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  • Teaching about the Kindertransport without the Kinder

      Primary History article
    The Kindertransport, literally ‘children’s transport’, was the rescue operation of almost 10,000 unaccompanied Jewish child refugees to Britain between December 1938 and the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939.  Many of the Kinder (children) regularly share their experiences in primary schools, where their visit is regarded as...
    Teaching about the Kindertransport without the Kinder

  • Women in 18th Century Britain

      18th Century British History
    In this podcast Professor Roey Sweet of the University of Leicester looks at how the lives of British women were transformed in the 18th century.
    Women in 18th Century Britain

  • Planning for historical understanding a conceptual framework

      Article
    Planning for historical understanding a conceptual framework: Responding To The Rose Report Through The Lens Of The Cambridge Review. Introduction At last we have Children, Their World, Their Education: Final Report and Recommendations of the Cambridge Primary Review, (Alexander 2009). This is an independent study funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Trust,...
    Planning for historical understanding a conceptual framework

  • How local history can bridge the gap...

      Primary History article
    A year on from the 2021 Development Matters and it is now much clearer how the changes in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum, with its emphasis on the role of communities, place, space and histories, has provided greater support for teachers and children to make the transition from the Understanding the...
    How local history can bridge the gap...

  • Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Branch History

      Branch History
    History of the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Branch of the Historical AssociationThe Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole branch of the HA was founded in December 1922 and has been in existence ever since. Its history can be followed in the annual reports sent to HQ, in the complete set of committee...
    Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Branch History

  • Bringing an archaeologist into the classroom

      Primary History article
    The past as represented in school history textbooks and websites is adapted to meet the needs of primary-aged children, but the knowledge on which this depends derives from detailed academic research. Engaging children with historians and archaeologists can show them how we learn about and construct our understanding of history...
    Bringing an archaeologist into the classroom

  • The Elizabeth cake

      Primary History article
    Hidden away on top of a dusty, battered cupboard in a local primary school were two equally dusty and battered log books. Each has seen better days and each could provide a range of links to local and national history. The log book was one of two found in one...
    The Elizabeth cake

  • The Phoney War: teaching WWII

      Primary History article
    The term ‘phoney war’ refers to the period at the beginning of WWII between September 1939 and April 1940 when there was little fighting. It was brought to an abrupt end by the German invasion of Norway in April 1940. The term is thought to have been coined by an...
    The Phoney War: teaching WWII

  • John Wesley at 300

      Historian article
    The tercentenary of John Wesley’s birth has been celebrated not just in his native country, but round the world – as widely, in fact, as the Methodism associated with him has spread. Over the years, in addition to innumerable biographies there have been many studies of particular aspects of his...
    John Wesley at 300

  • Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum

      Guidance for history teachers
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of history teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today  With Ofsted incorporating curriculum into inspections from September 2019 and finally...
    Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum

  • Film: The Origins of Mass Society - Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870

      Article
    Professor Peter Mandler is the current president of the Historical Association. As part of our 'presidents season' for the HA Virtual Branch he gave a fascinating talk on The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870. In this talk he explores the impact of the changes in...
    Film: The Origins of Mass Society - Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870

  • Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London (KS1)

      Lesson Plan
    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 resource was created prior to the 2014 National...
    Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London (KS1)

  • History of the Gloucestershire Branch 1919-2021

      HA branch history
    This article is based on a talk originally given after the 2003 Branch AGM which drew on branch records subsequently deposited with the County Archives. These comprise AGM and committee minutes as well as notes on, and some details of, speakers for each meeting from the 1928-9 season to 1957,...
    History of the Gloucestershire Branch 1919-2021

  • Teaching History 60

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    Articles: 9 The Nature of History and the National Curriculum - Michael Honeybone  11 Information Processing in Primary History Topic Work - Philip Powell  14 Blickling 1698 - Alan Childs and Mike Pond  17 The Women in Modern Britain Project - Sebastian Bees  21 The Time Machine: A Cross Curricular Approach to Teaching History...
    Teaching History 60

  • When computers don't give you a headache: the most able lead a debate on medicine through time

      Teaching History article
    Dan Moorhouse begins with a complaint about ICT. It is not the clichéd teacher-complaint – that the computers keep crashing, and the students are messing around on the Internet (and how, exactly, do you turn the things on?) Instead, he observes that the use of ICT in the classroom is...
    When computers don't give you a headache: the most able lead a debate on medicine through time

  • Swansea Branch Programme

      Article
    Branch Contact: Liz McSloy, Secretary historyliz1565@yahoo.com Venue: National Waterfront Museum, Oystermouth Rd, Maritime Quarter, Swansea SA1 3RD All talks take place on the third Saturday of each month (unless otherwise stated) and start at 11am Associate membership: £10 per year, Concessionary (part time workers, retired, unwaged) and Student membership: £5...
    Swansea Branch Programme

  • Who were the Nuns? English Convents in Exile 1600-1800

      Public History Podcast
    An HA Public History Podcast featuring Dr Andrew Foster and Dr Caroline Bowden discussing the project: Who were the Nuns? A Prosopographical study of the English Convents in exile 1600-1800. 'Who were the Nuns?' is a funded project at Queen Mary, Universty of London that has been making a comprehensive study of...
    Who were the Nuns? English Convents in Exile 1600-1800

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence

      Your Virtual History Department Meeting
    'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a department meeting. 'What’s the wisdom on…' provides history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of many years of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of history teaching. To...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence

  • Michael Wood, Hadrian and the Making of Early England

      Article
    Michael Wood opened the summer lecture series for the HA virtual Branch on the Making of Early England. In it he introduced key characters and texts that help to establish the cultural past of that time and also reveal to us what we know of it. These people included overlooked...
    Michael Wood, Hadrian and the Making of Early England

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Histories of education – and society?

      Teaching History feature
    It is not emphasised enough that the progress of historiography often proceeds, not by historians arguing and then coming to some resolution, but simply by moving on. Historiography follows fashion, and subjects often exhaust themselves (for the time being)... A related issue is that of siloes. Historiography – academic writing generally...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Histories of education – and society?

  • Investigating Henry VIII

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The lesson required the children to consider carefully their own opinions about Henry and anything that they knew about him. This was followed up by a literacy lesson in which they used the evidence to express a point of view regarding...
    Investigating Henry VIII

  • Taking control of assessment

      Teaching History article
    Ian Luff recognised that in a post-levels world efforts to devise new assessment systems risked replicating old problems or creating new ones. Drawing on his many years’ experience of teaching and school leadership Luff argues that for assessment in history to be truly useful to teachers and pupils it needs...
    Taking control of assessment

  • Polychronicon 165: The 1917 revolutions in 2017: 100 years on

      Teaching History feature
    The interpretive and empirical frameworks utilised by scholars in their quest to understand the Russian revolutions have evolved and transformed over 100 years. The opening of archives after the collapse of the Soviet Union enabled access to a swathe of new primary sources, some of which have had a transformative...
    Polychronicon 165: The 1917 revolutions in 2017: 100 years on

  • Public History Courses

      Continuing Professional Development
    What is Public History? Public History is about understanding how the past has affected, and is used by, the present. It brings history to life and helps us understand the relationship between the past and the public at present. Public History can involve history in the community, and a Public...
    Public History Courses

  • 'Hands On' Archaeology, A Case Study: Visiting the Archaeological Resource Centre (ARC) in York

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Developing an understanding of archaeology during historical studies can be important. It enables children to realise how we come to know and indeed understand about the past. Studying the work of archaeology helps develop vital...
    'Hands On' Archaeology, A Case Study: Visiting the Archaeological Resource Centre (ARC) in York