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  • The Bigger Picture: The Wider World

      HA Primary Subject Leader Area
    Perhaps the most important part of the History National Curriculum is the very first paragraph – the Purpose of Study Statement. A crucial part of this section is the very first sentence: ‘A high-quality history education will help pupils gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain’s past and that...
    The Bigger Picture: The Wider World

  • A Significant Local Event: Carlisle floods

      Primary History article
    Sue Temple has used her personal experience of flooding around Carlisle as a basis for exploring local history. She suggests strategies for how we can explore events that have occurred in our own environments by making use of photos and oral history to link to the personal and immediate. As extreme...
    A Significant Local Event: Carlisle floods

  • Film: Interpretations at GCSE

      Film: Secondary History Workshop Annual Conference 2019
    This secondary workshop took place at at the Historical Association Annual Conference, Chester, May 2019. To teach successfully at GCSE, should you focus your work on practice exam questions? Is boosting grades about re-writing mark-schemes in pupil-friendly language and showing model answers? Success at GCSE involves teaching interpretations properly, not just...
    Film: Interpretations at GCSE

  • Developing a big picture of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings

      Primary History article
    ‘I have got to stop Mrs Jackson’s family arguing’: These were the words of a Year 3 pupil to her headteacher in reply to a simple question about what she was learning in history. What this pupil was doing was getting ‘a big picture’ of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings and...
    Developing a big picture of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings

  • Saxon Settlers in Britain

      Lesson Plans (KS2)
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here. This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free...
    Saxon Settlers in Britain

  • Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum

      Guidance for history teachers
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of history teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today  With Ofsted incorporating curriculum into inspections from September 2019 and finally...
    Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum

  • Film: Widening horizons within, and beyond, the taught curriculum

      London History Forum Keynote 2019
    The film below was taken at the London History Forum: Widening Perspectives which took place on Thursday 25 April 2019 at the UCL Institute of Education and features Will Bailey-Watson (subject lead for PGCE History at the University of Reading).The renewed emphasis on curriculum in many schools is giving history teachers a...
    Film: Widening horizons within, and beyond, the taught curriculum

  • Illuminating the possibilities of the past

      Teaching History article
    Claire Holliss reports here on the ways in which she has responded over time to the call to ‘do justice’ to the histories of those long neglected within the school curriculum.  Reflection on the need to ensure that the discipline of history remained central to any reform prompted her to...
    Illuminating the possibilities of the past

  • A scaffold, not a cage: progression and progression models in history

      Teaching History article
    The need to understand ways of defining progression in history becomes ever more pressing in the face of a target-setting, assessment-driven regime which requires us to measure progress at every turn. We must defend our professional expertise in terms of measurable outcomes. Did we add value? Have our end of...
    A scaffold, not a cage: progression and progression models in history

  • Super history teaching on the Superhighway: the Internet for beginners

      Article
    Isobel Jenkins and Mike Turpin answer some of those basic questions which many history teachers are afraid to ask, like ‘What exactly is it anyway?' and ‘Is this really worth my valuable time?' They outline the internet's value as a means of improving information access and as a way of...
    Super history teaching on the Superhighway: the Internet for beginners

  • History using information technology: past, present and future

      Article
    Alaric Dickinson gives an overview of recent developments in the teaching of history using ICT and relates these to different contexts. He examines the appeal of the History Using IT materials and places these in the context of earlier developments. He also considers the role of ICT in the context...
    History using information technology: past, present and future

  • Whole-school planning for progression

      Primary History article
    The challenge for subject leaders and school leadership teams continues to be managing the tension between what history has to offer your vision for learning and your children's entitlement to a high-quality history education. The new national curriculum has ensured that this year you have had a close look at...
    Whole-school planning for progression

  • The Historian 72: Two Babies that could have changed world history!

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 6 Two babies that could have changed world history - Geoffrey Chamberlain MD (Read article) 12 The origins of the local government service - Kenneth Poole (Read article) 22 ‘Spy fever’ in Britain, 1900 to 1914 - James Hampshire (Read article) 28 Why did the Dome Fail? - Lucy...
    The Historian 72: Two Babies that could have changed world history!

  • Teaching History 53

      Journal
    Editorial 2 News 3 Articles: Multiculturalism and the Lower School History Syllabus: Towards a Practical Approach. - Paul Goalen 8 Using Audio-Visual Media with Slow Learners: A New Approach in History - Keith Hodgkinson 17 New History and Media Education - Derek McKiernan 20 Local History Studies in the Classroom...
    Teaching History 53

  • Assessment exemplar: children questioning artefacts

      Exemplar
    Questioning can be used in assessing childrens historical skills, as this example shows.The children were all in Year 4, and were withdrawn from their mixed Year 3/4 class for this lesson. They had covered several aspects of National Curriculum history, including over the past year the Egyptians and a local...
    Assessment exemplar: children questioning artefacts

  • Making pupils want to explain: using Movie Maker to foster thoroughness and self-monitoring

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Sally Burnham shares her practice and reflections on the value of the software, ‘Movie Maker', for developing particular aspects of historical thinking and learning. In Teaching History 130, in the context of her Key Stage...
    Making pupils want to explain: using Movie Maker to foster thoroughness and self-monitoring

  • Opinion: Who was ‘the man of his time’?

      Historian article
    In this new, occasional section of The Historian, contributors share their thoughts on matters of public historical debate. We invite our readers to respond, either by writing to the editors at thehistorian@history.org.uk or by writing their own opinion piece. Here, Lorenzo Kamel shares his thoughts on why saying ‘he was a...
    Opinion: Who was ‘the man of his time’?

  • Using causation diagrams to help sixth-formers think about cause and effect

      Teaching History article
    Alex Alcoe was concerned that mastery of certain keywords and question formulae at GCSE perhaps obscured fundamental gaps in his students’ understanding of the nature of causation. These gaps were revealed when he invited Year 12 students to make explicit, by annotating a diagram, their understanding of the relationship between...
    Using causation diagrams to help sixth-formers think about cause and effect

  • The Importance of Truth, Quality and Objectivity in the BBC German Service from 1938 to 1945

      Historian article
    Throughout the Second World War the BBC produced and transmitted regular broadcasts in German to Germany and other European countries occupied by the Germans. In this article Hattie Simpson evaluates the style and success of the BBC German Service. The article is based on her winning entry in the senior...
    The Importance of Truth, Quality and Objectivity in the BBC German Service from 1938 to 1945

  • The Historian 126: The Battle of Waterloo

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial 6 The Battle of Waterloo: Sunday 18 June 1815 - John Morewood (Read Article) 13 News from 59a 14 Scum of the earth - or fine fellows? The British soldier in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars - Carole Divall (Read Article) 19 The President's Column 20 Medical...
    The Historian 126: The Battle of Waterloo

  • Who are we?

      Information
    There are many ways you can support our work to bring history to all: Become a Member Make a donation Contribute an article Other ways to support us We are a registered charity incorporated by Royal Charter (charity no. 1120261). We support the teaching, learning and enjoyment of history at all...
    Who are we?

  • West Surrey Branch Programme

      Article
    All enquiries to Matthew Smith membershipwsha@yahoo.co.uk  Entry to meetings is free for HA members and students.  Associate membership of the branch which gives free entry to all meetings is £15 per year.  Non-members £6 per meeting, payable at the door.  Meetings on Tuesday except where stated. All meetings start at...
    West Surrey Branch Programme

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 172: Curriculum planning

      Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the ‘no-quick-fix’
    This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Each problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don’t exist. But in others’ writing, you’ll find something better: conversations in which history teachers have debated or tackled your problems – conversations which...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 172: Curriculum planning

  • Warfare - GCSE

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Warfare
    Warfare - GCSE

  • The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

      Journal
    Editorial  - History and the History Curriculum Articles Isabel Barca - Prospective teachers' ideas about assessing different accounts    Keith Barton - Primary children's understanding of the role of historical evidence: Comparisons between the United States and Northern Ireland    Carley Dalvarez - The Contribution of History to Citizenship Education ...
    The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2