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  • Helping students put shape on the past; systematic use of analogies to accelerate understanding

      Teaching History article
    One of the challenges facing pupils in the history classroom is conceptual understanding. Pupils also find it difficult to recognise themes or patterns across different parts of time and space. Ian Myson has recognised the importance of analogy as a way to facilitate pupils’ understanding. He is quick to recognise,...
    Helping students put shape on the past; systematic use of analogies to accelerate understanding

  • Triumphs Show 148.2: using pupil dialogue to encourage engagement with sources

      Teaching History feature
    Using pupil dialogue to encourage sophisticated engagement with source material - even at GCSE! Frustrated by the mechanistic approach that their pupils were using when working with historical sources, Tim Jenner and Paul Nightingale sought to experiment with a method of teaching sources which eschewed practice source questions in favour...
    Triumphs Show 148.2: using pupil dialogue to encourage engagement with sources

  • Ideas for assemblies: significant women in history

      Primary History feature
    For this edition we have chosen an overarching theme of significant women in history to link your assemblies. We have also looked for a link between the women to the month in which your assembly is being delivered. A common approach when introducing each of the women could be to...
    Ideas for assemblies: significant women in history

  • Exploring empire, artefacts and local history

      Primary History article
    This article introduces us to the Colonial Countryside Project. Many of the sites we visit, especially the great country houses and stately homes, have long been visited by children. They are often fascinated by both the buildings and the history associated with them. However, there is a growing recognition that...
    Exploring empire, artefacts and local history

  • The Historian 2

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Articles include: 3 Feature: Representations of the Robin Hood Legend – John Taylor 13 The Case for History in School – John Slater 17 Local History: Blind Houses – Mary Delorme 19 Record Linkage: Deadboards – Trevor James 22 Update: Restoration and Revolution 1660-1714 – John Childs 28 Personalia: Profile of A J.P Taylor...
    The Historian 2

  • Halloween and horror history

      3rd October 2023
    If you are over the age of fourteen you probably don’t get the excitement of Halloween. In fact, you might wonder generally what the fuss is about a Christian-Pagan entwined anniversary that leads to the excitement of children and their demands for sugar. However, as adults it is an opportunity...
    Halloween and horror history

  • Teaching History 182: A Sense of Period

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial: A Sense of Period (Read article for free) HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Exploring the ‘remembered’: using oral history to enhance a local history partnership – Emily Toettcher and Eliza West (Read article) 16 Triumphs Show: A public lecture series: a peek behind the scenes of...
    Teaching History 182: A Sense of Period

  • Your Secondary CPD calendar Summer 2026

      News Item
    "CPD from the Historical Association is always high quality and provides expert guidance and support."  At the HA we know how essential subject-specific CPD is for your development. That’s why, we offer a year-round programme of training that supports history teachers at all stages of their career, from trainees to...
    Your Secondary CPD calendar Summer 2026

  • History Abridged: Operation Black Buck

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. See all History Abridged articles Just as the Naval Task Force had been dispatched in April 1982, days after the...
    History Abridged: Operation Black Buck

  • The Historian 32

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Aggressive but Unsuccessful: Louis XIV and the European Struggle - Jeremy Black 10 Update: The Reign of Richard II, 1377-1399 - Alison McHardy 13 Education Forum: National Curriculum History: A Framework for the Future - Sue Bennett 14 Forum: Archive Services in Danger - Rosemary Dunhill 14 Reconstructing...
    The Historian 32

  • The Historian 34

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Looking Back on the Levellers, Austin Woolrych 10 Update: The Vietnam War, Peter Riddick 13 Education Forum: History in the National Curriculum and All That: Year One, Ian Coulson 14 Communications: County Records Office, F.B. Stitt 18 Local History: Managing the Past: Archaeology in the National Parks, Robert...
    The Historian 34

  • Teaching History 178: Constructing Accounts

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Beneath the surface: unravelling the complexity of the causes of British abolition with Year 8 – Elizabeth Marsay (Read article) 16 What’s The Wisdom On... enquiry questions? (Read article) 20 Training for the marathon: history at Michaela – Michael...
    Teaching History 178: Constructing Accounts

  • Extended Writing in History

      Transition Training Session 3
    This is the third of 5 sessions arising from the 2005 KS2-KS3 History Transitions Project: Transition training session 1: Historical Enquiries & Interpretations Transition training session 2: Using ICT in the teaching of history Transition training session 3: Extended writing in history Transition training session 4: Joan of Arc - Saint, Witch...
    Extended Writing in History

  • Teaching 20th-Century History Resources

      Article
    We hope you enjoyed reading Exploring and Teaching Twentieth-Century History. To help you explore the topic further we’ve put together a selection of just a few additional 20th-century history and teaching resources below. All these resources are available free to HA Secondary Members – find out more about Secondary Membership. 20th-century history podcast series We have recorded...
    Teaching 20th-Century History Resources

  • Film: Teaching history in the time of Covid

      Experiences at KS5 and University
    The Covid-19 pandemic hit universities and university students hard, especially those making the transition from 6th form study. In addition to all the usual transitional concerns, lecturers and students had to navigate changed teaching and assessment practices. The remote learning that many students over the last 2 academic years have...
    Film: Teaching history in the time of Covid

  • Teaching Year 9 to take on the challenge of structure in narrative

      Teaching History article
    Reflecting on challenges that had surfaced in their own and others’ efforts to get pupils to write historical narratives, Rachel Foster and Kath Goudie went back to the drawing board to consider the disciplinary purposes of narrative. They used both historical scholarship and theoretical works by historians on narrative construction....
    Teaching Year 9 to take on the challenge of structure in narrative

  • Using different sources to bring a topic to life: The Rebecca Riots

      Primary History article
    For primary school pupils a key aim of the National Curriculum for history is to understand the method of historical enquiry. Working with original sources is of course central to the whole process and provides a great way to inspire pupils’ experience of the subject. Young pupils, once they have...
    Using different sources to bring a topic to life: The Rebecca Riots

  • Starting a new Branch

      Organising and running an HA branch
    The Historical Association and its branches Branches have been an essential part of the Historical Association since it began. They exist in all parts of the United Kingdom and take a variety of forms. A branch provides a local forum to bring together all those with an interest in history:...
    Starting a new Branch

  • The Wolfson History Prize 2023

      29th November 2023
    On 13 November 2023 some of the HA team were fortunate enough to be in a glorious room at Claridge’s in Mayfair, London to hear the announcement of the winner of the prestigious Wolfson History Prize. To a full room it was announced that the winner was independent historian Halik...
    The Wolfson History Prize 2023

  • My Favourite History Place: Petra

      Historian feature
    Ghislaine Headland-Vanni visits the ancient city of Petra, in Jordan. When you hear the word ‘Petra’ what images does the word conjure up for you? Maybe you have visited and know it already; if not, then like me you may not fully comprehend its size. I naively thought I could...
    My Favourite History Place: Petra

  • Multi Academy Trust History Leads Network

      Open to all MAT history leads
    Multi Academy Trust History Leads Network The HA has teamed up with a group of history leads across different Multi Academy Trusts to re-ignite a network group dedicated to those leading history across a trust. The network will meet 3 times per year, twice online and once in-person, and meetings will focus...
    Multi Academy Trust History Leads Network

  • The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia

      Historian article
    Adam Simmons draws our attention to the need for further research into the relationship between the medieval Kingdoms of Ethiopia and Nubia – a fascinating time and place in African history which is neglected in the historical archive and about which, so far, there are only limited sources. The kingdoms of Ethiopia...
    The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia

  • A view from the classroom: Teachers TV, The Staffordshire Hoard And 'Doing History'

      Primary History article
    When the Historical Association was approached by Teachers' TV to produce ‘Great Ideas for Teaching History' at Key Stage 2, it was inevitable that I, as a full time teacher on the Primary Committee, would have no escape. My school agreed I could take part, with the involvement of two...
    A view from the classroom: Teachers TV, The Staffordshire Hoard And 'Doing History'

  • Having 'Great Expectations' of Year 9

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What scope does studying a classic novel in both English and history provide for meaningful cross-curricular work and how might engaging with historical fiction help pupils engage more effectively with the realities of the past?...
    Having 'Great Expectations' of Year 9

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