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  • The Great Fire of London and the National Curriculum

      Primary History article including Scheme of Work for Key Stage 1 (unresourced)
    The Great Fire of London is a favourite National Curriculum teaching topic. This paper draws on the latest resources and teaching ideas to suggest how you can meet both the NC history requirements and the wider ones of the National Curriculum, particularly in integrated programmes that include teaching about the Great...
    The Great Fire of London and the National Curriculum

  • Paris: 50 Years on from the Great War, 2 August 1964

      Historian article
    Just over 50 years ago, Chris Wrigley, a past President of the Historical Association, while a sixth-former, witnessed a highly significant historic re-enactment in Paris to mark the anniversary of the start of the Great War.
    Paris: 50 Years on from the Great War, 2 August 1964

  • Cunning Plan 129: Why has there been so much interest in Mary I?

      Teaching History feature
    The obvious answer to this question is that teenagers love stories about fire, and especially role plays about martyrdom at the stake! But it is a serious question and a very good historical one. When focusing pupils' attention on ‘historical interpretations' as required by the National Curriculum (both the current...
    Cunning Plan 129: Why has there been so much interest in Mary I?

  • GCSE topics mapped against our resources

      HA Resources and GCSE History
    At the HA, we know it’s hard enough trying to grapple with new GCSE units of study, assessment and content without also having to research where you can find interesting or supportive resources, either for your own, or your students subject knowledge. Our secondary committee have pooled resources and helped...
    GCSE topics mapped against our resources

  • The International Journal Volume 13, Number 1

      IJHLTR
    Editorial Croatia: Achieving The Objectives Of The European Dimension Through History: An Analysis Of Croatian And Bosnian-Herzegovinian Fourth Grade Gymnasium History Textbooks - Rona Bušljeta, University of Zagreb Slovenia Learning from History Textbooks - is it challenging for gifted students. An International Comparative Analysis of Questions and Tasks - Mojca...
    The International Journal Volume 13, Number 1

  • Chronology - an Olympic timeline

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Pat Hoodless illuminates how chronology can provide a spine, a backbone and an ‘essential framework' to support and shape pupil learning of NC History. The Olympic movement provides the perfect opportunity to consider the broad sweep...
    Chronology - an Olympic timeline

  • Subject leaders: supporting colleagues to develop their subject knowledge

      Primary History article
    Many teachers are especially concerned about subject knowledge and knowing what to teach. Using the example of the ancient Egyptians, this article focuses on how a subject leader can support colleagues develop and use their subject knowledge to become more adept at teaching. One of the most frequent concerns of...
    Subject leaders: supporting colleagues to develop their subject knowledge

  • Teaching Ancient Egypt: developing subject knowledge

      Primary History article
    Ancient Egypt is one of the most popular societies taught in primary schools. In this article Karin Doull argues the importance of having a coherent approach to the content. Much of the article focuses on the key areas that teachers may wish to consider if they are to achieve a...
    Teaching Ancient Egypt: developing subject knowledge

  • Life in lockdown

      Primary History article
    In this article on the impact of the Coronavirus, Matthew Flynn from Ryders Hayes in Walsall, a History Quality Mark school, has considered how history subject leaders can maintain the status of the subject when faced with remote learning. Education has undergone many changes and uncertainty over the decades, but...
    Life in lockdown

  • Young Quills winners 2024

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    The Young Quills winners and highly commended have been announced for his year. This competition for historical fiction for children is a way of celebrating and recognising those authors who are continuing the long tradition of creative writing about the past for children. All of the books are reviewed by...
    Young Quills winners 2024

  • Membership Administrator Job Opportunity

      Join the HA team
    An exciting opportunity has recently arisen for a Membership Administrator to join the HA team to provide a strong level of support with day-to-day processing and the delivery of a first-class membership service. The Historical Association (HA) is a membership charity which brings together people who share an interest in the past, and...
    Membership Administrator Job Opportunity

  • Attempting to reach the heart of the matter

      Journal article
    Michael McIntyre and Vanessa Hull explain the work of Facing History and Ourselves, an education organisation based in the United States and working internationally. Facing History aims to engage students in reflection on why violence occurred in the past, on what this teaches us about the world today and on...
    Attempting to reach the heart of the matter

  • Archaeology - An approach to teaching history at Key Stage 2. Curriculum history

      Article
    Alongside modern University buildings, at Beckett Park, (part of Leeds Metropolitan University), there is evidence of a monastic grange, a seventeenth century farmhouse, and an eighteenth century mansion which was extended in Victorian Times. The Beckett Park Archaeology Project was established in 1999 to give local children access to the...
    Archaeology - An approach to teaching history at Key Stage 2. Curriculum history

  • School History Scene: the unique contribution of theatre to history teaching

      Teaching History article
    The study of history has to be vibrant. It is about real people, real dramas, real narrative, real human dilemmas. It is not surprising that, despite manifold structural pressures working against us, take-up for GCSE history is once again buoyant. There are all manner of reasons for this - is...
    School History Scene: the unique contribution of theatre to history teaching

  • Developing awareness of the need to select evidence

      Teaching History article
    Let's play Supermarket ‘Evidential' Sweep: developing students' awareness of the need to select evidence Despite having built a sustained focus on historical thinking into their planning for progression across Years 7 to 13, Rachel Foster and Sarah Gadd remained frustrated with stubborn weaknesses in the evidential thinking of students in...
    Developing awareness of the need to select evidence

  • Film: Meet the author: Marc Morris on The Anglo-Saxons

      Article
    In this Virtual Branch talk best-selling author and renowned historian Marc Morris joined us to discuss the process of researching for, structuring and writing his new book The Anglo-Saxons: a history of the beginnings of England.  Drawing on a vast range of original evidence - chronicles, letters, archaeology and artefacts - Morris's...
    Film: Meet the author: Marc Morris on The Anglo-Saxons

  • Planning a more diverse and coherent Year 7 curriculum

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Jacob Olivey describes his department’s efforts to both diversify their Key Stage 3 curriculum and secure greater curricular coherence. Building on a large body of research and practice, Olivey sought new forms of curricular coherence through the selection and sequencing of substantive content across the curriculum. He...
    Planning a more diverse and coherent Year 7 curriculum

  • 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

  • Cleopatra Podcast

      Branch Lecture Podcast
    This pod-cast was recorded at the Central London Branch of the Historical Association on Saturday 20th February 2010, at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, University of London.   We were pleased to welcome cultural historian Lucy Hughes-Hallet to the branch to speak on ‘Cleopatra'.   Lucy Hughes-Hallet detailed how fact and legend about Cleopatra had been intertwined through history in...
    Cleopatra Podcast

  • Oral history, a powerful tool or a double edged sword?

      Primary History article
    We all agree that oral history is a particularly powerful and attractive method for children to gather evidence and appreciate the real life relevance of history. From the Early Years to Year 6, many of us look deliberately for the opportunities to bring a visitor into the classroom, who will...
    Oral history, a powerful tool or a double edged sword?

  • Young Quills winners 2023

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    It is with great pleasure that the HA is able to announce the winners of the Young Quills for Historical Fiction for 2023: Young readers category Winner: Tony Bradman for Bruno and Frida (Barrington Stoke)Highly Commended: Judith Eagle for Accidental Stowaway (Faber) Intermediate category Winner: Tom Palmer for Resist (Barrington...
    Young Quills winners 2023

  • What’s the wisdom on… Causation

      Teaching History feature
    What's the Wisdom On... is a short guide providing new history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of history teaching. It draws on tried and tested approaches arising from teachers with years of experimenting, researching, practising, writing and debating their...
    What’s the wisdom on… Causation

  • Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme

      Article
    Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme 2024-25 Meetings are held at 8pm on the third Thursday of the month September to April (excluding December) at Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way, London NW11 6YD. Some lectures are also on Zoom. See below for details. The cost of local membership is...
    Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme

  • 'I feel if I say this in my essay it’s not going to be as strong’

      Teaching History article
    Jim Carroll was concerned that A-level textbooks failed to provide his students with a model of the multi-voicedness that characterises written history. In order to show his students that historians constantly engage in argument as they write, Carroll turned to academic scholarship for models of multi-voiced history. Carroll explains here...
    'I feel if I say this in my essay it’s not going to be as strong’

  • The New Imperialism

      Classic Pamphlet
    This Classic Pamphlet first published in 1970 comes with a new introduction written by the author M. E. Chamberlain.The New Imperialism - Introduction by M. E. Chamberlain Professor Emeritus at Swansea University. May 2010.When this pamphlet was first published imperialism was a hot political topic and battle raged between Marxist and...
    The New Imperialism