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Anne Herbert: A life in the Wars of the Roses
Historian article
May I introduce you to Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke? I'm very fond of this modern imagined portrait by Graham Turner, partly because of the colour and detail but chiefly because it conveys a respect for the people who lived in the past and especially for Anne herself. My interest...
Anne Herbert: A life in the Wars of the Roses
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Northamptonshire in a Global Context
Key Stages 2 and 3
Produced by the Northamptonshire Black History Association and originally published in 2008, this is one of a set of resources for schools offering a more inclusive map of the past that includes an appreciation of Black History within the local, national and global context. The resources provide a range of opportunities to promote diversity within the curriculum....
Northamptonshire in a Global Context
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Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967
Virtual Branch
In the centenary year of the BBC, this Virtual Branch talk from Marcus Collins relates the strange tale of how the BBC did and did not broadcast about homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s and what it tells us about sexuality, broadcasting and the origins of permissiveness in mid-twentieth century Britain.
Marcus Collins...
Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967
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Film: The life and legend of the Sultan Saladin
Article
Jonathan Phillips’s 2020 HA Virtual Conference keynote talk on The life and legend of the Sultan Saladin reveals how a man initially branded as ‘the son of Satan’ became so esteemed in Europe and, through extensive new research, we will follow how his character and achievements have acted as a role model for...
Film: The life and legend of the Sultan Saladin
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Film: China's Good War
How World War II is shaping a new nationalism
In this lecture Professor Mitter uses film and other propaganda works to explore how key events of global history are being represented in China to develop a different understanding of its own past. The talk addresses a number of the factors for this change in how China is reflecting on...
Film: China's Good War
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Essay writing for everyone: an investigation into different methods used to teach Year 9 to write an essay
Teaching History article
Essay writing is at the very heart of school history, yet despite the wide range of developments in this area over the past decade, pupils still struggle. Alex Scott and his department decided to investigate a variety of methods to see what methods worked in enabling pupils to construct essays...
Essay writing for everyone: an investigation into different methods used to teach Year 9 to write an essay
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Throw away the worksheets!
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Those teachers who can still manage a school trip to the British Museum are in for a treat. The new Michael Cohen Gallery (Room 61) is everything a museum exhibition room should be. Its focus is...
Throw away the worksheets!
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Eweka's story: Benin and Big Picture History
Article
The prospect of teaching Benin as a non-European Study within the time frame 900-1300 AD is challenging! Traditional oral evidence suggests that the critical event during this period in Benin's past was a transition from the Ogiso to the Eweka Dynasty, named after its first Oba, which resulted in it...
Eweka's story: Benin and Big Picture History
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Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit
The mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times
Dr Jo Fox continued our virtual branch lecture series this July on the subject 'Reimagining the Blitz Spirit: the mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times'. Fox is the Director of the Institute of Historical Research and a well-known historian specialising in the history of propaganda, rumour and truth telling.
In this talk...
Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit
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Film series: Tudor Royal Authority
Development of Tudor Royal Authority film series
In this film, Professor Sue Doran, Jesus College, University of Oxford, discusses provides an overview of how Tudor Royal Authority developed and evolved from the first Tudor King, Henry VII, to the final Tudor Queen, Elizabeth I.
Film series: Tudor Royal Authority
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Teaching History 21
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Contributors, 2
Children's Inductive Historical Thought: an Interim Report from a Current Research Project - Martin Booth, 3
Classified Advertisements, 8
An Approach to Learning History in Primary Schools - R. N. Hallam, 9
Young Children and the Past - Joan Blyth, 15
Teaching the Varieties of...
Teaching History 21
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Teaching History 49
Journal
Editorial - Is Neutrality Possible? 2
Letters 3
News 4
Articles:
Childrens' evaluation of evidence on neutral and sensitive topics Roger Austin, Gordon Rae and Keith Hodgkinson 8
Empathy - a case of apathy? - Trevor May and Sean Williams 11
Assessing Drama at GCSE - Graham King, Jennifer Tucker...
Teaching History 49
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Teaching History 56
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 History Across the Primary Secondary Divide - Pat Lackenby and Mel French
14 Evacuation - Fifty Years On - Rob David and the Evacuation Project Team
18 A Fourth Year B.Ed Student asks some questions - Kay Clarke
20 Women's History and Children's perception of gender - Fiona Terry
25 Grasping the...
Teaching History 56
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Teaching History 38
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Certificate of Pre-Vocational Education - What the History Teacher can Contribute - Ben Kerwood, 3
The Lincolnshire Educational Aids Project - A Successful Launch into Historical Aids - Ray Acton and Tim Hall, 8
The Humanities Teaching and Computing Project-Jon Nichol with Jackie Dean, 12
Report: HMI/National...
Teaching History 38
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The 1620 Mayflower voyage and the English settlement of North America
Historian article
On the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims in New England on the Mayflower, Martyn Whittock explores the reasons for migration to the New World in 1620 and later, and the significance of those migrants, both at the time and their impact on the evolution of the USA...
The 1620 Mayflower voyage and the English settlement of North America
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Teaching History 65
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Replies to Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley: Always Historicise? - Richard Aldrich
13 Clarity Please! - Gavin Alexander
15 Economic Awareness through History - P. J. Rogers
21 National Curriculum History and Teacher Autonomy: The Major Challenge - Robert Phillips
25 Teaching History: Art American Experience - Sean McGrath
28 Learning about Museum Resources - Sue...
Teaching History 65
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Teaching History 63
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Using Evidence in the GCSE History Classroom - Heather Fry
18 Preparing to Teach about Causation - Ian Davies and Margaret Marshall
23 History Through Drama: A Curriculum Development Project - Graeme Easdown
28 The Appliance of Science: History and the Use of Artefacts in the Primary Curriculum - Peter Vass
33...
Teaching History 63
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Recorded webinar: Teaching Prehistory
Webinar
Recorded webinar: Teaching Prehistory
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Teaching History 75
The HA's journal for history teachers
2 Editorial
3 News
5 The Dearing Final Report - Threat or Opportunity? - Carol White
7 Responses to the Dearing Report: History Post-16 - Laurie Taylor
9 Making Dearing Enduring - A Personal View - Roy Hughes
11 Teaching History at Key Stage 2 - One School's Approach -...
Teaching History 75
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Film: What's the wisdom on... Causation
Your Virtual History Department Meeting
We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances, so we wanted to lend a helping hand.
'What’s the wisdom on…' is a brand-new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect...
Film: What's the wisdom on... Causation
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The T.E.A.C.H. Project
A Report from The Historical Association on the Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching Emotive and Controversial History 3-19
The report look at approaches that enable teachers to tackle these issues in ordinary lessons through rigorous and engaging teaching while at the same time challenging discrimination and prejudice.
The T.E.A.C.H. Project
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Chartered Teacher of History
Multipage Article
The Chartered Teacher of History status (or CTHist) confers a distinction on its holder in recognition of a high level of commitment to ongoing professional development of historical knowledge and age-appropriate history pedagogy. It follows the same rigorous standards as other successful Chartered Teacher schemes.
Chartered Teacher of History (CTHist)...
Chartered Teacher of History
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Reading into writing
Primary History article
Introduction: Interactive Whole Class - Teaching, Textbreaker & EXIT
Demonstration and modelling relies upon pupils being able to read the text that is being modelled, including the most demanding document. Accordingly the Nuffield Primary History Project developed a whole class interactive teaching strategy to support pupil reading of difficult and...
Reading into writing
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'The Generous Turk': Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes
Article
Notwithstanding the tribal hatred recently shown for each other by a handful of English and Turkish football fanatics, nobody who has travelled in Turkey or taken a holiday in that country can have failed to notice the courtesy and generosity with which visitors are invariably treated. Indeed, one of the...
'The Generous Turk': Some Eighteenth-Century Attitudes
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Nineteenth Century African chiefs in Nuneaton: A local mystery uncovered
Article
In Nuneaton’s St. Nicolas Churchyard lies a sizeable, though not elaborate, flat gravestone. It commemorates Canon Robert Savage, Vicar of the parish 1845-71, his wife Emma and many of their children. This tombstone, like so many in our graveyards, reveals a wide range of historical information, recording significant detail about...
Nineteenth Century African chiefs in Nuneaton: A local mystery uncovered
