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  • The Historian 40

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: China's Communist Revolution, Michael Dillon 10 Update: The Nobility in Early Modern Europe, H.M. Scott 13 Record Linkage: New Dictionary of National Biography, Colin Matthew 16 Anniversary: William Hogarth's Marriage a la Mode, H.T. Dickinson 18 Biography: Prince Arthur and the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir 1882, Noble Frankland 22...
    The Historian 40

  • Recorded webinar: Ask the Primary Committee – Learning from Lockdown

      Webinar
    The first in a series of new termly webinars, this session offered a discussion with Sue Temple and Chris Trevor from our primary committee about what we can learn from lockdown in terms of History teaching, and ideas about what we could/should do now to help our children going forward. 
    Recorded webinar: Ask the Primary Committee – Learning from Lockdown

  • Blood and Iron: the violent birth of modern Germany

      Historian article
    Katja Hoyer discusses Germany’s unification 150 years ago: an event that cast a long shadow over the troubled young nation and would alter the course of European and world history. Shivering in the cold winter air that drifted in through the windows of his temporary residence in Paris, Wilhelm I, King...
    Blood and Iron: the violent birth of modern Germany

  • Richard III and the Princes in the Tower: update

      Historian article
    Richard III is one of the most famous kings of England, as much for his Shakespearean mythology as for the reality of his reign. Here, the different accounts of him are explored to shed light on some of his actions and legacy. The fascination evoked by Richard III and the...
    Richard III and the Princes in the Tower: update

  • Monty’s school: the benign side of Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

      Historian article
    Field-Marshal Montgomery has a reputation as a strong-willed battle-hardened leader, with a touch of the impetuous. Few know of his charitable side and yet in his later years this side was just as important to his activities. In this article we find out a bit more of this often simplistically...
    Monty’s school: the benign side of Viscount Montgomery of Alamein

  • The mechanics of history: interpretations and claim construction processes

      Teaching History article
    Holly Hiscox was concerned that many of her A-level students – asked to evaluate three different historical interpretations for their non-examined assessment task – still tended to hold unhelpful misconceptions about the nature of interpretations. In this article she explains how she created an introductory scheme of work to help them understand...
    The mechanics of history: interpretations and claim construction processes

  • The Quality Mark award: Self-evaluation with a critical friend

      Article
    The Quality Mark has been a really important part in the journey of the development of our history curriculum culture at the Convent of Jesus and Mary. Our school is a diverse comprehensive all-girls Catholic school situated in Harlesden, north west London. We first started working together as a department team...
    The Quality Mark award: Self-evaluation with a critical friend

  • The Historian 108: Alexandra and Rasputin

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Editorial 5 The London Charterhouse - Stephen Green (Read Article) 10 The President's Column - Anne Curry 11 Alexandra and Rasputin: Has the role of Alexandra and Rasputin in the downfall of the Romanovs been exaggerated out of all proportion? - Sarah Newman (Read Article) 15 Diagrams in History - A. D. Harvey...
    The Historian 108: Alexandra and Rasputin

  • Census 2021: using the census in the history classroom

      Article
    As we approach the next census in March 2021, we are reminded of what a rich historical source the census is. For historians, using the census can shine a light on particular people and places – a snapshot in time. Big stories can be told through a sharp local lens...
    Census 2021: using the census in the history classroom

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Significance (Primary)

      Article
    Please note: the 'What's the Wisdom On' film series has been produced principally for secondary school history teachers, however some of the content is transferrable to a primary setting. Secondary members can view this film here 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Significance (Primary)

  • Film: The life and legend of the Sultan Saladin

      Article
    Jonathan Phillips’s 2020 HA Virtual Conference keynote talk on The life and legend of the Sultan Saladin reveals how a man initially branded as ‘the son of Satan’ became so esteemed in Europe and, through extensive new research, we will follow how his character and achievements have acted as a role model for...
    Film: The life and legend of the Sultan Saladin

  • Recorded webinar: What is diversity within the primary history curriculum?

      Webinar recording
    In 2021 we ran a series of webinars aimed at teachers working in primary schools: Diversity in the primary history curriculum. This series considered the following questions: What is diversity? Why has it proved to be controversial? How can we respond to this? Why is it so important in developing children's...
    Recorded webinar: What is diversity within the primary history curriculum?

  • The revised EYFS Framework: exploring ‘Past and Present’

      Primary History article
    A new Early Years Foundation Stage framework will become statutory from September 2021. Around three thousand primary schools in England are already implementing this revised framework – these settings have been deemed early adopter schools. The actual curriculum for EYFS is not changing. There will still be seven areas of learning...
    The revised EYFS Framework: exploring ‘Past and Present’

  • How did a volcano affect life in the Bronze Age?

      Primary History article
    Recent discoveries have greatly altered our view of life in the Bronze Age. Must Farm, for example, was built in the Cambridgeshire Fens around 1000 BCE. Sometime around 1159 BCE (no-one is quite sure when) Hekla, a volcano in Iceland (a country no-one yet knew existed) erupted, throwing millions of...
    How did a volcano affect life in the Bronze Age?

  • Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part B

      Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
    This is the fourth film in the Teaching History for Beginners series. In this film, Ruth Lingard, head of history at Millthorpe School in York and PGCE tutor, takes us through the practical opportunities for effective questioning and the kinds of questions that lend themselves well to different purposes, second order concepts...
    Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part B

  • The Mongol Empire & the Near East

      1206-1258
    In this podcast, Dr Nicholas Morton of Nottingham Trent University, looks at the rise of Chinggis Khan and the Mongol Empire and the impact it had on the civilisations of the Near East. The podcast examines some of the themes and perspectives that he covers in his book: The Mongol Storm: Making and...
    The Mongol Empire & the Near East

  • Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part A

      Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
    This film continues our Teaching History for Beginners filmed webinar series.  In this short filmed webinar, David Ingledew, senior lecturer in history education and ITE lead at the University of Hertfordshire sets out the scholarship, principles and context of questioning in the history classroom. This will be followed by a short film...
    Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part A

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Similarity and Difference (Primary)

      Article
    Please note: the 'What's the Wisdom On' film series has been produced principally for secondary school history teachers, however some of the content is transferrable to a primary setting. Secondary members can view the film here 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a department meeting....
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Similarity and Difference (Primary)

  • Touching, feeling, smelling, and sensing history through objects

      Teaching History article
    Lots has been written in recent years about how history teachers can bring academic scholarship into the classroom. This article  takes this interest in academic practice a step further, examining how pupils can engage directly with the kinds of sources to which historians are increasingly turning their attention: the ‘everyday’ objects of ordinary life. Building on...
    Touching, feeling, smelling, and sensing history through objects

  • The British Humanist Association

      Podcast
    In this podcast Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association looks at the origins and history the British Humanist Association.
    The British Humanist Association

  • Scheme of work: Journeys - the story of migration to Britain

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (unresourced)
    This unit is designed as a thematic course looking at the big picture of migration to Britain over time. There are many ways that the course can be adapted to include different content which may be more relevant for the local community around your school. Most of the content described in...
    Scheme of work: Journeys - the story of migration to Britain

  • The Casket Letters

      Article
    In May 1568 Mary Queen of Scots was riding in fear for her life to the wilds of Galloway. She crossed the Solway confident that she would receive the help which her cousin Queen Elizabeth had promised her, but instead found herself a prisoner. In the subsequent months a series...
    The Casket Letters

  • Out and About on the Isle of Man

      Historian article
    Caroline Smith introduces us to the delights in the south of her home island. The Isle of Man has had mixed fortunes as a tourist destination. It first attracted visitors in the early nineteenth century and had its heyday in 1913. In that year, over 600,000 holidaymakers came during the...
    Out and About on the Isle of Man

  • The Historian 39

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: The Black Death, James L. Bolton 10 Update: The Causes of British Imperialism: Battle Rejoined, Muriel Chamberlain 13 Biography: Sir Humphry Davy, 1778-1829: A Life Too Long? David M. Knight 16 Historiography: Historical Atlases Reconsidered, Jeremy Black 22 Personalia: Chris Wrigley
    The Historian 39

  • Film: What's the wisdom on...Similarity and Difference

      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 popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a virtual department meeting....
    Film: What's the wisdom on...Similarity and Difference