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  • 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

  • HA Blog Watch

      Selected history education blogs
    We've collated some of the best history education blogs here. The list isn't exhaustive so if there is a great history education blog out there that is not on this list – let us know! One Big History Department HA Secondary Committee blog One Big History Department (OBHD) has been...
    HA Blog Watch

  • Triumphs Show 141: using family photos to bring the diversity of Jewish lives to life

      Teaching History feature
    Headteachers, Hungarians and hats: using family photos to bring the diversity of Jewish lives to life It is 9.35am on a wet Tuesday. As the rain falls outside, fingers twitch in a Y ear 9 history classroom. The instruction is given and 28 pairs of hands spring into action, rifling...
    Triumphs Show 141: using family photos to bring the diversity of Jewish lives to life

  • Gloucestershire Branch Programme

      Article
    Contact details – Janet Graham at histassocglos@gmail.com or Robert Sutton on 01242 574889 Members and students free entry to all talks, visitors £4 entrance fee. Venues for most talks are the University of Gloucestershire either in Cheltenham or Gloucester. Directions can be found on the university website – www.glos.ac.uk Some talks...
    Gloucestershire Branch Programme

  • New online records shed light on Suffrage movement

      Free to search until International Women's Day
    New online records reveal that “militant” Suffragettes were largely well educated, in their 30s and born in the South East Home Office & police files detail those on the front lines of the suffrage movement Records reveal that most “militant” suffragettes were well educated, in their 30s and born in...
    New online records shed light on Suffrage movement

  • Happy 200th birthday Florence Nightingale!

      Primary History article
    2020 is undoubtedly going to be an important year in the nursing world and is a significant historical anniversary. The World Health Organisation has declared it the ‘Year of the Nurse and Midwife’ in part because Florence Nightingale, the famous ‘Lady with the Lamp’, will be celebrating her 200th birthday...
    Happy 200th birthday Florence Nightingale!

  • Teaching 20th-Century History Resources

      Article
    We hope you enjoyed reading Exploring and Teaching Twentieth-Century History. To help you explore the topic further we’ve put together a selection of just a few additional 20th-century history and teaching resources below. All these resources are available free to HA Secondary Members – find out more about Secondary Membership. 20th-century history podcast series We have recorded...
    Teaching 20th-Century History Resources

  • Birmingham Branch History

      Branch History
    The Branch was founded in May 1907, a few months after the Historical Association was established. The founding Branch President was Professor John Masterman, Professor of History (1902-09) in the University of Birmingham's Department of Commerce, as it was designated in those days. He was one of several historians in...
    Birmingham Branch History

  • Birmingham Branch 1907-2007

      Branch History
    The Branch was founded in May 1907, a few months after the Historical Association was established. The founding Branch President was Professor John Masterman, Professor of History (1902-09) in the University of Birmingham's Department of Commerce, as it was designated in those days. He was one of several historians in...
    Birmingham Branch 1907-2007

  • The Church in 10th and 11th Century England

      Podcasted history: The Anglo-Saxons
    In this podcast, Katy Cubitt, Professor of Medieval History at the University of East Anglia, discusses the ways the church developed and changed in 10th and 11th century England. This period involved the rise of the local parish and the emergence of religious leaders who would attempt to ‘restore and purify' the religious...
    The Church in 10th and 11th Century England

  • 'Now listen to Source A' : Music and History

      Teaching History article
    In Steve Mastin’s classroom, pupils do not just read, look at and observe their historical sources. They listen to them. Steve’s classroom is already full of music. He uses it variously - to focus, settle or simply to expand the cultural curiosity of his pupils. Pupils expect to walk in...
    'Now listen to Source A' : Music and History

  • Meeting the historian through the text

      Teaching History article
    Edna Shoham and Neomi Shiloah describe a process by which they taught their 15-year-old students to read historians’ accounts for sub-text, meaning and assumptions. In its emphasis on ‘meeting the historian’, their work overlaps with much of the thinking about teaching pupils about historical ‘interpretations’ as specifically required by the...
    Meeting the historian through the text

  • 'What's that stuff you're listening to Sir?' Rock and pop music as a rich source for historical enquiry

      Teaching History article
    Building on the wonderful articles by Mastin and Sweerts & Grice in TH 108, Simon Butler urges us here to make greater use of rock and pop music in history classrooms. His reasons are persuasive. First, it provides a rich vein of initial stimulus material to tap, helping us to...
    'What's that stuff you're listening to Sir?' Rock and pop music as a rich source for historical enquiry

  • The Jill Grey collection and Hitchin British schools

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Jill Grey lived in Hitchin and over a period of 25 years, collected over 35,000 items. A11 of the material relates to the history of education and social history of childhood. I am still in the process of cataloguing the collection and...
    The Jill Grey collection and Hitchin British schools

  • 20th anniversary of 9/11 – a personal reflection

      1st September 2021
    I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing as the news began to reach me about there being a terrorist attack in the United States. It didn’t seem real and if I hadn’t been working in Westminster where these things are taken very seriously, I might not...
    20th anniversary of 9/11 – a personal reflection

  • The Norfolk and Norwich Branch History

      Branch History
    The Norfolk and Norwich Branch - a short historyThe branch was founded in 1920, at the instigation of two local teachers, W. J. Blake (the father the famous historian, Robert, Lord Blake) and Walter Stephenson, the father of our most long-serving (1941-1962) president, Andrew Stephenson, who was himself a distinguished...
    The Norfolk and Norwich Branch History

  • Teaching History 111: Reading History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    06 ‘Really weird and freaky’: using a Thomas Hardy short story as a source of evidence in the Year 8 classroom - Mary Woolley (Read article) 13 Reading and enquiring in Years 12 and 13: a case study on women in the Third Reich - Alison Kitson (Read article) 20...
    Teaching History 111: Reading History

  • Seeing a different picture: exploring migration through the lens of history

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Rosie Sheldrake and Dale Banham here share the results of their desire to use the curriculum changes which are upon us to do something which they had intended for some time. Their modern world study...
    Seeing a different picture: exploring migration through the lens of history

  • Recorded webinar series: Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the UN Convention on Genocide

      Multipage Article
    9 December 2023 was the 75th anniversary of the passing of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (known as the UN Convention on Genocide). The convention was a clear statement by the international community that crimes of that nature should never happen...
    Recorded webinar series: Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the UN Convention on Genocide

  • Recorded Webinar: Female slave-ownership in 18th and 19 century Britain

      Article
    Recorded Webinar: Female slave-ownership in 18th and 19 century Britain

  • Film: Bricks and the making of the city - London in the 19th century

      Virtual Branch
    In this HA Virtual Branch talk Peter Hounsell drew on his recently published book Bricks of Victorian London, exploring the crucial role brick production played in the creation of Britain's capital and why the important place of bricks in the fabric of the city isn't always obvious. Peter Hounsell has published...
    Film: Bricks and the making of the city - London in the 19th century

  • Anglo-Saxon Aristocracy in the 10th and 11th Centuries

      Anglo-Saxon History
    In this podcast Professor Katy Cubitt of the University of East Anglia discusses how the aristocracy developed and changed in the 10th and 11th centuries.
    Anglo-Saxon Aristocracy in the 10th and 11th Centuries

  • Thinking from the inside: je suis le roi

      Teaching History article
    Dale Banham and Ian Dawson show how active learning deepens students’ understanding of attitudes and reactions to the Norman Conquest. At the same time they build a bold argument for active learning, including a direct strike at the two most common objections to it. Many teachers still see it as...
    Thinking from the inside: je suis le roi

  • Fact Based Quiz Ideas For Turning 3s into 4s and 5s

      Briefing Pack
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. If you are looking to raise your 3/4 grades into 4s/5s, a big focus is going to be fact retention. This can be in the form of fact based quizzes and organisational activities,...
    Fact Based Quiz Ideas For Turning 3s into 4s and 5s

  • Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme

      Article
    All enquiries to Mandy Caller mandycaller@gmail.com or telephone 07818 063594 Meetings are held at 8pm on the third Thursday of the month September to April (excluding December) at Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way, London NW11 6YD. Some lectures are also on Zoom. See below for details. The cost of local...
    Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme