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  • Stories, sources and new formats: Digitising Archives

      Historian article
    In the last two decades or so there has been a movement towards digitising large collections of original sources. These projects have had a range of purposes, approaches and target audiences but there can be little doubt that they have had a profound impact on the practice of history in...
    Stories, sources and new formats: Digitising Archives

  • What’s the wisdom on… enquiry questions

      Teaching History feature
    One way of explaining what is meant by an enquiry question is to start with what it is not. What's the Wisdom On... is a short guide providing new history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of history teaching. It...
    What’s the wisdom on… enquiry questions

  • Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar

      Article
    Connecting Classrooms: bringing together Bradford and Peshawar, primary and secondary schools, history and English In this article, Dianne Excell shares her experience of a crossphase, collaborative project funded by the British Council that brought together teachers and pupils from three schools in Bradford and five schools in Peshawar, Pakistan. Although...
    Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar

  • Urban spaces cross-curricular work: History

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: these free resources pre-date the 2014 National Curriculum. This is part of a set of subject areas also covering Science, Literacy and Art & Design. This section covers Citizenship too - see the 'Upstairs downstairs' material. See Cross-curricular learning Public spaces offer a range of opportunities for children's learning, and can...
    Urban spaces cross-curricular work: History

  • Primary History 31: The Industrial Revolution

      Journal
    The Industrial Revolution and the Children's Employment Act of 1842, Teaching for purpose, Revising the English Reformation, Recreating the Bristol blitz using artefacts and roleplay, Teaching and meaning: supporting historical understanding in the primary classroom and much more... Click the link below to read the full article!
    Primary History 31: The Industrial Revolution

  • Bolton Branch Programme

      Article
    Bolton Branch Programme 2024-25       Branch contact All enquiries to Mrs Melissa Wright mwright@boltonschool.org.uk 07912369060 Venue: All talks start at 6.30pm on (mostly) the first Monday of the month, and take place in the Leverhulme Suite @ Bolton School Girls’ Division, Chorley New Road, Bolton, BL1 4PA. Parking...
    Bolton Branch Programme

  • Teaching History 132: Historians in the Classroom

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 Obituary: Martin Hunt 1936-2007   04 HA Secondary News 05 Cultivating curiosity about complexity: what happens when Year 12 start to read Orlando Figes’ The Whisperers? – Laura Bellinger (Read article) 16 ‘Billy plays the drums but Lizzie cannot play.’ Will music-making help them both anyway? Year...
    Teaching History 132: Historians in the Classroom

  • Get involved in ‘The Historian’

      15th October 2024
    The Historian is a members’ magazine and we want to hear from you. We know that many of our readers are actively involved in history in some way and we would love you to share your stories with other members – who knows what you might inspire! Regular sections About ...
    Get involved in ‘The Historian’

  • DfE clarifies reference to enquiry-based learning

      8th August 2018
    Following the Department of Education’s recent call for pilot schools to bid for Curriculum Development Funds, the Historical Association (HA) sought clarification specifically connected to disciplinary understanding. Within the guidance, the DfE sets out its criteria for programmes, one of which is that they should be structured on the basis of...
    DfE clarifies reference to enquiry-based learning

  • Making reading routine

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by the growing number of history teachers who have sought to introduce younger pupils to academic historical scholarship in the classroom, Tim Jenner wanted to bring about his own reading revolution at Key Stage 3. But rather than simply develop one-off lessons or enquiries based on scholarship his goal...
    Making reading routine

  • Primary History 33

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    3 Editorial 4 Primary Noticeboard 5 In My View: Revolting subjects? – Dr Grant Bage 7 Breadth and Balance within the primary history curriculum? – John Clements 8 History co-ordinators’ dilemmas – Karin Doull 10 QCA Update – Jerome Freeman 11 Multicultural teaching in Portugal: a perspective – Manuela Carvalho...
    Primary History 33

  • History and the National Primary Strategy

      Primary History article
    The Historical Association poses a series of questions to the Director of the Primary National Strategy, Kevan Collins.
    History and the National Primary Strategy

  • Young Historian Awards 2023 – the winners

      Annual history competition for schools
    Each year the Historical Association partners with The Spirit of Normandy Trust to recognise young historians who have shown excellent knowledge and demonstrated historical argument around a subject associated with a series of themes. The competition is divided into age brackets and the entry at secondary level is by essay,...
    Young Historian Awards 2023 – the winners

  • Putting black into the Union Jack: weaving Black history into the Year 7 to 9 curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Making a passionate case for teaching Black British history in the secondary school curriculum, Hannah shares here the personal journey she has travelled in planning for Black British history in her curriculum. She cites her inspirations and offers striking examples to illustrate her rationale and approach to teaching this history....
    Putting black into the Union Jack: weaving Black history into the Year 7 to 9 curriculum

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing (Primary)

      Your Virtual History Department Meeting
    We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances, so we wanted to lend a helping hand. 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a brand-new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing (Primary)

  • Year 7 challenge stereotypes about the Mexica

      Teaching History article
    After discussing a new book about the Mexica (Aztecs) during a routine meeting with a trainee teacher, Niamh Jennings decided to construct a sequence of lessons around the history of the Mexica Empire. Struck by the vivid storytelling of historian Camilla Townsend in her book Fifth Sun, and fascinated by...
    Year 7 challenge stereotypes about the Mexica

  • Recorded webinar: Applying to Study History at University

      Tips from an Admissions Tutor
    Doing a degree in history is a decision few people regret, but the first steps – choosing a degree, finding the right university and putting together a UCAS application – can be daunting. In this webinar, Rob Priest, admissions tutor for History at Royal Holloway, takes a look at some...
    Recorded webinar: Applying to Study History at University

  • Using the back cover image: Oxford Street in the 1960s

      Primary History feature
    Photographs are very useful and productive documents when teaching history. They provide a snapshot of the past such as this one from just outside Selfridges on Oxford Street in London c.1962-64. Combined with further images from Heritage Explorer, clips from Pathé News, extracts from the 1911 Census, locally gathered images...
    Using the back cover image: Oxford Street in the 1960s

  • Recorded webinar: Making the most out of Holocaust Memorial Day: challenges and opportunities

      Article
    Since 2001 the UK has marked Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January, the date of the 'liberation' of Auschwitz Birkenau by Soviet soldiers in 1945. History teachers and their colleagues are often asked to 'mark' HMD in their schools. In this webinar we will explore themes of commemoration and education...
    Recorded webinar: Making the most out of Holocaust Memorial Day: challenges and opportunities

  • Time's arrows? Using a dartboard scaffold to understand historical action

      Teaching History article
    Arthur Chapman presents a task-specific scaffold - a ‘dart' board - designed to teach students how to interrogate sources of information so that these become sources of evidence for particular claims about past actions, beliefs and aims. Chapman also uses his ‘dart' board to foster students' reflection on the degrees of...
    Time's arrows? Using a dartboard scaffold to understand historical action

  • Local railway history: using visual resources

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Before the 1960s British Rail's spider-web network of railway lines reached every town and thousands of villages. Where you live would have been within a thirty minute journey from a station; scroll down to look at...
    Local railway history: using visual resources

  • Teaching History 103: Puzzling History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition looks at two types of puzzles: first, those we tackle as historians, puzzles about the past and, second, those puzzles that occured for people living in the past, puzzles form their perspectives - dilemmas, decisions and judgements that require us to imagine ourselves into their situation in a...
    Teaching History 103: Puzzling History

  • Do historical anniversaries matter? Case study: Arnhem 1944

      Historian feature
    2019 has been quite a year for historical anniversaries – Peterloo 200, D-Day 75, Monte Cassino 75, Women MPs 100 years, Apollo Moon Landings 50 years and all following on the tail of four years of the First World War centenary – and that is not counting the anniversaries that...
    Do historical anniversaries matter? Case study: Arnhem 1944

  • The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia

      Historian article
    Adam Simmons draws our attention to the need for further research into the relationship between the medieval Kingdoms of Ethiopia and Nubia – a fascinating time and place in African history which is neglected in the historical archive and about which, so far, there are only limited sources. The kingdoms of Ethiopia...
    The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia

  • Developing independent learning with Year 7

      Teaching History article
    Jaya Carrier’s decision to focus on developing a more independent  approach to learning in history at Key Stage 3 was prompted by concerns about her A-level students. In seeking to establish secure foundations for students’ own historical research, Carrier first examined the assumptions of her colleagues and her students. She...
    Developing independent learning with Year 7