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  • Cunning Plan 162: Transferring knowledge from Key Stage 3 to 4

      Teaching History feature
    Planning to deliver the new GCSE specifications presents a challenge and an opportunity to any history department, whatever their previous specification. The sweep of history that students will now study at GCSE is much broader than ‘Modern World’ departments are used to; including a medieval or early modern depth study...
    Cunning Plan 162: Transferring knowledge from Key Stage 3 to 4

  • Teaching sensitive subjects: slavery and Britain’s role in the trade

      Primary History article
    See also: Teaching Slavery - HA guide Slavery in Britain Sarah Forbes Bonetta - scheme of work Teaching Emotive and Controversial History Diversity guidance for primary teachers and subject leaders Slavery is a part of our history, and its impact can be seen in the statues of influential men, the...
    Teaching sensitive subjects: slavery and Britain’s role in the trade

  • 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    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.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

  • Chronology: Developing a coherent knowledge

      Article
    Chronology: Developing a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain's past and of the wider world First, this article considers the reasons why it is essential for children to develop a chronological framework. Next it considers ways in which this framework is necessary for the development of the time concepts set...
    Chronology: Developing a coherent knowledge

  • Adventures in assessment

      Teaching History article
    In Teaching History 157, Assessment Edition, a number of different teachers shared the ways in which their departments were approaching the assessment and reporting of students’ progress in a ‘post-levels’ world. This article adds to those examples, first by illustrating how teachers from different schools in the Bristol area are...
    Adventures in assessment

  • Move Me on 177: using questioning effectively

      The problem page for history mentors
    This issue’s problem: Christine Pizan is struggling to use questioning effectively. 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...
    Move Me on 177: using questioning effectively

  • 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

  • Recorded webinar: Teaching history during a climate emergency: how can we respond?

      HA Virtual Forum, November 2021
    We are at a vital moment in our attempt to tackle the climate crisis. Global warming is an inter-disciplinary challenge for the world and an inter-disciplinary challenge in education, too. In this talk, Alison Kitson argues that history provides a vital perspective that enables young people to understand our interaction...
    Recorded webinar: Teaching history during a climate emergency: how can we respond?

  • Polychronicon 176: Peterloo, 1819–2019

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon is a regular feature in Teaching History helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretations. See all Polychronicons On Monday 16 August 1819 troops under the authority of the Lancashire and Cheshire magistrates attacked and dispersed a rally of some...
    Polychronicon 176: Peterloo, 1819–2019

  • Triumphs Show 176: Using material culture as a means to generate an enquiry on the British Empire

      Teaching History feature
    Triumphs Show is a regular feature which offers a quick way for teachers to celebrate their successes and share inspirational ideas with one another. While the ideas are always explained in sufficient depth for others to be able to take them forward in their own practice, the simple format allows...
    Triumphs Show 176: Using material culture as a means to generate an enquiry on the British Empire

  • Polychronicon 157: Reinterpreting police-public relations in modern England

      Teaching History feature
    The relationship between the police and the public has long been a key subject in English social history. The formative work in this field was conducted between the 1970s and 1990s, but the past few years have witnessed something of a revival of research in the area. By focusing on...
    Polychronicon 157: Reinterpreting police-public relations in modern England

  • Managing the scope of study

      Teaching History article
    Anna Dickson and her department sought a solution to the challenges posed to their pupils by the expanded curricular scope of the new GCSE. In particular, they wanted to address the difficulties their pupils experienced in understanding the Cold War. Dickson outlines here how she drew on the work of...
    Managing the scope of study

  • Three first-class ladies – teaching significant individuals in Key Stage 1

      Primary History article
    The turn of the 20th century was in many ways a golden age of aviation. In 1903 the Wright brothers conquered heavier-than-air flight. From that time onward there were many other visionaries who wanted to be part of the dream of flying. The topic of early aviation history is an...
    Three first-class ladies – teaching significant individuals in Key Stage 1

  • Portchester Saxon settlement

      Article
    One way to use this image would be to focus on continuity and change. Portchester's history is that of a settlement which has passed through the hands of the Romans, Saxons, Normans and onwards. As a result, the appearance and purpose of the settlement has changed over time. One way...
    Portchester Saxon settlement

  • 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

  • New online records shed light on Suffrage movement

      Free to search until International Women's Day
    New online records reveal that “militant” Suffragettes were largely well educated, in their 30s and born in the South East Home Office & police files detail those on the front lines of the suffrage movement Records reveal that most “militant” suffragettes were well educated, in their 30s and born in...
    New online records shed light on Suffrage movement

  • '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

  • Sponsor our Forums

      Continuing Professional Development Events
    Forums The HA forums give teachers across the UK an opportunity to engage in high quality CPD delivered by their peers and leading educational experts who discuss the latest thinking in history pedagogy and curriculum developments. The first history forums were set up in 2006 in response to primary and...
    Sponsor our Forums

  • The importance of subject specific training

      HA Update
    It is my passion for history and interest in young people that has sustained me both as a teacher and latterly as a PGCE history tutor. Last term a number of seemingly unrelated issues began to coalesce in my mind. Over the summer I met a number of teachers that...
    The importance of subject specific training

  • Effective management of history in the revised curriculum

      Article
    This section examines ways in which the subject leader can prove an effective manager and co-ordinator. It looks at issues such as the main activities of a subject leader, effective but manageable assessment and how the quality of history in the primary school can be monitored and evaluated.
    Effective management of history in the revised curriculum

  • Young Quills Awards 2010 Reviews

      Reviews
    Reviews attached below The Historical Association announces the shortlist for the 2010 Young Quills Award. This  prize has two separate categories; Primary and  Secondary, although some books obviously fit into both categories. Books are selected for the shortlist by children reviewers in each category. In order to qualify for the...
    Young Quills Awards 2010 Reviews

  • Film: The new Ofsted education inspection framework (EIF) 2019

      HA Conference Keynote Speech
    The film below was taken at the HA Annual Conference in Chester May 2019 and features Heather Fearn, Inspector Curriculum and Professional Development Lead, Ofsted. This session aimed to explain Ofsted’s approach to inspecting the curriculum under the new education inspection framework (EIF) that will come into effect in September 2019, with...
    Film: The new Ofsted education inspection framework (EIF) 2019

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic

      Article
    Oliver Cromwell’s death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of Englishmen faced each other across the Scottish border; and the Long Parliament was finally dissolved after two decades.  Why...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic

  • Teaching the First World War in the primary school

      Article
    The current commemorations of the First World War have opened the door to some real opportunities for those teaching primary history – perhaps even considering taking children to the battlefields. Although this is customarily a secondary-school experience, this article outlines the opportunities for primary-age children. The suggestions here are based...
    Teaching the First World War in the primary school