CPD
At the HA we offer history-specific CPD for every stage of your career. All our current courses and webinar series are listed below in What’s On, with more detail about individual events in Available events. There is also our On-demand CPD, our Teacher Fellowships programme and more. Find out about our CPD presenters here. For informal, ongoing CPD discussion with colleagues see the One Big History Department blog.
What's On
- History-specific CPD for every stage of your career
- Your Secondary CPD calendar Autumn 2026
- History Teacher Development Programme (HTDP)
- Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)
- Webinar series: Improving outcomes in GCSE History: rich and authentic encounters with the past at Key Stage 4
- Webinar: The Bayeux Tapestry – what can it tell us about the history of 1066?
Available Events
- Your Secondary CPD calendar Autumn 2026
- HA Webinar: Sources and interpretations
- HA Webinar: Explaining
- HA Webinar: Chronological, substantive and historiographical architecture
- HA Webinar: Making knowledge stick
- HA Webinar: The Forgotten Generations: from the Windrush to Trump
On-demand CPD
- On-demand Secondary CPD calendar
- On-demand webinar: Creating an inclusive and equitable history curriculum
- On-demand webinar: From implementation to impact: evidencing learning and progress in history
- On-demand webinar: Curriculum intent in history: defining ambition under the new Ofsted framework
- On-demand webinar: Building a strategy for inclusive history
- On-demand webinar: Working effectively with SENDCos and specialist colleagues
Free for members
- Recorded interview with A.N. Wilson: The Wise and their Works
- Virtual Branch recording: Heiresses: Britain's female enslavers
- Recorded webinar: What does good oracy look like in History and English?
- Recorded webinar: Survive and thrive in your initial teacher education
- Recorded webinar series: Teaching a people's history at GCSE: significant for who?
- Virtual Branch recording: Crusader Castles
Teacher Fellowships
- The History Ledger, podcasts from the Economic History Society
- Teacher Fellowship programme: The Caribbean, Monarchy and Legacies of Empire
- Teacher Fellowship programme: Henry on Tour: Teaching the royal progresses of Henry VIII
- Addressing Health: Sickness and social reform in the Victorian and Edwardian period
- Teacher Fellowship programme: Teaching the economic history of colonialism in Africa and Asia
- Mini Teacher Fellowship: Medieval Perceptions of Conquest
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
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Significance
- Film: What's the wisdom on...Similarity and Difference
- Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity
Short courses
- The 1789 French Revolution – not just a revolution in France: on-demand short course
- Britain and the Second World War – a global conflict: on-demand short course
- Britain and the Romans: on-demand short course
- 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