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  • Stories and their sources: the need for historical thinking in an information age

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Information technology is of no value in itself or by itself: it needs questions to drive it and disciplined forms of thinking to make sense of the answers that it can provide. Inspired by the...
    Stories and their sources: the need for historical thinking in an information age

  • Using extra-curricular opportunities to broaden students’ encounters with history

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Jess Angell shows how her department seeks to make extra-curricular activities accessible to all. There is a strong focus on involving professional historians, since so many students seem not to understand who historians are, or what they do. But the audience is wider than just history students:...
    Using extra-curricular opportunities to broaden students’ encounters with history

  • Printed pictures with text: Using cartoons as historical evidence

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Written and printed sources are often multi-modal in nature, i.e. they combine images and text (Kress and Van Leeuwen, 2001). Indeed, many printed sources in the print age, c. 1500-2000 and nearly all in the digital...
    Printed pictures with text: Using cartoons as historical evidence

  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Introducing students to historical interpretation

      Historian article
    High school history teacher Brent Dyck is one of our Canadian readers. He has offered this item to The Historian as a contribution to our commitment to explore the historical approaches and values that we are seeking to convey to young people and the wider public. We hope that you may...
    Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Introducing students to historical interpretation

  • History in the news: George Floyd protest in Bristol – Colston statue toppled

      Primary History feature
    The killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 25 May 2020 sparked off protests against the way in which black people are treated both in America and many countries across the world. Thousands of people attended an anti-racist demonstration in Bristol. A group of the...
    History in the news: George Floyd protest in Bristol – Colston statue toppled

  • What’s The Wisdom On... change and continuity?

      Teaching History feature
    When it comes to historical change and continuity, what are history teachers asking pupils to think about and do? What's the Wisdom On... is a short guide providing new history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of history teaching. It...
    What’s The Wisdom On... change and continuity?

  • My Favourite History Place - Cambridge City Cemetary

      Historian feature
    The Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintains memorials to our war dead in large and small numbers in cemeteries across the world, and here Glenn Hearnden presents us with a detailed and informative case-study of Cambridge City Cemetery. Like many large towns and cities across the UK, there is a cemetery in...
    My Favourite History Place - Cambridge City Cemetary

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68

      Britain and World timeline 2000BC to 0BC; The Dark Ages
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68

  • Primary History 49: Visual Literacy

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    04 Editorial 07 In my view: History and illustration – Quentin Blake (Read article) 08 In my view: Using pictures – John Fines (Read article) 10 History Coordinators’ Dilemmas: Pedagogy and the Visual Image – Tim Lomas 12 Think Bubble: Frozen moments – Peter Vass (Read article) 13 Using feature...
    Primary History 49: Visual Literacy

  • The Romanov Tercentenary: nostalgia versus history on the eve of the Great War

      Historian article
    The spring of 2013 was unusually significant for devotees of the Romanov dynasty. Though there was little international recognition of the fact, the season marked the 400th anniversary of the accession of Russia's first Romanov tsar. Historically, the story was a most dramatic one, for Mikhail Fedorovich had not seized...
    The Romanov Tercentenary: nostalgia versus history on the eve of the Great War

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 67

      Britain and World timeline, 0BC to present
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 67

  • Promoting Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritage in your primary history curriculum

      Primary History article
    It goes without saying that the events of Black Lives Matter have prompted many leaders and teachers to take a step back and reflect on their curriculum content and how effectively it reflects the diverse story of our islands. However, it is not just Black History that is requiring more prominence...
    Promoting Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritage in your primary history curriculum

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 173: including BME history in the curriculum

      The quick guide to the ‘no-quick-fix’
    This page is for those new to the published writings of history teachers. Each problem you wrestle with, other teachers have wrestled with too. Quick fixes don’t exist. But in others’ writing, you’ll find something better: conversations in which history teachers have debated or tackled your problems – conversations which any history teacher...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 173: including BME history in the curriculum

  • The Historian 159: Out now

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Read The Historian 159: Branches Welcome to this Branches edition of The Historian, a regular version of the magazine where many of the articles are based on talks and activities from Historical Association branches across the country. The last Branches edition came out in November 2021 and at that time...
    The Historian 159: Out now

  • On the frontlines of teaching the history of the First World War

      Teaching History article
    It is very common for people in politics and the media to make assumptions about what happens in history classrooms. Too often these preconceptions are based on little more than anecdote, examples from the Internet or memories of what someone experienced at school themselves. In this article, Catriona Pennell reports...
    On the frontlines of teaching the history of the First World War

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 66

      Process map for writing a new Scheme of Work for history
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 66

  • Magna Carta and the Origins of Parliament

      Historian article
    In February this year the four surviving originals of Magna Carta were briefly brought together in the Houses of Parliament. John Maddicott, examining the Charter's role in the early development of Parliament, shows that the setting was well chosen. What did Magna Carta contribute to the origins of parliament? If...
    Magna Carta and the Origins of Parliament

  • Triumphs Show 180: From ‘most able’ to ‘mini’ historians

      Teaching History feature
    Finding ways to stretch and challenge the highest-attaining students has been a long-standing concern of many history teachers, and strategies for doing so have developed far beyond merely bolting on additional tasks. One way in which I have sought to challenge my own high-attaining students has been by setting them...
    Triumphs Show 180: From ‘most able’ to ‘mini’ historians

  • How to make historical simulations adaptable, engaging and manageable

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Dan Moorhouse suggests that history teachers are sometimes put off role-play or simulations because the amount of preparation - intellectual and practical - appears both time-consuming and expensive. He argues that effective simulations need be...
    How to make historical simulations adaptable, engaging and manageable

  • My Favourite History Place: St James Church, Gerrards Cross

      Historian feature
    Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, is a well-to-do town in the Chilterns and a wealthy commuter dormitory for London. It also harbours what might be one of the most remarkable, under-appreciated churches of the mid-nineteenth century. St James, the parish church, was built for the ‘unruled and unruly’ agricultural labourers and traders who inhabited...
    My Favourite History Place: St James Church, Gerrards Cross

  • One of my favourite history places: Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds

      Primary History article
    When I was born my family lived in Kirkstall close to the Abbey and Abbey House Museum. We moved to Ireland Wood not long after this photograph was taken (I am the small one in the middle) but if we ever had a day out in the city we would...
    One of my favourite history places: Kirkstall Abbey, Leeds

  • Incorporating the Second World War into your local history work

      Primary History Summer Resource 2018
    The 2018 primary summer resource for members is bursting with practical ideas on how to incorporate the Second World War into your local history work. September 2019 is the 80th anniversary of the start of the Second World War, so what better time to start thinking about how to embed this...
    Incorporating the Second World War into your local history work

  • Primary History 16

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    4 A Good Place for an Investigation - Diana Knapp  7 Primary Conference Report - Russell Carter  8 How a Little Hollywood Can Help History - Vincent Jones 10 Historical Fiction and Museum Objects - Neil Curtis, Janet Goolnick, Kate Hopkins  12 Primary Update  13 Young National Trust Theatre - Sally Littlefair ...
    Primary History 16

  • Primary History 47: Thinking through history

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    This special edition of Primary History is supported by the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth. 04 Editorial: Thinking through history: opportunity for equality 06 In my view: we must support gifted historians from an early age – Lord Adonis 07 In my view: why we need a national...
    Primary History 47: Thinking through history

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 154: Using historical scholarship in the classroom

      Teaching History feature
    As another World Book Day goes past, you have been watching the English department wax lyrical about all of the wonderful books that pupils might read. You know that there is a wealth of well-written historical scholarship out there for pupils to dive into, yet you are not sure about...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 154: Using historical scholarship in the classroom