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  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Royal Studies

      Teaching History feature
    ‘Royal Studies’ is much more than the study of kings and queens as individuals. It draws in their families, the institution of monarchy and monarchical government, court studies, relationships with the church, artistic and literary patronage, and more. While history ‘from below’ and studies of non-elite figures have enriched the...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Royal Studies

  • 'Didn't we do that in Year 7?' Planning for progress in evidential understanding

      Teaching History article
    Christine Counsell describes a lively activity, ideal for Year 9, in which pupils compare and interrelate a collection of sources. The activity leads pupils into thinking about the sources as a collection, and about the enquiry as an evidential problem. Or at least it can do. The article discusses the...
    'Didn't we do that in Year 7?' Planning for progress in evidential understanding

  • The Great Debate 2025

      The HA's public speaking competition open to school years 10-13
    What is the Great Debate? The Great Debate is a public speaking competition where students have 5 minutes to present their speech arguing their answer to the question. Over the past couple of years the competition has been growing in size, to encourages many young people to get involved as possible...
    The Great Debate 2025

  • South Africa – National Elections 2024

      3rd June 2024
    Over the last 150 years South Africa has often been in the news. Its history is one that is marked with conflict, political prejudice and violence. For decades it was known for its inhumane political model of apartheid followed by one of political change and openness. For the last decade...
    South Africa – National Elections 2024

  • A View from the Classroom - Chronology

      Primary History feature
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. As a teacher, the passing of time in a classroom may be: challenging, stimulating, appear endless, be subject to constant change, though never dull. Years pass, yet at times it can seem but yesterday, when I...
    A View from the Classroom - Chronology

  • The Willing Suspension of Disbeliefs

      Article
    There should be no hesitancy doubting his existence R. G. Collingwood is remembered today as a philosopher, a man with a wide range of interests, the core of whose work is in the Idealist tradition. He died in 1943 and although his work has subsequently not been widely celebrated the...
    The Willing Suspension of Disbeliefs

  • Developing transferable knowledge at A-level

      Teaching History article
    From a compartmentalised to a complicated past: developing transferable knowledge at A-level Students find it difficult to join up the different things they study into a complex account of the past. Examination specifications do not necessarily help with this because of the way in which history is divided up into...
    Developing transferable knowledge at A-level

  • Changing thinking about cause

      Article
    Aware both that causation is the bread and butter of the historian’s craft, and that trainee teachers find it far harder to teach well than they anticipate, Alex Ford sought to get to the heart of the problem with causation, especially at GCSE. When teaching to a specification and mark...
    Changing thinking about cause

  • Timelines and technology

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Timelines are basic tools for developing knowledge and understandings about chronology, providing the frameworks and contexts for historical enquiry. Information and Communications Technology [ICT ] offers a range of tools for viewing [and creating timelines, ranging...
    Timelines and technology

  • Scene shifting: Using visuals for chronology

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Vivid pictures from and of the past, its material culture, can be stimulating and effective tools for teaching chronology. Their use is not, however, straightforward. Children bring into school mental images and stereotypes about the past...
    Scene shifting: Using visuals for chronology

  • Lecture recording: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

      A Fistful of Shells
    In this Virtual Branch webinar we were joined in conversation with Dr Toby Green on his acclaimed book 'A Fistful of Shells'. Shortlisted for the 2020 Wolfson Prize and winner of the 2019 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, the book explores West Africa from the Rise of the...
    Lecture recording: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

  • Evacuees: Children during World War II

      Lesson Plan
    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 This was a series of three lessons completed in the...
    Evacuees: Children during World War II

  • Out and About in Ardmore, County Waterford

      Historian article
    Within the historic landscape it is frequently possible to identify the impact of deeply religious figures who have exercised very real and long-lasting spiritual influence on their communities and indeed on the very landscape itself.Often these are shadowy figures in a distant past where myth and history intertwine. Sometimes it is...
    Out and About in Ardmore, County Waterford

  • Visual image: boxing boys fresco from Ancient Greece

      Lesson Plan
    John Fines was working with a class of 28 Year 6 pupils, studying Ancient Greece. John wrote: Challenge is what the Nuffield Primary History project is all about, and I wanted the class to think hard about the Greeks and to question sources. My learning objectives were for the children...
    Visual image: boxing boys fresco from Ancient Greece

  • Teaching about the German Occupation of Jersey through the Occupation Tapestry

      Primary History article
    The German Occupation and subsequent liberation of Jersey is particularly significant for schools in Jersey and is included in a new history curriculum being trialled for Key Stage 1 and 2 to be implemented in 2023. For children in Jersey, it relates to a significant event at Key Stage 1...
    Teaching about the German Occupation of Jersey through the Occupation Tapestry

  • Teaching the iGeneration

      Teaching History article
    Teaching the iGeneration: what possibilities exist in and beyond the history classroom? The development of communications technology in recent years has not only changed the ways in which students can access their world: it also changes the way they think about it. Sheldrake and Watkin draw here upon work that...
    Teaching the iGeneration

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 150: Getting pupils to see change over time

      Teaching History feature
    This page is the starting point for all who are new to the published writings of history teachers. Every problem you wrestle with, other history teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don't exist. But if you discover others' writing, you'll soon find - and want to join - something...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 150: Getting pupils to see change over time

  • Poverty in Britain: A development study for Key Stage 2

      Primary History article
    One of the requirements for Key Stage 2 history is for some history that extends beyond 1066. Various suggestions have been made including an examination of change within a social theme. The example given is Crime and Punishment but the opportunities for something interesting are vast. This article focuses on...
    Poverty in Britain: A development study for Key Stage 2

  • Research the history of the fire service in the local community

      Article
    Jayne Pascoe, third year BEd trainee teacher describes the use of the fire service in her assignment on 'exploring an aspect of local history'.
    Research the history of the fire service in the local community

  • Taunton Deane Branch Programme

      Article
    Taunton Deane Branch Programme 2024-25   Branch Contact: All enquiries to Mr Geoff Bisson gb@queenscollege.org.uk  tel. 01823 353749 Venue: All talks start at 7.30pm on Wednesdays and take place in the Birchall Hall, Queen's College, Trull Road, Taunton, TA1 4QS unless otherwise stated. There is free car parking on site....
    Taunton Deane Branch Programme

  • Working with sources: scepticism or cynicism? Putting the story back together again

      Article
    Many history teachers will remember the feature on Jamie Byrom's teaching in Times Educational Supplement of July 1996 where he attacked the recent fashion of history textbooks for encouraging only short (and usually formulaic) responses about reliability of sources. He demonstrated the systematic teaching that pupils need if they are...
    Working with sources: scepticism or cynicism? Putting the story back together again

  • V&A Schools SEN Programme

      Article
    The V&A Learning Department aims to make the Museum's collections accessible to all through an engaging and diverse range of events, courses, workshops, trails and resources. The Schools programme supports Primary and Secondary students and teachers and includes sessions for students with special educational needs. The SEN sessions have a...
    V&A Schools SEN Programme

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... youth culture?

      Teaching History feature
    For such a boldly iconoclastic work, the Key Stage 3 textbook A New Focus on ... British Social History, c.1920–2000 (2023) provides a disarmingly conventional account of youth in the 1960s as ‘mostly better educated and informed than their parents had been at their age [and able] … to find...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... youth culture?

  • Teaching History 41

      Journal
    Editorial BEd Students at Work in a Middle School, Michael Gibson 3 Report: The First BALH young Historians' workshop, David Haynes & Ray Acton 5 BBC Educational Broadcasting and Irish History, Victor Kelly 6 Whose Class Is It Anyway? Ian Jones 8 Report: The Second National Conference, Sneh Shalt 11...
    Teaching History 41

  • Substantial sculptures or sad little plaques? Making 'interpretations' matter to Year 9

      Teaching History article
    Andrew Wrenn builds upon current, popular and practical work on ‘interpretations of history' analysed in recent editions. Using the public's responses to the temporary exhibition on the slave trade housed at Bristol City Museum, he offers a range of fascinating practical activities for Year 9 pupils. Many of these could...
    Substantial sculptures or sad little plaques? Making 'interpretations' matter to Year 9