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Primary History 78
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). You can access another free edition here (PH66, March 2014).
For a subscription to Primary History (published...
Primary History 78
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Film: Stalin - World War II
Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
In this film, Professor James Harris (University of Leeds) examines Stalin and the Soviet preparations for global war. The reasons why Stalin agreed the Nazi-Soviet pact are explored as are Stalin’s response to invasion in 1941. Professor Harris addresses the impact the war had on the USSR and how that...
Film: Stalin - World War II
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Film: Stalin & the Great Terror
Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
Why was the Soviet Union so violent in the 1930s? In this film, Professor James Harris (University of Leeds) looks at differing interpretations of the origins of the Great Terror; was it the story of one man trying to obtain total control, was it a result of collective frustration against...
Film: Stalin & the Great Terror
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Recorded webinar: John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War
An enduring counterfactual
Would US President John F. Kennedy have avoided the catastrophe that became the Vietnam War if Lee Harvey Oswald had not assassinated him in Dallas on that fateful day of 22 November 1963? This question – or a version of it – has animated discussions of the Vietnam War for...
Recorded webinar: John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War
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Recorded webinar: Black Germans: the last forgotten victims of the Nazis?
Article
In this webinar, Professor Robbie Aitken looks at the experiences of Black residents in Germany during the Nazi period. Why have they been largely written out of larger histories of the Third Reich? Professor Aitken suggests that there was a genocidal intent in Nazi policy towards them, signalled partly by...
Recorded webinar: Black Germans: the last forgotten victims of the Nazis?
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Recorded Webinar: African economic development in historical perspective
Article
Popular discussions of Africa often focus on the region’s relative poverty, and ask what role historical events like colonialism and the slave trade have played in shaping its development over time. For a long time, the absence of systematic data on African economies before c. 1960 meant these discussions were...
Recorded Webinar: African economic development in historical perspective
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Recorded Webinar: Philip IV
Decline, decadence and the end of the Golden Age
Decline, decadence, crisis, stagnation, and adversity are terms powerfully associated with the reign of Spain’s Planet King; sombre tones that contrast sharply with the glittering cultural and artistic achievements (enhanced by his patronage) that led the period to be dubbed ‘the’ Golden Age, a label consciously competing with France’s later...
Recorded Webinar: Philip IV
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Teaching History 170: Historians
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update – make a ‘connecting with historical Scholarship’ resolution!
08 Myths and Monty Python: using the witch-hunts to introduce students to significance – Kerry Apps (Read article)
16 ‘This extract is no good, miss!’ Helping post-16 students to make judgements...
Teaching History 170: Historians
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Mummy, Mummy 169: using our historical imagination
Teaching History feature
Mummy, Hilary Mantel says we can talk with the dead. If that’s true surely it makes history far more accessible?
I’m not sure she goes that far. She’s saying that we can and should do more to try listening and looking for the dead – but that there is a...
Mummy, Mummy 169: using our historical imagination
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The Historian 136: 1967 - A Year of Change
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 Homosexuality in Britain since 1967 – Harry Cocks (Read article)
12 Reviews
13 The President’s Column
14 The origins and development of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights movement in Britain from 1960 to the present – Professor Sally R. Munt (Read...
The Historian 136: 1967 - A Year of Change
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On-demand webinar: New approaches to teaching Britain and transatlantic slavery
Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
Session 5: New approaches to teaching Britain and transatlantic slavery
This 90-minute webinar will delve into the social, economic, and moral implications of this topic. It features an interview with historian Maxine Berg related to her research in this area, before suggesting tools for...
On-demand webinar: New approaches to teaching Britain and transatlantic slavery
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Interpretations of the Spanish Golden Age
Early Modern European History
What was the long term impact of the Spanish Golden Age? How have interpretations of this period changed over time?
Interpretations of the Spanish Golden Age
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On-demand webinar: Relating diversity to your local history - themes and events from the past
Diversity in local history
Webinar series: Diversity in local history
Session 5: Relating diversity to your local history: themes and events from the past
This webinar will demonstrate how teaching about events and themes from the past needs to be related to broader spatial and chronological contexts. The session will focus on embedding diversity...
On-demand webinar: Relating diversity to your local history - themes and events from the past
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On-demand webinar: Widening diversity when choosing local significant individuals
Diversity in local history
Webinar series: Diversity in local history
Session 4: Widening diversity when choosing local significant individuals
This webinar will support you in widening the diversity beyond the 'male, pale and stale' selection of people for your local history studies in Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Reference will be made to...
On-demand webinar: Widening diversity when choosing local significant individuals
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On-demand webinar: Exploring the local environment, finding the past in our place
Diversity in local history
Webinar series: Diversity in local history
Session 3: Exploring the local environment, finding the past in our place
Where we live contributes to who we are, sometimes explicitly and sometimes indirectly. In exploring our local environment we can validate our own experiences of that place. What we also do with local environmental...
On-demand webinar: Exploring the local environment, finding the past in our place
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On-demand webinar: The importance of identity, diversity and inclusivity in local history
Diversity in local history
Webinar series: Diversity in local history
Session 2: The importance of identity, diversity and inclusivity in local history
For history to be meaningful, all children need to feel that the past speaks to them and they play a part in history. Previously hidden, little-known stories from the local area and...
On-demand webinar: The importance of identity, diversity and inclusivity in local history
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On-demand webinar: Historical significance
Assessing substantive and disciplinary knowledge together in primary history
Webinar series: Assessing substantive and disciplinary knowledge together in primary history
Session 6: Historical significance
The National Curriculum for History includes concepts of disciplinary knowledge which Ofsted expects to see taught hand in hand with substantive knowledge through Key Stages 1 and 2. This series of practical webinars with Andrew...
On-demand webinar: Historical significance
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On-demand webinar: Handling evidence
Assessing substantive and disciplinary knowledge together in primary history
Webinar series: Assessing substantive and disciplinary knowledge together in primary history
Session 4: Handling evidence
The National Curriculum for History includes concepts of disciplinary knowledge which Ofsted expects to see taught hand in hand with substantive knowledge through Key Stages 1 and 2. This series of practical webinars with Andrew...
On-demand webinar: Handling evidence
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On-demand webinar: Similarity and difference
Assessing substantive and disciplinary knowledge together in primary history
Webinar series: Assessing substantive and disciplinary knowledge together in primary history
Session 3: Similarity and difference
The National Curriculum for History includes concepts of disciplinary knowledge which Ofsted expects to see taught hand in hand with substantive knowledge through Key Stages 1 and 2. This series of practical webinars with...
On-demand webinar: Similarity and difference
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On-demand webinar: Change and continuity
Assessing substantive and disciplinary knowledge together in primary history
Webinar series: Assessing substantive and disciplinary knowledge together in primary history
Session 2: Change and continuity
The National Curriculum for History includes concepts of disciplinary knowledge which Ofsted expects to see taught hand in hand with substantive knowledge through Key Stages 1 and 2. This series of practical webinars with...
On-demand webinar: Change and continuity
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On-demand webinar: Making it routine
History and literacy
Webinar series: History and literacy
Session 4: Making it routine
This final webinar focuses on how to embed successful strategies to support literacy into the curriculum by 'making it routine': Paula discusses the importance of preparing students to access long texts in medium and long-term planning, and how to plan...
On-demand webinar: Making it routine
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On-demand webinar: Moving on up
History and literacy
Webinar series: History and literacy
Session 3: Moving on up
In this third webinar, Dan will discuss how to draw on students’ knowledge of sentence construction and grammar at Key Stage 2 in order to help Year 7 students hit the ground running at secondary school, and Paula will discuss successful...
On-demand webinar: Moving on up
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On-demand webinar: Modelling
History and literacy
Webinar series: History and literacy
Session 2: Modelling
In the second webinar in the series, Dan and Paula show how they use modelling in their lesson sequences: by using historical scholarship and historical fiction, by drawing attention to grammar, metaphor and structure, and by choosing words carefully to ‘let the linguistic...
On-demand webinar: Modelling
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On-demand webinar: Motivating teachers and learners
History and literacy
Webinar series: History and literacy
Session 1: Motivating teachers and learners
This first webinar will begin the series with a discussion of how to motivate teachers and students to wrestle with the challenges of reading and writing history: by choosing engaging and compelling stories for students to 'live inside', for example,...
On-demand webinar: Motivating teachers and learners
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Triumphs Show 169: Using 360 VR Technology with the GCSE Historic Environment study
Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
One of the biggest changes in the new GCSE specifications is the requirement for all students to undertake a study of the historic environment. Unsurprisingly the approach taken by the exam boards to this requirement varies widely. While some boards allow schools a free choice of site, others have decided...
Triumphs Show 169: Using 360 VR Technology with the GCSE Historic Environment study
