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HA awards evening 2022 round-up
21st July 2022
On 7 July in central London the Historical Association held our annual awards evening. The evening is an opportunity to present in person the awards for some of the competitions that the HA organises and to recognise many of the people who have achieved awards in history, contributed to the...
HA awards evening 2022 round-up
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Away from the Western Front launches two national projects
Creative Writing Competition and National Music Project
‘Away from the Western Front’ has launched two national projects and is offering everyone a chance to make a contribution to this First World War centenary commemoration.
A National Music project and a Creative Writing Competition are part of the Heritage Lottery funded First World War 'Away from the Western...
Away from the Western Front launches two national projects
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Why did regional variations exist in the prosecution of witches between 1580-1650
Historian article
Regional variations in the intensity of European witchhunting existed because the necessary preconditions for panic chain-reaction hunts were only constantly in place in a very small number of regions. More than 35,000 witchcraft executions took place in the Holy Roman Empire where there was a wide acceptance of the cumulative...
Why did regional variations exist in the prosecution of witches between 1580-1650
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Volunteers' Week 2022
1-7 June
The Historical Association is now 116 years old – quite an achievement really. We have only been able to keep going this long due to the commitment and dedication of our volunteers. While we are fortunate to have a number of paid staff, we are only able to do the...
Volunteers' Week 2022
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HA Conference round-up 2022
31st May 2022
It really happened!
In May 2019 as we departed from Chester, the HA team said 'we’ll see you in Bristol'. Then Covid hit and we didn’t see you in Bristol in 2020 or 2021, but in 2022 we did! We were finally back in person having a conference and it...
HA Conference round-up 2022
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Teaching History 167: Complicating Narratives
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update: Partition of British India
08 ‘I feel if I say this in my essay it’s not going to be as strong’: multi-voicedness, ‘oral rehearsal’ and year 13 students’ written arguments – James Edward Carroll (Read article)
18 Why are...
Teaching History 167: Complicating Narratives
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Good Evening Sweetheart: real-life romance of young couple separated by WWII
2nd July 2019
Historical romances are not always confined to fiction and flights of fancy – sometimes they actually occur within our own communities. The real-life romantic story of two young people separated by war was uncovered by Sue and Peter Mowforth who revealed the experience of their parents in a talk to the...
Good Evening Sweetheart: real-life romance of young couple separated by WWII
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Guidance Pack: Building a Local Teacher Network
Information
We know that it is difficult for teachers to get to events too far from school. As a national charity, the HA recognises the importance and need to build strong regional networks for the history teaching community. Many of these are already existing or organically growing across the country at...
Guidance Pack: Building a Local Teacher Network
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HA South West History Network
10 Minute Mini CPD
The HA South West Network are pleased to offer a new series of 10-minute Mini CPD sessions: bite-sized talks on what teachers in the South West are doing for everyone to enjoy. Details and booking links will be published on the Network's Twitter account @HASWNetwork.
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Presenter
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Tuesday 29...
HA South West History Network
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History-specific CPD for every stage of your career
News Item
At the Historical Association (HA), we recognise the importance of evidence-based targeted support at every level, and that is why you’ll find professional development programmes to support all those teaching, leading or managing history at every career stage.
Here are just some of the programmes we have on offer:
Beginning...
History-specific CPD for every stage of your career
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Ideas for Assemblies: Refugee stories
Primary History feature
Please note: this piece was written before Sir Mo Farah’s 2022 disclosure that he was trafficked to the UK as a child, so some of its content is no longer accurate.
An assembly could focus on the achievements of their lives, experiences as child refugees and migrants, and how they overcame...
Ideas for Assemblies: Refugee stories
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Coherence in primary history
Primary History article
This article looks at what coherence is, how it can be mapped and ways in which classroom activities can enhance pupils’ awareness of the past in a more coherent way.
What is it?
The term ‘coherence’ has been around a fair time now. Most reincarnations of the National Curriculum have referred to the need for...
Coherence in primary history
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Primary Sources In Swedish And Australian History Textbooks
IJHLTR Article
International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 14, Number 2 – Spring/Summer 2017
ISSN: 14472-9474
Abstract
This article compares primary sources used in Swedish and Australian school History textbooks on the topic of the Vietnam War. The focus is on analysing representations of Kim Phuc, the young girl who was...
Primary Sources In Swedish And Australian History Textbooks
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'History on Trial'
IJHLTR Article
International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 14, Number 2 – Spring/Summer 2017
ISSN: 14472-9474
Abstract
This study discusses the relevance of morality in the explanation of controversial history. It presents a discourse analysis of two representative adolescents’ narratives from Mexico and Spain about the 16th century Spanish Conquest of...
'History on Trial'
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International Journal 14.2: Editorial review
IJHLTR Article
International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 14, Number 2 – Spring/Summer 2017ISSN: 14472-9474
Introduction: Thinking historically – syntactic ‘know how’ and substantive ‘know that’ knowledge
As an academic discipline History has two dimensions: the ‘know how’ syntactic or procedural knowledge of the skills and processes of ‘Doing History’ and...
International Journal 14.2: Editorial review
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Are historical thinking skills important to history teachers?
IJHLTR Article
International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research IJHLTR, Volume 14, Number 2 – Spring/Summer 2017
ISSN: 14472-9474
Abstract
This article presents some findings of a qualitative interview study with 42 Austrian history teachers, conducted in the framework of an on-going three-year research project (2015–2018) funded by the Austrian Science Fund. The study...
Are historical thinking skills important to history teachers?
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One Giant Leap – 50 years since the Apollo 11 Moon landing
2nd July 2019
“One small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind” is one of the most famous sentences of the 20th century, and it was about science and exploration not conflict – or was it?
For centuries humanity has stared at the Moon and attributed to it portents of good...
One Giant Leap – 50 years since the Apollo 11 Moon landing
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2022
Holocaust Memorial Day, Thursday 27 January 2022
The events of the Holocaust and the other genocides of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries can seem overwhelming and too much to take on board. That is one of the reasons why each year’s Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) has a specific theme. For 2022 the theme is ‘One Day’, a...
Holocaust Memorial Day 2022
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An introduction to ‘History’, the journal of the HA
Information
History is the Journal of the Historical Association. First published in 1912, History has been a leader in its field ever since. It is unique in its range and variety, packing its pages with stimulating articles, extensive book reviews, and editorial notes. History balances its broad chronological coverage with a...
An introduction to ‘History’, the journal of the HA
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Teaching History 81
Journal
2 Editorial
3 News
7 Fiction, Empathy and Teaching History Victoria Mills
10 History and Language Sara Alston
11 Teaching Children About Time Terry Haydn
13 Art History as an Historical Discipline C.H. Kauffmann
14 Battling On: family history in the primary classroom Elizabeth M. Corrigan
19 A Tudor Feast...
Teaching History 81
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1851 by Asa Briggs
Classic Pamphlet
This classic pamphlet is being re-published in digital form to coincide with the special edition of The Historian devoted to the memory of Asa Briggs. He was one of the most illustrious members of the Historical Association and a devotedly loyal member all his life.
One Historian has said that...
1851 by Asa Briggs
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Significant Individuals: Charles Darwin
Primary History article
Charles Darwin: exploring the man behind the beard – studying the lives of significant individuals in the past
Studying the life of Charles Darwin is an exciting way to meet the requirement in Key Stage 1 to teach significant individuals. But what do we actually know about him, beyond the...
Significant Individuals: Charles Darwin
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Secondary Membership Sample Resources
Digital Resource Samples
Secondary membership gives access to a range of digital resources to support planning and delivery in the classroom as well as your own professional development. Why not take a look at some of our sample resources?
Teaching History, Issue 171: KnowledgeTeaching History, Issue 157: AssessmentTeaching History, Issue 153: The Holocaust and other genocides
Secondary...
Secondary Membership Sample Resources
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Teaching Medieval History Resources
Article
We hope you enjoyed reading Teaching Medieval History. To help you explore the topic further we’ve put together some ‘top pick’ resources below which have been made open access for a limited time.
You can open up resources like these and so much more for your school by signing up...
Teaching Medieval History Resources
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Stephen Lawrence Day 2021
Learning about the legacy of Stephen Lawrence
22 April is Stephen Lawrence Day, marking the anniversary of his murder in 1993. The killing of Stephen Lawrence by a group of young men simply because he was Black was a horrific crime, but the failure to correctly pursue the killers because of the Metropolitan Police’s own racism was an appalling...
Stephen Lawrence Day 2021
