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  • One of my favourite history places: Bournville

      Article
    One of my favourite places is Bournville Village in the south of Birmingham – every time I go there it feels as if I am entering a different world, away from the noise and bustle of the city. Less than five minutes' walk away from the tourist attraction of Cadbury World is the village...
    One of my favourite history places: Bournville

  • Buckinghamshire Branch Programme

      Article
    Enquiries to Mrs. Terry Bloxham (Hon Secretary), 138 High Street, Aylesbury, HP20 1RB Tel: 07952 703535  E-mail: secretarybucksha@gmail.com Meetings are being held on Wednesdays at 8 pm online via Zoom (except for the June event which will be in-person) Buckinghamshire Historical Association Admission to meetings is free to full and...
    Buckinghamshire Branch Programme

  • On-demand webinar: 'Move Me On’ skills practice for mentors

      Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
    Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school Session 5: 'Move Me On’ skills practice This final webinar of the series brings together the strands of mentoring through a ‘Move Me On’ style case-studies workshop, with participants tackling common mentoring quandaries together. Release date: Tuesday 22 April 2025Expiry...
    On-demand webinar: 'Move Me On’ skills practice for mentors

  • Secondary Membership Sample Resources

      Supporting your professional growth and classroom practice
    Enjoy a taster of our expert-produced resources and see how HA membership can boost your pedagogy, your classroom practice and your professional journey at every stage of your career. Teaching resources are just one part of the secondary membership package – find out more here. Teaching History journal The UK’s...
    Secondary Membership Sample Resources

  • My Favourite History Place: Edinburgh's Royal Mile

      Historian feature
    Maggie Wilson whets our appetite for exploration of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. Edinburgh’s Royal Mile runs between the Castle and Holyrood Palace. In addition to these and other well-known sites such as St Giles Cathedral, John Knox’s house, the Canongate Tolbooth and Canongate Kirk, and stories of Deacon Brodie, David Hume, James Boswell, Robert Burns and, obviously,...
    My Favourite History Place: Edinburgh's Royal Mile

  • Conwy Borough Branch Programme

      Branch programmes
    Branch Contact: Gemma Campbell conwyboroughha@gmail.com    Meetings are held on the third Monday of the month at Sheldons, 8 Penrhyn Rd, Colwyn Bay LL29 8LG unless otherwise stated.  Refreshments will be available to purchase (payment not included with the talk).   Doors open at 6.30 for refreshments and networking, talks begin at...
    Conwy Borough Branch Programme

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The Lines we Draw

      Article
    In this Virtual Branch Tim Franks, acclaimed BBC Journalist, talks about his personal history and identity drawing on his new biography The Lines we Draw: The Journalist, The Jew and an argument about identity.  We will delve into Tim's experiences as a journalist in some of the world's major conflict zones,...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The Lines we Draw

  • One of my favourite history places: Saltaire

      Primary History article
    Saltaire is my favourite place and one I never tire of visiting as each time a new discovery may be made. As you walk down the uneven cobbles of the narrow streets, even with the trappings of the twenty-first century (especially cars) in evidence, you cannot help but feel that...
    One of my favourite history places: Saltaire

  • Analytic and Discursive Writing at Key Stage 3

      HA Guide
    Christine Counsell's core message is that, because analytical and discursive writing is seen as difficult, it is often considered impossible. Instead, those very difficulties should be the focus of continuous professional analysis by all history teachers. Counsell argues that only a thorough analysis of those difficulties will yield suitable creative...
    Analytic and Discursive Writing at Key Stage 3

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 66

      Process map for writing a new Scheme of Work for history
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 66

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 67

      Britain and World timeline, 0BC to present
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 67

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68

      Britain and World timeline 2000BC to 0BC; The Dark Ages
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 70

      Alternative sources for the Romans, and a variety of Enquiry questions
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 70

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 73

      Map of ancient civilisations
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 73

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 78

      Investigating the Shang Dynasty and History in the primary curriculum
    1. Investigating the Shang Dynasty; 2. History in the primary curriculum - what does it offer?
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 78

  • Resources for courses: ideas for your history curriculum

      Primary History article
    In times of tight budgets and with the new financial year on the horizon in April, now might be a good time to look at different ways to resource your history curriculum effectively. Alongside all the resources for teachers available from Primary History and the HA website, the following list...
    Resources for courses: ideas for your history curriculum

  • The British Association for Local History (BALH)

      History Network
    The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serves local historians. Its purpose is to encourage and assist the study of local history as an academic discipline and as a rewarding leisure pursuit for both individuals and groups. Local history enriches our lives...
    The British Association for Local History (BALH)

  • My Favourite History Place: The Guild Chapel

      Historian feature
    Trevor James highlights a very important building to visit and celebrate during the HA's Annual Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon in May 2018.
    My Favourite History Place: The Guild Chapel

  • The history of medicine – warts and all – for Key Stage 2

      Primary History article
    The story of the history of medicine is HUGE! In fact, it’s a story within story within a story… You only have to note the substantial amounts that have been written on the subject in the past, to realise that this is a story that could baffle and perplex even...
    The history of medicine – warts and all – for Key Stage 2

  • My Favourite History Place: Lord Street, Southport

      Historian feature
    Trevor James introduces an international dimension to local history, revealing how a future French Emperor interpreted his affection for Southport’s Lord Street into the extensive redesign of Parisian streets.
    My Favourite History Place: Lord Street, Southport

  • Being historically rigorous with creativity

      Teaching History article
    After a Fellowship in Holocaust Education at the Imperial War Museum, Andy Lawrence decided that something was missing in normal approaches to teaching emotive and controversial issues such as genocide, a deficit demonstrated by recent research by the Holocaust Education Development Programme. As part of his fellowship, Lawrence created an...
    Being historically rigorous with creativity

  • Identity in history: why it matters and must be addressed!

      Teaching History journal article
    Sophia Nzeribe Nascimento, a mixed-race teacher working in a diverse London school, set out to explore her students’ assumptions about who historians are. While her own ethnicity and gender may have convinced at least some of her students that history is not exclusively the preserve of old white men, she...
    Identity in history: why it matters and must be addressed!

  • Move Me On 92: Having problems teaching causation

      The problem page for history mentors
    This Issue's Problem: Melville Miles, student history teacher, is in Term 3 of his PGCE year. Melville has taught a number of excellent lessons in which he enabled pupils to reach high levels of historical understanding. His diagnostic assessment of pupils' work is unusually sophisticated for a PGCE student. Melville's...
    Move Me On 92: Having problems teaching causation

  • Hidden in plain sight: the history of people with disabilities

      Teaching History journal article
    Recognising the duty placed on all teachers by the 2010 Equality Act to nurture the development of a society in which equality and human rights are deeply rooted, Helen Snelson and Ruth Lingard were prompted to ask whether their history curricula really reflected the diverse pasts of all people in...
    Hidden in plain sight: the history of people with disabilities

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 76

      Posters: Communication and Sutton Hoo helmet
    1. Communication Across the Ages; 2. The British Museum's Sutton Hoo Helmet
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 76