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  • Remembering Agincourt: Bilingual Enquiry

      Multipage Article
    Do they learn about Agincourt in France? 2015 was a year of anniversaries. As part of our funded commemoration projects surrounding the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, we have commissioned an enquiry looking at the battle and how it has been remembered, particularly aimed at pupils in years...
    Remembering Agincourt: Bilingual Enquiry

  • Using sites and the environment exemplar: a visit to Petworth House, Sussex

      Exemplar
    A Year 5 class of 27 children were to visit the North Gallery at Petworth House in Sussex, where the 3rd Earl of Egremont kept his collection of sculptures and pictures. If the children were to learn I needed to give them a focus and a purpose.PreparationBeforehand, in the classroom,...
    Using sites and the environment exemplar: a visit to Petworth House, Sussex

  • Painted Advertisements on Houses

      Article
    A.D. Harvey discusses a once-familiar feature of the inner city landscape. A generation ago one often saw advertisements, or the names of commercial enterprises, painted directly on to the brickwork of old buildings. With the destruction, or renovation, of the older sections of most British towns, these advertisements are now...
    Painted Advertisements on Houses

  • World War 1 Literature

      GCSE Topic Pack
    The Social and Political Climate in Britain before the Great War This resource is free to everyone. For access to a wealth of other online resources from podcasts to articles and publications, plus support and advice though our “How To”, examination and transition to university guides and careers resources, join...
    World War 1 Literature

  • 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?'

  • Norfolk & Norwich Branch Programme

      Article
    Norfolk and Norwich Branch Programme 2025 Branch Contact: norwichha@gmail.com  Venue: Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Castle Hill, Norwich, NR1 3JU Events/Tours/Walks are currently charged at £5 per event or an annual regional membership fee of £15. (These fees will apply from September 2024–August 2025 and are subject to annual review.) After...
    Norfolk & Norwich Branch Programme

  • HA Secondary History Survey 2009

      HA Survey
    Pupils are receiving fewer and fewer hours of history teaching across secondary schools in England according to research by the Historical Association. The specially commissioned report discovered that:Many children receive little or no history education after only two years of secondary school48% of academies report 11-12 year olds spend less...
    HA Secondary History Survey 2009

  • Podcast series: Politics in England Through Time

      Politics in England through Time
    In this set of podcasts we look at how power and politics have changed in England from the Iron Age to the twentieth century.
    Podcast series: Politics in England Through Time

  • Reading documents exemplar: Victorian school advertisement

      Exemplar
    Reading documents exemplar: Victorian school advertisement

  • Teaching History 195: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 195: Perspectives in Time In the giant annual ‘card sort’ through which we editors shape numerous article proposals into themes, we found ourselves readily linking the pieces that now fall into this edition. There was a striking commonality; the theme was there. But what should we call...
    Teaching History 195: Out now

  • Podcast series: Religion in England Through Time

      Religion through Time
    This set of podcasts looks at religion in England from the ancient to the modern world and features: Professor Ronald Hutton of the University of Bristol, Professor Joanna Story of the University of Leicester, Professor Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia, Dr Steven Gunn of the University of...
    Podcast series: Religion in England Through Time

  • Visual image exemplar: Using pictures of Sutton Hoo objects

      Exemplar
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The Sutton Hoo ship burial contained a king's ransom in gold and jewellery. Indeed, it contained the worldly and spiritual goods needed for the king's voyage into the next world. But...
    Visual image exemplar: Using pictures of Sutton Hoo objects

  • The Mayflower voyage and the English settlement of North America

      Early Modern North America
    The 1620 Mayflower voyage was the result of the desire of a religious Christian group, the Puritans, who wished to break away from the Church of England and create a new community away from Catholic-influenced Europe. Plans for the voyage were fraught with problems in the summer of 1620, and the...
    The Mayflower voyage and the English settlement of North America

  • In Search of the New Woman

      Book Review
    In Search of the New Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Britain 1870-1914 by Gillian Sutherland (Cambridge University Press), 2015187pp., £55 hard, ISBN 978-1-107-09279-2 Women increasingly demanded and gained constructive and useful roles in society with campaigns for control over property, economic independence and admission to education and to the...
    In Search of the New Woman

  • Teaching History 69

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: Young Children's Thinking in History Hilary Cooper 8 The Magnificent Seven: Reasons for Teaching about Prehistory Peter Stone 13 National Curriculum History, Schemes of Work and the Primary School Child Brian Scott 19 Delivering the Primary History Curriculum Keith Crawford and Graham Rogers 22 The...
    Teaching History 69

  • The Plague in Cumberland 1597-1598. Some documents used in the Cumbria Record Office (Carlisle) by Key Stage 2 pupils studying the Tudors

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Outbreaks of the plague were common in the 16th century and the north of England was badly affected in the 1590s. It is believed that the plague arrived in Cumberland from Newcastle about Michaelmas 1597 and continued for over a year. The...
    The Plague in Cumberland 1597-1598. Some documents used in the Cumbria Record Office (Carlisle) by Key Stage 2 pupils studying the Tudors

  • Mystery Suitcase

      Lesson Plan exemplar
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. 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...
    Mystery Suitcase

  • Primary History 57: What History Should We Teach, 5-14?

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    Contents, Editorial, In My View, Article 04 Editorial 05 In my view: Campaign! Make an Impact and History - Alison Bodley (Read article) 06 In my view: Principles for a history curriculum - Jon Nichol (Read article) 07 Doing History: story telling How can we imagine the past? - Grant Bage (Read...
    Primary History 57: What History Should We Teach, 5-14?

  • Teaching History 176: Widening Vistas

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update: thinking beyond boundaries – Jason Todd (Read article for free) 10 Visions of America: using historical discourse to find narrative coherence in the GCSE period study – Alex Ford (Read article) 22 What’s The Wisdom On... evidences and sources (Read article)...
    Teaching History 176: Widening Vistas

  • Northampton Branch Programme

      Article
    Leicester & Northampton Branches Joint Programme of Online Talks & Activities 2024-25 Leicester Chair: Annabelle Larsen leicesterha@gmail.com Northampton Chair: David Waller david@davidwaller.org.uk Most talks will be on the second Tuesday of the month, 18.00-19.30.  Northampton Branch Programme 2025 **POSTPONED UNTIL JUNE 2025**. David Waller, University of Northampton. ‘The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election...
    Northampton Branch Programme

  • Life by sources A to F: really using sources to teach AS history

      Teaching History article
    The work of Gary Howells will be familiar to many readers of Teaching History—indeed, his last article is heavily cited elsewhere in this edition. He presents here the case in favour of using sources at AS level (16-17 years old). Clearly, historians need to have some form of acquaintance with...
    Life by sources A to F: really using sources to teach AS history

  • The Neo-Babylonian Empire (626-539 BC)

      Podcast
    The Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, historically known as the Chaldean Empire, was the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia. Beginning with the coronation of Nabopolassar as the King of Babylon in 626 BC and being firmly established through the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 612 BC, the Neo-Babylonian Empire was conquered by Cyrus and the Achaemenid Persian Empire in 539 BC,...
    The Neo-Babylonian Empire (626-539 BC)

  • The Historian 80: Queen Victoria as a Politician

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 6 The Casket Letters - A E MacRobert (Read article) 13 Recent Advances in the Study of Surnames - David Hey (Read article) 18 Mr Adams’ Free Grammar School - David and Ruth Taylor (Read article) 24 Queen Victoria as a Politician - Ian St John (Read article)...
    The Historian 80: Queen Victoria as a Politician

  • Does scaffolding make them fall? Reflecting on strategies for developing causal argument in Years 8 and 11

      Teaching History article
    Jennifer Evans and Gemma Pate, history teachers in two Essex schools, had noticed that sometimes a writing frame did the opposite of what was intended. Sometimes a card sort fostered rich discussion and ownership; sometimes it led the students down a reductive rather than mind-opening path. Sometimes modelling of paragraphs...
    Does scaffolding make them fall? Reflecting on strategies for developing causal argument in Years 8 and 11

  • Useful Resources for History Teaching

      Useful Resources
    The following are lists of those resources which we have found genuinely useful during our NQT year, or which we feel could be used to good effect, whether as sources, interpretations or stimulus materials. The lists are not exhaustive, and are inevitably skewed towards those topics which we have taught....
    Useful Resources for History Teaching