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  • My essays could go on forever: using Key Stage 3 to improve performance at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    History teachers are waking up to the fact that you cannot raise standards in GCSE by very much if you leave this work until Year 10. To leave it that late is to resort to surface, tactical moves rather than to address the deep reasons why so many pupils find...
    My essays could go on forever: using Key Stage 3 to improve performance at GCSE

  • Past Forward: History and ICT

      Article
    ICT in History has made tremendous leaps forward in recent years, although it needs to be said that these advances do not necessarily represent the day to day experience of every history department. Perhaps the most notable development is in the ICT skills of teachers. The great majority of teachers...
    Past Forward: History and ICT

  • Past Forward: Historical significance

      Article
    I recently came across the following in a Sunday newspaper: The Government is expected to announce a major overhaul of mathematics teaching in the next few days and it will be writing to employers and teaching bodies to ask how the subject can be ‘made more relevant to the twenty-first...
    Past Forward: Historical significance

  • Volunteering to help your local branch

      Getting involved in history
    Volunteering to help your local branch We have over fifty branches throughout the UK and they are all run by volunteers. Joining your local branch committee can be a wonderful way to get more involved with history. Each branch has three formal branch officers, the Chair (or President) the Branch...
    Volunteering to help your local branch

  • Polychronicon 162: Reinterpreting the May 1968 events in France

      Teaching History feature
    As Kristin Ross has persuasively argued, by the 1980s interpretations of the French events of May 1968 had shrunk to a narrow set of received ideas around student protest, labelled by Chris Reynolds a ‘doxa’. Media discourse is dominated by a narrow range of former participants labelled ‘memory barons’ –...
    Polychronicon 162: Reinterpreting the May 1968 events in France

  • Climate change: greening the curriculum?

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by the news that Bristol had become the UK’s first Green Capital, Kate Hawkey, Jon James and Celia Tidmarsh set out to explore what a ‘Green Capital’ School Curriculum  might look like. They explain how they created a cross-curricular project to deliver in-school workshops focused on the teaching of...
    Climate change: greening the curriculum?

  • Using nominalisation to develop written causal arguments

      Teaching History article
    How nominalisation might develop students’ written causal arguments Frustrated that previously taught writing frames seemed to impede his A-level students’ historical arguments, James Edward Carroll theorised that the inadequacies he identified in their writing were as much disciplinary as stylistic. Drawing on two discourses that are often largely isolated from...
    Using nominalisation to develop written causal arguments

  • Using causation diagrams to help sixth-formers think about cause and effect

      Teaching History article
    Alex Alcoe was concerned that mastery of certain keywords and question formulae at GCSE perhaps obscured fundamental gaps in his students’ understanding of the nature of causation. These gaps were revealed when he invited Year 12 students to make explicit, by annotating a diagram, their understanding of the relationship between...
    Using causation diagrams to help sixth-formers think about cause and effect

  • The subject associations of the UK have addressed a letter to the Secretary of State for Education

      5th November 2020
    Dear Gavin Williamson, We are deeply concerned by the short-sighted decision to reduce and in many cases remove bursaries from trainees in a number of subjects and in primary teaching. Cutting off support conveys a strong signal as to the value of teaching in our society. Lack of financial support...
    The subject associations of the UK have addressed a letter to the Secretary of State for Education

  • Beyond compare a study of Beatrix Potter and Benjamin Zephaniah

      Primary History article
    The Key Stage 1 National Curriculum encourages teachers to teach their pupils about ‘the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.’ (DfE, 2014, p. 205). Some teachers have begun to move away from the old favourite subject of Florence Nightingale and as...
    Beyond compare a study of Beatrix Potter and Benjamin Zephaniah

  • My Favourite History Place: Tivoli Theatre

      Historian feature
    The Tivoli Theatre opened on 24 August 1936 with Jean Adrienne in Father O’Flynn and Shirley Temple in Kid in Hollywood, with film star Jean Adrienne appearing in person. It was designed by Bournemouth-based architect E. de Wilde Holding. The front of the building was an existing Georgian-style building named Borough House. Inside the auditorium there...
    My Favourite History Place: Tivoli Theatre

  • Earth in vision: Enviromental Broadcasting

      Historian article
    Joe Smith, Kim Hammond and George Revill share some of the findings of their work examining what digital broadcast archives are available and which could be made available in future.  The BBC’s archives hold over a million hours of programmes, dating back to the 1930s (radio) and 1940s (television). It...
    Earth in vision: Enviromental Broadcasting

  • MOOCs and the Middle Ages

      Historian article
    Deirdre O’Sullivan explains how history courses such as England in the Time of Richard III are now freely available to people anywhere in the world who have online access. She reports that in the past two years 40,000 learners have followed this course. MOOCs (Massive Open Access Online Courses) are...
    MOOCs and the Middle Ages

  • Confronting otherness: developing scrutiny and inference skills through drawing

      Teaching History article
    There are two main reasons why it is important for history teachers to make sense of the art teacher's processes, aims and perspectives: first, if we are concerned to improve pupils' historical knowledge and understanding then we will want to know about how learning in other subjects impacts upon it...
    Confronting otherness: developing scrutiny and inference skills through drawing

  • Teach First

      Routes into teaching
    Teach First’s vision is that no child’s educational success should be limited by their socio-economic background and it places highly motivated graduates in schools in areas of greatest need.     Teach First differs from other routes into teaching in a number of ways. It describes itself as a ‘two-year leadership development...
    Teach First

  • Gladstone spiritual or Gladstone material? A rationale for using documents at AS and A2

      Teaching History article
    Rather than taking a sledgehammer approach to planning for the new AS and A2 courses Gary Howells has used the opportunity to reflect on characteristics of students' historical learning in the post-16 phase. He argues for a much fuller rationale for using documents than mere preparation for exams or coursework....
    Gladstone spiritual or Gladstone material? A rationale for using documents at AS and A2

  • Out and About: Charles Darwin, a voyage of discovery

      Historian feature
    Dave Martin follows Charles Darwin’s journey from university back to his birthplace, Shrewsbury. Cambridge The bronze statue of Darwin as a young man perches elegantly on the arm of a garden bench in the grounds of Christ’s College, Cambridge where he was a student from 1829 to 1831. Of this...
    Out and About: Charles Darwin, a voyage of discovery

  • Leave a legacy

      Supporting the HA
    Anyone can include a legacy to the Historical Association in their will and it does not have to be for a lot of money. Some people leave us specific gifts of money, while others choose to leave us the residue of their estate once family and friends have been looked...
    Leave a legacy

  • Ideas for Assemblies: The Olympics

      Article
    A series of whole-school or class assemblies planned for the weeks leading up to the Olympic Games in 2016 provides an excellent opportunity to introduce or reinforce pupils’ understanding of significance. Over the weeks the pupils will be introduced to inspirational stories taken from previous games and through this be...
    Ideas for Assemblies: The Olympics

  • History supporting global learning

      Primary History article
    I am the teaching head of a small village primary school, Hawkshead Esthwaite Primary, in Cumbria. We have, for the last year been one of the first Centres for Excellence for the Global Learning Programme (GLP).The GLP is a Department for International Development (DFID) initiative which began in September 2013...
    History supporting global learning

  • Teaching History 162: Scales of Planning

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 From the history of maths to the history of greatness: towards worthwhile cross-curricular study through the refinement of a scheme of work - Harry Fletcher-Wood (Read article) 16 The whole point of the thing: how nominalisation might develop students’ written...
    Teaching History 162: Scales of Planning

  • 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

  • Public Speaking Guide

      Article
    The Principles of Becoming an Effective Public Speaker Public speaking, debating and formulating an argument are key skills that all students should have the opportunity to learn and gain experience of.  As well as fostering intellectual curiosity and rigour and a deeper understanding of the questions and issues that history...
    Public Speaking Guide

  • Delve deeper with The Historian magazine

      The perfect support material for teachers and students
    The Historian magazine offers the perfect support material for teachers. It’s an opportunity to learn more about those bits of history you may need a greater knowledge of for teaching, just have an interest in or to support your A-level and GCSE students with their studies. It’s also an ideal...
    Delve deeper with The Historian magazine

  • 70 years of the Isle of Wight Branch

      1st July 2020
    In June 2020 the HA Isle of Wight branch celebrated its 70th birthday. Here, Honorary Secretary of the branch Terry Blunden looks back at the history and development of the branch since 1950. Although the Historical Association was formed in 1906 sixteen years elapsed before a branch was established on...
    70 years of the Isle of Wight Branch