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  • Young Historian Awards 2025 – take part (Primary prizes)

      History competition for primary schools
    We want young people to get the bug for writing about history in an interesting and critical way. Each year the Historical Association in collaboration with the Spirit of Normandy Trust and Classics for All offers a series of awards to Primary school children for outstanding history scholarship. Children are asked to investigate, think...
    Young Historian Awards 2025 – take part (Primary prizes)

  • Film: Why does the massacre of the Armenians in the First World War still get overlooked?

      Virtual Branch
    Why is the term 'Armenian Genocide' controversial, with many countries still not acknowledging a genocide at all? What do we know about the event of 1915 and the plight of the Armenian community in Turkey? How can we grapple with a history that many people want to forget? In this...
    Film: Why does the massacre of the Armenians in the First World War still get overlooked?

  • ‘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

  • Triumphs Show: The BeBold Network

      Teaching History feature
    In April 2019, I was in a bit of a rut. My enquiry questions and lesson sequences seemed stale. I felt like I had been at my school for too long. To mix things up, I secured a new role for September at a start-up school.  Full of excitement, I...
    Triumphs Show: The BeBold Network

  • 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

  • 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: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit

      The mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times
    Dr Jo Fox continued our virtual branch lecture series this July on the subject 'Reimagining the Blitz Spirit: the mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times'. Fox is the Director of the Institute of Historical Research and a well-known historian specialising in the history of propaganda, rumour and truth telling.  In this talk...
    Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit

  • The International Journal Volume 10 Number 2

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 10, Number 2- Spring 2012.     Marcelo Fronza and Maria Auxiliadora Moreira dos Santos The Conceptions of Objective Historical Knowledge of Young Students in Brazilian High Schools   Olga Magalhaes Historical Narratives of Young Portuguese Students   Rita de Cassia Goncalves Pacheco...
    The International Journal Volume 10 Number 2

  • 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

  • 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

  • What is interesting about the Cold War?

      Article
    Almost 30 years after the end of the Cold War, diversity is suddenly galvanising the field of scholarly research into the Cold War. As the historian Federico Romero has argued, older, simpler interpretations ‘seem to be giving way to a looser understanding of the Cold War as an era that encompassed...
    What is interesting about the Cold War?

  • Cunning Plan 154: Who is buried in the box?

      Teaching History feature
    Question: Who is buried in the box? Seeking a new and exciting way to introduce my Year 7 students to history, I looked to a practical solution. Ian Dawson once used a Thinking History exercise where students looked at the idea of ‘layers of history'. It was useful in structuring...
    Cunning Plan 154: Who is buried in the box?

  • Pride: 50 years

      1st July 2022
    1 July is the 50th anniversary of the first Pride March in the UK, in 1972. Pride was chosen to be the Saturday closest to the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots of 1969. Starting life as a small event, Pride is now an annual part of the London calendar and...
    Pride: 50 years

  • Teaching History 106: Citizens and Communities

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition deals with the complex debate about whether history should be taught for intrinsic or extrinsic reasons. Balancing the rationaland the emotional in the teaching of contentious topics, Historical significance, Local historical enquiry, Citizenship, Teaching political concepts to post-16 students and much more... ‘Don’t worry, Mr. Trimble. We can...
    Teaching History 106: Citizens and Communities

  • 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

  • Case Study: Constructing women's past and gender perspective

      Primary History article
    Pupils as Journalists Background of the Study Historiography has expanded to include all social groups and identities in the community. The social historiographical approach became extremely important in the 20th century (Cooper, 2007, pp. 41-2). In parallel with social historiography and related second wave feminism, women began to write their...
    Case Study: Constructing women's past and gender perspective

  • What is progress in history?

      Teaching History article
    Evelyn Vermeulen argues that in order for teachers to identify outcomes for the learning of history, they must think clearly about the different attributes of the discipline - its ideas, structures and processes - and the relationship between them. Here, she takes us on her own professional thinking journey. She...
    What is progress in history?

  • The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR)

      Primary History article
    This article 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 In a celebration of the 200-year anniversary of the Stockton...
    The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR)

  • The International Journal Volume 11, Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial Articles Eleni Apostolidou Teaching and Discussing Historical Significance with 15 year-old students in Greece Manuela Carvalho and Isabel Barca Students' Use of Historical Evidence in European Countries P. Checkley and C. Checkley ‘Future Teachers of the Past' - An initial analysis of Initial Teacher Training students and their preparation...
    The International Journal Volume 11, Number 1

  • Triumphs Show 164: interpretations at A Level

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    Julia Huber and Katherine Turner found that their A-level students struggled to identify the line of argument in a passage of historical scholarship, an essential prerequisite for answering their coursework question. They devised an activity that helped students to unpick and visually contrast historians’ interpretations of the relative importance of...
    Triumphs Show 164: interpretations at A Level

  • 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

  • Podcast: Spain 1808 – Iraq 2003: some thoughts on the use and abuse of history

      Bolton Branch Lecture Podcast by Charles Esdaile
    This podcast was recorded by the Bolton Branch of the Historical Association on Monday 1 February 2010, at the Parish Hall in Bolton. We were pleased to welcome Professor Charles Esdaile of the University of Liverpool back to the branch to speak on ‘Spain 1808 – Iraq 2003: Some Thoughts...
    Podcast: Spain 1808 – Iraq 2003: some thoughts on the use and abuse of history

  • Polychronicon 159: Interpreting Magna Carta

      Teaching History feature
    First some history: the question of how historiographic and public historical representations of Magna Carta have changed over the last 800 years is an important one. The ‘myth' of Magna Carta as a foundational document for modern democracy is still very powerful. That tradition of understanding the legacy and history...
    Polychronicon 159: Interpreting Magna Carta

  • GCSE Podcast: Tackling the GCSE History Exam

      Multipage Article
    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