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  • '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

  • What Does the English Baccalaureate mean for me?

      Briefing Pack
    History constitutes a key player in the new English Baccalaureate, being one of the two choices that students may opt for in the Humanities section. The English Baccalaureate is a measure of pupil progress consisting of 5 core subjects that will be reported in league tables. Students who successfully achieve ...
    What Does the English Baccalaureate mean for me?

  • The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1

      Journal
    The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education. Articles included in this edition:  Editorial: History Education, Identity and Citizenship in the 21st Century, Bahri Ata The Turkish prospective History teachers' understanding of analogy in History education, Isabel...
    The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1

  • 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

  • HA News, Autumn 2024

      Welcome to the autumn 2024 edition of HA News magazine
    Welcome to the autumn edition of HA News. We have updates on the office team's move back into 59a, and HA President Alexandra Walsham's busy six months travelling the country supporting the HA and its activities, as well as membership, education and competition updates. Dr Dean A. Irwin shares ‘What got me into...
    HA News, Autumn 2024

  • Teaching possibilities: From Plato to Nato

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The Olympics historical dimension opens up a plethora of possibilities for history, projects and integrated approaches that draw upon the themes and approaches that underpin the primary school curriculum. Our top ten are: 1. Home and...
    Teaching possibilities: From Plato to Nato

  • Think Bubble 54 - Arte facts - Get my Meaning?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. It is difficult to think of an area of primary history that has had a more transforming effect on the subject than that of artefacts. The idea of giving children a ‘real' experience of the past...
    Think Bubble 54 - Arte facts - Get my Meaning?

  • An Introduction to The Historian

      The HA's History Magazine
    HA's The Historian is the only history magazine which offers in-depth but extremely readable history by well-known experts in their fields, plus individual research by members of the Historical Association which you just won’t find anywhere else. Published quarterly, The Historian is a subscription-based magazine with a circulation of over 2,000. The...
    An Introduction to The Historian

  • How to teach chronology

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. For more recent resources see: Chronology: Developing a coherent knowledge (2014) Scheme of work (KS2): Chronology: Books through time Scheme of work (KS2): Chronology: Numbers through time  Britain and World timeline 4000-2000BC Britain and World timeline 2000BC to 0BC Britain and World timeline, 0BC...
    How to teach chronology

  • Medieval British Jewish History

      Podcast
    In this podcast Paula Kitching looks at the history of the British Jewish Community in the Medieval Period.
    Medieval British Jewish History

  • Making the most of your Corporate Membership – adding extra logins

      Guide for Corporate Members
    So you’ve got corporate membership of the Historical Association – brilliant decision! With corporate membership you gain year-round assistance for: Your entire teaching staff or history department – unlock a range of research, CPD and guidance for historyteachers at all levels within your school or department. School members can have...
    Making the most of your Corporate Membership – adding extra logins

  • The Historian 140: Out now

      Journal news
    It sometimes seems to those of us living in Scotland, Ireland and Wales that our histories have no importance to anyone beyond our borders and when Americans, and others around the world, say ‘England’ when they actually mean the ‘United Kingdom’, it is hard not to bristle. Contributors to this...
    The Historian 140: Out now

  • The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2

      Journal
    The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education. Articles in the edition: Erinc Erdal and Ruken Akar Vural Teaching History through Drama: the ‘Armenian Deportation' Terry Haydn and Richard Harris Children's ideas about what it means...
    The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2

  • Bristol and America 1480-1631

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet addresses the relationship between Bristol and America, charting the rising and waning interest the city and its merchants had in discovering new lands and profiting from them, and the success or more often the failure of these voyages. It provides an interesting argument which may be seen to...
    Bristol and America 1480-1631

  • Teaching History 54

      Journal
    Editorial 2 Historical Association News 3 Articles: Computers in Secondary School History Teaching: an HMI view - Carole Baker and lain Paterson 7 Supporting the Future - MESU and the History Teacher - Sue Bennett 10 An Introduction to Computers in the History Classroom - John Simkin 12 GCSE Course...
    Teaching History 54

  • Modern Russia

      Selected Articles and Publications
    A selection of useful articles on modern Russia and the USSR:  1. Alexander II: Emancipation and Reform in Russia 1855-1881 The ‘great reforms' of Tsar Alexander II (1855-81) are generally recognised as the most significant events in modern Russian history between the reign of Peter the Great and the revolutions...
    Modern Russia

  • Researching History - Time travellers and Role Players

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. ‘Ok children, time for history.' Distant moans from the back of the class. Would I be surprised by this reaction? No, not if the teacher was diligently following the QCA guidelines for teaching history. Yes, if...
    Researching History - Time travellers and Role Players

  • The International Journal Volume 4 Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial  Historical Consciousness, Teaching and Understanding History    Articles Peter Lee'Walking backwards into tomorrow' Historical consciousness and understanding history   Robert Guyver and Jon NicholFrom Novice to effective Teacher: a Study of Postgraduate Training and History Pedagogy
    The International Journal Volume 4 Number 1

  • Film: Tackling superpower relations with lower-ability students

      Secondary History Workshop Annual Conference 2019
    This secondary workshop took place at at the Historical Association Annual Conference, Chester, May 2019. It looked at ways of helping lower-ability students at GCSE access lesson and revision content based around superpower relations in the cold war, but is applicable to any subject area. Through a series of games and...
    Film: Tackling superpower relations with lower-ability students

  • Teaching History 52

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: Controversial Women - Hilary Bourdillas and Paula Bartley 10 Sources for Course - Malcolm Pearce 15 A Level History: On Historical Facts, and Other Problems - Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley 19 The End of British History - Stephen Howarth 25 Renewed School History: An...
    Teaching History 52

  • Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition deals with the complex relationship between depth work and overview work. Revealing the big picture: patterns, shapes and images at Key Stage 3, Slavery, Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the 20th Century, Teaching the history of 20th women in Europe, Using Ethel and Ernest...
    Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures

  • 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

  • The National Curriculum Attainment Target (from 2008)

      HITT Resource
    Level 4 Pupils show their knowledge and understanding of local, national and international history by describing some of the main events, people and periods they have studied, and by identifying where these fit within a chronological framework. They describe characteristic features of past societies and periods to identify change and...
    The National Curriculum Attainment Target (from 2008)

  • Talking to an HA Branch

      Information
    The inevitable answer is of course that branches differ in their audiences, with some having a smattering of academics, some with teachers and others largely made up with people with an interest in the subject but not professionally involved in history. That means some people will be relying on what...
    Talking to an HA Branch