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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
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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
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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
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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
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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Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.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
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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
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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
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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
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Join and explore all you love about history
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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
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Join and explore all you love about history
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Power and Democracy - GCSE
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Power and Democracy
The Norman Conquest: why did it matter?
HA Podcast Series: Social & Political Change in the UK 1800-present: Part 1. Politics, Reform and War
England Arise! The General Election of 1945
HA Podcasted History: William I to Henry VII
HA Podcast Series: James VI & I to...
Power and Democracy - GCSE
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Contact your branch
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Historical Association Annual Conference - Terms & Conditions
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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
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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?'
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CPD events terms and conditions
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Please read these terms and conditions carefully before booking onto any of the Historical Association's [HA] CPD events. You should understand that by booking any of our CPD Events, you agree to adhere to these terms and conditions.
Please note that these terms and conditions are only applicable to the...
CPD events terms and conditions
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The Rainbow Circle and the New Liberalism
Historian article
The publication of the first volume of Paddy Ashdown’s Diaries in 2000 has focused renewed attention on the relationship between the Liberal Democrats and the Labour Party. From the first meeting between Ashdown and Tony Blair at the latter’s house on 4 September 1994, less than seven weeks after his...
The Rainbow Circle and the New Liberalism
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The Institute of Historical Research (IHR)
History Network
The Institute of Historical Research (IHR)
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Medieval Britain 1066-1509
HA Resources
The development of Church, state and society in Medieval Britain 1066-1509While the 2014 Curriculum sets out the broad focus of each particular content area, considerable choice has been left to history departments in determining which particular events or developments to include and how they can best 'combine overview and depth...
Medieval Britain 1066-1509
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Membership terms and conditions
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The Historical Association [HA] is a registered charity incorporated by Royal Charter. We endeavour to make membership as accessible as possible to all, and this in turn enables us to continue to produce resources and campaign for quality history education at all levels, locally and nationally. We are grateful to...
Membership terms and conditions
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Teaching History 155: Teaching About WW1
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Rachel Foster - A world turned molten: helping Year 9 to explore the cultural legacies of the First World War (Read article)
20 Mary Brown and Carolyn Massey - Teaching ‘the lesson of satire': using The Wipers Times to build...
Teaching History 155: Teaching About WW1
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Varieties of Reformation
Classic Pamphlet
The most significant change to have occurred in our view of the Reformation in recent years is the growing acknowledgement of historians that it was no unitary phenomenon whose triumph was assured and inevitable. What we refer to in short-hand as ‘the' Reformation was a many-sided affair which began with...
Varieties of Reformation
