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  • Primary History 62: History & ICT

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    Editorial and In My View 04 Editorial 05 Using ICT to develop pupils' historical knowledge, understanding and thinking: the view from Ofsted - Michael Maddison HMI 06 The digital revolution - Jerome Freeman (Read article) 07 History, ICT and the digital age - Ben Walsh (Read article) Features 08 Diogenes: English...
    Primary History 62: History & ICT
  • Teaching History 184: Different lenses

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article for free) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Beyond myth and magic: Year 7 use oral traditions to make claims about the rise and fall of the Inka empire – Paula Worth (Read article) 22 They sometimes clashed, and ultimately blended: planning a more...
    Teaching History 184: Different lenses
  • Virtual Branch Recording: Henry III and Simon de Montfort

      Article
    David Carpenter brings to life the dramatic events in the last phase of Henry III’s momentous reign, provides a fresh account of the king’s strenuous efforts to recover power and sheds new light on the rebel figure Simon de Montfort. Professor David Carpenter is a Professor of Medieval History at King's College...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Henry III and Simon de Montfort
  • Recorded webinar: Secondary history and the climate crisis

      Article
    How might we integrate a focus on our relationship with the natural world through time in our existing curriculum? Why should we teach about key turning points in human history that have shaped this relationship in profound ways? What is history's role in explaining how we got to this point? ...
    Recorded webinar: Secondary history and the climate crisis
  • Recorded webinar: Helping primary students understand climate change

      Article
    How might we integrate a focus on our relationship with the natural world through time in our existing curriculum? Why should we teach about key turning points in human history that have shaped this relationship in profound ways? What is history's role in explaining how we got to this point? ...
    Recorded webinar: Helping primary students understand climate change
  • Polychronicon 148: The Wars of the Roses

      Teaching History feature
    There are few periods in our history from which we turn with such weariness and disgust as from the Wars of the Roses. Their savage battles, their ruthless executions, their shameless treasons seem all the more terrible from the pure selfishness of the ends for which men fought, the utter...
    Polychronicon 148: The Wars of the Roses
  • Significant people: Mary Wollstonecraft

      Primary History article
    ‘I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves’ – Mary Wollstonecraft The National Curriculum gives the freedom to select any significant individual and many schools have already chosen those outside the commonly-used ones such as Florence Nightingale, Christopher Columbus and Queen Victoria. There is also...
    Significant people: Mary Wollstonecraft
  • The Scottish Enlightenment

      Classic Pamphlet
    In recent decades, Scotland's distinctive contribution to the Enlightenment has been of increasing interest to scholars. Often very remarkable in an analytical view, such studies may nevertheless miss their sense of the story by treating Scottish insight in abstraction from Scottish life. Taking a more concrete approach, the present study...
    The Scottish Enlightenment
  • The Jacobites

      Scottish History
    In this podcast Dr Nigel Aston of the University of Leicester examines the Jacobites and the Jacobite risings that took place between 1688 and 1746.
    The Jacobites
  • The Swansea Branch Chronicle 9

      Branch Publication
    3 From the Editor 4 From the Chairman 5 Hymn Writer Supreme - Dr R. Brinley Jones 6 Venice, the Biennale and Wales - Dr John Law 7 18th Century Underwear - Jean Webber 9 Whigs and wigs 12 Howell Harris - David James 15 Branch news 16 British Government's...
    The Swansea Branch Chronicle 9
  • Film series: Power and authority in Germany, 1871-1991

      Germany 1871-1945: Introduction
    The rise and fall of Germany in the 20th Century is one of the major political arcs of the modern period, and one that many feel familiar with – from the unification of the Germanic states, the defeat of the Kaiser in 1918, revolution, a weak Weimar Republic all the...
    Film series: Power and authority in Germany, 1871-1991
  • Recorded Webinar: Resisting Reagan

      Article
    Recorded Webinar: Resisting Reagan
  • Early Modern Britain 1509-1745

      HA Secondary Resources (Key Stage 3)
    While the 2014 Curriculum sets out the broad focus of each particular content area, considerable choice has been left to history departments in determining which particular events or developments to include and how they can best 'combine overview and depth studies to help pupils understand both the long arc of...
    Early Modern Britain 1509-1745
  • Report on the Bristol Branch's A-level Russian History Conference

      16th May 2024
    The Bristol Branch of the HA’s A-level Russian History Conference27 March 2024  ‘Such a great event – both for students and teachers. Many thanks…for organising it, and for sharing excellent resources’ (Mark Kauntze, Head of History Redland Green School, Bristol) ‘Brilliant, thank you… our students really enjoyed the experience.’ (Phill...
    Report on the Bristol Branch's A-level Russian History Conference
  • Cambridge Branch Programme

      Article
    Cambridge Branch Programme 2025 Enquiries to Branch President Dr Sean Lang sf_lang@hotmail.com      Wednesday 2 October 2024 7.30pm At the Netherhall School, Queen Edith's Way, Cambridge, CB1 8NN 'What is history for?' - an evening in honour of the late Nicolas Kinloch Speaker: Dr Sean Lang     Saturday...
    Cambridge Branch Programme
  • Re-evaluating the role of statues

      Primary History article
    Like them or loathe them, statues are excellent learning resources and the recent events in Bristol and elsewhere should not dissuade us from using them to aid children’s historical knowledge and enquiry skills. In fact, in the current climate, statues need a careful re-evaluation of their role within our towns....
    Re-evaluating the role of statues
  • Glowing in the Dark

      Historian article
    The twentieth century celebrated many new technologies and just like many of those from the industrial revolution we now know them to be edged with danger and potential long-term damage. Here we learn about the effects that radium, bolstered by its advantages in war time, had on the civilian factory...
    Glowing in the Dark
  • Teaching History 192: Breadth

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 1093 and all that: broadening Year 7’s British history horizons with Welsh medieval sources – Holly Hiscox (Read article) 18 Why I teach pupils things I don’t need them to remember forever: the role of takeaways in shaping a history curriculum...
    Teaching History 192: Breadth
  • Counterfactual Reasoning: Comparing British and French History

      Teaching History article
    Year 8 use counterfactual reasoning to explore place and social upheaval in eighteenth-century France and Britain Two linked motivations inspired Ellen Buxton's research study: she wanted pupils to make connections between British and French history and she wanted to explore the potential of counter-factual reasoning within a causation enquiry. It...
    Counterfactual Reasoning: Comparing British and French History
  • Film: The Origins of Mass Society - Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870

      Article
    Professor Peter Mandler is the current president of the Historical Association. As part of our 'presidents season' for the HA Virtual Branch he gave a fascinating talk on The Origins of Mass Society: Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870. In this talk he explores the impact of the changes in...
    Film: The Origins of Mass Society - Speech, Sex and Drink in Urbanising Britain, 1780-1870
  • Out and about in Bolton - Industrial Revelation

      Historian feature
    Despite its old name of Bolton-le-Moors, the history of Bolton is tied up with the Industrial Revolution. Its population grew from 17,000 inhabitants in 1801 to nearly 181,000 in 1911. It is well known that the damp climate of England's north west was perfectly suited to the textile industry, and...
    Out and about in Bolton - Industrial Revelation
  • The Enlightenment

      Classic Pamphlet
    Can a movement as varied and diffuse as the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century be contained within the covers of a short pamphlet? The problem would certainly have appealed to the intellectuals of that time. Generalists rather than specialists, citizens of the whole world of knowledge, they relished the challenge...
    The Enlightenment
  • Reading Branch Programme

      Article
    All enquiries to Chris Sexton – sexton44@gmail.com   Tel 01344 779321 or 07957 184342 HA members, students and school pupils free. Non-members visitors £3. Associate branch membership £10 per annum. Venue: Reading School, Erleigh Road, Reading RG1 5LW. Suppers precede each lecture from 6pm – cost £20 per person – are...
    Reading Branch Programme
  • Out and About in Stockholm

      Historian feature
    When Désirée Clary – wife of French Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte – arrived in Stockholm in 1811, she was appalled. It was true that she would eventually become Queen Desideria of Sweden and Norway, her husband having been elected heir-presumptive to the throne the previous year. But she left her new capital...
    Out and About in Stockholm
  • Teacher Fellowship Programmes

      Information
    The Historical Association's Teacher Fellowship Programme is a fully funded, rigorous, in-depth CPD programme which normally runs over 8 weeks starting with a intensive residential weekend and followed up by 8 online sessions. We bring our academic partners together with an experienced teacher educator to design a programme that brings your research...
    Teacher Fellowship Programmes