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The Bibliography of British and Irish History
An Extensive Online Guide
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is the most extensive guide available to published writing on British and Irish history. It covers the history of British and Irish relations with the rest of the world, including the British empire and the Commonwealth, as well as British and Irish...
The Bibliography of British and Irish History
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School History FAQs
Article
These FAQs are designed to provide a starting point for people who are interested in what is taught in school history in England. Please note that education policy is devolved in the UK and so the situation differs in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. These FAQs focus on state secondary...
School History FAQs
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Pull-out Posters: Primary History 83
The Historical Association Historical Fiction Prize
This poster includes an extract from one of the winners of our The Historical Association Historical Fiction Prize. Esther Kerr has written a story called ‘Save the Books’ detailing the effects on a bombing raid in World War II. The HA plans to run this competition in future years. Before starting, it...
Pull-out Posters: Primary History 83
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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
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Primary History 95
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
Please note: the print version of this edition will be arriving with members from 10 November.
05 Editorial (Read article)
06 Exploring the history of our place with very young children – Karin Doull (Read article)
12 Teaching ‘changes within living memory’: making the most of your school – Helen...
Primary History 95
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History 364
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 105, Issue 364
Articles
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The Inner Circle: What is Diplomatic History? (And Why We Should Study it): An Inaugural Lecture (pp 5-27) – T. G. Otte
Enmity or Amity? The Status of French Immigrants to England during an Age...
History 364
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History 363
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 104, Issue 363
Articles
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Alun Howkins, 1947–2018: Introduction (pp 819-828) – Karen Sayer, Nicola Verdon
Skill, Status and the Agricultural Workforce in Victorian England (pp 829-850) – Nicola Verdon
Worcestershire's Women: Local Studies and the Gender Politics of the...
History 363
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Currency and the Economy in Tudor and early Stuart England
Classic Pamphlet
Before the development of paper money, which in England did not really occur until later in the seventeenth century, the circulating medium consisted of coins and tokens. The unit of account in which they were valued was the pound sterling; in which there were twenty shillings each of twelve pence,...
Currency and the Economy in Tudor and early Stuart England
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Teaching History 168: Re-examining History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update – curriculum planning questions
08 Designing end-of-year exams: trials and tribulations – Matt Stanford (Read article)
16 Learning without limits: how not to leave some learners with a thin gruel of a curriculum – Richard Kerridge (Read article)
24 From...
Teaching History 168: Re-examining History
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Creativity and history
Primary History article
Creativity now plays a central role in the English National Curriculum. Pupils ‘Doing History' can draw upon and develop their creativity, grounded in the historical record. Hilary Cooper has produced the first book on History & Creativity and guest edited a recent edition of Primary History, PH 63, on History and...
Creativity and history
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Primary History 85
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article for free)
05 HA Primary News
06 HA Update
08 How to incorporate EYFS as a subject leader – Rob Nixon (Read article)
10 Smooth transitions – Linda Cooper (Read article)
14 ‘Come all ye fisher lassies’ – Karin Doull (Read article)
20 Using different sources to bring a topic...
Primary History 85
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Teaching History 195: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 195: Perspectives in Time
In the giant annual ‘card sort’ through which we editors shape numerous article proposals into themes, we found ourselves readily linking the pieces that now fall into this edition. There was a striking commonality; the theme was there. But what should we call...
Teaching History 195: Out now
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Primary History 97
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
05 Editorial (Read article)
06 Similarity and difference with a tasty twist: ice cream with EYFS – Polly Gillow (Read article)
10 Olympics, past and present – Karin Doull (Read article)
18 Active learners: classroom strategies for enhancing history teaching – Lindsey Rawes (Read article)
24 Creativity in history – Kerry...
Primary History 97
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History 362
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 104, Issue 362
Articles
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The Remonstrance of the Army and the Execution of Charles I (pp 585-605) – Clive Holmes
Reliving the Terror: Victims and Print Culture during the Thermidorian Reaction in France, 1794–1795 (pp 606-629) – Alex Fairfax‐Cholmeley...
History 362
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Vikings settle down
Lesson Plan (KS2)
Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here.
This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts...
Vikings settle down
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My Favourite History Place: A Short History of Brill
Historian feature
In this article Josephine Glover discusses the long history of her ‘favourite history place’, the Buckinghamshire village of Brill. She explains how there has been a human settlement there since Mesolithic times. Using various fragments of evidence, she pieces together the extent to which the village was important to early...
My Favourite History Place: A Short History of Brill
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History 355
The Journal of the Historical Association
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How to be an Exchequer Clerk in the Twelfth Century: What the Dialogue of the Exchequer is Really About (pages 199-222) Ulla Kypta
Religion and the Composition of the Commissions of the Peace, 1547–1640 (pages 223-242) Alison...
History 355
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History 335
The Journal of the Historical Association
Articles1. Public History, Civic Engagement and the Historical Profession in Britain (pages 191-212) - John Tosh2. Reason, Conscience and Equity: Bishops as the King's Judges in Later Medieval England (pages 213-240) - Gwilym Dodd3. ‘The Cliffs are not Cliffs': The Cliffs of Dover and National Identities in Britain, c.1750-c.1950 (pages...
History 335
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History 361
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 104, Issue 361
Articles
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The Origins of the Husting and the Folkmoot (pp 409-424) – Rory Naismith – Free Access
Modelling the Socialist Kindergarten in the Early Soviet Picture Book (pp 425-458) – Frances Saddington – Open Access
Legacy of...
History 361
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Making History Accessible
Multipage Article
My students struggle with...
Every student has an entitlement to learn history and to high quality history teaching. In this section you will find support for helping students who struggle with specific aspects of learning history.
For each aspect of learning history that students struggle with you will find:
A...
Making History Accessible
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Primary History 93
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article - open access)
06 The wheels (and horses…) on the bus – Emily Rotchell (Read article)
10 The Coronation – Karin Doull (Read article)
18 Teaching Robin Hood at Key Stage 1 – Matthew Sossick (Read article)
22 How local history can bridge the gap from teaching Understanding...
Primary History 93
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Curating the imagined past: world building in the history curriculum
Teaching History article
Mike Hill was concerned that his students were unable to genuinely inhabit the historical places they encountered in his lessons. Drawing on fields as varied as history-teacher research, philosophy, and literary and media theory, Hill identified ways to curate his students’ constructions of ‘secondary worlds’ in the historical past, including...
Curating the imagined past: world building in the history curriculum
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Teaching History 183: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 183: Race
Collectively, the articles in this edition say something profound about the joy and privilege of being a history teacher. In our intellectual journeying, none of us can ever stand still. Conversations within and across societies and cultures never stop. Such conversations interact with the work...
Teaching History 183: Out now
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Structuring a history curriculum for powerful revelations
Teaching History article
When planning a Key Stage 3 curriculum with his department, Will Bailey-Watson began to question some of the commonsense orthodoxies regarding chronological sequencing and curriculum design. Drawing on pre-existing debates about curricular structuring in the history education community both in England and internationally, Bailey-Watson identified cognitive, motivational, and disciplinary justifications...
Structuring a history curriculum for powerful revelations
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Teaching primary history through concepts
Article
Teaching history in schools is quite new (it’s only been in the National Curriculum for English state schools since 1991), but the discipline of history as a subject is very ancient.
Thinking and writing in a recognisably historical way can be traced back to the ancient Greeks. Herodotus, an ancient...
Teaching primary history through concepts
