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  • Volunteers to a man: an industrial workplace goes to war

      Historian article
    In this article Edward Washington explores how the Royal Mint in Sydney, Australia was affected by the First World War, through the loss of professional staff and the legacy of experiencing conflict. The Royal Mint, Sydney, which opened in 1855 in response to the Australian gold rushes, was the first...
    Volunteers to a man: an industrial workplace goes to war

  • Using original sources

      Primary History article
    Why would I want those old books in my classroom? It has always been recognised that good primary history is able to connect the past with the world the children currently inhabit. That is why focusing on schools can be so useful. If there is one experience the children have...
    Using original sources

  • Out and About: Tynemouth Priory

      Historian feature
    Approximately 10 miles east of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and just over 10 minutes walk from my home, the imposing ruins of Tynemouth Priory command sea, river, and land from the promontory between King Edward’s Bay and Prior’s Haven. While the Priory dates back to the eleventh century, the headland on which it sits,...
    Out and About: Tynemouth Priory

  • Film: Lesson sequences

      Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
    In this latest film in the teaching history for beginners series, Helen Snelson from the University of York explores and unpacks the principles and process of planning across a sequence of lessons to provide a coherent unit of work that builds knowledge and progression in disciplinary thinking. 
    Film: Lesson sequences

  • Using oral history to enhance a local history partnership

      Teaching History article
    Eliza West and Emily Toettcher explain how a partnership between school and museum has evolved into a four-year enquiry into local history. The article focuses on the successful introduction of an oral history element in the GCSE syllabus and how the investigation into ‘remembered’ history helps students to appreciate the complexities of truth...
    Using oral history to enhance a local history partnership

  • Battle of the Somme: the making of the 1916 propaganda film

      Historian article
    The versions of history on our cinema screens have an important influence upon public perceptions of the past. In his article Taylor Downing explores how the wartime British government used the cinema for propaganda purposes and how the film Battle of the  Somme contributes to portrayals of that battle to this...
    Battle of the Somme: the making of the 1916 propaganda film

  • The Invisible Building: St John's in Bridgend

      Historian article
    Molly Cook, winner of this year's Historical Association Young Historian Local History Award, unravels the mystery of a local icon and tells us about her success in inspiring Bridgend to engage with its fascinating past. Having worked on previous projects relating to the history of Bridgend and its place in...
    The Invisible Building: St John's in Bridgend

  • Triumphs Show 182: A public lecture series

      Teaching History feature
    The history we present to students, however rigorous and challenging, and however full of integrity in eflecting history as a discipline, is a shiny show of our best resources. Peeling back this curtain and allowing students to see the real world of academic history was a major motivation in inviting some...
    Triumphs Show 182: A public lecture series

  • Deepening Year 9’s knowledge for better causation arguments

      Teaching History article
    Frustrated by her students’ glib use of catch-all terms such as ‘militarism’ in addressing causation, Alexia Michalaki wanted her Year 9 students to produce mature causal explanations of World War I. To encourage this to happen she went back into decades of pedagogical writing and research, teasing out the ways...
    Deepening Year 9’s knowledge for better causation arguments

  • Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part A

      Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
    This film continues our Teaching History for Beginners filmed webinar series.  In this short filmed webinar, David Ingledew, senior lecturer in history education and ITE lead at the University of Hertfordshire sets out the scholarship, principles and context of questioning in the history classroom. This will be followed by a short film...
    Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part A

  • School Direct: Salaried and Fee-paying routes

      Routes into Teaching
    What is the School Direct route into teaching? The label ‘School Direct’ refers to training places that the government has allocated directly to a group of schools working in partnership to offer teacher training. Each partnership includes at least one school designated as a ‘Teaching School’, which is likely to...
    School Direct: Salaried and Fee-paying routes

  • All the fun of the fair! Key Stage 1 – Beyond living memory

      Primary History article
    Alf Wilkinson outlines three activities looking at fairs past and present. We all enjoy a visit to the fair, don’t we? There’s always a bit of a buzz when the fair comes to town. In my village it arrives just in time for Feast Weekend, in the summer holidays. The rides...
    All the fun of the fair! Key Stage 1 – Beyond living memory

  • ‘Traditional’ or ‘University-led’ PGCE

      Routes into Teaching
    What is a PGCE?   ‘PGCE’ or ‘Post-Graduate Certificate of Education’ is simply the title of the award that is made to postgraduate students who successfully complete a university-accredited programme of initial teacher education. It isn’t actually a very good label for the traditional route into teaching since all the...
    ‘Traditional’ or ‘University-led’ PGCE

  • The Swansea Branch Chronicle 11

      Branch Publication
    3 From the Editor 4 Renaissance Art - Carol David 6 Finding My Inspiration - Lucy Dean 10 Sanu's last Voyage - Ray Balkwill 13 Glynn Vivian - Andrew Green 15 A Vision of Angels - Dr John Law 17 Gwen Johns - Kenza Eastwood 18 A Gift of Sunlight...
    The Swansea Branch Chronicle 11

  • Anniversaries: The Coventry Blitz and the Grave of the Unknown Soldier

      Primary History article
    This Autumn we remember two events related to the impact of war and how people have reacted to them.  The first anniversary remembers the Nazi devastation of Coventry 80 years ago on 14 November 1940 and the second event relates to the body of the ‘Unknown warrior’ who was laid...
    Anniversaries: The Coventry Blitz and the Grave of the Unknown Soldier

  • The Medlicott Medal

      HA Awards
    Our annual award the Medlicott Medal is awarded to individuals for outstanding services and current contributions to history. The Medlicott winner is notified in advance of their win so that they can give a talk. The Historical Association's annual event is becoming a must for local, educational and academic historians....
    The Medlicott Medal

  • Real Lives: Harry Daley

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected to greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: Harry Daley

  • The back cover image: Malachite Urn

      Primary History feature
    This large green urn was given as a gift to Queen Victoria in 1839 by Emperor Nicholas I, to thank her for the way in which his son Alexander had been welcomed in England the previous year. It was placed in the Grand Reception Room of Windsor Castle, and has...
    The back cover image: Malachite Urn

  • Volunteering to help your local branch

      Getting involved in history
    Volunteering to help your local branch We have over fifty branches throughout the UK and they are all run by volunteers. Joining your local branch committee can be a wonderful way to get more involved with history. Each branch has three formal branch officers, the Chair (or President) the Branch...
    Volunteering to help your local branch

  • What have historians been arguing about: African history in the precolonial period?

      Teaching History article
    The George Floyd killing and the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK have led to an upsurge in interest in African history: how (and whether) it is taught, where it is taught, and who teaches it. Although it is widely recognised that slavery must be taught, there is a desire for history...
    What have historians been arguing about: African history in the precolonial period?

  • The Historian 128: The Sykes-Picot agreement

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial 6 A precious jewel: English Calais, 1347-1558 - Dan Spencer (Read article) 11 The President's Column 12 Britain: the regional battlefields that helped to create a nation - Geoffrey Carter (Read article) 17 St Peter's-ad-murum, Bradwelljuxta-Mare - Marie Paterson (Read article) 18 The Sykes-Picot agreement and lines...
    The Historian 128: The Sykes-Picot agreement

  • Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part B

      Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
    This is the fourth film in the Teaching History for Beginners series. In this film, Ruth Lingard, head of history at Millthorpe School in York and PGCE tutor, takes us through the practical opportunities for effective questioning and the kinds of questions that lend themselves well to different purposes, second order concepts...
    Film: Questioning in the History Classroom Part B

  • Recorded webinar: Making sense of the Vikings

      Key Stage 2 Webinar
    Focusing on the Viking world, this webinar explores how careful choice of content in one subject can extend what your pupils will achieve in another. It offers some practical suggestions on how you might combine a Key Stage 2 History study of the Vikings with the geography of their world...
    Recorded webinar: Making sense of the Vikings

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 87

      Could you manage old money? and Examples of picture books
    ‘Twelve pennies make a shilling; twenty shillings make a pound’ - Could you manage old money? Examples of picture books
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 87

  • Subject leader’s site: assessment and feedback

      Primary History article
    Very few teachers prefer assessment to teaching yet the latter has little point if there is no way of knowing that what we teach is beneficial to our pupils.  The problem is that there is no such thing as perfect assessment and feedback. For example, you cannot assess everything –...
    Subject leader’s site: assessment and feedback