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  • Getting to grips with concepts in primary history

      Primary History article
    Perhaps one of the most perplexing aspects of teaching history is the fostering of conceptual understanding. History subject leaders often find this a challenging issue. Even if they have a decent grasp themselves, it can be difficult for others in the school who have to teach the subject. Over recent...
    Getting to grips with concepts in primary history

  • Raising the profile of history in your school

      Primary History article
    All too often, with increasing pressure to obtain the ‘best’ results, primary schools allow English and mathematics to steal the limelight, unwittingly pushing other subjects to one side. As a consequence, these ‘other’ subjects are squeezed into vehicles to teach English or maths – barely recognisable under the guise of...
    Raising the profile of history in your school

  • Parliament, people or privilege: Do we need a better understanding of constitutional history?

      Historical Association conference 2017: round table discussion
    Join our panel, including Dr Alix Green, Professor Tony Badger and Professor Justin Champion as they discuss how recent polls and election results have confounded many pundits. Do calls to ‘give us our country back’ or ‘return our sovereignty’ suggest that many people in liberal democracies need a better understanding of...
    Parliament, people or privilege: Do we need a better understanding of constitutional history?

  • Magic History of Roman Britain

      Article
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum.  The Magic History of Roman Britain by Jon Nichol provides a great deal of information about life in Roman Britain in story form. It tells the story of Sam and Jane,...
    Magic History of Roman Britain

  • Leading Primary History

      Leading Primary History
    Please note: this guide was written before the 2014 National Curriculum and some of the advice may no longer be relevant. For more up-to-date guidance visit our Primary Subject Leader area (available to Corporate Primary Members) or see:  Progression and assessment without levels Progression from EYFS to KS3 Tracking pupil progress Assessment and...
    Leading Primary History

  • Couching counterfactuals in knowledge when explaining the Salem witch trials with Year 13

      Teaching History journal article
    Puzzled by the shrugs and unimaginative responses of his students when asked certain counterfactual questions, James Edward Carroll set out to explore what types of counterfactual questions would elicit sophisticated causal explanations. During his pursuit of the ‘gold standard’ of counterfactual reasoning, Carroll drew upon theories of academic history in...
    Couching counterfactuals in knowledge when explaining the Salem witch trials with Year 13

  • Teaching History 167: Complicating Narratives

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update: Partition of British India 08 ‘I feel if I say this in my essay it’s not going to be as strong’: multi-voicedness, ‘oral rehearsal’ and year 13 students’ written arguments – James Edward Carroll (Read article) 18 Why are...
    Teaching History 167: Complicating Narratives

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing (Primary)

      Your Virtual History Department Meeting
    We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances, so we wanted to lend a helping hand. 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a brand-new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing (Primary)

  • Henry V in the cinema

      Historian article
    Public attitudes to Henry V are very much influenced by WilliamShakespeare's interpretation. Richard Inverne discusses howShakespeare's version has been translated into cinematic form byLaurence Olivier and Kenneth Branagh. Shakespeare indulges himself considerably with his own relatively recent history - Richards II and III, Henrys IV, V and VI, for example....
    Henry V in the cinema

  • History GCSE Specification Comparison Tool

      GCSE Resource
    This short guidance is designed to help you compare the 9-1 GCSE specifications. The first examinations of these new linear GCSEs was in the summer of 2018.
    History GCSE Specification Comparison Tool

  • Podcast: Spain 1808 – Iraq 2003: some thoughts on the use and abuse of history

      Bolton Branch Lecture Podcast by Charles Esdaile
    This podcast was recorded by the Bolton Branch of the Historical Association on Monday 1 February 2010, at the Parish Hall in Bolton. We were pleased to welcome Professor Charles Esdaile of the University of Liverpool back to the branch to speak on ‘Spain 1808 – Iraq 2003: Some Thoughts...
    Podcast: Spain 1808 – Iraq 2003: some thoughts on the use and abuse of history

  • On-demand webinar: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: sources

      Webinar series: Direct history teaching
    Webinar series: Direct history teaching Session 5: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: sources In this fifth session, Jacob and Mike will argue that 'source work' often doesn’t work. They will suggest that common classroom approaches to sources are often ineffective and inaccessible. Instead, they will share examples of lessons that teach pupils very...
    On-demand webinar: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: sources

  • HA Awards Evening 2019

      17th July 2019
    On a hot afternoon in July key figures of the history world came together to celebrate history in all its diversity. Throughout the year, across the UK individuals with a passion for history work to educate, inform, entertain and excite those around them about the past. The Historical Association awards...
    HA Awards Evening 2019

  • Remembering and sharing an enthusiasm for history

      Teacher's family honour his memory with a wonderful gift to support the HA Quality Mark
    The role that many teachers carry out without realising is as an advocate for their subject, sharing their enthusiasm for learning with children day after day and year after year. The majority of those teachers do not have plaques put up for them or memorials in the town square, but...
    Remembering and sharing an enthusiasm for history

  • Think Bubble 60: Writing from experience

      Primary History article
    The business of ‘experiencing' history is in as healthy state as it is possible to imagine. In a recent straw poll of primary GTP trainees in the Oxford-Bucks partnership over 80% cited drama, role play or similar inter-active experience as being the most memorable feature of learning history in the...
    Think Bubble 60: Writing from experience

  • Making learning drive assessment: Joan of Arc - saint, witch or warrior?

      Teaching History article
    Andrew Wrenn describes his work with Barry Williams and the teachers of the history department at Ailwyn School (11-14 comprehensive), Ramsey in Cambridgeshire. Devoting equal attention to the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of history assessment, he shows how this group of teachers developed a fresh approach to assessment out of...
    Making learning drive assessment: Joan of Arc - saint, witch or warrior?

  • Defying the ‘constrictive grip of typologies’

      Journal article
    History teachers have frequently made recourse to character cards as a device to help young people, each assigned specific roles, to understand how different kinds of people responded in different ways to particular situations in the past. Edward FitzGerald builds on this tradition, demonstrating the value of using rich historical...
    Defying the ‘constrictive grip of typologies’

  • Move Me On 167: Frames of reference

      Teaching History feature
    This feature is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. This issue’s problem: Eleanor Franks doesn’t really understand her students’ frames of reference and the difficulties that many of them have in making sense of the particular historical phenomena she is teaching them about. Eleanor Franks,...
    Move Me On 167: Frames of reference

  • The wheels (and horses…) on the bus

      Primary History article
    A theme in the Early Years will have many cross-curricular links, encompassing many of the different areas of learning in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) Statutory Framework. The focus for this article is on historical elements of Understanding the World; however there will be some cross-over into other areas of...
    The wheels (and horses…) on the bus

  • Helping Year 8 to understand historians’ narrative decision-making

      Teaching History article
    While previous work on historical interpretations has focused students’ attention on the particular questions that historians have been asking or the context in which they have been posing those questions, less attention has been paid to the process of historical narration itself – the decisions that are made in telling...
    Helping Year 8 to understand historians’ narrative decision-making

  • My Favourite History Place - Poperinge

      Historian feature
    Poperinge is a cheerful place. It is a cheerfulness which defies its location yet resonates with its history. It is a small town just ten kilometres west of Ypres and all around is the debris and memorabilia of slaughter. Yet somehow Poperinge is a cheerful place. It is a community...
    My Favourite History Place - Poperinge

  • Secondary Committee biographies

      Information
    Find out more about the HA's committees here  Sally Burnham (committee chair) Sally is a history teacher in a school in Lincolnshire and also works one day a week at the University of Nottingham on the History PGCE. Sally has been a Head of Department and is now a Lead...
    Secondary Committee biographies

  • Higher Education Committee biographies

      HA Committees
    Read the Higher Education Committee's remit Find out more about the HA's committees Katharine Burn Katharine Burn is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Oxford, where she teaches on the PGCE History programme and on a range of part-time Masters courses for practising teachers. She is co-editor of the HA’s professional...
    Higher Education Committee biographies

  • Teaching History 166: The Moral Maze

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02  Editorial (Read article) 03  HA Secondary News 04  HA Update 08  Putting Catlin in his place? Helping Year 9 to problematize narratives of the American West – Jess Landy (Read article) 16 Cunning Plan: Developing an enquiry on the First Crusade – Rachel Foster and Kath Goudie (Read article) 20  Active...
    Teaching History 166: The Moral Maze

  • ICT and Local History

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. It is the year 3002 AD. The spaceship hovers over the surface of the earth, locked in to the spot where the Bolham time capsule is buried. One thousand years ago the fifteen 9 and 10...
    ICT and Local History