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  • The current condition of primary history

      Article
    This section looks at how primary history is currently performing largely through an analysis of a wide range of OFSTED evidence but also by examining the results of a recent Historical Association survey.
    The current condition of primary history

  • The Great Powers in the Pacific

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet covers a very large period of history in a very important region with great detail and focus. Themes that are covered include the transition of power and dominance in the pacific region, the conflicts that frequently arose in the struggle for pacific dominance throughout the centuries, as well...
    The Great Powers in the Pacific

  • Central and Local Government in Scotland Since 1707

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet provides an interesting approach to a historical topic which has been too frequently covered from a single viewpoint. The pamphlet delivers a thoroughly Scottish approach to the nature of the 1707 Union and the changing nature of Scotland in the following centuries. It highlights the disparity of the...
    Central and Local Government in Scotland Since 1707

  • Polychronicon 135: Post-modern Holocaust Historiography

      Teaching History feature
    The field of Holocaust studies has been hit by an intellectual earthquake whose precise magnitude and long-term consequences cannot be ascertained at this stage. In 2007 Saul Friedländer published The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945. The book has been rightly celebrated as the first victim-centred synthetic history...
    Polychronicon 135: Post-modern Holocaust Historiography

  • The knowledge illusion

      Teaching History article
    Focusing on students’ attempts to explain the relative significance of different factors in Hitler’s rise to power, Catherine McCrory explores the vexed question of why students who seem able to express necessary historical knowledge on one occasion cannot effectively reproduce it on another. Drawing on a detailed analysis of what...
    The knowledge illusion

  • Writing Family Story, Writing History

      Primary History article
    Why did I research my family history and write a memoir based on my ancestors’ and my own life? And why is all this relevant to readers of the Primary History Journal and not just self indulgent musing? Because it is an insider’s story of trying to write honest history...
    Writing Family Story, Writing History

  • The Historian 127: Agincourt

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    This edition of HA's The Historian magazine is free to download in full 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 The Historian (published quarterly), access to over 300 podcasts and our huge library...
    The Historian 127: Agincourt

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the British Empire on Britain?

      Teaching History feature
    The murder of George Floyd during the summer of 2020 and the ongoing ‘culture war’ in Britain over the legacy of the British Empire have reignited interest in imperial history. This focuses, in particular, on the question of the empire’s impact on Britain itself: on how the act of conquering...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the British Empire on Britain?

  • Teaching History 68

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    Articles: 9 History Teaching and Economic Awareness: A Sample Topic - P. J. Rogers  14 A Land Fit for Heroes: Recreating the Past through Drama - Kate Fleming  17 Holt Hall, 1940: A Residential 'Living History' Project - Alan Childs and Mike Pond  20 History and Computers in Dorset - Dave Martin  26 Clear...
    Teaching History 68

  • Triumphs Show 138: a kinaesthetic interpretation of Dover castle

      Teaching History feature
    Licking the stones: a kinaesthetic interpretation of Dover castle in 360 degrees This is the story of one history department that, in collaboration with a local historical site, embarked on a ‘curriculum co-development project' with the art department. The aim was to use learning experiences outside the classroom to bring...
    Triumphs Show 138: a kinaesthetic interpretation of Dover castle

  • Storytelling the past

      Primary History article
    This article will demonstrate how to engage children through storytelling and how it can be used to develop their critical understanding of the past. Why story? Despite their common derivation, the words ‘history’ and ‘story’ suggest very different kinds of knowledge, the former carrying overtones of detached understanding of the...
    Storytelling the past

  • The Historian 134: The End of Empire

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 The end of the Roman Empire – Guy de la Bédoyère (Read article) 10 My Favourite History Place: Hadrian’s Wall – Sue Temple (Read article) 11 Empire cocktails in ten tweets 12 The Aztec Empire: a surprise ending? – Matthew Restall (Read article) 19 The President’s...
    The Historian 134: The End of Empire

  • Boudicca

      Lesson Plan
    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. Pupils asked: Who was Boudicca? What was she like physically and what was she like as a person? What did other...
    Boudicca

  • Teaching History 51

      Journal
    Editorial - Continuity, Coherence and Consistency 2 News 3 Articles: Celebrating the Solstice: A 'History through Drama' Teaching Project on the Iron Age - Jayne Woodhouse and Viv Wilson 10 The Big Push: Active Learning in the Humanities - Jason King, John Cox and Sue Dymoke 15 Problem Solving in...
    Teaching History 51

  • Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the twentieth century

      Teaching History article
    In the first of our special, extra ‘Europages’, funded by the Council of Europe (CoE), Mark McLaughlin briefly outlines the purpose and outcomes of a CoE project on ‘learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the twentieth century’. His short article reminds all history teachers of the need...
    Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the twentieth century

  • The return of King John: using depth to strengthen overview in the teaching of political change

      Teaching History article
    Dale Banham's article in Teaching History 92, ‘Getting ready for the Grand Prix: learning to build a substantiated argument in Year 7' has influenced much debate about extended writing. It has been influential way beyond the history education community. It also raised new questions about the management of historical content....
    The return of King John: using depth to strengthen overview in the teaching of political change

  • The Great Debate Final 2024

      25th March 2024
    Winner:  Emma Crow of Broxburn Academy, Broxburn, Scotland  Runners up:  Abigail Powers of The Ladies’ College, Guernsey  Erica Wright of William Farr School, Lincolnshire  Rachel McGarry of Shavington Academy, Crewe, Cheshire  Finalists Sofia Ntege, North Oxfordshire Academy, Banbury Harry Gray, Exeter School, Exeter Rhea Cherrington, Bablake School, Coventry Molly Grimshaw,...
    The Great Debate Final 2024

  • Recorded webinar: History for All - Approaches from the Special Sector

      History for all series
    Whilst many teachers in mainstream schools now have useful links with primary coordinators and have a working knowledge of how the curriculum is approached and implemented in Key Stages 1&2, few colleagues have contact with special schools and the expertise which our colleagues in special education can share with us...
    Recorded webinar: History for All - Approaches from the Special Sector

  • Past Forward: History, Citizenship and Identity

      Article
    History teaching is inextricably associated with values and ideology. This paper argues that if history is to remain a vibrant element of the curriculum in the future, then history teachers will have to meet a number of specific challenges. Central in this respect is the issue of history’s unique contribution...
    Past Forward: History, Citizenship and Identity

  • My favourite monument: The Acropolis, Athens, Greece

      Primary History feature
    About 3,200 years old, the Acropolis of Athens supports the most stunning and complete collection of ancient Greek structures that still exist. Designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987, it remains a mostly intact classical collection that fascinates those who study and visit it. I have always been intrigued...
    My favourite monument: The Acropolis, Athens, Greece

  • The Historian 132: The Lady of the Black Horse

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 The Flight to Varennes - Marisa Linton (Read article) 10 After Cook: Joseph Banks and his travelling plants, 1787- 1810 - Jordan Goodman (Read article) 15 The President’s Column 16 There and Back Again: Eleanor of Aquitaine’s journey to fetch Berengaria of Navarre -...
    The Historian 132: The Lady of the Black Horse

  • Poetic writing

      Primary History article
    Poetry is a major area for pupils creative and imaginative historical writing. Pupils writing historical poetry can draw upon a wide range of poetic modes, for example haikus, sonnets, blank verse. Poetry is an excellent vehicle for public presentation, with pupils reading their composition to their class members. To use...
    Poetic writing

  • Searching for the Shang in Shropshire

      Primary History article
    The introduction of the new primary curriculum in September 2014 presented a range of challenges for primary schools. Within the history orders for Key Stage 2 were new areas of study including prehistoric Britain as a compulsory study, and new optional study areas of early Islamic civilisation and Shang China....
    Searching for the Shang in Shropshire

  • Oral history in primary schools

      Article
    Although this article focuses on a distinctive and effective historical activity it is important from the outset to recognise that involvement in oral history also has the potential to enhance learning across the ‘formal curriculum’ and beyond. Talking to older people about their lived experience and recording their memories provides...
    Oral history in primary schools

  • Good Evening Sweetheart: real-life romance of young couple separated by WWII

      2nd July 2019
    Historical romances are not always confined to fiction and flights of fancy – sometimes they actually occur within our own communities. The real-life romantic story of two young people separated by war was uncovered by Sue and Peter Mowforth who revealed the experience of their parents in a talk to the...
    Good Evening Sweetheart: real-life romance of young couple separated by WWII