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  • Using museums, libraries and art galleries

      Primary History article
    Lessons for Sustainablility: From the Experiences of Early Primary Student Teachers Student teachers, local museums, libraries and art galleries. This article is based on the experiences of student teachers on a BA (Hons) Early Primary Education Programme, during their placements in local Museums, Libraries and Art Galleries. We asked students...
    Using museums, libraries and art galleries

  • One Year GCSE

      Briefing Pack
    Background A new development for curriculum change this year (2009) has been that many schools are now changing the pattern of GCSE/Key Stage 4 courses, following the ending of compulsory SATs for English, Maths and Science at the end of Key Stage 3. It is not yet clear how many...
    One Year GCSE

  • Creating Variety in the Classroom

      Article
    Sometimes, pupils complain that there is a sameness to history lessons. History though offers scope for all kinds of exciting and varied activities targeting the key concepts and processes of the National Curriculum. Over the years, the following list has been gathered showing this variety. It could be used as...
    Creating Variety in the Classroom

  • Communities of inquiry: creating the conditions for meaningful collaboration

      Teaching History article
    When Will Bailey-Watson (a history ITE tutor) and Charlie Crouch (a history PhD student) worked together to improve a history undergraduate course at their university, they realised that the benefits of collaboration between teachers and historians can flow both ways. In this article they offer an account of how they sought...
    Communities of inquiry: creating the conditions for meaningful collaboration

  • Oxford's Literary War: Oxford University's servicemen and the Great War

      Historian article
    The last two decades have seen a slow shift in the academic understanding of the impact of the Great War on interwar Britain. The work of a small group of cultural historians has challenged strongly held pre-existing interpretations of the cultural impact of the Great War. However, there is still...
    Oxford's Literary War: Oxford University's servicemen and the Great War

  • How local history can bridge the gap...

      Primary History article
    A year on from the 2021 Development Matters and it is now much clearer how the changes in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) curriculum, with its emphasis on the role of communities, place, space and histories, has provided greater support for teachers and children to make the transition from the Understanding the...
    How local history can bridge the gap...

  • The British Association for Local History (BALH)

      History Network
    The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serves local historians. Its purpose is to encourage and assist the study of local history as an academic discipline and as a rewarding leisure pursuit for both individuals and groups. Local history enriches our lives...
    The British Association for Local History (BALH)

  • Teaching History 192: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 192: Breadth If the length of a curriculum relates to how long it lasts – to its duration in classroom time and to the volume of historical time it covers – then curricular breadth refers us to the number and the variety of the dimensions of human...
    Teaching History 192: Out now

  • Bringing an archaeologist into the classroom

      Primary History article
    The past as represented in school history textbooks and websites is adapted to meet the needs of primary-aged children, but the knowledge on which this depends derives from detailed academic research. Engaging children with historians and archaeologists can show them how we learn about and construct our understanding of history...
    Bringing an archaeologist into the classroom

  • The Elizabeth cake

      Primary History article
    Hidden away on top of a dusty, battered cupboard in a local primary school were two equally dusty and battered log books. Each has seen better days and each could provide a range of links to local and national history. The log book was one of two found in one...
    The Elizabeth cake

  • The Phoney War: teaching WWII

      Primary History article
    The term ‘phoney war’ refers to the period at the beginning of WWII between September 1939 and April 1940 when there was little fighting. It was brought to an abrupt end by the German invasion of Norway in April 1940. The term is thought to have been coined by an...
    The Phoney War: teaching WWII

  • Become a Branch Officer

      Support the HA through this vital role
    To begin with the obvious, the life-blood of any branch is its membership. However, that life-blood needs a heart to ensure the vitality of the branch, and that heart is the branch committee: a group of dedicated individuals who regularly give their time and effort to the smooth running of...
    Become a Branch Officer

  • Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London (KS1)

      Lesson Plan
    This resource 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 Please note: this resource was created prior to the 2014 National...
    Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London (KS1)

  • Prehistoric Scotland

      Classic Pamphlet
    Prehistory is an attempt to reconstruct the story of human societies inhabiting a given region before the full historical record opens there. Its data, furnished by archaeology, are the constructions members of such societies erected and the durable objects they made. The events which should form its subject matter naturally...
    Prehistoric Scotland

  • Film: The Origins of Mass Society - Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870

      Article
    Professor Peter Mandler is the current president of the Historical Association. As part of our 'presidents season' for the HA Virtual Branch he gave a fascinating talk on The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870. In this talk he explores the impact of the changes in...
    Film: The Origins of Mass Society - Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870

  • Michael Wood, Hadrian and the Making of Early England

      Article
    Michael Wood opened the summer lecture series for the HA virtual Branch on the Making of Early England. In it he introduced key characters and texts that help to establish the cultural past of that time and also reveal to us what we know of it. These people included overlooked...
    Michael Wood, Hadrian and the Making of Early England

  • 2019 Medlicott Medal for services to history

      HA News
    We are delighted to announce that the 2019 Medlicott Medal will be awarded to Professor Dame Janet L. Nelson – better known to all as Jinty. Jinty is a distinguished scholar of early medieval Europe and an influential figure to many historians. Her research has explored ideas of kingship and...
    2019 Medlicott Medal for services to history

  • Nutshell 129: Arguing the case for keeping history at Key Stage 3

      Article
    Nutshell, HELP. My head wants to abandon separate subjects at Key Stage 3 and do projects linked only by content, such as ‘India', ‘Industry' or ‘Indigo' instead. SMT already stop 50% of pupils from choosing history at 13 as apparently they can't ‘achieve' in it (or can't achieve a C),...
    Nutshell 129: Arguing the case for keeping history at Key Stage 3

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Histories of education – and society?

      Teaching History feature
    It is not emphasised enough that the progress of historiography often proceeds, not by historians arguing and then coming to some resolution, but simply by moving on. Historiography follows fashion, and subjects often exhaust themselves (for the time being)... A related issue is that of siloes. Historiography – academic writing generally...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Histories of education – and society?

  • Investigating Henry VIII

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The lesson required the children to consider carefully their own opinions about Henry and anything that they knew about him. This was followed up by a literacy lesson in which they used the evidence to express a point of view regarding...
    Investigating Henry VIII

  • The importance of history vocabulary

      Primary History article
    Teachers and schools should surely be forgiven for quickly turning to the pages containing the ‘subject content' - within the new 2014 history curriculum - and finding out ‘what' they should be teaching. This is especially true for Key Stage 2 where children must now learn British history from the...
    The importance of history vocabulary

  • Polychronicon 165: The 1917 revolutions in 2017: 100 years on

      Teaching History feature
    The interpretive and empirical frameworks utilised by scholars in their quest to understand the Russian revolutions have evolved and transformed over 100 years. The opening of archives after the collapse of the Soviet Union enabled access to a swathe of new primary sources, some of which have had a transformative...
    Polychronicon 165: The 1917 revolutions in 2017: 100 years on

  • Emotional response or objective enquiry? Using shared stories and a sense of place

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In this article, Andrew Wrenn explores some issues that teachers might consider when supporting 14 and 15 year olds in their study of war memorials as historical interpretations. Tony McAleavy has argued that ‘popular' and...
    Emotional response or objective enquiry? Using shared stories and a sense of place

  • The Historian 115: The Long Winding Road to the White House

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 The Long Winding Road to the White House: caucuses, primaries and national party conventions in the history of American presidential elections - Michael Dunne (Read Article) 13 The President's Column - Jackie Eales 14 Focus on Asa Briggs - Donald Read 16 My Favourite History Place -...
    The Historian 115: The Long Winding Road to the White House

  • Taking control of assessment

      Teaching History article
    Ian Luff recognised that in a post-levels world efforts to devise new assessment systems risked replicating old problems or creating new ones. Drawing on his many years’ experience of teaching and school leadership Luff argues that for assessment in history to be truly useful to teachers and pupils it needs...
    Taking control of assessment