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  • What is APP?

      Article
    Assessing Pupils' Progress in History APP is a tool to view pupil progress periodically by making use of collections of day to day learning in order to ‘make periodic judgements on pupils' progress using a wide range of evidence taken from a variety of classroom contexts.'[i]  QCDA is currently working...
    What is APP?

  • The Great Debate Final 2024

      25th March 2024
    Winner:  Emma Crow of Broxburn Academy, Broxburn, Scotland  Runners up:  Abigail Powers of The Ladies’ College, Guernsey  Erica Wright of William Farr School, Lincolnshire  Rachel McGarry of Shavington Academy, Crewe, Cheshire  Finalists Sofia Ntege, North Oxfordshire Academy, Banbury Harry Gray, Exeter School, Exeter Rhea Cherrington, Bablake School, Coventry Molly Grimshaw,...
    The Great Debate Final 2024

  • Young Historian Awards 2024 – the winners

      16th September 2024
    Spirit of Normandy Trust Senior Vivaan Davda – The Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai Spirit of Normandy Trust Key Stage 3 Joshua Broadbent – Royal Grammar School, Guildford Spirit of Normandy Trust Primary Salisbury Cathedral School Best School History Magazine [sponsored by the Mid-Trent and Mercia Branch] St Alban’s School Stockport...
    Young Historian Awards 2024 – the winners

  • My Favourite History Place: David Pearse explores St Petersburg

      Historian feature
    If you want to understand Russian history from Peter the Great up to at least the 1917 Revolutions, you have to visit St Petersburg. Like Versailles, St Petersburg was built for an absolute monarch, on an unsuitable site, at the cost of many labourers' lives. Unlike Versailles, it was designed...
    My Favourite History Place: David Pearse explores St Petersburg

  • Using diaries to stimulate children's understanding of the past

      Primary History article
    Children develop their understanding of the past through a range of historical sources of evidence. Written sources may provide different types of information for children to work from. Records such as census returns or street directories provide information about families and tradespeople living in a particular communities and old maps...
    Using diaries to stimulate children's understanding of the past

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... piracy and empire in the early modern world

      Teaching History feature
    The topic of early modern global piracy has attracted increasing scholarly attention in recent decades, partly due to its own intrinsic interest and, it must be said, its entertainment value. However, historians have also explored its connections with broader themes such as empire and colonisation, social history, global economic networks,...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... piracy and empire in the early modern world

  • Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)

      Immersive online course for experienced history teachers
    Autumn 2026 Cohort Start date: Wednesday 11 November, 5.15pm–6.30pm Book Now What is the Experienced Teacher Programme? This six-week online course is designed to energise your teaching and help you engage with the history education community. In this programme you will access rich, subject-specific professional development designed specifically for experienced teachers: an antidote...
    Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)

  • Reading, recovering and re-visioning Victorian Women

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Knowledge of the experience of women during Victorian times has developed considerably during the last thirty years. History had a privileged place within the British Women’s Liberation movement in the early 1970s and reclaiming the...
    Reading, recovering and re-visioning Victorian Women

  • Cunning Plan 196: Does women’s suffrage deserve a more prominent place in Australia’s national narrative?

      Teaching History feature
    In this Cunning Plan, Jonathon Dallimore and Martin Douglas explore how teaching about the history of the suffrage movement in Australia can be used to raise questions both about the campaign for votes for women in Australia and wider questions about what defines Australian history. They also open up the...
    Cunning Plan 196: Does women’s suffrage deserve a more prominent place in Australia’s national narrative?

  • Investigating ‘sense of place’ with Year 9 pupils

      Teaching History article
    Confined to his home during lockdown in 2020, teacher Josh Mellor became eager to explore the history of the physical environment on his doorstep. After reading about different approaches to using environmental history in the classroom, Mellor decided to design an enquiry to explore the changing landscape of the Fens in...
    Investigating ‘sense of place’ with Year 9 pupils

  • The Historian 154: Out now

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Read The Historian 154: Jubilee Welcome to the latest edition of The Historian. This Jubilee edition is a way of drawing together a series of articles that are either about the Jubilee or about royalty and Queenship. It is also a chance to mark the 70 years of our patron HM...
    The Historian 154: Out now

  • Thinking about local history - Step by step local study

      Article
    The short walk from our school to St Mary's Parish Church, Leyton, takes us past late Victorian terraces, post-Second World War apartment blocks and early twentyfirst century social housing in one of the most densely populated and ethnically diverse parts of East London, sandwiched as it is between Stratford and...
    Thinking about local history - Step by step local study

  • Richmond Branch Inter-School Historical Balloon Debate Podcasts

      Branch Podcast
    Richmond Branch held a series of inter-school historical balloon debates at Putney High School on Thursday 15th March 2012.We podcasted the Under 18 debate and have made the excellent and entertaining presentations available to you here.Each school team were asked represent their character over 4 minutes to convince the judges...
    Richmond Branch Inter-School Historical Balloon Debate Podcasts

  • Balderstone St Leonard’s CE Primary School: our journey to the Quality Mark Gold Award

      Primary History article
    Kate Turner provides a fantastic insight into the way in which their school has achieved the Gold Standard Quality Mark. She demonstrates both the overarching themes that underpin the history curriculum in the school but also their sensitivity to ethnic and cultural diversity, the rich opportunities gained through engaging with...
    Balderstone St Leonard’s CE Primary School: our journey to the Quality Mark Gold Award

  • Germany

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Germany An HA Podcast Series: Modern German History (1914-1948) Building and assessing historical knowledge on three scales Kristallnacht Adolf Eichmann Reading and enquiring in Years 12 and 13: a case study on women in the Third Reich Podcast: Cold War Germany German Women 1900-1945 Nazism and Stalinism – suitable case for...
    Germany

  • Corporate secondary membership: a view from SLT

      By Simon Harrison, Headteacher
    From history teacher to Headteacher, in over 25 years of teaching I have filled most school roles; history teacher, in the ‘middle’ as a subject leader, an Advanced Skills Teacher, senior leader and eventually Headteacher. I have learned a lot about leadership in Secondary Schools along the way, and becoming...
    Corporate secondary membership: a view from SLT

  • Time and Place; Using a Local Historical Site with Key Stage 2 and 3

      Time and Place
    English Heritage and the Historical Association have teamed up to provide this great new CPD guide to getting the most out of local historical sites with your classes. This easy to follow unit provides the basis for an entire unit of local study using the built heritage around you. Examples...
    Time and Place; Using a Local Historical Site with Key Stage 2 and 3

  • A complex empire: National Archives Learning Curve takes on the British Empire

      Teaching History article
    Ben Walsh describes some of the rationale behind the construction of the new Learning Curve exhibition on the British Empire and, in so doing, makes a strong case for placing empire generally and the British Empire in particular at the heart of historical study for all teenagers. A complex and...
    A complex empire: National Archives Learning Curve takes on the British Empire

  • Using this map and all your knowledge, become Bismarck

      Teaching History article
    Understanding the past is not an abstract exercise. Historical questions revolve around decisions made by real people under real pressure. As historians, we factor psychological pressure into our analysis. How, though, are we to enable our students to do the same? To study why Bismarck began a programme of overseas...
    Using this map and all your knowledge, become Bismarck

  • Conceptual awareness through categorising: using ICT to get Year 13 reading

      Teaching History article
    When presenting their practical approaches to post-16 teaching in Teaching History 103, both Richard Harris and Rachael Rudham argued that students need to ‘do’ things with information, to process it, play with it, classify it, if they are ever to understand or remember it. They made a case for not...
    Conceptual awareness through categorising: using ICT to get Year 13 reading

  • Move Me On 194: dealing with students’ current concerns when teaching the history of climate change

      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 194: dealing with students’ current concerns when teaching the history of climate change

  • Let's see what's under the blue square...': getting pupils to track their own thinking

      Teaching History article
    Trainee teachers Suzie Bunyan and Anna Marshall explain why they decided to devise an activity in which they made a big fuss of a just one visual source. As beginning teachers they were also focusing on aspects of their own professional learning. They had decided to extend their skills in...
    Let's see what's under the blue square...': getting pupils to track their own thinking

  • Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum

      Guidance for history teachers
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of history teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today  With Ofsted incorporating curriculum into inspections from September 2019 and finally...
    Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum

  • The Historian 149: Out now

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Read The Historian 149: Pandemics This edition of The Historian follows immediately after the annual Local and Community History Month, which we launched many years ago. Although our expressed purpose on this occasion is to place a special focus on the concept of pandemics and epidemics, a number of our...
    The Historian 149: Out now

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 172: Curriculum planning

      Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the ‘no-quick-fix’
    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 find something better: conversations in which history teachers have debated or tackled your problems – conversations which...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 172: Curriculum planning