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  • Teaching History 102: Inspiration and Motivation

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Learning to love history: preparation of non-specialist primary school teachers to teach history, Finding voices in the past: exploring identity through the biography of a house, Getting pupils to track their own thinking and much more... Why Gerry now likes evidential work - Phil Smith (Read article) Teaching pupils how...
    Teaching History 102: Inspiration and Motivation

  • Sumerian history through story-telling and expressive movement

      Lesson Plan
    The Sumerian mystery lesson is based on a story about what people found in one of the royal tombs of Ur dating from about 4000 years ago. (This was in ancient Mesopotamia, near what we now call the Persian Gulf.) (These resources are attached below) The story is full of...
    Sumerian history through story-telling and expressive movement

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 164: Constructing narrative

      Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
    Narrative is shedding its status as the ‘underrated skill’, re-emerging as a requirement of the new GCSE in England. As Counsell has argued, constructing a narrative is ‘no easy option’, however, and asking students to ‘Write an account…’ lacks the comfortable familiarity of ‘Explain why…’ or ‘How far…’. Fortunately, many...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 164: Constructing narrative

  • Making reading routine

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by the growing number of history teachers who have sought to introduce younger pupils to academic historical scholarship in the classroom, Tim Jenner wanted to bring about his own reading revolution at Key Stage 3. But rather than simply develop one-off lessons or enquiries based on scholarship his goal...
    Making reading routine

  • The International Journal Volume 10 Number 1

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 10, Number 1 - Summer 2011. Editorial    Jean Pierre Charland, Marc-Andre Ethier,Jean Francois Cardin  History Written on Walls: a study of Quebec High School Students' historical consciousness   Michelle J. Bellino and Robert L. Selman High School Students' Understanding of Personal Betrayal...
    The International Journal Volume 10 Number 1

  • Stories, sources and new formats: Digitising Archives

      Historian article
    In the last two decades or so there has been a movement towards digitising large collections of original sources. These projects have had a range of purposes, approaches and target audiences but there can be little doubt that they have had a profound impact on the practice of history in...
    Stories, sources and new formats: Digitising Archives

  • The 2014 History National Curriculum: how to get the best from heritage

      Primary History article
    We all know that site visits are good for children - not least because they give a break from the normal school routine - and there are a plethora of heritage sites both local and national that are able to offer facilities for school visits. But we also know that...
    The 2014 History National Curriculum: how to get the best from heritage

  • Time's arrows? Using a dartboard scaffold to understand historical action

      Teaching History article
    Arthur Chapman presents a task-specific scaffold - a ‘dart' board - designed to teach students how to interrogate sources of information so that these become sources of evidence for particular claims about past actions, beliefs and aims. Chapman also uses his ‘dart' board to foster students' reflection on the degrees of...
    Time's arrows? Using a dartboard scaffold to understand historical action

  • DfE clarifies reference to enquiry-based learning

      8th August 2018
    Following the Department of Education’s recent call for pilot schools to bid for Curriculum Development Funds, the Historical Association (HA) sought clarification specifically connected to disciplinary understanding. Within the guidance, the DfE sets out its criteria for programmes, one of which is that they should be structured on the basis of...
    DfE clarifies reference to enquiry-based learning

  • The Right Kind of History. An Interview with Nicola Sheldon, Jenny Keating and John Hamer

      Interview
    Sir David Cannadine has written the book that tells the history of history in schools. On the podcast on this site he outlines some of his reasons for wanting to write the book and what his findings were. But alongside his name on the front cover are his research team...
    The Right Kind of History. An Interview with Nicola Sheldon, Jenny Keating and John Hamer

  • Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar

      Article
    Connecting Classrooms: bringing together Bradford and Peshawar, primary and secondary schools, history and English In this article, Dianne Excell shares her experience of a crossphase, collaborative project funded by the British Council that brought together teachers and pupils from three schools in Bradford and five schools in Peshawar, Pakistan. Although...
    Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar

  • Pupil Perceptions and History

      E-CPD Resource
    A PowerPoint presentation by Alison Kitson dealing with Pupil Perceptions and History.
    Pupil Perceptions and History

  • Year 7 challenge stereotypes about the Mexica

      Teaching History article
    After discussing a new book about the Mexica (Aztecs) during a routine meeting with a trainee teacher, Niamh Jennings decided to construct a sequence of lessons around the history of the Mexica Empire. Struck by the vivid storytelling of historian Camilla Townsend in her book Fifth Sun, and fascinated by...
    Year 7 challenge stereotypes about the Mexica

  • What’s the wisdom on… enquiry questions

      Teaching History feature
    One way of explaining what is meant by an enquiry question is to start with what it is not. What's the Wisdom On... is a short guide providing new history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of history teaching. It...
    What’s the wisdom on… enquiry questions

  • What is a Synoptic Essay and How Do I Write One?

      Student Guides
    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 the Historical Association today Part of the A-Level History course now...
    What is a Synoptic Essay and How Do I Write One?

  • Helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house

      Teaching History article
    A host of histories: helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house Described by the author Monica Ali as a building that ‘sparks the imagination and sparks conversations', 19 Princelet Street, now a Museum of Diversity and Immigration, captivated the imagination of teacher David Waters. He...
    Helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house

  • Counterfactual Reasoning: Comparing British and French History

      Teaching History article
    Year 8 use counterfactual reasoning to explore place and social upheaval in eighteenth-century France and Britain Two linked motivations inspired Ellen Buxton's research study: she wanted pupils to make connections between British and French history and she wanted to explore the potential of counter-factual reasoning within a causation enquiry. It...
    Counterfactual Reasoning: Comparing British and French History

  • Recorded webinar: Making the most out of Holocaust Memorial Day: challenges and opportunities

      In partnership with UCL Centre for Holocaust Education
    Since 2001 the UK has marked Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January, the date of the 'liberation' of Auschwitz Birkenau by Soviet soldiers in 1945. History teachers and their colleagues are often asked to 'mark' HMD in their schools. In this webinar we will explore themes of commemoration and education...
    Recorded webinar: Making the most out of Holocaust Memorial Day: challenges and opportunities

  • 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

  • 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)

  • Online CPD Unit: Creativity in the History Classroom

      E-CPD
    Oh no - not more extended writing! Firing pupil motivation through creative tasking. This E-CPD unit considers the issues departments needs to consider in planning for both challenging and engaging history. The example of teaching below comes from the Historical Association Key Stage 2-3 History transition project website (2005).  The...
    Online CPD Unit: Creativity in the History Classroom

  • History and the National Primary Strategy

      Primary History article
    The Historical Association poses a series of questions to the Director of the Primary National Strategy, Kevan Collins.
    History and the National Primary Strategy

  • HA Annual Conference 2026: call for papers

      Workshop proposals open until 7 November
    The HA Annual Conference will be held in Newcastle in 2026. This two-day conference on 15-16 May is a leading highlight of the history community's year. It brings together all those working in and who have an active interest in history and heritage. With top-level academics, pedagogical sessions and discussion panels, the conference is...
    HA Annual Conference 2026: call for papers

  • Primary History 33

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    3 Editorial 4 Primary Noticeboard 5 In My View: Revolting subjects? – Dr Grant Bage 7 Breadth and Balance within the primary history curriculum? – John Clements 8 History co-ordinators’ dilemmas – Karin Doull 10 QCA Update – Jerome Freeman 11 Multicultural teaching in Portugal: a perspective – Manuela Carvalho...
    Primary History 33

  • Using the back cover image: Oxford Street in the 1960s

      Primary History feature
    Photographs are very useful and productive documents when teaching history. They provide a snapshot of the past such as this one from just outside Selfridges on Oxford Street in London c.1962-64. Combined with further images from Heritage Explorer, clips from Pathé News, extracts from the 1911 Census, locally gathered images...
    Using the back cover image: Oxford Street in the 1960s