The series consists of five webinars each lasting approximately 1 hour. The webinar series was originally recorded in Spring 2026.

Session 1: AI in primary history: a practical introduction (FREE for HA members)
Presenter: Glenn Carter

AI is steadily becoming more and more prevalent in schools and this session will look at some practical ideas that can be utilised within your classrooms for primary history — no prior experience required! We will look at some of the more common platforms that are available, best use cases for utilising AI in primary history and some of the basic pitfalls to look out for. You will leave the session with a handful of ideas to spark creativity and interest in your lessons.

Session 2: AI and Technology: enhancing primary history
Presenters: Chris Goodall, Beth Humphrey, Ryan Reece Moor, Zehra Fagan

Discover how Bourne Education Trust's comprehensive digital strategy is transforming history education through thoughtful AI integration. This webinar showcases Bourne’s Trust-wide approach to digital innovation, demonstrating how AI tools enhance historical enquiry and pupil engagement whilst aligning with curriculum goals.

Session 3: How might we effectively use AI in primary history?
Presenter: Stuart Tiffany

In this session, Stuart will explore how AI can be beneficial in tackling some of the challenges that face primary history teachers in a time of continued curriculum emphasis. Alongside this, he will cover some of the areas teachers must be aware of to ensure the validity of what is taught. It is a final balance to strike between managing immense teacher workloads and the accuracy in a world full of misinformation, disinformation and immense challenges.

Session 4: AI Black Box: responsible use for primary teachers
Presenters: Dr Vanessa Cui, Dr Louise Wheatcroft, Dr Jordan Bird

Generative AI offers incredible potential for resource creation for teachers, but the current dominant generative AI tools' core function is to be an agreeable, helpful assistant. This often leads to oversimplified narratives and a lack of necessary nuance and criticality, not to mention the common ethical challenges generative AI tools present such as bias, inaccuracy and environmental impact. These challenges potentially can compromise the quality of teaching materials and the ethics of teachers' practice.

This focused 60-minute session is designed to inform teachers about principles of how dominant Generative AI models function, including the crucial role of Alignment (training on human preference) in the way generative AI responds to human inputs with the aim to empower teachers to confidently understand, evaluate, and responsibly use generative AI tools across their professional practice. Read more

Session 5: Immersive history, AI, and the making/unmaking of student understanding
Presenters: Ailsa Fidler and Simon Lea

AI-driven immersive history is entering our classrooms in ways previously unimaginable. Through interactive simulations, image and video generation and storytelling, students will be able to explore historical events and environments with unprecedented stimulus and immediacy. Yet, this technological leap prompts a critical question: are these sophisticated tools genuinely empowering students to think historically, or are they fostering a passive consumption of pre-packaged narratives that diminish children's own interpretive agency?

The course is for history subject leaders and anyone who teaches at Key Stage 1 or 2.

This webinar series will enable you to:

• • Develop your awareness of a variety of AI applications and how these can be used to support your planning and teaching of primary history
• • Develop your confidence and criticality in using AI in history planning and teaching.
• • Develop your thinking and knowledge around this fast-moving issue that will continue to have implications for both primary history and education as a whole.

Session 1 is led by Glenn Carter, a class teacher in the northeast of England and member of the Historical Association’s primary committee. You may know him as the founder of History Rocks!

Session 2 is led by practitioners at Bourne Education Trust: Chris Goodall (Digital Lead), Beth Humphrey (Digital Lead/History), Ryan Reece Moor (Digital Lead), Zehra Fagan (History)

Session 3 is led by Stuart Tiffany, an experienced primary school teacher, history specialist and consultant — you may know him as Mr T Does Primary History.

Session 4 is led by academics Dr Vanessa Cui (Senior Research Fellow in Education, Birmingham City University), Dr Louise Wheatcroft (Senior Lecturer in Primary Education, Birmingham City University) and Dr Jordan Bird (Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Nottingham Trent University)

Session 5 is led by teacher educators Ailsa Fidler FHA and Simon Lea, both Seniors Lecturers in Primary Education, Liverpool John Moores University. Ailsa is also a member of the Historical Association’s primary committee and an editor of Primary History.

You can purchase and access each set of webinars using the links provided. Once you have purchased each webinar, the recording will be available to view at the bottom of the relevant resource page until the stated expiry date.

Expiry date: 30 April 2028

Payment is available by card only. We are unable to arrange block purchases or issue invoices, but VAT receipts are available upon request.