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  • Young Quills shortlist for 2025

      The HA's annual awards for best historical fiction for young people
    Each year, the Historical Association runs ‘Young Quills’, a competition for published historical fiction for children and young adults (14+). The Young Quills books for each year must be published for the first time in English in the year preceding the competition – so 2024 for this year’s selection. Our aim...
    Young Quills shortlist for 2025
  • The Historian 139: Out now

      Journal News
    There has never been a more exciting time to study Anglo-Saxon history. Recent archaeological discoveries are transforming our understanding of the narrative of early English history and have added new layers of meaning to our existing knowledge. New methodologies such as the study of landscape and of gender have challenged...
    The Historian 139: Out now
  • Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4

      HA webinar series for history teachers, leaders and SENDCos
    What does this series cover and why should I attend? In recent years, the UK’s SEND system has been under the spotlight. As numbers of students with identified special educational needs increase, attention has been given to how to best embed inclusive practice, enabling teachers to support all students to...
    Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
  • On-demand webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history

      On-demand webinar series for primary teachers and history subject leaders
    What does this series cover? This series of webinars will consider how disciplinary knowledge is slowly introduced into the primary curriculum, built upon and strengthened. We know that substantive knowledge in history is the substance ('the stuff') we teach: the facts which we are sure about and which all have...
    On-demand webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
  • Primary History 84

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    04 Editorial (Read article for free) 05 HA Primary News 08 Using stories to support early history skills and understanding in the EYFS – Sandra Kirkland (Read article) 10 Democratising history lessons in Key Stage 1: how pupil voice shapes history teaching and learning in our school – Stuart Boydell...
    Primary History 84
  • No more ‘doing’ diversity

      Teaching History feature
    Catherine Priggs and her history department colleagues were increasingly concerned that their curriculum was too narrow. They feared that major areas of history were being left out and that many of their own pupils were not seeing themselves, in their various ethnic, cultural and world identities, in the past. Priggs...
    No more ‘doing’ diversity
  • The great Liberal landslide: the 1906 General Election in perspective

      Historian article
    On 1 May 1997 the Conservative party suffered an electoral defeat so overwhelming that political commentators were left rummaging through the statistics of the previous two centuries to find anything similar. The Times concluded on 3 May that it was the party's worst performance since 1832, though 'The disaster suffered...
    The great Liberal landslide: the 1906 General Election in perspective
  • Course: Supporting SEND pupils in your primary history lessons

      HA CPD course for history subject leaders in mainstream schools
    Book Now (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window. Please read the HA CPD terms and conditions before registering) Available dates Autumn term: Friday 5 December, 9am - 2pm (online) What does the course cover? Do you struggle to engage your lower attaining or EAL pupils in their history lessons? Are you...
    Course: Supporting SEND pupils in your primary history lessons
  • Course: Assessment and progression in primary history

      HA CPD course for primary history subject leaders and senior leaders
    Book Now (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window. Please read the HA CPD terms and conditions before registering) Available dates Summer term: Wednesday 11 June 2025, 9.30am–3.30pm (online) What does the course cover? This practical course will help primary teachers to understand the purpose of assessment...
    Course: Assessment and progression in primary history
  • The subject associations of the UK have addressed a letter to the Secretary of State for Education

      5th November 2020
    Dear Gavin Williamson, We are deeply concerned by the short-sighted decision to reduce and in many cases remove bursaries from trainees in a number of subjects and in primary teaching. Cutting off support conveys a strong signal as to the value of teaching in our society. Lack of financial support...
    The subject associations of the UK have addressed a letter to the Secretary of State for Education
  • On-demand webinar series: Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history

      On-demand webinar series for secondary history teachers and leaders
    What does this series cover? This series of webinars will consider how disciplinary thinking has perhaps become something of an afterthought in curriculum planning, for a range of valid reasons, and start to explore ways to build it back in. It will encourage colleagues to hold up a mirror to...
    On-demand webinar series: Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
  • Webinar series: Coherence at Key Stage 4

      HA webinar series for subject leaders and teachers of history
    What does this series cover? This series of webinars will consider coherence at Key Stage 4. We will reflect on using sequencing to establish coherence, how different categories of coherence can be used to inform our planning and delivery of GCSE, and how meaningful approaches to assessment will allow pupils’...
    Webinar series: Coherence at Key Stage 4
  • More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach

      27th February 2025
    It’s been an especially grim start to 2025 for many in UK higher education. News in early January of cuts and job losses at the universities of Canterbury Christ Church, Northampton and Staffordshire has been followed by announcements from Cardiff, Durham, Newcastle, Reading and, once again, Kent. This, moreover, is...
    More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach
  • Real Lives: Flora Sandes

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected to greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: Flora Sandes
  • Key Principles for teaching Thematic Studies at GCSE

      GCSE Guidance
    For many teachers the thematic study is the most new and most troubling unit of the new GCSE specifications. By following this link, you will be connected to an article that appears on www.thinkinghistory.co.uk.  This free website for teachers is maintained by Ian Dawson.  In this article Ian works with...
    Key Principles for teaching Thematic Studies at GCSE
  • History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP)

      Immersive online course for history teachers looking to develop beyond their early career
    Book now Autumn 2025 cohort - Welcome meeting: Thursday 16 October, 4.45pm–5.45pm- Second meeting: Thursday 15 January, 4.45pm–5.45pm- Assessment meeting: Thursday 26 February, 4.45pm–5.45pm What is the History Teacher Development Programme? The History Teacher Development Programme is an immersive online programme aimed at history teachers who want to re-focus their...
    History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP)
  • Primary History 83

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    04 Editorial (Read article for free) 05 HA Primary News 08 Developing early history skills and understanding through the EYFS – Emily Dickenson (Read article) 12 Teaching sensitive subjects: slavery and Britain’s role in the trade – Susie Townsend (Read article) 18 The Elizabeth cake – Sandra Kirkland (Read article) 21 Turning Technology:...
    Primary History 83
  • History teacher subject knowledge reading list

      One Big History Department blog post
    Subject knowledge updating is enjoyable and a huge challenge in a busy teacher's life. There are fantastic initiatives which make this process more collegiate. And some historians are incredibly generous with their time and engage with history teachers on social media and at conferences. Nevertheless, there can’t be many of us who...
    History teacher subject knowledge reading list
  • Holocaust Memorial Day 2025

      19th December 2024
    Each year on 27 January the UK observes Holocaust Memorial Day. Every year since its introduction communities, individuals, organisations and institutions have been encouraged to mark the day and remember it. The history of what is remembered is straightforward: on 27 January 1945 the Soviet Army entered into a Nazi...
    Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
  • Planning and reviewing primary history

      HA Primary Subject Leader Area
    While many aspects of the teaching of history will be covered in general school policies, e.g. assessment, much will also depend on the subject leader helping colleagues to teach history in a coherent and efficient way. The content of history is infinite and some guidance will be needed on how...
    Planning and reviewing primary history
  • On-demand webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history

      On-demand webinar series for primary teachers and history subject leaders
    What does this series cover? This practical series of webinars will identify what confuses pupils in primary history and how such confusion and misconceptions can be avoided and challenged. Through examples of careful planning and activities it will show how pupils can develop an accurate and nuanced understanding of chronology...
    On-demand webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
  • History 356

      The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 103, Issue 356
    All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:  1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.   NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new window or tab. Articles Access the full edition online...
    History 356
  • Primary History 16

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    4 A Good Place for an Investigation - Diana Knapp  7 Primary Conference Report - Russell Carter  8 How a Little Hollywood Can Help History - Vincent Jones 10 Historical Fiction and Museum Objects - Neil Curtis, Janet Goolnick, Kate Hopkins  12 Primary Update  13 Young National Trust Theatre - Sally Littlefair ...
    Primary History 16
  • Cunning Plan 177: teaching about life in Elizabethan England by looking at death

      Teaching History feature
    ‘We already did the Tudors in primary school’ was the most frequent comment made by students about our Year 7 scheme of learning in our annual review. Students reported covering the Tudors at least once, sometimes twice, before reaching secondary school and they had clearly not faced extensive further study...
    Cunning Plan 177: teaching about life in Elizabethan England by looking at death
  • Teaching History 176: Widening Vistas

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update: thinking beyond boundaries – Jason Todd (Read article for free) 10 Visions of America: using historical discourse to find narrative coherence in the GCSE period study – Alex Ford (Read article) 22 What’s The Wisdom On... evidence and sources (Read article)...
    Teaching History 176: Widening Vistas