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  • Teaching History 77

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    6 History, Autonomy and Education or History Helps Your Students Be Autonomous Five Ways (with apologies to PAL dog food) - Peter Lee 11 Theory and Practice Essay: The Use of Resources and Teaching Aids in the Teaching of History, with particular reference to Year Eight - Elizabeth Danks 16...
    Teaching History 77

  • Move Me On 96: Struggling with language register - getting pitch right

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: John Ball is having difficulty getting his language register right Problem: John is several weeks into his first school placement. He is very much enjoying the PGCE course. It is proving to be the intellectual and practical challenge that he hoped. He has come to the course...
    Move Me On 96: Struggling with language register - getting pitch right

  • HA Branches in the West Midlands

      Branch details by region
    Mid-Trent & Mercia Branch Further details can always be obtained from Trevor James on 01543-258434 or Sylvia Clifford on 01283-536250 Venues and times are listed with each meeting. All Branch meetings and sessions are free to HA/Branch members but there will be a small charge for visitors. Mid-Trent Branch Programme   Nuneaton Branch...
    HA Branches in the West Midlands

  • Minimalist cause boxes for maximal learning: one approach to the Civil War in Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Ian Gibson and Susan McLelland describe their work using cause boxes. They identity the type of historical learning that they felt was taking place and the range of factors which they judged to be critical...
    Minimalist cause boxes for maximal learning: one approach to the Civil War in Year 8

  • Knowing what counts in history: historical understanding and the non-specialist teacher

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. If science graduates think that history teaching is not about questioning, that there is only ‘one answer' in history or that historical facts are unproblematic, does it matter? Should we care? Doug Newton and Lynn...
    Knowing what counts in history: historical understanding and the non-specialist teacher

  • Queen Victoria as a Politician

      Article
    Even had Queen Victoria not presided over the achievements of the age which bears her name, her career would still hold a fascination for the historian. She was, for one thing, the solitary woman in a male political world. She was possessed of a personality at once perceptive and simple,...
    Queen Victoria as a Politician

  • New Saxon, Viking and Medieval GCSE Content

      GCSE Resources
    As you will no doubt be aware, GCSEs are changing. New specifications (subject to accreditation) will require students to learn history from a range of different time periods. Different specifications will specify different content, but whichever specification you end up teaching, you are very likely to be teaching some medieval...
    New Saxon, Viking and Medieval GCSE Content

  • Cunning Plan 95: Medicine through Time

      Teaching History feature
    GCSE development studies require students to assess change over vast periods of time. How can we cover the content whilst ensuring that our students do not lose sight of the big picture? Look to your choice of big enquiries for the solution. Here is one efficient and motivating approach devised...
    Cunning Plan 95: Medicine through Time

  • Teaching History Curriculum Supplement 2014

      Changes to the secondary history curriculum
    Although modifications to the content of the National Curriculum for history have not been as dramatic as once feared, the effective revocation of the previous attainment target is radical indeed. When these changes are considered alongside the fact that more than half of maintained secondary schools (all academies and free...
    Teaching History Curriculum Supplement 2014

  • Global Learning & Critical Thinking

      Article
    Critical thinking GLP-E aims: Young people will also develop the skills to interpret that knowledge in order to make judgements about global poverty. In this way they will be able to: think critically about global issues. The GLP has a strong focus on developing young people's knowledge and understanding of...
    Global Learning & Critical Thinking

  • The International Journal Volume 10 Number 2

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 10, Number 2- Spring 2012.     Marcelo Fronza and Maria Auxiliadora Moreira dos Santos The Conceptions of Objective Historical Knowledge of Young Students in Brazilian High Schools   Olga Magalhaes Historical Narratives of Young Portuguese Students   Rita de Cassia Goncalves Pacheco...
    The International Journal Volume 10 Number 2

  • Global Learning & Critical Thinking

      Article
    Critical thinkingGLP-E aims: Young people will also develop the skills to interpret that knowledge in order to make judgements about global poverty. In this way they will be able to:think critically about global issues.The GLP has a strong focus on developing young people's knowledge and understanding of development, and in...
    Global Learning & Critical Thinking

  • Working with sources: scepticism or cynicism? Putting the story back together again

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Many history teachers will remember the feature on Jamie Byrom's teaching in Times Educational Supplement of July 1996 where he attacked the recent fashion of history textbooks for encouraging only short (and usually formulaic) responses...
    Working with sources: scepticism or cynicism? Putting the story back together again

  • Teaching History 175: Out now

      24th June 2019
    The effort to discern hidden voices is intrinsic to the integrity of historical practice. The professional historian poring over primary sources strives to establish who can be heard in any text or artefact, which voices are being inadvertently favoured or what light further voices might shed on the question in...
    Teaching History 175: Out now

  • Teaching History 75

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    2 Editorial 3 News 5 The Dearing Final Report - Threat or Opportunity? - Carol White 7 Responses to the Dearing Report: History Post-16 - Laurie Taylor 9 Making Dearing Enduring - A Personal View - Roy Hughes 11 Teaching History at Key Stage 2 - One School's Approach -...
    Teaching History 75

  • HA Conference Round-up 2019

      3rd June 2019
    We knew the line-up of speakers was good, we knew that the historic city of Chester was a great choice, we knew the hotel would be welcoming, we knew we were going to cover around 2,000 years’ worth of history from the Romans to the current day in two days...
    HA Conference Round-up 2019

  • Join and explore all you love about history

      Information
    HA membership starts from as little as £39.50 at concessionary rate, and £59.50 at individual rate.  You can also get two extra months for free by quoting the code OL19 over the phone.Call us on 0300 100 0223 or join online today Discover local branch talks and visits With over 45 vibrant local branches across the...
    Join and explore all you love about history

  • Diversity and Inclusion Strategy

      HA policies
    As a membership charity our purpose is to promote the study, teaching and enjoyment of history to the widest possible audience. We want everyone, regardless of background, to be able to engage with, debate, examine and shape history. As part of our ethos on diversity and inclusion we will not...
    Diversity and Inclusion Strategy

  • The Historian 112: The Myth of the frontier in the Hollywood western

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 Nazi aggression: planned or improvised? - Hendrik Karsten Hogrefe (Read Article) 11 The President's Column - Jackie Eales 12 Neville Chamberlain: villain or hero? - Brent Dyck (Read Article) 16 Cyprus: another Middle East issue - Sarah Newman (Read Article) 20 Have gun, will travel: The myth of the...
    The Historian 112: The Myth of the frontier in the Hollywood western

  • Assessment and planning for progression at Key Stage 3

      HA Guide and Links
    The 2014 National Curriculum does not include an attainment target or any specified level against which you are expected to assess pupils' progress. The new attainment target says simply that: ‘By the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know, apply and understand the matters, skills and processes...
    Assessment and planning for progression at Key Stage 3

  • Britain 1900-1918

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Writing the First World War - Podcasts Richard Evans Medlicott lecture: The Origins of the First World War Gary Sheffield: Origins of the First World War   The Parliament Act of 1911 The Suffragette Movement - Podcast LGBT History 1914-18 Domestic impact of World War I  First World War treaties...
    Britain 1900-1918

  • Power and Democracy - GCSE

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Power and Democracy
    Power and Democracy - GCSE

  • Contact your branch

      Information
    Bath Mr M Short 01225 812 945 mikeshort20@btinternet.com Beckenham & Bromley Mrs A Wagstaff 020 8777 7742 aj60@dial.pipex.com Bolton Ms Melissa Wright 07912 369060 MWright@boltonschool.org  Bournemouth Dr R Hill 0300 100 0223 suzannah.stern@history.org.uk Bristol Ms M Feerick 0117 9442896 maryfeerick58@gmail.com Buckinghamshire Terry Bloxham 01296 708926 secretarybucksha@gmail.com  Cambridge Dr Sean Lang...
    Contact your branch

  • Historical Association Annual Conference - Terms & Conditions

      Information
    Please read these terms and conditions carefully before booking onto the Historical Association’s Annual Conference. You should understand that by booking a place at this Conference, you agree to adhere to these terms and conditions. Please note that these terms and conditions are only applicable to the HA’s Conference and...
    Historical Association Annual Conference - Terms & Conditions

  • SHP and 'What is history?'

      Article
    In the 1970s a new approach to history teaching was developed through the auspices of the Schools Council History Project (SCHP) later named the Schools History Project (SHP). In order to engage pupils (and reverse the perceived danger of a declining uptake of history amongst pupils) the project authors designed...
    SHP and 'What is history?'