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
- Course: Becoming an effective primary history subject leader
- Your Primary CPD calendar Autumn 2026
- Course: Supporting SEND pupils in your primary history lessons
- Course: Assessment and progression in primary history
- On-demand webinar series: AI in primary history
- On-demand webinar series: Practical approaches to disciplinary concepts in primary history
Available Events
- Your Primary CPD calendar Autumn 2026
- HA Webinar: How can I get better at historical storytelling?
- HA Webinar: Planning and teaching mixed-age history in KS2
- HA Webinar: The Forgotten Generations: from the Windrush to Trump
- HA Webinar: Where does ‘story’ appear in the primary history curriculum?
- HA Webinar: The Forgotten Generations: from the Royal Flying Corps to VE day
On-demand CPD
- On-demand Primary CPD calendar
- On-demand webinar: Practical approaches to scholarship and interpretation in the primary classroom
- On-demand webinar: Practical approaches to significance
- On-demand webinar: Practical approaches to similarity and difference
- On-demand webinar: Practical approaches to change and continuity
- On-demand webinar: AI Black Box: responsible use for primary teachers
Free for members
- Recorded webinar: Deafness in early modern England
- Recorded webinar: Tsarist imperial society and ethnicity
- Recorded webinar: Apartheid in global context: transnational dimensions of South Africa’s racial state
- Recorded webinar: The Crusades through Middle Eastern eyes: Islamic and Eastern Christian perspectives
- Recorded webinar: A revolution denied? Gender, sexuality and feminism in modern Britain, 1945-the present
- Virtual Branch Recording: A Brief History of the Coast in 100 Objects
Bespoke CPD
Film series
- Film series: Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland, 1714–2010
- Film series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
- Film series: Power and authority in Germany, 1871-1991
- Film series: The African-American Civil Rights Movement
- Film series: Tudor Royal Authority
‘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)
Teacher Fellowships
- Addressing Health: Sickness and social reform in the Victorian and Edwardian period
- Primary Teacher Fellowship Programme: Local history
- Primary Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions
Short courses
- Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History: on-demand short course
- The impact and legacy of the First World War: on-demand short course
- New Perspectives on the First Crusade: on-demand short course
- The Jews of Medieval England: on-demand short course
- Berlin and the Berlin Wall: on-demand short course
- Berlin and the Berlin Wall: on-demand short course – taster