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  • A view from the KS1 classroom - investigating an artefact

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In the autumn of 2009 I saw some of the Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire Hoard on display at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, and stood in awe at the skills of the craftsmen. Reminded so vividly of the...
    A view from the KS1 classroom - investigating an artefact
  • Move Me On 153: Teaching about genocide

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Susie Cook is struggling to sustain an emphasis on developing historical knowledge and understanding in teaching about genocide. Susie Cook worked for nearly ten years as a web designer before deciding to move into teaching. Once she had secured her place on the programme she spent several months...
    Move Me On 153: Teaching about genocide
  • Primary history in the 21st century: Back to the past?

      Primary History article
    During my teaching of history I have been amazed by the asinine questions that children and adults ask about the subject matter. For example, a child once asked, ‘Sir, if Queen Cleopatra hadn't been bitten by the asp would she still be alive today?'. This question suggests that despite comprehensive...
    Primary history in the 21st century: Back to the past?
  • Historical Interpretation: Why is it still such a major issue?

      E-CPD
    This E-CPD unit was produced for the previous National Curriculum, when Interpretations in History were still relatively new. In the current National Curriculum, Interpretations are still central to the skills necessary for success. Perhaps more so, as it is now a separate assessment objective [AO4] at GCSE, starting in 2016,...
    Historical Interpretation: Why is it still such a major issue?
  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading

      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... Extended Reading
  • Teaching History 80

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    5 Re-Thinking Collingwood: a reply to Keith Jenkins's Re-thinking History - Mamie T.E. Hughes 9 Secondary History Teaching and the OFSTED Inspections: an analysis and discussion of history comments - Paul Bowen 14 The Re-appearance of a Cheshire Cat - teaching the history of Britain at key stage 3 -...
    Teaching History 80
  • EYFS: What does good curriculum provision look like?

      HA Primary Subject Leader Area
    In this joint piece, Helen and Rob explore the EYFS Development Matters framework and its relevance to developing children’s understanding of the past. Helen suggests some key resources and approaches which work well in EYFS as well as some key questions to frame discussions with early years staff. Rob shares...
    EYFS: What does good curriculum provision look like?
  • Podcast: From sex to the suffragettes

      Podcast: Keynote Lecture Annual Conference 2019
    Over the last few years, we have seen a widespread cultural failure in our history. From the rose-tinted nostalgia of politicians to a rise in destructive ideologies, history has become weaponised by those who seek to misuse, misrepresent and misunderstand it. At the same time, the field of history is...
    Podcast: From sex to the suffragettes
  • Primary History 20

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    4 Primary Update – Tim Lomas 7 A Viking network project: Kirkgate, Leeds – Barrie Markham Rhodes 8 Has the past a future at Key Stage 2? – Keith Dickson 10 Pythagoras and number – Colin Miller 11 Bringing literacy and history closer together – David Wray and Maureen Lewis 14 Nuffield Primary History Project: the...
    Primary History 20
  • My Favourite History Place - Nuneaton's Old Grammar School

      Historian article
    Near the centre of the largest town in Warwickshire, an oasis of calm encompasses the area of Nuneaton parish church, vicarage and Old Grammar School. Of the three  buildings, the Old Grammar School may be the least impressive but its history is just as eventful. Nuneaton’s Boys’ Free Grammar School,...
    My Favourite History Place - Nuneaton's Old Grammar School
  • Into the Key Stage 3 history garden: choosing and planting your enquiry questions

      Teaching History article
    Drawing upon a range of practice, Michael Riley analyses the characteristics of a good enquiry question. He explores the importance of careful wording of the question if it is genuinely to help the teacher to integrate areas of content into a purposeful learning journey and without distortion.He then moves on...
    Into the Key Stage 3 history garden: choosing and planting your enquiry questions
  • British National Curricula For History 1989-2011

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The national history curricula for Northern Ireland, England and Wales have passed through various stages since working groups were set up in England and Wales in 1989. Developments have been distinct, with Northern Ireland having quite...
    British National Curricula For History 1989-2011
  • David Cannadine Interview about his book: The Right Kind of History

      Cannadine Interview
    Sir David Cannadine has done the unthinkable he has traced the teaching of history in state schools since the beginning. In his book The Right Kind of History: Teaching the Past in Twentieth-Century England he explores the real history of history education the truth is discovered to that age old...
    David Cannadine Interview about his book: The Right Kind of History
  • ‘So why did they go into hiding?’ Anne Frank in her historical and social context

      Primary History article
    All too often Anne Frank becomes a symbol, used to show ‘the triumph of hope over evil’, even though she was killed during the Holocaust. Sometimes she is quoted utterly out of context to provide uplifting sentiments, or short phrases with redemptive messages.  What this lesson sets out to do...
    ‘So why did they go into hiding?’ Anne Frank in her historical and social context
  • Teaching History 110: Communicating History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    08 Narrative: an underrated skill - Seán Lang (Read article) 18 Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion - Maria Bakalis (Read article) 27 Developing conceptual understanding through talk and mapping - Jannet van Drie and Carla van Boxteland (Read article) 32 ‘You be Britain and I’ll be Germany...’ Inter-school e-mailing in...
    Teaching History 110: Communicating History
  • Teaching History 79

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    5 The Revised History Order - Sue Bennett and Ian Steele 9 From Plowden to Dearing - Patrick Wood 11 Developing an Understanding of Time - Sydney Wood 15 The Development Of Temporal Concepts in Children and its Significance for History Teaching in the Senior Primary School - Cheryl-Ann Simchowitz...
    Teaching History 79
  • 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
  • Teaching Year 9 about historical theories and methods

      Teaching History article
    Kate Hammond sets out a rationale for linking the National Curriculum requirement to study interpretations of history with her pupils’ own evidence handling skills. She makes connections with history-teacher-led debates and innovations in both areas, but particularly the work of Howells (2005). She describes and evaluates a learning sequence that...
    Teaching Year 9 about historical theories and methods
  • Circle Time in the secondary history classroom

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Circle Time is a commonly used technique in primary classrooms and is sometimes used in secondary personal and social education lessons. This open form of classroom organisation allows pupils to share opinions in a democratic...
    Circle Time in the secondary history classroom
  • Shaping the debate: why historians matter more than ever at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    The question of how to prepare students to succeed in the examination while also ensuring that they are taught rigorous history remains as relevant as ever. Faced with preparing students to answer a question that seemingly precluded argument, Rachel Foster and Kath Goudie demonstrate how they used historical scholarship both to...
    Shaping the debate: why historians matter more than ever at GCSE
  • New partnership for the Great Debate 2026

      15th May 2025
    The Historical Association is delighted to announce Rayburn Tours as the official sponsor of the Great Debate 2026. With over 60 years of experience in educational and group travel, Rayburn Tours is a family-run organisation dedicated to creating inspirational and enriching experiences for young people. Rayburn Tours' commitment to education...
    New partnership for the Great Debate 2026
  • GCSE Podcast: Tackling the GCSE History Exam

      Multipage Article
    Please note: these resources pre-date the 2014 curriculum In this series of podcasts Dr Tim Lomas offers some advice and suggestions for tackling the GCSE History Exam.
    GCSE Podcast: Tackling the GCSE History Exam
  • HA Honorary Fellows 2023

      5th July 2023
    Each year the Historical Association awards a small number of Honorary Fellowships. These awards are to recognise and celebrate outstanding services to history and to the Historical Association. The awards cover services to the Historical Association Branches (of which there are over 45 across the country); our committees; the work...
    HA Honorary Fellows 2023
  • The Historian 153: The Baltic

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article for free) 8 The Duchy of Courland and a Baltic colonial venture across the ocean – John Freeman (Read article) 12 After the revolution: did Cromwell, Washington and Bonaparte betray revolutionary principles? – Gregory Gifford (Read article) 18 From Lithuania to Lancashire: life and...
    The Historian 153: The Baltic
  • Free primary curriculum guidance on offer

      HA Annual Conference 2023
    A message from HA Assistant Vice-President Mike Maddison: At the HA Annual Conference 2023 I will be leading a primary session entitled ‘How case studies will help you to review, refresh and renew the history curriculum’ (in-person and virtual). The aim is to provide guidance on how you might improve your...
    Free primary curriculum guidance on offer