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Polychronicon 139: Civic denouncer: The lives of Pavlik Morozov
Teaching History feature
Germaine Greer (in the context of the Pirelli Calendar) once commented that the defining feature of a legend was that almost nothing said and believed about it was true. Pavlik Morozov, notorious both inside Russia and internationally for having denounced his father, almost certainly never did so. In September 1932, local...
Polychronicon 139: Civic denouncer: The lives of Pavlik Morozov
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Oral History
Classic Pamphlet
The classic HA Guide to collecting oral history! Oral history is spoken history: it is the recording of people's unique memories and life stories. Over the past thrity years talking directly to the makers of history has emerged not only as one way in which historians can discover more about...
Oral History
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Exploring the relationship between historical significance and historical interpretation
Teaching History article
Jane Card’s previous work on the power of images in conveying particular interpretations and her advice about how to use visual material effectively in classrooms will be familiar to readers of Teaching History. In this article she focuses specifically on the capacity of visual representations to convey a compelling message about the...
Exploring the relationship between historical significance and historical interpretation
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The Historian 166: Crime and Punishment
The magazine of the Historical Association
This edition of The Historian is free to access for all HA members. Find out about membership here.
Contents
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 Coroners, communities, and the Crown: mapping death and justice in late medieval England – Stephanie Emma Brown (Read article - open access)
11 Mercurial justice: a...
The Historian 166: Crime and Punishment
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Children's thinking in archaeology
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Young children enjoy prehistory Tactile, Physical and Enactive engagement with archaeological remains stimulates, excites and promotes children's logical, imaginative, creative and deductive thinking. Through archaeology there are infinite opportunities for ‘reasonable guesses' about sources and...
Children's thinking in archaeology
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Move Me On 196: incorporating historical artefacts into worthwhile historical enquiries
Teaching History feature
Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
Move Me On 196: incorporating historical artefacts into worthwhile historical enquiries
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Teaching History 190: Ascribing significance
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
03 Editorial (Read article)
04 HA Secondary News
06 HA Update
08 Falling forward: three strategies to support pupils’ study of historical significance – Paula Worth (Read article)
22 Bringing historical method into the classroom: how the spectacle of teachers debating can help A-level students to understand the nature of interpretations –...
Teaching History 190: Ascribing significance
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Historical scholarship and feedback
Teaching History article
In her introduction to this piece, Carolyn Massey describes history teachers as professionals who pride themselves on ‘a sophisticated understanding of change and continuity’. How often, though, do we bemoan change when it comes, as it so often has recently? Massey’s article provides an example of how to embrace change,...
Historical scholarship and feedback
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Teachng History 40
Journal
Editorial 2
`On Monday I Took Back the Armour and the Video's, Ross Lee and Richard Davis 3
Committed Historiography and History Teaching in Nigerian Secondary Schools, Noel A. Ihebuzor 8
Report: Historical Consciousness and Identity, Charles Hannam 11
The European Dimension and German History, T.C. Lewis 12
Outstanding History...
Teachng History 40
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My Favourite History Place - Nuneaton's Old Grammar School
Historian article
Near the centre of the largest town in Warwickshire, an oasis of calm encompasses the area of Nuneaton parish church, vicarage and Old Grammar School. Of the three buildings, the Old Grammar School may be the least impressive but its history is just as eventful. Nuneaton’s Boys’ Free Grammar School,...
My Favourite History Place - Nuneaton's Old Grammar School
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Pull-out Posters: Primary History 83
The Historical Association Historical Fiction Prize
This poster includes an extract from one of the winners of our The Historical Association Historical Fiction Prize. Esther Kerr has written a story called ‘Save the Books’ detailing the effects on a bombing raid in World War II. The HA plans to run this competition in future years. Before starting, it...
Pull-out Posters: Primary History 83
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Ideas for Assemblies: Lest we forget
Primary History feature
Over the next three editions of Primary History our assemblies pages will be linked to the theme of commemorating the First World War. We have found that while many teachers wish to remember these events in school, they are unsure how to approach the subject with primary aged children. It...
Ideas for Assemblies: Lest we forget
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Primary history and British values
Article
In this article, Michael Maddison provides an overview of what schools must do in relation to promoting British values, as well as preventing extremism and radicalisation, and why it is so important that opportunities are taken in history to deal with these two pressing issues. It is an updated version...
Primary history and British values
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Getting Started with Drama: The Roses of Eyam 1665
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
If you are a little nervous of using drama in your history lessons, here is a safe way to start but look out for the many opportunities that arise for developing empathy, personal opinion, understanding of...
Getting Started with Drama: The Roses of Eyam 1665
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Obituaries: the first verdict in history
Historian article
Last year marked the deaths of two world-renowned historical figures - Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela. Their obituaries reflected the marked contrast in the way the pair were viewed. Mandela ended up by being universally admired, while Thatcher was both adored and despised in seemingly equal measure. Writer Nigel Starck...
Obituaries: the first verdict in history
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Active learners: classroom strategies for enhancing history teaching
Primary History article
Lindsey Rawes has provided a range of activities which she uses with children to engage them in developing their historical knowledge and understanding. She has included retrieval practice, engaging children as detectives when looking at artefacts, and evaluating the understanding of historical questions through card sorts, considering similarities and differences, and using...
Active learners: classroom strategies for enhancing history teaching
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Jubilee medals: celebration and creation
Primary History article
The Queen’s jubilee is a great opportunity to explore a huge range of concepts with EYFS children, and what better way to celebrate the experience than by creating your own celebration medals and to wear them in your own celebrations, as a continuation of the celebrations of so many years past....
Jubilee medals: celebration and creation
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The Historian 117: Historical Fiction
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Review - Lincoln
5 Editorial
6 "How can there be a true history, when we see no man living is able to write truly the history of the last week?" - Lindsey Davis (Read Article)
11 The President's Column
12 1066: The Limits of our Knowledge - Marc Morris (Read Article)...
The Historian 117: Historical Fiction
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Pandemics in history: similarity and difference
Primary History article
I was inspired to put pen to paper to include an article putting Coronavirus in some sort of historical perspective after reading Peter Frankopan’s article in The Times newspaper on 28 March. The article entitled ‘Pandemics are terrifying but they can make the world better’ is written by Peter Frankopan...
Pandemics in history: similarity and difference
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Using stories to support history in the EYFS
Primary History article
Stories can be used as starting points for planning topics. Activities suggested below relate to ‘Understanding the world’ including Early Learning Goal 13 – People and communities:
Children talk about past and present events in their own lives and in the lives of family members.
They know about similarities and...
Using stories to support history in the EYFS
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Training for the marathon: history at Michaela
Teaching History article
Michael Taylor begins his piece by reminding us that writing great history essays is hard. He compares the process to running a marathon, and his central thesis is that, just as the best training for running a marathon is not running marathons, so the way to encourage students to produce...
Training for the marathon: history at Michaela
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Primary History 9
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
4 Editorial
5 A History Curriculum for the Millennium - Sue Bennett
7 Making the Most of a Past Non-European Society in Key Stage 2: A Case Study of Ancient Egypt - Tim Lomas, Dave Cordingley and Lesley Tyreman
9 'Time Machine' at the British Museum - Alan Francis
10 Bearpark...
Primary History 9
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Using apps in the history curriculum
Primary History article
There are a lot of apps out there on multiple platforms and searching for ‘History’ does not really narrow anything down. Knowing which ones are useful, usable and worth paying for is often a case of trial and error. However, this list will save you trawling through the myriad of...
Using apps in the history curriculum
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Teaching History 156: Chronology
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
08 Paula Worth - ‘English king Frederick I won at Arsuf, then took Acre, then they all went home’: exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative (Read article)
20 Polychronicon: Transnational history of WWI - Jay Winter (Read article)...
Teaching History 156: Chronology
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Teaching History 114: Making history personal
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition deals with helping pupils to relate to, and empathise with, history. The Great War, Using fictional characters to explore the relationship between historical interpretation and contemporary attitudes, Josephine Butler and significance, The teaching and learning of history for 15-16yr olds: have the Japanese anything to learn from the...
Teaching History 114: Making history personal
