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  • A year in the life of a branch coordinator

      Historian article
    Jenni Hyde takes us through an exciting year with the Bolton Branch and provides some great ideas for other branch secretaries.
    A year in the life of a branch coordinator

  • Attempting to reach the heart of the matter

      Journal article
    Michael McIntyre and Vanessa Hull explain the work of Facing History and Ourselves, an education organisation based in the United States and working internationally. Facing History aims to engage students in reflection on why violence occurred in the past, on what this teaches us about the world today and on...
    Attempting to reach the heart of the matter

  • Rotha Lintorn-Orman: the making of a fascist leader

      Historian article
    Stephen M. Cullen draws out the influences and events that shaped one of Britain’s most significant fascist organisers and leaders.
    Rotha Lintorn-Orman: the making of a fascist leader

  • From Bedfordshire to the Arctic Circle

      Historian article
    Travelling from the Western Front to fight former Allies in Russia is not the usual story of 1919 for a British ‘Tommy’.  Yet that was the story of some of those men still serving King and Country. On 9 January 1918 the supplement to The London Gazette, an official paper...
    From Bedfordshire to the Arctic Circle

  • Anniversary: Festival of Britain 1951

      Primary History article
    The Festival of Britain was held 70 years ago. For many this provided a boost for the country after the deprivations of World War II and the economic struggles afterwards. It was designed to be educational and was held 100 years after the Great Exhibition. It was designed to show pride...
    Anniversary: Festival of Britain 1951

  • The Great Charter

      Classic Pamphlet
    The following introduction to and translation of Magna Carta was made for the use of my pupils and is here published in response to a suggestion that it may be of use to others. The Charter bristles with technical legal terms and its Latin is often ambiguous since the language...
    The Great Charter

  • Teaching the Assyrians for KS2

      Pamphlet
    Assyria was one of the Great Powers of the Ancient World. (They have been called the 'Romans of the East'.) From the early ninth to the lat seventh century BC they played an important part in history. At the heigh of their power the Assyrians controlled a vast area from...
    Teaching the Assyrians for KS2

  • Learning Outside the Classroom

      Article
    In recent times, it is easy to recognize that there has been a general move towards promoting outside activities across all manner of organizations and groups. For instance, organisations such as The National Trust and Ordnance Survey are keen to promote outdoor experiences in their literature. An online presence advocates...
    Learning Outside the Classroom

  • Studying the Maya

      Article
    Most pupils like history, but some struggle with aspects of reading and writing – how can we make history more accessible? This article explores some ways I have found useful in engaging pupils of all abilities. It will focus on activities that might be used in studying the Non-European Society...
    Studying the Maya

  • Teaching the Historic Environment

      Guidance for teaching the Historic Environment in new GCSE courses
    The GCSE History criteria specify that the courses should cover three geographical contexts: local, British and European/wider world. The requirement to include some local history has been developed into the study of a locality in its Historic Environment. This has been developed in four different ways by the Awarding bodies...
    Teaching the Historic Environment

  • Thinking about… the Partition of British India in August 1947

      Article
    Shortly before midnight on 14 August 1947 Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian National Congress (the main nationalist organisation in British India), rose in India’s Constituent Assembly in New Delhi to deliver his famous ‘Tryst with Destiny’ speech that marked the end of 200 years of British rule in the...
    Thinking about… the Partition of British India in August 1947

  • Polychronicon 167: The strange career of Richard Nixon

      Teaching History feature
    If you know just one thing about the career of the 37th President of the United States, it is likely to be this: Watergate. Nixon’s resignation in August 1974 was caused by his decision to cover up a burglary at the Democratic Party’s campaign headquarters for the 1972 election, which...
    Polychronicon 167: The strange career of Richard Nixon

  • 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 Second World War

      Classic Pamphlet
    On 5 September 1939 the German Führer, Adolf Hitler, paid a surprise visit to the corps which was in the forefront of his army's ferocious assault upon Poland. As they passed the remains of a smashed Polish artillery regiment, the corps commander, General Guderian, astonished Hitler by telling him that...
    The Second World War

  • Ideas for Assemblies: The life stories of refugees - Judith Kerr

      Primary History feature
    Judith Kerr, author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and the Mog stories, came to Britain in 1936 with her brother Michael and their parents, Alfred and Julia Kerr. Her father was Jewish, an anti-Nazi, and famous theatre critic who fled Berlin as Hitler came to power in 1933,...
    Ideas for Assemblies: The life stories of refugees - Judith Kerr

  • Making the most of the post-1066 unit

      Primary History article
    Making the most of the post-1066 unit: looking at continuity and change over 10,000 years The ‘aspect or theme of British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066’ unit is designed to extend the period of study beyond 1066 to help pupils develop a coherent picture of British  history....
    Making the most of the post-1066 unit

  • The Lady of the Black Horse: Mabel Stobart (1862–1954)

      Historian article
    Peter Down takes us on a winter retreat over snow-covered mountains. Mabel St Clair Stobart was born into a wealthy Victorian family and enjoyed an idyllic childhood. She was gifted academically and excelled at sport. Married at 22, she had two sons. Unfortunately in 1903 her husband lost his fortune and...
    The Lady of the Black Horse: Mabel Stobart (1862–1954)

  • Donate to the HA

      Help us provide access to history
    Much of the work of the HA would not be possible without the kind donations and legacies from HA members and non-members who share our passion for history. Donations and legacies help us go that little bit further: Through donations we have been able to provide a travel fund for...
    Donate to the HA

  • The Great Debate: Sponsorship

      Sponsor our Great Debate competition
    The Great Debate is a bi-annual event that encourages schools and students to get involved in public speaking.    It is a debating competition for students in the UK & Ireland aged between 16 and 18.  Students have 5 minutes to produce a speech on the set question.   Why the...
    The Great Debate: Sponsorship

  • The Kingdom of Kongo 1400-1709

      Podcast
    In this podcast Dr Toby Green of King's College London discusses the Kingdom of Kongo.
    The Kingdom of Kongo 1400-1709

  • 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

  • The Kingdom of Benin 1500-1750

      Podcast
    In this podcast Dr Toby Green of King's College London examines the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Benin.
    The Kingdom of Benin 1500-1750

  • The Victorian Age

      Classic Pamphlet
    This Classic Pamphlet was published in 1937 (the centenary of the accession of Queen Victoria, who succeeded to the throne on June 20, 1837). Synopsis of contents: 1. Is the Victorian Age a distinct 'period' of history? Landmarks establishing its beginning: the Reform Bill, railways, other inventions, new leaders in...
    The Victorian Age

  • Ofsted Guidance 2011

      Article
    Departmental Health CheckOfsted Report on the teaching of History in schools Ofsted Report: History a successful subject in schools
    Ofsted Guidance 2011

  • The Historian 142: Hidden histories

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial (Read article - open access) 6 Hidden histories: landscape spotting – a brief guide – Mary-Ann Ochota (Read article) 12 Real Lives: Independent African – Joe Wilkinson (Read article) 17 Reviews 18 Fake news: Psy-war and propaganda in the Indonesian Genocide of 1965-66 – Geoffrey Robinson (Read article) 24 Hidden from history: how hidden are...
    The Historian 142: Hidden histories