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  • HA Membership guide

      Primary membership
    We are delighted to welcome you as a member of the Historical Association. By joining you’ve become part of a vibrant subject community made up of thousands of different people with a shared interest: history! Whether you want to gain access to high quality teaching support, undertake training to help you...
    HA Membership guide

  • Film series: History and SEND

      Multipage Article
    Do you struggle to engage your lower attaining or EAL pupils in their history lessons? Are you finding it difficult to ensure and demonstrate progression in history with these pupils? In this series of five short films Sue Temple, assistant programme lead (BA hons and early years) at the university...
    Film series: History and SEND

  • A most horrid malicious bloody flame: using Samuel Pepys to improve Year 8 boys' historical writing

      Teaching History article
    Unusually, instead of moving from a narrative to an analytic structure, David Waters moves his pupils from causal analysis to narrative. By the time pupils are ready to produce their storyboard narrative, their thinking about the Great Fire has been shaped and re-shaped not only by structural exercises and argument...
    A most horrid malicious bloody flame: using Samuel Pepys to improve Year 8 boys' historical writing

  • Learning to love history: preparation of non-specialist primary teachers to teach history

      Teaching History article
    Rosie Turner-Bisset describes a systematic attempt to teach non-specialist trainee primary teachers to understand how the discipline of history works. She reports encouraging results. The training methods described here are based on a working assumption that teachers must be passionate and excited about a subject in order to teach it...
    Learning to love history: preparation of non-specialist primary teachers to teach history

  • Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition deals with the complex relationship between depth work and overview work. Revealing the big picture: patterns, shapes and images at Key Stage 3, Slavery, Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the 20th Century, Teaching the history of 20th women in Europe, Using Ethel and Ernest...
    Teaching History 107: Little Stories, Big Pictures

  • The International Journal Volume 11, Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial Articles Eleni Apostolidou Teaching and Discussing Historical Significance with 15 year-old students in Greece Manuela Carvalho and Isabel Barca Students' Use of Historical Evidence in European Countries P. Checkley and C. Checkley ‘Future Teachers of the Past' - An initial analysis of Initial Teacher Training students and their preparation...
    The International Journal Volume 11, Number 1

  • Secondary Quality Mark: Meet our assessors

      Multipage Article
    Being assessed can be scary – but inviting your QM assessor into school shouldn't feel like this! Our assessors, made up of carefully selected experienced history education professionals from across the primary and secondary sector, are keen to help schools celebrate what they do well and to share the good...
    Secondary Quality Mark: Meet our assessors

  • Coventry Branch Pamphlets

      Multipage Article
    Since its foundation in 1906 local branches have been the life-blood of the Historical Association. Their number, size, location and activities have varied greatly over the intervening years but a few branches have produced their own publications, most notably Bristol and Coventry. In a series which ran from 1964 to...
    Coventry Branch Pamphlets

  • It's Murder On The Orient Express

      Historian article
    It was the most luxurious long distance rail journey in the history of travel. Royalty, aristocracy, the rich and the famous travelled regularly on the Orient Express. Gourmet chefs prepared exquisite meals, chandeliers, luxury compartments, staterooms and dining rooms on a par with famous hotels like the Ritz were all...
    It's Murder On The Orient Express

  • Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 History (Early Years)

      Primary History article
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. History education needs to be placed in a wider pattern of curriculum development. Part I of this paper looks at general issues linking History with citizenship education and the early years. Part 2...
    Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 History (Early Years)

  • Young Quills reviews 2024

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    The Young Quills books for each year must be published for the first time in English in the year preceding the competition – so 2023 for this year’s selection. Divided by age suitability the books are given to schools on the condition that the children and young people there write...
    Young Quills reviews 2024

  • Film: Rethinking the origins of the Cold War

      Churchill's Great Game
    In this HA Virtual Branch talk Professor Richard Toye explores Churchill’s response to the USSR and how his actions during the early Cold War years intersected with his views of traditional Anglo-Russian tensions and the legacy of the ‘Great Game’. Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University...
    Film: Rethinking the origins of the Cold War

  • Film: Building Anglo-Saxon England

      Article
    Building Anglo-Saxon England demonstrates how recent excavations enable us to grasp for the first time the diversity of the Anglo-Saxon built environment. The book explores how the natural landscape was modified for human activity, and how settlements were laid out with geometrical precision by specialist surveyors. It also shows how...
    Film: Building Anglo-Saxon England

  • The history teacher's craft: Doing local History through the eyes of W. G. Hoskins

      Article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Editorial comment: When teaching local history we all have an idea of what it is: both as a body of knowledge - information, dates, facts and substantive concepts - and as what that knowledge is based...
    The history teacher's craft: Doing local History through the eyes of W. G. Hoskins

  • The Wolfson History Prize 2023

      29th November 2023
    On 13 November 2023 some of the HA team were fortunate enough to be in a glorious room at Claridge’s in Mayfair, London to hear the announcement of the winner of the prestigious Wolfson History Prize. To a full room it was announced that the winner was independent historian Halik...
    The Wolfson History Prize 2023

  • Case study: The body in the bog - Red Christian goes missing

      Article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated. Bog Body mysteries have played a central, seminal role in History Education in Britain since the 1970s. The investigation of the Tollund Man Mystery was the original, introductory investigation for pupils that the Schools Council [aka Schools]...
    Case study: The body in the bog - Red Christian goes missing

  • What time does the tune start? From thinking about 'sense of period' to modelling history at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. A ‘sense of period' is the contextual backdrop to the study of any aspect of history. As experienced historians, we tend to take for granted both our structural map of the past and our rich...
    What time does the tune start? From thinking about 'sense of period' to modelling history at Key Stage 3

  • Film: Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea

      Article
    Professor Jan Rüger joined the Virtual Branch on 9th February 2023 to talk about his book Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea, tracing a rich history of contact and conflict from the Napoleonic Wars to the Cold War. For generations this North Sea island expressed a German...
    Film: Heligoland: Britain, Germany, and the Struggle for the North Sea

  • Cross Curricular Project on a famous person

      Primary History case study
    Please note: This article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. If you are considering studying someone other than Florence Nightingale you have two basic options. You can either choose a local character who would be more relevant to the children, or you could study someone who...
    Cross Curricular Project on a famous person

  • Move Me On 142: Makes assumptions about students' thinking

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Rob Collingwood keeps just making assumptions about his students' thinking. Rob Collingwood seemed to make a very promising start to his first school placement, but as time goes on his mentor is becoming concerned about the lack of connection between Rob's thinking and that of his students. Rob...
    Move Me On 142: Makes assumptions about students' thinking

  • The Pilgrimage of Grace: Reactions, Responses and Revisions

      Article
    Dr Michael Bush investigates the interpretations of the pilgrimage of grace. Our perception of the pilgrimage of grace has been largely created by Madeleine and Ruth Dodds and their magnificent book The Pilgrimage of Grace, 1536-7, and the Exeter Conspiracy, 1538 (Cambridge). Published in 1915, it has dominated the subject...
    The Pilgrimage of Grace: Reactions, Responses and Revisions

  • Guidance for ITE tutors

      Multipage Article
    The importance of subject specific teaching in primary ITE has become a central focus since the new inspection framework was introduced (DfE, 2020). This mirrors the deep dives that happen during school inspections and has highlighted the importance of strong subject teaching in ITE.  This section provides guidance for ITE...
    Guidance for ITE tutors

  • Guidance for school-based mentors

      Multipage Article
    The role of the mentor has increased in importance over the last twenty years, in part due to the growth of school-based training routes into teaching, coupled with a much greater focus on quality assurance across all aspects of initial teacher education. Mentoring is a highly skilled role which involves...
    Guidance for school-based mentors

  • Films: Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian Myths, Stories & Letters

      Article
    To accompany our series of podcasts looking at the ancient Near East we have put together a few films that give you a sense of the incredible literature and mythology that emerged from Mesopotamia and Egypt over their long histories. We have also put together a few films that give voice to the ancient...
    Films: Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian Myths, Stories & Letters

  • Creating controversy in the classroom: making progress with historical significance

      Teaching History article
    No longer is historical significance the ‘forgotten key element.’ Indeed, it is now being remembered at last – by politicians, telly-dons and the media in any case. Matthew Bradshaw suggests that the popular emphasis on significant events is wrong. Instead, we should be enabling our pupils to make their own...
    Creating controversy in the classroom: making progress with historical significance