CPD
The HA is here to support you through the provision of quality history CPD to suit a range of needs and budgets. Whether you are a subject leader for history looking at whole school development needs, or a classroom teacher or educator looking for support to help you teach history effectively, you will find an event or course to suit you and your needs. All our current courses and CPD series are listed below in What’s On, with more detail about individual events in Available events. We also offer On-demand CPD. Find out about our CPD presenters here.
What's On
- Your Primary CPD calendar Autumn 2025
- Webinar series: History and literacy: better together
- Meet our CPD presenters
- The 1789 French Revolution – not just a revolution in France
- Course: Supporting SEND pupils in your primary history lessons
- Webinar series: Practical approaches to disciplinary concepts in primary history
Available Events
- Your Primary CPD calendar Autumn 2025
- HA Webinar: Practical approaches to scholarship and interpretation in the primary classroom
- HA Webinar: Tsarist imperial society and ethnicity
- HA Webinar: Practical approaches to significance
- Explore primary membership
- HA Webinar: Practical approaches to similarity and difference
On-demand CPD
- On-demand webinar: Developing formative and extended writing in primary history
- On-demand webinar: Helping pupils articulate their understanding of history through speaking and listening
- On-demand webinar: Using the work of historians in the primary history classroom
- On-demand webinar: Using stories and storytelling in the primary history classroom
- On-demand webinar: Helping children think about cause and consequence
- On-demand webinar: Helping children build secure evidential thinking
Free for members
- HA Webinar: The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians at the time of Fascism
- Recorded webinar: Natural disasters in medieval Britain
- Recorded webinar series: Jane Austen and Georgian England
- Virtual Branch Recording: The Lines we Draw
- Recorded webinar: Indian Suffragettes: women's activism in South Asia and beyond
- Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2025 - Dr Christine Counsell
Bespoke CPD
‘What’s the Wisdom On’ films
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Significance (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Similarity and Difference (Primary)
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity (Primary)