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Teaching History 162: Scales of Planning
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 From the history of maths to the history of greatness: towards worthwhile cross-curricular study through the refinement of a scheme of work - Harry Fletcher-Wood (Read article)
16 The whole point of the thing: how nominalisation might develop students’ written...
Teaching History 162: Scales of Planning
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Primary History 80
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article)
05 HA Primary News
08 Castles: distinguishing fact and fiction in the early years curriculum – Sue Temple (Read article)
12 Ordinary Roman life: using authentic artefacts to achieve meaning – Hugh Moore (Read article)
14 Good practice in primary history: celebrating outstanding history teaching through the...
Primary History 80
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School children work as archaeologists
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Adults find local history fascinating: the minutiae of life in the past and the way a familiar place has become what it is today capture our imagination. But children may be rather less eager to...
School children work as archaeologists
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Romans, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings
Primary Lesson Plans
Please note: these resources were produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-date the 2014 National Curriculum.
A series of lessons, exemplars and guides to help you teach your students about the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings.
Romans, Anglo-Saxons, and Vikings
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Polychronicon 116: The Roman Empire
Teaching History feature
Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its own age. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' examines the study...
Polychronicon 116: The Roman Empire
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Podcast: Latin Poets and their Role in Roman Society
The Latin Poets
In this podcast Dr Joanna Paul & Dr Paula James of the Open University discuss the role and significance of the Latin Poets in Roman society.
Podcast: Latin Poets and their Role in Roman Society
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Local and Community History Month
1-31 May each year
The aim of the month is to increase awareness of local history, promote history in general to the local community and encourage all members of the community to participate.
Activities happen across the UK and include trips, library exhibitions and local lectures. It is a great way for groups to...
Local and Community History Month
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Primary History 39
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Pupils’ reviews
05 Editorial
06 Primary Noticeboard
08 In My View: why should we continue to learn about the Second World War? — Dan Phillips
11 The impact of World War II on British children's gendered perceptions of contemporary Germany — Russell Gray (Read article)
14 When we were...
Primary History 39
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Cunning Plan 112: Empire
Teaching History feature
‘Empire’ is an historical concept with a rather imprecise range of meanings. Students need to be able to track their changing understanding of what an empire actually is. Into our workschemes for Years 7 to 13 we have therefore introduced a number of enquiry questions that simultaneously build knowledge about...
Cunning Plan 112: Empire
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Place-names and the National Curriculum for History
Primary History article
Place-names, such as house or school names, are infinite in number and all around us. Every place-name may convey a message about the place. Often place-names record and celebrate local and national people, events and incidents, define what a place looked like in the past and how we used to...
Place-names and the National Curriculum for History
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Good practice in primary history: the Quality Mark scheme
Primary History article
This article aims to cover two separate but related aspects. Firstly, using the evidence of Quality Mark visits to primary schools, Bev Forrest identifies and explains some of the best practice observed on these visits. Secondly, Mel Jones focuses on one specific case study illustrating the type of primary history...
Good practice in primary history: the Quality Mark scheme
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Film: Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
Ravenna was the capital of the Western Roman Empire from 402 CE until 751 CE, then later, the capital of the immense kingdom of Theoderic the Goth and finally the centre of Byzantine power in Italy. In this talk Professor Judith Herrin explores the history of the city, its peoples...
Film: Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
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Was Boudicca Britain's first hero?
Year 6 Scheme of Work
Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum.
This unit centres on Queen Boudicca.
While factual knowledge about her life and the Roman occupation are an essential component of the unit, the main focus is on contrasting interpretations of Boudicca over time and exploration of the reasons behind her...
Was Boudicca Britain's first hero?
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Move Me On 121: Teaching outside subject area
The problem page for history mentors
This Issue's Problem: Because of the demands of the modular structure on non-specialists, the school's Key Stage 3 schemes of work are extremely detailed, and include individual lesson plans that staff are encouraged to use or adapt depending on their level of confidence. Arnie began by relying on the plan...
Move Me On 121: Teaching outside subject area
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Cunning Plan 181: Incorporating a more global perspective within Key Stage 3
Teaching History feature
While lockdown, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020, brought a period of turbulence to the education sector, it also brought a wealth of generosity, with a vast range of free online CPD offered by different providers. One in particular was the webinar series ‘West African History before the 1600s’ hosted...
Cunning Plan 181: Incorporating a more global perspective within Key Stage 3
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Work experience opportunities at the HA
Information
Work experience can be a useful way to find out what kinds of careers and roles you are interested in and improve your employment prospects by gaining experience and skills, while demonstrating commitment to a particular career or subject area.
The HA is a small and busy charity with offices based near...
Work experience opportunities at the HA
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Building and assessing a frame of reference in the Netherlands
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Concerns about our ability to equip young people with a frame of reference that they can actually use to orient themselves in time are widespread. The challenges were extensively debated within the last issue of...
Building and assessing a frame of reference in the Netherlands
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‘You should be proud about your history. They make you feel ashamed’: Teaching history hurts
Teaching History article
As history teachers we are used to encouraging pupils to think; enabling them to express thoughts with clarity both verbally and in written form. Yet, if history as a school subject becomes purely cognitive, then something is missing. History deals with human behaviour and therefore the affective and the emotional...
‘You should be proud about your history. They make you feel ashamed’: Teaching history hurts
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Polychronicon 132: Roman Emperors
Teaching History feature
Everyone has seen a Roman emperor. Whether at the British Museum's current Hadrian exhibition, or in Derek Jacobi's stuttering Claudius, or in Joachim Phoenix's psychotic Commodus, most people are aware of Roman emperors to some extent or other.1 They can be semi-legendary, or have been entirely ignored by posterity. Some...
Polychronicon 132: Roman Emperors
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Responding to the climate and environmental crisis through history and geography
Partnership CPD from the Historical Association and Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
Book Now
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In recent years, the climate crisis has become increasingly urgent and apparent. The Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education was founded at UCL in 2022. Their 2024...
Responding to the climate and environmental crisis through history and geography
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Cunning Plan 177: teaching about life in Elizabethan England by looking at death
Teaching History feature
‘We already did the Tudors in primary school’ was the most frequent comment made by students about our Year 7 scheme of learning in our annual review. Students reported covering the Tudors at least once, sometimes twice, before reaching secondary school and they had clearly not faced extensive further study...
Cunning Plan 177: teaching about life in Elizabethan England by looking at death
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Post Roman Scotland
Scottish History
In this set of podcasts Dr Alex Woolf of the University of St Andrews looks at post-Roman Scotland.
Post Roman Scotland
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Ancient Egypt
Reference guide for primary
This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today
Please note: this guide was written before the new National Curriculum...
Ancient Egypt
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The Historian 134: The End of Empire
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 The end of the Roman Empire – Guy de la Bédoyère (Read article)
10 My Favourite History Place: Hadrian’s Wall – Sue Temple (Read article)
11 Empire cocktails in ten tweets
12 The Aztec Empire: a surprise ending? – Matthew Restall (Read article)
19 The President’s...
The Historian 134: The End of Empire
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Teaching History 69
Journal
Editorial 2
News 3
Articles:
Young Children's Thinking in History Hilary Cooper 8
The Magnificent Seven: Reasons for Teaching about Prehistory Peter Stone 13
National Curriculum History, Schemes of Work and the Primary School Child Brian Scott 19
Delivering the Primary History Curriculum Keith Crawford and Graham Rogers 22
The...
Teaching History 69
