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  • Film: Building Subject Knowledge Quickly

      Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
    This film continues our Teaching History for Beginners filmed webinar series.  As a teacher, you may be teaching topics that you have never studied before. In this episode of the Beginning Teacher webinar series, Laura London, Lecturer in Education on the history PGCE at the University of East Anglia gives advice on...
    Film: Building Subject Knowledge Quickly

  • The Medlicott Medal 2024

      25th April 2024
    Catherine Hall is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London. She has a long-established academic record in feminist history and empire and post-colonial history. She was a professor of history at UCL during a key development period and was the principal director of two key...
    The Medlicott Medal 2024

  • Past Forward: Introduction

      Article
    The Historical Association held a major conference on history education, at the Cherwell School, Oxford on Saturday 28th September 2002. Entitled ‘Past Forward: A Vision for School History 2002-2012’, it was a celebration of recent trends in history teaching and a chance to reflect critically on where history education needs...
    Past Forward: Introduction

  • How museum collections make ancient Egypt, and the people who lived there, real

      Primary History article
    It’s a safe bet that ancient Egypt is one of the most exciting topics on the primary history curriculum. But that can come with misunderstandings of a complex 3,000-year-long history and an accomplished group of people, embedded by the sensationalised, gory, and othering approach often shown when ancient Egypt features...
    How museum collections make ancient Egypt, and the people who lived there, real

  • Factors influencing pupil take-up of history post Key Stage 3: an exploratory enquiry

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Last year, in Teaching History 132, Richard Harris and Terry Haydn shared their findings from a research project exploring children's views of school history. Here they report on further research, seeking to explain the wide...
    Factors influencing pupil take-up of history post Key Stage 3: an exploratory enquiry

  • What was Witchcraft in the Early Sixteenth Century?

      Article
    In this article, Dr Jonathan Durrant (Principal Lecturer in History, University of South Wales) argues that we know no more now than we did in the late 1980s about what witchcraft was as men and women of the early sixteenth century understood it. Dr Durrant looks at evidence from Henry VIII's Witchcraft Act of 1542 to explore British and European perceptions of witches...
    What was Witchcraft in the Early Sixteenth Century?

  • 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

  • From flight paths to spiders’ webs: developing a progression model for Key Stage 3

      Teaching History journal article
    The disapplication of level descriptions in the 2014 National Curriculum has spurred many history departments to rethink their approach not only to assessment but to their models of progression. In this article Rachael Cook builds on the recent work of history teachers such as Ford (TH157), Hawkey et al (TH161),...
    From flight paths to spiders’ webs: developing a progression model for Key Stage 3

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 169: Developing a sense of place

      Journal article
    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 soon find something better: conversations in which other history teachers have debated or tackled your problems – conversations any history...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 169: Developing a sense of place

  • Move Me On 114: Teaching history of medicine at GCSE

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Louis is having problems teaching the history of medicine course at GCSE.
    Move Me On 114: Teaching history of medicine at GCSE

  • Cunning Plan 186: teaching Samurai Japan in Key Stage 3

      Teaching History feature
    Like many history departments we have been seeking to develop schemes of work that are more outward-looking, and, as the National Curriculum describes, ‘enable pupils to know and understand significant aspects of world history’.  To my mind, Samurai Japan offers students the opportunity to explore a time and place that is...
    Cunning Plan 186: teaching Samurai Japan in Key Stage 3

  • How can we teach about medieval Britain in primary schools?

      Primary History article
    There is no question that the medieval period (no matter what timespan it claims) offers plenty of fascination for the primary pupil. It also allows some continuity with the period up to 1066 which forms the bedrock of the Key Stage 2 history curriculum. With opportunities to cover the medieval...
    How can we teach about medieval Britain in primary schools?

  • The Quality Mark award: Self-evaluation with a critical friend

      Article
    The Quality Mark has been a really important part in the journey of the development of our history curriculum culture at the Convent of Jesus and Mary. Our school is a diverse comprehensive all-girls Catholic school situated in Harlesden, north west London. We first started working together as a department team...
    The Quality Mark award: Self-evaluation with a critical friend

  • Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society

      Teaching History article
    Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society Elizabeth Carr writes here about a new scheme of work she developed to teach students about diversity in Victorian society. When dealing with a concept such as diversity, it can be easy for students to slip into stereotypes based...
    Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society

  • Subject Leader Development Programme (SLDP)

      News Item
    Book now Autumn 2025 Cohort - Closed for booking Spring 2026 Cohort - Welcome meeting: Thursday 8 January, 4pm-5pm- Second meeting: Thursday 26 February, 4pm-5pm- Assessment meeting: Thursday 19 March, 4pm-5pm Summer 2026 Cohort - To be announced If you have any questions please email Olivia at events@history.org.uk What is...
    Subject Leader Development Programme (SLDP)

  • The Legacy of the Z Special Unit in World War II

      Historian article
    The Spirit of Normandy Trust Essay Competition is aimed at young historians and organised by the Historical Association (as part of the annual Young Historian Awards). The 2023 winner in the Key Stage 3 (lower secondary school) category is Ayan Sinha, a pupil at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Wakefield. In this abridged...
    The Legacy of the Z Special Unit in World War II

  • Arthur Wharton: the world’s first professional black footballer

      Primary History article
    Schools are now looking to extend their study of significant individuals away from many of the conventional ones.  This article looks at a lesser known individual, Arthur Wharton, which could make a good choice for teachers wanting to tap into pupils’ interest.  Arthur Wharton was the world’s first black professional...
    Arthur Wharton: the world’s first professional black footballer

  • Using the back cover image: Reconstructing the Romans

      Primary History feature
    Reconstruction drawings, diagrams and models are vital examples of interpretation that we can use to help pupils understand the past. On one level they help to fire imagination, while on another they offer a way of presenting important historical facts. The image overleaf is a reconstruction drawing of Chester's Roman...
    Using the back cover image: Reconstructing the Romans

  • What your local Archive Service can offer to schools

      Primary History article
    Imagine a place where your pupils become detectives working on mysteries from the past such as the tale of Thomas Sargeant, a 15-year-old factory worker who died in a chemical works in 1898. Your local archive is bursting with stories about real people like this which can give children an...
    What your local Archive Service can offer to schools

  • Challenges facing The National Archives and the archives sector

      Public History Podcast
    Podcast of a second interview between Dr Andrew Foster from the Historical Association and member of The National Archives' Strategic Academic Stakeholder Forum and Oliver Morley, Chief Executive and Keeper, The National Archives, which took place on 6 December 2011. The interview covers the strategic challenges faced by The National...
    Challenges facing The National Archives and the archives sector

  • National distinctions entirely laid aside?

      Historian article
    Bethan M. Jenkins considers why it was important to Lewis Morris and others to have the distinctive Welsh contribution to British history and culture properly acknowledged.
    National distinctions entirely laid aside?

  • Making the most of your Historian membership

      Information
    Making the most of your HA membership HA membership offers more than just your subscription to The Historian. As a member can you enjoy a range of benefits designed to help you explore all you love about history. As a reminder, we’ve highlighted some key benefits available here. If you...
    Making the most of your Historian membership

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The House of Dudley

      Article
    The Dudleys thrived at the court of Henry VII, but were sacrificed to the popularity of Henry VIII. Rising to prominence in the reign of Edward VI, the Dudleys lost it all by advancing Jane Grey to the throne over Mary I. That was until the reign of Elizabeth I,...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The House of Dudley

  • 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

  • Triumphs Show 173: Teaching Black Tudors

      Teaching History journal feature
    I am ashamed to admit that, until recently, my teaching of black history did not go beyond schemes of work on the transatlantic slave trade and the civil rights movement in the USA. This all changed in November 2017 when I heard Dr Miranda Kaufmann on the ‘BBC History Extra’...
    Triumphs Show 173: Teaching Black Tudors