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  • Virtual Branch recording: The survival strategies of the Near Eastern powers facing Mongol invasion.

      Virtual Branch Film
    The Mongol invasions into the Near East had a devastating effect upon many societies, sultanates, empires and kingdoms. For decades, wave after wave of armies swept across the area, defeating every army sent against them and utterly reshaping the area’s complex political ecosystem. Some powers fell in battle; some submitted...
    Virtual Branch recording: The survival strategies of the Near Eastern powers facing Mongol invasion.

  • The Berlin Olympics 1936

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Nazi Germany was the backdrop of the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The Nazi party used the games for propaganda whilst hiding its racist and militaristic campaign. The following activities seek to encourage historical inquiry and interpretation, through...
    The Berlin Olympics 1936

  • Investigating the ancient Olympic games: A Case Study

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In a 10-week unit on Ancient Greece, we gave the fourth lesson over to the ancient Olympic Games. The class was a delight: 32 enthusiastic Year 6 children in an urban county primary school. We knew...
    Investigating the ancient Olympic games: A Case Study

  • Catherine de Medici & the Ancien Regime

      Classic Pamphlet
    Catherine de Medici is one of the most controversial figures of the early modern period. Her name has come to symbolize her age and both have long retained an exceptionally powerful emotive force. Consequently they have attracted many writers primarily seeking to apportion blame for the sombre events of the...
    Catherine de Medici & the Ancien Regime

  • The Coronation of King Charles III

      Historian feature
    2023 will see the first coronation of a British monarch for 70 years. Only those now in their 70s or above will remember the last one. The UK is the only country in Europe still to carry out a coronation, a ceremony that has its roots in traditions over a...
    The Coronation of King Charles III

  • Introduction to the Survive & Thrive Units

      Introduction
    What's the point of the four Survive and Thrive units?Survive:There are today many teacher-training routes into the teaching profession. The teacher-training year is always a difficult balancing act between gaining enough classroom experience and enough understanding of the theories that underpin the discipline's key skills. As a result, each teacher-training...
    Introduction to the Survive & Thrive Units

  • Polychronicon 117: interpretations of Douglas Haig

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its own age. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' considers the historical...
    Polychronicon 117: interpretations of Douglas Haig

  • The Indian Mutiny - Pamphlet

      Classic Pamphlet
    Harrison's booklet takes an evaluative look, at not just the effects of the Indian Mutiny on Indo-British history, but at the reporting of this event over the years. He begins with a look at the prejudices of British writers and British historians' attitude towards the mutiny, highlighting the flawed confidence western...
    The Indian Mutiny - Pamphlet

  • Case Study 6: Bristol Blitz - Writing in an interactive environment

      Primary History case study
    Introduction - Educational Visits Educational visits are often the most memorable parts of primary schooling, and those that as teachers of primary history we hope provide rich, thought provoking experiences of educational worth. Often, it is these trips that are capable of providing a sphere for the immersive, explorative teaching...
    Case Study 6: Bristol Blitz - Writing in an interactive environment

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 149: Getting pupils to argue about causes

      Teaching History feature
    Every problem you're wrestling with in the history classroom, other history teachers have wrestled with too. This page is for all those new to the published writings of history teachers in Teaching History. It shows how to make a start in understanding how others have explored and discussed common and...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 149: Getting pupils to argue about causes

  • Weighing a century with a website: teaching Year 9 to be critical

      Teaching History article
    Two years ago the history department at Hampstead School was one of two history departments chosen to model very effective use of IT in history for a BECTA research study. Two years on, what has the department been up to? All of the factors identified in that study -an ICT...
    Weighing a century with a website: teaching Year 9 to be critical

  • Volunteering to help your local branch

      Getting involved in history
    Volunteering to help your local branch We have over fifty branches throughout the UK and they are all run by volunteers. Joining your local branch committee can be a wonderful way to get more involved with history. Each branch has three formal branch officers, the Chair (or President) the Branch...
    Volunteering to help your local branch

  • Who is in charge?

      Primary History article
    Children are introduced from the start of their lives to the idea that someone is in charge.  Helen Crawford and Karin Doull explore how the question ‘Who is in charge?’ can be used with EYFS children to develop ideas of power, authority and agency. The article looks at its relevance...
    Who is in charge?

  • Guy Fawkes in Manchester: The World of William Harrison Ainsworth

      Historian article
    Some of the most enduring myths in British history were created and perpetuated by novelists, despite the fact that the historical novel has long been relegated to the second division of the literary arts. Deeply unfashionable today, writers like Sir Walter Scott, Edward Bulwer Lytton and William Harrison Ainsworth were...
    Guy Fawkes in Manchester: The World of William Harrison Ainsworth

  • Film: Lesson sequences

      Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
    In this latest film in the teaching history for beginners series, Helen Snelson from the University of York explores and unpacks the principles and process of planning across a sequence of lessons to provide a coherent unit of work that builds knowledge and progression in disciplinary thinking. 
    Film: Lesson sequences

  • South Asian British History 1600-1800

      Early Modern British History
    In this podcast Dr Sumita Mukherjee looks at the history of South Asians in Britain between 1600 and 1800.
    South Asian British History 1600-1800

  • Building the Habit of Evidential Thinking

      Teaching History article
    Anna Aiken and her history colleagues had been reflecting on the stubborn problem of students failing to tackle GCSE questions about sources with adequate thought or understanding of evidence. Teaching them the typical requirements of the GCSE examination even appeared to make things worse, encouraging superficiality and failing to  bring about secure responses. Aiken and her colleagues noted that the problems...
    Building the Habit of Evidential Thinking

  • Canterbury Branch Programme

      Article
    Branch contact: Mike Gallagher mike.gallagher79@yahoo.co.uk Venue: All talks start at 7.00pm, unless otherwise stated, at venues in Canterbury individually specified. Associate membership: £10 per year. Talks free to national HA members and students. Visitors £5. Twitter: @CanterburyHA   Canterbury Branch Programme 2025 -26   Thursday 9th October 2025 (Preceded by...
    Canterbury Branch Programme

  • Women in British Coal Mining

      Historian article
    With the final closure of Britain’s deep coal mines, Chris Wrigley examines the long-standing involvement of women in and around this challenging and dangerous form of work. With the closure in 2015 of Thoresby and Kellingley mines, the last two working deep coal mines in Britain, leaving only open-cast coal...
    Women in British Coal Mining

  • Talk to your inspector: making the most of your history inspection

      Teaching History article
    Scott Harrison gives the official view on what history teachers can expect from an OFSTED inspection. He emphasises the need to communicate, as fully as possible, the department's rationale underlying all professional practice. This is essential if the inspector is to analyse the reasons why standards are as they are....
    Talk to your inspector: making the most of your history inspection

  • The Great Fire of London and the National Curriculum

      Primary History article including Scheme of Work for Key Stage 1 (unresourced)
    The Great Fire of London is a favourite National Curriculum teaching topic. This paper draws on the latest resources and teaching ideas to suggest how you can meet both the NC history requirements and the wider ones of the National Curriculum, particularly in integrated programmes that include teaching about the Great...
    The Great Fire of London and the National Curriculum

  • M&S brings over 130 years of archives into your classroom

      Article
    There is something really magical about making your own discoveries. Investigating something sparked by your own curiosity and using your own skills of observation and deduction to find out more is exciting. Human beings have always wanted to find out about our history and our place in the world –...
    M&S brings over 130 years of archives into your classroom

  • Is There a Place for The Holocaust in the Primary Curriculum?

      Article
    The Holocaust – the murder of approximately six million Jewish men, women and children by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during the Second World War – is possibly the most difficult event that any history teacher will ever have to teach. Most obviously, it can be deeply upsetting, for educators...
    Is There a Place for The Holocaust in the Primary Curriculum?

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 167: Confidence with substantive knowledge

      Teaching History feature
    This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Each problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too...   History is a complex enterprise. In order to produce sophisticated arguments, pupils need firm foundations. One foundation is knowledge of the argumentative structures that historians...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 167: Confidence with substantive knowledge

  • African and Caribbean British History: Georgian Period

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