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  • Happy and Glorious: exploring and celebrating the Platinum Jubilee

      Primary History article
    History is full of significant royals, yet few seem quite so remarkable as Her Majesty the Queen. Since her birth in 1926, she has witnessed the tragedy of a world war, the decline of the British Empire and the birth of the Commonwealth of Nations. Not only is she the...
    Happy and Glorious: exploring and celebrating the Platinum Jubilee

  • Writing Lilian Harrison into history

      Article
    In this article Matthew Brown and Pablo Scharagrodsky introduce us to the little-known story of Anglo-Argentinian swimmer Lilian Harrison, who in 1923 became the first person to swim the 42km from Uruguay to Argentina at the estuary of the Rio de la Plata. Her story shows how she had to battle against not only tides and...
    Writing Lilian Harrison into history

  • Insights from a year of leading the development of a ‘knowledge-rich curriculum’

      Primary History article
    Raynville Primary School serves a highly disadvantaged area of West Leeds and we work hard to provide our children with the best opportunities to learn and enjoy their time with us. One jewel in the crown of our school’s curriculum is children’s historical learning as part of a knowledge-rich curriculum....
    Insights from a year of leading the development of a ‘knowledge-rich curriculum’

  • The how of history: using old and new textbooks in the classroom to develop disciplinary knowledge

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What are textbooks for and how do we think of them? As inevitably partial views of the past that reflect their purpose and moment of construction and their authors' location in physical and ideological time...
    The how of history: using old and new textbooks in the classroom to develop disciplinary knowledge

  • A visit to the Red Lodge, Bristol: using ICT to record and communicate children's learning in history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. There is a huge potential for using ICT to enhance children’s historical learning. This article suggests ways in which ICT was employed to record children’s impressions of their visit to an historical building.
    A visit to the Red Lodge, Bristol: using ICT to record and communicate children's learning in history

  • Teaching History 189: Collaboration

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Adding up marginal gains: using Lesson Study to make microimprovements in teaching Year 8 how to use sources – Tony McConnell, Davinia Daley, Rebecca Levy, Lisa Waddell and Richard Waddington (Read article) 23 Triumphs Show: ‘The Strands of Memory’: how a...
    Teaching History 189: Collaboration

  • The Historian 19

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Remembering Australia, K.S. Inglis 10 Update: Anglo-Saxon England, Henry Loyn 12 Comment: Curiouser and Curiouser, Colin Richmond 13 Portfolio: Cabinets of Curiosities, R. W. Unwin 18 Historical Reconstruction, Peter Brears 19 Education Forum: The Lost Generation? George Bernard 20 Local History: Shall I buy a Computer? David Short
    The Historian 19

  • Creating effective history displays

      Primary History article
    Having been an history co-ordinator for over 15 years, I was fortunate enough to be able to plan a wide range of history displays which covered multiple periods. I enjoyed it because, for me, it provided the opportunity to inspire, inform and provoke a response. When preparing a display, I would...
    Creating effective history displays

  • Timelines in teaching history

      Primary History article
    ‘History is about time, it subsists in time, time is the medium by which it happens’ (John Fines, Primary History 59, 2011). Yet the fact that time is fundamental to the study of history does not make it any easier to teach (Hoodless, 2008). The abstract nature of time as a concept is...
    Timelines in teaching history

  • Debates: Narratives - what matters most in school history education?

      Teaching History article
    In England, a curriculum review is imminent. Following a recent ‘call for evidence' by the government, further consultation on the future shape of history in schools will follow. The HA is currently consulting its membership and will be publishing discussion papers in January 2012. At such a time, everyone in...
    Debates: Narratives - what matters most in school history education?

  • Using the back cover image: Exploring the collections of Victorian naturalists

      Primary History feature
    Many museums around the country house natural history collections that offer children the opportunity to engage with a wide variety of species from around the world. Using the collections of Victorian explorers and naturalists offers children a historical perspective with a cross-curricular approach which has a great appeal. Yet for...
    Using the back cover image: Exploring the collections of Victorian naturalists

  • 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

  • History Abridged: Balmoral

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. Think Horrible Histories for grownups (without the songs and music). See all History Abridged articles Royal majesty is buttressed by...
    History Abridged: Balmoral

  • Cunning Plan 151: When and for whom has 1688 been 'Glorious'?

      Teaching History feature
    This enquiry is about how interpretations are formed and why they change. It aims to show Year 9, right at the end of their study of British history, the ways in which meanings of 1688 have shifted over time. It will test students' knowledge and strengthen their chronology of 300...
    Cunning Plan 151: When and for whom has 1688 been 'Glorious'?

  • Environmental history and the challenges of the present

      Historian article
    In a wide-ranging survey of the field, Amanda Power explains what it means to do environmental history at a time of climate crisis, and points to the opportunities and challenges in this thriving area of research...
    Environmental history and the challenges of the present

  • Conducting the orchestra to allow our students to hear the symphony

      Teaching History article
    Alex Ford and Richard Kennett both welcome the renewed emphasis on knowledge within recent curriculum reforms in England, but are concerned about some of the ways in which the principle of a ‘knowledge-rich’ curriculum has been interpreted and transformed into particular pedagogical prescriptions. In this article they explain their reasons...
    Conducting the orchestra to allow our students to hear the symphony

  • Teaching History 153: The Holocaust & Other Genocides

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Tamsin Leyman and Richard Harris - Connecting the dots: helping Year 9 to debate the purposes of Holocaust and genocide education (Read article) 11 Darius Jackson - ‘But I still don't get why the Jews': using cause and change to answer pupils' demand for an...
    Teaching History 153: The Holocaust & Other Genocides

  • Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 History (Early Years)

      Primary History article
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. History education needs to be placed in a wider pattern of curriculum development. Part I of this paper looks at general issues linking History with citizenship education and the early years. Part 2...
    Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 History (Early Years)

  • Teaching History 183: Race

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article for free) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update: History For All – a wider view – Gabrielle Reddington (Read article) 08 Inventing race? Year 8 use early modern primary sources to investigate the complex origins of racial thinking in the past – Kerry Apps (Read...
    Teaching History 183: Race

  • Numismatics and History

      Classic Pamphlet
    Numismatics may be defined as the science of money in its physical aspects. It is only indirectly connected with the theory of money, which belongs to the sphere of economics. Its subject-matter consists of the material objects which in most societies are used to measure the worth of goods and...
    Numismatics and History

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Stalin’s final years

      Teaching History feature
    Stalinism overshadows Soviet history. Few historical subjects are more controversial.  Historians have read the years before 1928 as Stalin’s long rise to power, those after 1953 as an extended reckoning with the Stalinist dictatorship. Definitions of Stalinism fix the features, policies, and practices that constituted Stalin’s personal dictatorship between 1928...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Stalin’s final years

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 164: Constructing narrative

      Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
    Narrative is shedding its status as the ‘underrated skill’, re-emerging as a requirement of the new GCSE in England. As Counsell has argued, constructing a narrative is ‘no easy option’, however, and asking students to ‘Write an account…’ lacks the comfortable familiarity of ‘Explain why…’ or ‘How far…’. Fortunately, many...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 164: Constructing narrative

  • Ofsted and primary history

      Primary History article
    Firstly, I would like to introduce myself as Ofsted’s new Subject Lead for history. Despite the many challenges of the past year, it is an exciting time for history education. I am very pleased that the number of primary history teachers who are now part of the HA community has...
    Ofsted and primary history

  • The International Journal Volume 3 Number 1

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Teaching, Learning and Research Volume 3 Number 1 January 2003 Editorial British Island Stories: History, Schools and Nationhood - Robert Phillips   Articles School History, National History and the Issue of National Identity - Ann Low-Beer   Nationalism and the Origins of Prejudice - Cedric Cullingford  ...
    The International Journal Volume 3 Number 1

  • What’s The Wisdom On... history assessment?

      Teaching History feature
    Between 1991 and 1995, secondary history teachers in England and Wales had something of a collective awakening about assessment. It followed a huge policy shift in history education: history’s first National Curriculum, rolled out in 1991. What's the Wisdom On... is a short guide providing new history teachers with an overview...
    What’s The Wisdom On... history assessment?