(These resources are attached below)
The teaching was done through the powerful medium of storytelling. The first session was taken up by...
Magellan at KS1
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Film: Primary History and the Ofsted Inspection Framework
Article
In May of 2021, Ofsted published a blog post of findings from visits carried out to 24 different primary schools in order to gather evidence as to the quality of history education provided by these outstanding schools. You can find the blog here: https://educationinspection.blog.gov.uk/2021/04/27/history-in-outstanding-primary-schools/
Areas of both strength and improvement were outlined, although the...
Film: Primary History and the Ofsted Inspection Framework
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GCSE topics mapped against our resources
HA Resources and GCSE History
At the HA, we know it’s hard enough trying to grapple with new GCSE units of study, assessment and content without also having to research where you can find interesting or supportive resources, either for your own, or your students subject knowledge. Our secondary committee have pooled resources and helped...
GCSE topics mapped against our resources
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Agincourt 600
2016 Teacher Fellowship Programme
Course lead: Ian DawsonAcademic support: Prof Anne Curry, Prof Michael Hicks, Dr Dan Spencer
The inaugural Teacher Fellowship Programme was launched through funding provided by Agincourt 600 with the aim of providing rigorous, subject knowledge-focused professional development for teachers. It was led by Ian Dawson with a focus on the fifteenth...
Agincourt 600
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England Arise! The General Election of 1945
Historian article
‘The past week will live in history for two things’, announced the Sunday Times of 29 July 1945, ‘first the return of a Labour majority to Parliament and the end of Churchill's great war Premiership.’ Most other newspapers concurred. The Daily Mirror, of 27 July, proclaimed that the 1945 general election...
England Arise! The General Election of 1945
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History 377
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 107, Issue 377
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William...
History 377
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History 384-385
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 109, Issue 384-385
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Richard,...
History 384-385
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The Historian 7
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 The Death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Jeanne Handzic
8 The Duke of Wellington at Home, R.E Foster
10 George V. Ferguson, Canada and Appeasement, Robin Betts
13 The Dykes, J.L. Ferns
16 Social History: The Seaside Resort, John K. Walton
25 Update: The Ancien Regime, Nora Temple
28...
The Historian 7
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Primary History Summer Resource 2017: Roman Britain
Teaching the Roman Britain National Curriculum unit of study
This special Primary History summer resource for our members will equip you to teach the Roman Britain National Curriculum unit of study. Please note that it is not a resourced scheme of work.
The unit includes the following enquiries:
Enquiry 1: When did the Romans invade and why?
Enquiry 2: Did...
Primary History Summer Resource 2017: Roman Britain
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History 355
The Journal of the Historical Association
All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:
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How...
History 355
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History 360
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 104, Issue 360
All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:
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Britain,...
History 360
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HA Conference round-up 2022
31st May 2022
It really happened!
In May 2019 as we departed from Chester, the HA team said 'we’ll see you in Bristol'. Then Covid hit and we didn’t see you in Bristol in 2020 or 2021, but in 2022 we did! We were finally back in person having a conference and it...
HA Conference round-up 2022
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Effective Primary History Teaching, Challenges & Opportunities
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated
The last edition of Primary History published the first part of the report on the KS2 to KS3 transitions project. Part 1 illuminated the first four of produced eight key ideas or guiding principles for...
Effective Primary History Teaching, Challenges & Opportunities
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Less time, more thought: coping with the challenges of two-year Key Stage 3
Teaching History article
Nathan Cole and Denise Thompson have really thought about Key Stage 3. They have been forced to; they now teach it in only two years. The switch to a two-year Key Stage 3 has made them re-evaluate their entire programme of study, and their rationale for teaching history. The result...
Less time, more thought: coping with the challenges of two-year Key Stage 3
