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  • The Historian 120: The calm before the storm? The World in 1913

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 The Romanov Tercentenary: nostalgia versus history on the eve of the Great War - Catherine Merridale (Read Article) 12 The world in 1913: friendly societies - Daniel Weinbren (Read Article) 17 The President's Column 18 Franz Ferdinand - Ian F. W. Beckett (Read Article) 23 Round About A...
    The Historian 120: The calm before the storm? The World in 1913

  • The Value of Biography in History

      Article
    7 April 2000: Historical Association, Norton Medlicott Medal Lecture. President, fellow members, ladies and gentlemen. I am deeply conscious that having just received the Norton Medlicott Medal; which means so much to me, that I must try to live up to the honour itself and the traditions of the recipients....
    The Value of Biography in History

  • History and the Literacy Hour

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Amid fears of history being lost from the Key Stage One curriculum, following suspension of the statutory orders, research which considered the use of historical story as part of the Literacy hour, was carried out by Paula Silvera, a final year BEd...
    History and the Literacy Hour

  • Towards inclusion: A study of significant figures and disability within the national curriculum

      Primary History article
    Since the early days of the National Curriculum, considerable progress has been made to introduce children to an inclusive view of history. The research of the late Hilary Claire (1996) served as a major impetus and now primary teachers strive to ensure that no groups or individuals are marginalised, particularly...
    Towards inclusion: A study of significant figures and disability within the national curriculum

  • An authentic voice: perspectives on the value of listening to survivors of genocide

      Teaching History article
    It is common practice to invite survivors of the Holocaust to speak about their experiences to pupils in schools and colleges. Systematic reflection on the value of working with survivors of the Holocaust and other genocides and on how to make the most of doing so is rarer, however. In...
    An authentic voice: perspectives on the value of listening to survivors of genocide

  • Inclusion, diversity and the national curriculum: Are things better than they were?

      Article
    Introduction - the role of history It is an interesting question as to whether history teaching has developed a greater understanding of inclusion and diversity since the start of the National Curriculum. The first version of the National Curriculum required teachers to consider a balance of political, economic, social and...
    Inclusion, diversity and the national curriculum: Are things better than they were?

  • The Historian 56: Philip II of Spain

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: Philip II of Spain, the Prudent King - James Casey (Read article) Quixotically Generous...Economically Worthless - William Kenefick (Read article) 1497, Cornwall, and the Wars of the Roses - Ian Arthurson (Read article) Stalin, Propoganda, Soviet Society, and the Great Terror - Sarah Davies (Read article) The New...
    The Historian 56: Philip II of Spain

  • Political literacy: citizenship through the English national curriculum's the Romans in Britain study unit

      Primary History article
    Hilary Claire raised fundamental issues about the relationship between History and Citizenship for the development of a sense of identity. Her paper stresses the importance of sceptical thinking, perspective, sequence and progression - the essential chronology that underpins pupil's education for citizenship in the timeframe that history provides...
    Political literacy: citizenship through the English national curriculum's the Romans in Britain study unit

  • A History of the World: 100 objects that tell a story

      Primary History article
    ‘A History of the World in 100 Objects' was the most creative, imaginative and dynamic development in primary History Education for thirty years. It ties in perfectly with and supports the government's draft NC for History...
    A History of the World: 100 objects that tell a story

  • History's future: facing the challenge

      Teaching History article
    Trevor Fisher argues that pressures on our subject are now so intense and multi-faceted that a wider coalition is necessary if history is to fight back. Our difficulties are compounded, he suggests, by a lack of consensus and by acute lack of knowledge about school history among those who produce...
    History's future: facing the challenge

  • Resources from the HA/CfBT Regional Conferences Part 1

      Article
    The HA has held nine regional conferences across England in London, Norwich, Leeds, Leicester, Reading, Darlington, Bristol, Birmingham and Bolton to train history teachers in ways to tackle the New Key Stage 3 Curriculum. Please find below the PowerPoint presentations that went with morning introduction>>>
    Resources from the HA/CfBT Regional Conferences Part 1

  • Cabinets of Curiosities, The History of Museums

      Article
    Delving into the origin and history of museums, one finds that particular themes emerge which are still present amongst the underpinning dynamics of museums in the 21st Century. Inseparable from the story of museums and galleries, for example, are the notions of ‘collecting’ and ‘curiosity’ and likewise, one’s attention is...
    Cabinets of Curiosities, The History of Museums

  • Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom

      Article
    At the HA, we understand the importance of creating the next generation of history students who can not only write about history, but who can also effectively communicate their thinking through oracy. Current academic research highlights the importance of oracy for learning and the close relationship between being able to...
    Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom

  • Triumphs Show 150.1: meeting the challenges of the A2 synoptic unit

      Teaching History article
    A collaborative project between Richard Rose Central Academy and University of Cumbria PGCE History trainees to meet the challenges of the A2 synoptic unit. "If I tell you to eat, you will eat! You wanted cake! You stole cake! And now you've got cake! What's more, you're going to eat...
    Triumphs Show 150.1: meeting the challenges of the A2 synoptic unit

  • Move Me On 186: trainee provides little scope for students to use their knowledge in analysis/argument

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
    Move Me On 186: trainee provides little scope for students to use their knowledge in analysis/argument

  • How an atlas and a very old map can help us make sense of the ancient Greeks

      Primary History article
    The ancient Greeks were a maritime people – they travelled and traded vast distances by sea, but rarely left sight of land. They were also a very divided nation. Separate city states fiercely guarded their independence, only uniting [sometimes!] to fight against a common enemy like the Persians. The Greeks all...
    How an atlas and a very old map can help us make sense of the ancient Greeks

  • How damaging to the Nazis was the Shetland Bus between 1940 and 1944?

      Historian article
    The Shetland Bus operation may be considered successful in that it supplied Norwegian resistance movements with weapons and took many refugees from Norway to Shetland, and that it managed to bind just shy of 300,000 German troops in Norway. However, because of this operation, forty-four men lost their lives, and...
    How damaging to the Nazis was the Shetland Bus between 1940 and 1944?

  • Recorded webinar: Using 'One Day' to explore the actions that helped to lead to the Holocaust and actions of genocide

      HA Webinar
    This year's Holocaust Memorial Day the theme is 'One Day'. In this webinar with historian Paula Kitching, we will use the one day Wannsee Conference of January 1942 to help explore the actions of the perpetrators, the Holocaust victims and how decision making by people can lead to genocide. This...
    Recorded webinar: Using 'One Day' to explore the actions that helped to lead to the Holocaust and actions of genocide

  • '...trying to count the stars': using the story of Bergen-Belsen to teach the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Maria Osowiecki's search for the right questions to frame her students' study of the Holocaust was driven initially by the proximity of her school to the site of Bergen-Belsen, and the particular interests and concerns of her students as members of British Forces families. But, as this article richly demonstrates,...
    '...trying to count the stars': using the story of Bergen-Belsen to teach the Holocaust

  • The Historian 92: Child Health and School meals

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: Iconic images of war - Edgar Jones (Read Article) Child health and school meals - Denise Amos (Read Article) Edo period Japanese art  Hungary 1956 - Ann Kneif (Read Article) Kilpeck church - John Hunt (Read Article)
    The Historian 92: Child Health and School meals

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the British Empire and the age of revolutions in the global South

      Teaching History feature
    The historiography of the British Empire has taken a long course since the era of decolonisation. Political histories of the late twentieth century considered the mechanisms connecting crises at the ‘periphery’ with metropolitan decision-making. One rather overused stereotype was the so-called ‘man on the spot’ pushing empire forward, be they...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the British Empire and the age of revolutions in the global South

  • Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by the work of the social and cultural historian Tim Cole, Stuart Farley decided to look again at the way he teaches the Holocaust. He wanted to focus on the geographical concept of place as a way of enabling his Year 9 students to build far more diverse narratives,...
    Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust

  • What can rituals reveal about power in the medieval world? Teaching Year 7 pupils to apply interdisciplinary approaches

      Teaching History article
    Much has been written in recent years about how historical scholarship can be used to shape practice in the classroom. As an historian of the medieval period now working as an history teacher, Dhwani Patel offers a fresh perspective on these debates. During her PGCE year, Patel found herself reflecting...
    What can rituals reveal about power in the medieval world? Teaching Year 7 pupils to apply interdisciplinary approaches

  • Building a better past: plans to reform the curriculum

      Teaching History article
    David Nicholls summarises some of the problems facing history education and offers a commentary on various cases for reform. He argues that we need to look at provision holistically from 5 to 21 and urges collaboration across phases and sectors. By working more closely together, the history community as a...
    Building a better past: plans to reform the curriculum

  • 1906-2006 One Hundred Years of the Historical Association

      The Historian 91
    4 Foreword - Lady Antonia Fraser 6 Swanning around - Jeremy Paterson 10 A Parade of Past Presidents 1906-82 - Donald Read 24 The Norton Medlicott Medal - Bill Speck 30 For Short Time an Endless Monument: The Shifting History of a Familiar London Landmark - Lisa Jardine 38 Wise...
    1906-2006 One Hundred Years of the Historical Association