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  • The Historian 144: War

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 The last battle: Bomber Command’s veterans and the fight for remembrance – Frances Houghton (Read article) 11 British-Army camp followers in the Peninsular War – Charles J. Esdaile (Read article) 16 Sparta and war: myths and realities – Stephen Hodkinson (Read article) 22 Losing sight of the...
    The Historian 144: War

  • Using Google Docs to develop Year 9 pupils’ essay-writing skills

      Teaching History article
    Lucy Moonen set out to explore whether collaborative writing in small groups, facilitated by the use of Google Docs, would help to sustain students’ focus on essay writing as the development of an historical argument. She explains how she set up an essay on the League of Nationals as a...
    Using Google Docs to develop Year 9 pupils’ essay-writing skills

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... expanding the reach of the American Revolution

      Teaching History feature
    The Founding Fathers of the United States of America are never far from current political and cultural discussions. Whether prompted by the phenomenal success of Hamilton: the musical (2015), or the shocking scenes of riotous attack on the US Capitol in January 2021, the revolutionary intentions and legacy of such...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... expanding the reach of the American Revolution

  • 70 years of the Isle of Wight Branch

      1st July 2020
    In June 2020 the HA Isle of Wight branch celebrated its 70th birthday. Here, Honorary Secretary of the branch Terry Blunden looks back at the history and development of the branch since 1950. Although the Historical Association was formed in 1906 sixteen years elapsed before a branch was established on...
    70 years of the Isle of Wight Branch

  • The Historian 155: Women and power

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 Elizabeth I: ‘less than a woman’? – Tracy Borman (Read article) 12 A woman’s place is in the castle: two besieged noblewomen in medieval Scotland – Morvern French and Iain A. MacInnes (Read article) 17 Taj ul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah: a trailblazing Islamic queen – Khadija...
    The Historian 155: Women and power

  • Polychronicon 166: The ‘new’ historiography of the Cold War

      Teaching History feature
    A great deal of new writing on the Cold War sits at the crossroads of national, transnational and global perspectives. Such studies can be so self-consciously multi-archival and multipolar, methodologically pluralist in approach and often ‘decentring’ in aim, that some scholars now worry that the Cold War risks losing its coherence as a distinct object of...
    Polychronicon 166: The ‘new’ historiography of the Cold War

  • The International Journal Volume 11, Number 2

      Journal
    Content  Editorial History teaching, pedagogy, curriculum and politics: dialogues and debates in regional, national, transnational, international and supranational settings Robert Guyver, University of St Mark & St John, Plymouth   Australia Scarcely an Immaculate Conception: new professionalism encounters old politics in the formation of the Australian National History Curriculum Tony...
    The International Journal Volume 11, Number 2

  • Storytelling - how can we imagine the past?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Simon Schama's plea to "reinvent the art and science of storytelling in the classroom" made the media headlines and echoed centuries of educational history (Bage 1999). "It is, after all, the glory of our historical tradition...
    Storytelling - how can we imagine the past?

  • Teaching History 74

      Journal
    2 Editorial 3 News 7 The Aims of School History John White 10 Beyond the Old Dichotomies: Some Reflections on Hayden White Keith Jenkins 17 Teaching Post-Modern History: A Rational Proposition for the Classroom? Peter Brickley 23 What is the Future for the History National Curriculum? Frances M. Connelly 27...
    Teaching History 74

  • HA awards evening 2022 round-up

      21st July 2022
    On 7 July in central London the Historical Association held our annual awards evening. The evening is an opportunity to present in person the awards for some of the competitions that the HA organises and to recognise many of the people who have achieved awards in history, contributed to the...
    HA awards evening 2022 round-up

  • Primary History 29

      Journal
    Britain and the wider world in Tudor Times, Scottish Primary Schools using ICT to investigate Local History, Monitoring, Evaluating and Planning the History national curriculum, ways of making Key Stage 2 history culturally inclusive, archeaology and Key Stage 2 and much more...
    Primary History 29

  • Young Quills winners 2020

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction
    6-9 years category: The Closest Thing to FlyingBy Gill Lewis, Oxford University Press 10-13 years category: Our Castle by the SeaBy Lucy Strange, Chicken House 14 years + category: The Stolen OnesBy Vanessa Curtis, Usborne Publishing  Highly commended: 6-9 years category: Winter of the Wolves By Tony Bradman, Bloomsbury 10-13...
    Young Quills winners 2020

  • Teaching History 76

      Journal
    2 Editorial 3 News 6 I Thought It Was For Picking Bones Out Of Soup ... Using Artefacts In The Primary School Liz Smith and Cathie Holden 10 Understanding Ethnocentrism: History Teachers Talking Janet Maw 17 Critical History? Rob Isaac 19 Language Use and Problem Solving in Primary History Patricia...
    Teaching History 76

  • The Bigger Picture: Curriculum Overview

      HA Primary Subject Leader Area
    In this piece Stuart looks at the ‘bigger picture’ of curriculum overview and how, through careful curriculum mapping and the exploration of key trends, topics can be structured to fit together within a wider chronological narrative. He provides practical approaches and examples, as well as discussing historical concepts that occur in...
    The Bigger Picture: Curriculum Overview

  • Building an overview of the historic roots of antisemitism

      Teaching History article
    ‘But I still don't get why the Jews': using cause and change to answer pupils' demand for an overview of antisemitism Research by the Centre for Holocaust Education has suggested that students need and want more help with building an overview of the historical roots of antisemitism and that they...
    Building an overview of the historic roots of antisemitism

  • Cunning Plan 179: using TV producers’ techniques to make the most effective use of retrieval practice

      Teaching History feature
    Last year I was working with colleagues on a project examining Rosenshine’s principle of beginning lessons with a short review of previous learning.1 At the same time I was working with a history trainee who had been using recall quizzes as a starter with GCSE students. Following a lesson observation,...
    Cunning Plan 179: using TV producers’ techniques to make the most effective use of retrieval practice

  • Think Bubble - Jumping stories: selective chronology

      Primary History feature
    I recently finished a most interesting commission with the educational publishers, Schofield and Sims. They asked me to help put together a comprehensive timeline of British History to cover as broad a chronological perspective as possible. They wanted this to be the complete Cavemen to Cybermen story all on one...
    Think Bubble - Jumping stories: selective chronology

  • The Historian 133: Celebrating Asa Briggs

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial 6 The Man from Keighley - Trevor James 10 Asa Briggs’s Birmingham - Roger Ward 12 Asa Briggs and labour history - Chris Wrigley 16 Asa Briggs: an appreciation - Stephen Yeo 21 The President’s Column 22 Asa Briggs and political history - Peter Catterall 26...
    The Historian 133: Celebrating Asa Briggs

  • 'A lot of guess work goes on' Children's understanding of historical accounts

      Article
    The ESRC-funded Project Chata has collected evidence of children's ideas about the discipline of history and attempted to see if there is any progression in those ideas. Here, Peter Lee describes how Chata has tried to map children's ideas about historical accounts. History teachers (and tutors and managers of history...
    'A lot of guess work goes on' Children's understanding of historical accounts

  • Napoleon and the creation of an imperial legend

      Annual Conference 2013 Podcast
    Lecture from the Historical Association 2013 Annual Conference - Podcast Professor Alan Forrest - University of York Napoleon would become a nineteenth-century hero, the stuff of legend in a romantic age. This lecture examines the genesis of the Napoleonic myth, and shows how throughout his career he consciously burnished his...
    Napoleon and the creation of an imperial legend

  • Teaching History 75

      Journal
    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 Russell Carter 13 implementing...
    Teaching History 75

  • What they think they know: the impact of pupils' preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Robin Conway suspected that his students’ concepts of the significance of different aspects of historical periods was affected by the preconceptions that they brought to his lessons. These preconceptions were leading his students into making unhistorical judgments, without any real understanding on their part of what had affected their thinking....
    What they think they know: the impact of pupils' preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance

  • 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

  • Dickens...Hardy...Jarvis?! A novel take on the Industrial Revolution

      Teaching History article
    ‘Empathy with edge' was the editorial description given eight years ago to the kind of historical fiction that Dave Martin and Beth Brooke first argued history students should be writing (TH 108). The winning entries from the annual ‘Write Your Own Historical Story Competition' to which their work gave rise...
    Dickens...Hardy...Jarvis?! A novel take on the Industrial Revolution

  • Causation

      Key Concepts
    Please note: these links were compiled in 2009. For a more recent resource, please see: What's the Wisdom on: Causation.  These Teaching History Articles on 'Causation' are highly recommended reading to those who would like to get to grips with this key concept: 1. Move Me On 92. Problem page for history mentors. Teaching...
    Causation