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  • Film: The ladies-in-waiting who served the six wives of Henry VIII

      Virtual Branch
    Every queen had ladies-in-waiting. Her confidantes and chaperones, they are the forgotten agents of the Tudor court. Experts at survival, negotiating the competing demands of their families and their queen, the ladies-in-waiting of Henry VIII’s wives were far more than decorative ‘extras’: they were serious political players who changed the...
    Film: The ladies-in-waiting who served the six wives of Henry VIII

  • ‘Zulu’ and the end of Empire

      Historian article
    In this article, Nicolas Kinloch examines the 1964 film Zulu. He suggests what it might tell us about the reality of the British Empire and asks if it has anything to say about the era in which the film was made. One of the most successful British films of 1964...
    ‘Zulu’ and the end of Empire

  • Triumphs Show: ‘The Strands of Memory’

      Teaching History feature
    In 2014, a group of French pupils from Lycée Léopold Sédar Senghor in Évreux was due to meet a British Second World War veteran, Eric Rackham, to hear him talk about his war experiences. Sadly, he passed away before the planned meeting. Paradoxically, this failed meeting led to the development...
    Triumphs Show: ‘The Strands of Memory’

  • From Kew to KaNgwane: The Development of a Case Study in British-Bantustan Relations

      History journal blog
    This blog post complements the first view publication of the author's History journal article: “‘A cultivated leader and sensible spokesman for black African views’: Britain's Courting of KaNgwane Chief Minister Enos J. Mabuza”. During my doctoral studies into British cultural diplomacy in apartheid South Africa, I developed a keen interest in the history...
    From Kew to KaNgwane: The Development of a Case Study in British-Bantustan Relations

  • Denis Shemilt's four stages of adolescent ideas about historical methods in a nutshell

      Article
    Denis Shemilt's four stages of adolescent ideas about historical methods in a nutshell.
    Denis Shemilt's four stages of adolescent ideas about historical methods in a nutshell

  • Using ancient monuments to help teach about pre-Roman times in Britain

      Primary History article
    It is inconceivable that anyone teaching ancient Britain has not used some of the famous sites such as Stonehenge, Avebury, Skara Brae, the Ring of Brodgar or Stones of Stenness. They are vital sources of information for this period of history and the teaching usually introduces the element of mystery...
    Using ancient monuments to help teach about pre-Roman times in Britain

  • Time for a story

      Using stories in the Early Years and Foundation Stage
    Stories are an important part of a young child’s way of making sense of their world. Hilary Cooper’s excellent article ‘Why Stories?’ explores some of the reasons why stories are important to young children and their growing ‘understanding of the world’. This article is going to explore some recommended stories...
    Time for a story

  • African and Caribbean British History: Stuart Period

      Early Modern British History
    In this podcast Onyeka looks at African and Caribbean British History during the Stuart period.
    African and Caribbean British History: Stuart Period

  • Mesopotamia: Making a picture of Mesopotamia in our heads

      Article
    Working in a small rural primary school in North Gloucestershire I was inspired by national news reports from Iraq to change the focus of our Ancient History study from Ancient Egypt to Mesopotamia, ‘the land between the rivers'. A study of this region of the Middle East fulfilled so many...
    Mesopotamia: Making a picture of Mesopotamia in our heads

  • Terriers in India

      Historian Article
    Peter Stanley is working on the largely unexplored history of the thousands of British Territorial soldiers who served in India during the First World War using their letters and diaries. He is trying to discover what happened to these men when they returned to Britain. Did their service in India...
    Terriers in India

  • Ancient Athenian inscriptions in public and private UK collections

      Historian article
    Peter Liddel introduces us to a rich source of historical information and encourages us to make some purposeful visits to museums. From the seventeenth to the mid nineteenth century, travellers from the UK explored the Mediterranean lands of ancient civilisations in search of trophies that demonstrated the achievements of the classical world. Highly...
    Ancient Athenian inscriptions in public and private UK collections

  • Visual literacy: Look, talk, write - Using a picture to extend vocabulary

      Primary History article
    Editorial note: Primary History's theme edition on Visual Literacy, PH 49, Summer 2008, addressed the role of visual literacy in developing pupil language: spoken, enacted and written. Introduction - words for pictures Stimulus - child engagement Some years ago, a friend's eight year old daughter arrived with a pack of...
    Visual literacy: Look, talk, write - Using a picture to extend vocabulary

  • An Introduction to our Pamphlets

      Information
    Over the last 100 years the Historical Association has published pamphlets on every historical topic, theme, period and subject you can think of. Over the last 15 years we have begun the process of making these pamphlets available as digital downloads. Access our classic pamphlets series here If there is...
    An Introduction to our Pamphlets

  • Cunning Plan 96: teaching citizenship through KS3 history

      Teaching History feature
    Big theme: dissent and the formation of the concept of ‘rights' You can teach citizenship not only without compromising National Curriculum content, processes and concepts, but in such a way as to improve them. Review your department's ‘whole Key Stage' planning. Secure rigour and high levels of challenge by remembering...
    Cunning Plan 96: teaching citizenship through KS3 history

  • Extending Primary Children's thinking through artefacts

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. A research project was carried out with Maltese primary school children at San Andrea Infant and Middle school to see if learning strategies could accelerate pupils' cognitive development. The research involved a range of historical sources:...
    Extending Primary Children's thinking through artefacts

  • Causation maps: emphasising chronology in causation exercises

      Teaching History article
    Analogies for teaching about causation abound. Rick Rogers is alert, however, to the risks inherent in drawing on everyday ideas to explain historical processes. What most often gets lost is the importance of the chronological dimension; both the length of time during which some contributory causes may have been present,...
    Causation maps: emphasising chronology in causation exercises

  • Teaching History 43

      Journal
    Editorial 2 Teaching the Schools Council History Project in Hong Kong, 3 Andy Homden Lancashire Texti :es and the Indian Connection, Mary Searle-Chatterjee 7 Olivares, Ian Bradbury 9 History Across the Spectrum, John Higham 12 Simulation and History - what actually happens in the classroom? 14 Ian Cardall Talking History,...
    Teaching History 43

  • Processes, Chronological Understanding & Planning

      Primary Expert Podcasts
    In this podcast Dr Hilary Cooper, Professor of History and Pedagogy at the University of Cumbria, looks at why teachers and students seem to enjoy primary history and discusses processes of enquiry, chronological understanding and planning a topic. 1. Ofsted Report History for All published in 2011 said that: "history taught in schools...
    Processes, Chronological Understanding & Planning

  • Triumphs Show 120.2: using role play to explain military history

      Teaching History feature
    Julian Critchley demonstrates how role play can be used to explain military history.
    Triumphs Show 120.2: using role play to explain military history

  • Putting life into history: how pupils can use oral history to become critical historians

      Teaching History article
    However imaginative and enquiring classroom history may be, the history itself is usually constructed by a historian, a textbook author or a teacher. It is rare that pupils gain the opportunity to construct original histories of their own. Oral history can offer this opportunity. Yet as a methodology, oral history...
    Putting life into history: how pupils can use oral history to become critical historians

  • Identifying the potential of history in teaching Citizenship at KS1 and KS2

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Following the publication of the QCA guide ‘Citizenship and PSHE at KS1 & 2’ (QCA:2000) which identified history as being a suitable vehicle for the teaching of the non-statutory citizenship framework in primary schools, and...
    Identifying the potential of history in teaching Citizenship at KS1 and KS2

  • Out and About in Chelsea’s hidden gardens

      Historian feature
    Chelsea has an unusually large number of veteran mulberry trees for a London borough (around 25 at the last count). And, while they are not all as old as they look, many have direct links to Chelsea’s history, including the Tudor estates of Thomas More and Henry VIII, a short-lived...
    Out and About in Chelsea’s hidden gardens

  • African and Caribbean British History: Tudor Period

      Early Modern British History
    In this podcast Onyeka discusses African and Caribbean British History during the Tudor period.
    African and Caribbean British History: Tudor Period

  • Move Me On 180: feeling unprepared to start as NQT because of Covid-19

      Teaching History feature
    Una Marson had her training interrupted by school closures in response to Covid-19 and feels unprepared to start as an NQT. 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...
    Move Me On 180: feeling unprepared to start as NQT because of Covid-19

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... medieval science and medicine?

      Teaching History feature
    The phrase ‘medieval science’ may seem nonsensical. ‘How can... a synonym for “backward”,’ the editors of The Cambridge History of Science Volume 2 ask rhetorically, ‘modify a noun that signifies the best available knowledge from the natural world?’ To answer their question, we must rethink our assumptions, both about the...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... medieval science and medicine?