Curriculum
The Historical Association provides a wealth of resources to help teachers to develop and refine their subject knowledge for all areas of the history curriculum. We also provide guidance related to key developments in the curriculum, such as revised version of the National Curriculum (2014) and on-going developments related to GCSE and A level specifications. Read more
Home learning resource-sharing hub
Lesson sequences
- Lesson sequence: Life in a Medieval Village
- Lesson sequence: Life in a Medieval Village - taster lesson
- Lesson sequence: Twentieth-century Europe - taster lesson
- Lesson sequence: Twentieth-century Europe
- Free Teacher Fellowship lesson sequences
- Suffrage enquiries: free history and citizenship lesson sequences
Key Stage 3
- Conducting the orchestra to allow our students to hear the symphony
- Film: Making an effective History curriculum
- Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum
- Structuring a history curriculum for powerful revelations
- How should women’s history be included at Key Stage 3?
- How diverse is your history curriculum?
Key Stage 4
- Past Time Toolkit: new learning resource about Victorian Prisons
- Changing thinking about cause
- BBC Class Clips: ‘ClueTubers’ with Carmel Bones
- Dealing with the consequences
- My journey to Bosnia: The Balkans Conflict 22 years on
- Conducting the orchestra to allow our students to hear the symphony
A Level
- Building Key Stage 5 students’ analysis of interpretations
- Why does anyone do anything? Attempts to improve agentive explanations with Year 12
- Using the Harkness method to help post-16 students make confident historical claims
- Absence and myopia in A-level coursework
- Allowing A-level students to choose their own coursework focus
- Couching counterfactuals in knowledge when explaining the Salem witch trials with Year 13
Content
- Investigating Aspects of the History of Kent at Key Stage 3
- Teaching History 174: Structure
- Teaching History 173: Opening Doors
- New, Novice or Nervous? 171: Teaching Medieval History
- The National Archives launches new free GCSE History resources
- Podcast Series: William I to Henry VII
Principles of planning
- New, Novice or Nervous? 172: Curriculum planning
- Move Me On 171: Using existing lesson plans
- New, Novice or Nervous? 171: Teaching Medieval History
- Looking through the keyhole at Birkenhead from 1900 to 1950 with Year 7
- Academic Critical Thinking, Research Literacy and Undergraduate History
- From ‘double vision’ to panorama: exploring interpretations of Nazi popularity