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  • 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 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

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      Information
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  • Concerns over future of teacher training 2014

      Article
    The Facts Increasing numbers of trainee teachers are entering the profession with little or no history-specific training. Opportunities for graduates to increase subject knowledge alongside subject-based teaching practice in university centred school partnerships have been cut. Our research shows that 90% of respondents agreed that all trainees should receive a...
    Concerns over future of teacher training 2014

  • 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

  • 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

  • The Historian 167: Science

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Ask The Historian 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 Social Darwinism: the myth and its reinvention – Geoffrey M. Hodgson (Read article) 10 White heat or hot air? The politics of science in 1960s Britain – Steve Illingworth (Read article) 14 More than skin deep: unmasking the history of cold cream – Farhana...
    The Historian 167: Science

  • 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

  • Developing meaningful cross-curricular approaches

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Some history departments find themselves under pressure to incorporate skills and competences from alternative curricula. Others find that with the pressure to ease transition issues in Year 7, history can almost disappear into an amalgam...
    Developing meaningful cross-curricular approaches

  • Nutshell 127

      Article
    What exactly is TEACH all about? It stands for Teaching Emotive and controversial Issues in History. It was a project funded by the DfES and produced by the Historical Association. The main focus was on how such matters are addressed by those teaching history to those as young as 3...
    Nutshell 127

  • 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

  • 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

  • From Disraeli to Callaghan: Britain 1879 - 1979

      Historian article
    A previously unpublished survey of British history by A.J.P. Taylor. It is a characteristic piece, though marked by gloom about the then recent inflation. Introduced by Historical Association President Chris Wrigley.
    From Disraeli to Callaghan: Britain 1879 - 1979

  • A creative Egyptian project

      Primary History article
    Ideally when teaching history, teachers will look to deliver projects that will engage and motivate, hopefully making the hard work of being creative stimulating and rewarding, based upon questioning, enquiry, investigation of sources and reaching conclusions grounded in the evidence.Ancient Egypt is one of those history topics which, because it...
    A creative Egyptian project

  • How to teach chronology

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. For more recent resources see: Chronology: Developing a coherent knowledge (2014) Scheme of work (KS2): Chronology: Books through time Scheme of work (KS2): Chronology: Numbers through time  Britain and World timeline 4000-2000BC Britain and World timeline 2000BC to 0BC Britain and World timeline, 0BC...
    How to teach chronology

  • Stanley Baldwin's reputation

      Historian article
    Falsification of history is normally associated with dictatorships rather than liberal democracies. Yet tendentious accounts of the recent past are part of the armoury of all types of political debate. Such manipulation usually has only a limited and short-term influence, because it is neutralised by different political parties offering contending...
    Stanley Baldwin's reputation

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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'

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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