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  • Tutankhamun, Howard Carter and the Griffith Institute

      Podcast
    Tutankhamun (c. 1341 BC – c. 1323 BC), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who ruled c. 1332 – 1323 BC during the late Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt.  Tutankhamun acceded to the throne around the age of nine following the short reigns of his predecessors Smenkhkare and Neferneferuaten. He married his half-sister Ankhesenpaaten, who was probably the mother of his two infant daughters. During his reign...
    Tutankhamun, Howard Carter and the Griffith Institute

  • International relations at GCSE... they just can't get enough of it

      Teaching History article
    There is no reason why pupils of so-called ‘average’ and ‘below-average ability’ cannot both understand and enjoy studying complicated international events. Indeed, in the interests of inclusion and raised standards, it is vital that they do. Our Letters Pages in the last two editions captured something of the history teaching...
    International relations at GCSE... they just can't get enough of it

  • Triumphs Show 150.1: meeting the challenges of the A2 synoptic unit

      Teaching History article
    A collaborative project between Richard Rose Central Academy and University of Cumbria PGCE History trainees to meet the challenges of the A2 synoptic unit. "If I tell you to eat, you will eat! You wanted cake! You stole cake! And now you've got cake! What's more, you're going to eat...
    Triumphs Show 150.1: meeting the challenges of the A2 synoptic unit

  • Primary History 66

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    This edition of HA's Primary History magazine is free to download via the link at the bottom of the page (individual article links within the page are not free access unless otherwise stated). For a subscription to Primary History (published termly), plus access to our huge library of high-quality resources...
    Primary History 66

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Locating and Mapping the Jews of Medieval Lincoln

      Article
    As part of a project to identify and write biographies of all of the Jews of the medieval Lincoln Jewry, Natasha Jenman, Luka Liu, and Josh Outhwaite have been working on records of Jewish property ownership in the city across the thirteenth century. This allows them to identify those individuals who will be...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Locating and Mapping the Jews of Medieval Lincoln

  • Teaching History 79

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    5 The Revised History Order - Sue Bennett and Ian Steele 9 From Plowden to Dearing - Patrick Wood 11 Developing an Understanding of Time - Sydney Wood 15 The Development Of Temporal Concepts in Children and its Significance for History Teaching in the Senior Primary School - Cheryl-Ann Simchowitz...
    Teaching History 79

  • Teaching History 78

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    5 Using History to Develop Citizenship Education in the National Curriculum - Peter John and Ian Davies 8 Developing a Multicultural Perspective Within Key Stage 3 National Curriculum History - Paul Bracey 11 History Education in a Democratic South Africa-  Peter Kallaway 17 History Teaching and the Council of Europe -...
    Teaching History 78

  • Teaching History 27

      Journal
    Editorial, page 2 Notes on contributors, page 2 Oral History and the Raj - Andrew Reekes, page 4 Programmed Learning and Guided Learning in History - Brian Garvey, page 7 From a Victorian Scrapheap - David Jeremy, page 10 Simulations and Computers - Richard Ennals, page 13 Mr Polly's History,...
    Teaching History 27

  • Scheme of Work: Exploring Benin’s Big Picture of the Past

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (resourced)
    This unit provides children the opportunity to look at Benin, a non-European society which is very different from their own. Children should make links between Benin and a bigger picture of Africa's past as well as its changing relationship with Britain in order to consider the significance of the arrival...
    Scheme of Work: Exploring Benin’s Big Picture of the Past

  • Film: Discussion: The post Civil Rights era

      Film series: The African-American Civil Rights Movement
    Professor Tony Badger, Professor Joe Street and Professor Brian Ward discuss the African-American Civil Rights movement and examine different ways we might interpret the significance of key individuals, groups, institutions and events that played a role in its development and progress. In this final section the activities of the key individuals...
    Film: Discussion: The post Civil Rights era

  • Scheme of Work: Local History – transport

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (unresourced)
    Children can be introduced to the idea that transport has changed considerably in the locality over time and that this has had a significant impact on the way that the community has changed and developed. They can also understand how and why these developments have occurred. This unit is structured...
    Scheme of Work: Local History – transport

  • AS & A2 History

      Article
    My complaints about the new AS/A2 specifications have been reported elsewhere,1 but below I outline my main concerns regarding the new examination system, which I see as a missed opportunity to introduce a 16-19 History curriculum that meets the needs of young people in the twenty-first century. The Curriculum 2000...
    AS & A2 History

  • Young Quills winners 2024

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    The Young Quills winners and highly commended have been announced for his year. This competition for historical fiction for children is a way of celebrating and recognising those authors who are continuing the long tradition of creative writing about the past for children. All of the books are reviewed by...
    Young Quills winners 2024

  • Teaching History 38

      Journal
    Editorial, page 2 The Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education - What the History Teacher can Contribute - Ben Kerwood, page 3 The Lincolnshire Educational Aids Project - A Successful Launch into Historical Aids - Ray Acton and Tim Hall, page 8 The Humanities Teaching and Computing Project-Jon Nichol with Jackie Dean,...
    Teaching History 38

  • The Young Quills Shortlist 2022

      5th May 2022
    The Historical Association is excited to announce the shortlist for the Young Quills, the annual awards for children’s and young adult historical fiction. 5-9 years The Chessmen Thief, by Barbara Henderson, Pokey Hat Edgar and Adolf, by Phil Earle and Michael Wagg, OUP Oxford The Royal Rebel, by Bali Rai, Barrington...
    The Young Quills Shortlist 2022

  • The Institute of Historical Research (IHR)

      History Network
    The Institute of Historical Research (IHR)

  • Teaching History 21

      Journal
    Editorial, page 2 The Contributors, page 2 Children's Inductive Historical Thought: an Interim Report from a Current Research Project - Martin Booth, page 3 Classified Advertisements, page 8 An Approach to Learning History in Primary Schools - R. N. Hallam, page 9 Young Children and the Past - Joan Blyth,...
    Teaching History 21

  • Recorded webinar: What does great oracy look like in history?

      Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom: Session 1
    Webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom What does great oracy look like in history?  This webinar explores the features of good student oracy in a non-disciplinary sense, but also within the setting of a history classroom. It explores how to identify these features in the day to day of teaching...
    Recorded webinar: What does great oracy look like in history?

  • Extending the curriculum: why should we consider ‘value added’?

      Primary History article
    While the focus provided by the new Ofsted framework has allowed schools to begin to, perhaps, rebalance the curriculum, the time allocated to the foundation subjects is still fairly marginal in many schools. This means that hard decisions have to be taken about what to include and what to leave...
    Extending the curriculum: why should we consider ‘value added’?

  • History and the Literacy Hour

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Amid fears of history being lost from the Key Stage One curriculum, following suspension of the statutory orders, research which considered the use of historical story as part of the Literacy hour, was carried out by Paula Silvera, a final year BEd...
    History and the Literacy Hour

  • Teaching History 23

      Journal
    Editorial, page 2 The Contributors, page 2 Teaching History: A Content Analysis of Numbers 1 to 20 - Keith Hodgkinson and J. B. Thomas, page 3 History in Sixth Form Colleges in Hampshire - Joan Blyth, page 7 `Booth at Hitchin': Assessing Thinking in History - Bernard Barker and Alan Southgate,...
    Teaching History 23

  • Teaching History 37

      Journal
    In this issue: Editorial, page 2 School History Visits and Piagetian Theory - Mike Pound, page 3 Film and the Study of History - The Imperial War Museum as a Practical Example - Paul Sargent, page 7 Teaching History in the Soviet Secondary General Education School - A.G. Koloskov, page...
    Teaching History 37

  • Film: Khrushchev - After Stalin

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film, Dr Alexander Titov (Queen's University of Belfast), discusses the leading figures jockeying for power after Stalin died, the short period of collective leadership, growing calls for reform within the Soviet Union and how Khrushchev gradually sidelined all of his rivals on his way to becoming Premiere of...
    Film: Khrushchev - After Stalin

  • Young Historian Awards 2025 – take part (Primary prizes)

      History competition for primary schools
    We want young people to get the bug for writing about history in an interesting and critical way. Each year the Historical Association in collaboration with the Spirit of Normandy Trust and Classics for All offers a series of awards to Primary school children for outstanding history scholarship. Children are asked to investigate, think...
    Young Historian Awards 2025 – take part (Primary prizes)

  • Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum

      Guidance for history teachers
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of history teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today  With Ofsted incorporating curriculum into inspections from September 2019 and finally...
    Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum