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  • Podcast: Suffrage lives, 1866 to 1914

      Annual Conference Podcast 2019
    When, as a researcher, I was asked to take part in the Historical Association’s Suffrage Resources project and to populate the database for it, I jumped at the chance. Who wouldn’t? It offered the opportunity to delve into the archives, reaching back in time to the symbolic beginnings of the organised...
    Podcast: Suffrage lives, 1866 to 1914

  • Scheme of Work: The Georgians

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (unresourced)
    This unit focuses on the Georgian period across the mid to late 18th century. It is during this period that Britain (rather than England) begins to consolidate the gains made by Tudor and Stuart explorers and traders. The seeds of the British Empire of the Victorian period are planted at this...
    Scheme of Work: The Georgians

  • Using the Attainment Target in Key Stage 3: Interpretations of History

      Article
    An individual's knowledge of history is dependent not only on the events of the past but also on the way such events are presented. These presentations of the past come in a variety of forms and an educated person should be able to reflect purposefully on their worth...
    Using the Attainment Target in Key Stage 3: Interpretations of History

  • Children in Victorian Britain: Down the Mine

      Lesson Plan
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today Please note: this free resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum....
    Children in Victorian Britain: Down the Mine

  • Cunning Plan 114: building overview understanding of 19th-century social history

      Teaching History feature
    This five-lesson sequence gradually builds overview understanding of aspects of 19th century social history through a depth study of the campaigner and reformer, Josephine Butler. Through the sequence, pupils build on earlier work on historical significance, first, by reviewing their understanding of the huge range of reasons why things get...
    Cunning Plan 114: building overview understanding of 19th-century social history

  • Maybe they haven't decided yet what is right: English and Spanish perspectives on teaching historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Historians and history teachers understand well that students, when they ‘answer’ questions, are creating their own interpretation. We take account of this in our teaching too: we do not pretend that, beyond the level of the simplest closed questioning, there is ever a ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer approach to history....
    Maybe they haven't decided yet what is right: English and Spanish perspectives on teaching historical significance

  • Polychronicon 136: Interpreting the Beatles

      Teaching History feature
    ‘The Beatles were history-makers from the start,' proclaimed the liner notes for the band's first LP in March 1963. It was a bold claim to make on behalf of a beat combo with one charttopping single, but the Beatles' subsequent impact on 1960s culture put their historical importance (if not...
    Polychronicon 136: Interpreting the Beatles

  • Case Study: Engaging history with National Trust tracker packs

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. White Horse Hill in Oxfordshire is home to the famous chalk White Horse, and it has been for the last 3000 years. The history surrounding this hill, high up on the Berkshire Downs, goes back...
    Case Study: Engaging history with National Trust tracker packs

  • Move Me On 91: work with historical sources lacks focus

      The problem page for history mentors
    Problem: Mike Jones, student history teacher, is half-way through his PGCE year. He is making unusually good progress in his knowledge, understanding and practice with regard to the use of sources in history. He also appears to have no difficulty with classroom management and relationships with pupils. He easily creates...
    Move Me On 91: work with historical sources lacks focus

  • Lengthening Year 9’s narrative of the American civil rights movement

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by reading the work of Stephen Tuck, Ellie Osborne set out to design a new sequence of lessons that would help her students adopt a longer lens on the American civil rights movement. At the same time, Osborne wanted to put more emphasis on the agency and campaigns of activists,...
    Lengthening Year 9’s narrative of the American civil rights movement

  • Prehistoric Scotland

      Classic Pamphlet
    Prehistory is an attempt to reconstruct the story of human societies inhabiting a given region before the full historical record opens there. Its data, furnished by archaeology, are the constructions members of such societies erected and the durable objects they made. The events which should form its subject matter naturally...
    Prehistoric Scotland

  • Thematic or topic based whole school curriculum planning

      Primary History article
    Creative curricular planning With the National Curriculum under review, it seems that more schools are taking a creative approach to planning by delivering the curriculum through a focused theme or topic. This has allowed schools to take more ownership of the curriculum and has helped teachers become more innovative in their...
    Thematic or topic based whole school curriculum planning

  • Women and space: reaching for the stars

      Primary History article
    The exploration of the heavens has drawn mankind since the dawn of time. Vast monuments reached to the stars marked with astrological key points. Astronomers sought to understand the movement of the universe. Since the twentieth century however this investigation has moved into space itself, pioneered by restless and inquisitive souls...
    Women and space: reaching for the stars

  • Move Me On 165: Capturing student interest vs. sense of period

      Teaching History feature
    This issue’s problem: In her concern to capture students’ interest Jennet Preston tends to present people in the past as weird and wonderful aliens... Jennet Preston has come into teaching as a second career, following a break to look after her young children. She is enthusiastic and full of ideas for...
    Move Me On 165: Capturing student interest vs. sense of period

  • The Historian 146: Civilisations

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 The emergence of the first civilisations: many contexts, significant changes but is this the whole story? – Paul Bracey (Read article) 11 The many queens of Ancient Egypt – Joyce Tyldesley (Read article) 17 Out and About in Paestum – Trevor James (Read article) 20 Space...
    The Historian 146: Civilisations

  • The Historian 137: Branches

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 HA Conference 8 A year in the life of a branch co-ordinator – Jenni Hyde (Read article) 14 Private Lives of the Tudors – Tracy Borman (Read article) 19 The President’s Column 20 Good Evening Sweetheart: experiences of an ordinary couple in the...
    The Historian 137: Branches

  • Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)

      Immersive online course for experienced history teachers
    Autumn 2025 Cohort Start date: Wednesday 12 November, 5.15pm–6.30pm Book Now What is the Experienced Teacher Programme? This six-week online course is designed to energise your teaching and help you engage with the history education community. In this programme you will access rich, subject-specific professional development designed specifically for experienced teachers: an...
    Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)

  • Move Me On 105: Teaching historical interpretations

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Charles Marks, PGCE history student, is very confused about teaching historical interpretations.
    Move Me On 105: Teaching historical interpretations

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 160: Progression in evidential understanding

      Teaching History feature
    You have a wealth of fascinating sources you would love to explore with students but despair at their seeming inability to connect ‘source work' with the construction of historical claims. Year 7 get stuck in the ‘it's biased so we can never know' trap again and again. Year 9 students...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 160: Progression in evidential understanding

  • 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 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

  • Triumphs Show 148.2: using pupil dialogue to encourage engagement with sources

      Teaching History feature
    Using pupil dialogue to encourage sophisticated engagement with source material - even at GCSE! Frustrated by the mechanistic approach that their pupils were using when working with historical sources, Tim Jenner and Paul Nightingale sought to experiment with a method of teaching sources which eschewed practice source questions in favour...
    Triumphs Show 148.2: using pupil dialogue to encourage engagement with sources

  • Folkestone in World War One

      Historian article
    Grahame Jones contributes to our determination to explore the wider involvement of the community in responding to the challenges of the Great War, in this case two inspirational women who provided refreshments for soldiers en route through Folkestone harbour. A fading Edwardian resort and handy for that trip through the...
    Folkestone in World War One

  • 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

  • The particular and the general

      Teaching History article
    When your pupils use terms such as ‘king’ and ‘Parliament,’ what image do they have in their head? Do they know what they are talking about at all? Do they have a nuanced, period-specific vision of what these terms mean in the context of their current historical studies, and of...
    The particular and the general