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My Favourite History Place and Out & About
Historian regular features
'My Favourite History Place' and 'Out and About' are two of the regular features in The Historian magazine. 'My Favourite History Place' showcases a location of particular historical interest selected by history experts and enthusiasts, and 'Out and About' describes an actual visit to a historical site. All the places that...
My Favourite History Place and Out & About
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Teaching History 52
Journal
Editorial 2
News 3
Articles:
Controversial Women - Hilary Bourdillas and Paula Bartley 10
Sources for Course - Malcolm Pearce 15
A Level History: On Historical Facts, and Other Problems - Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley 19
The End of British History - Stephen Howarth 25
Renewed School History: An...
Teaching History 52
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The Historian 127: Agincourt
The magazine of the Historical Association
This edition of HA's The Historian magazine is free to download in full via the link at the bottom of the page (individual article links within the page are not free access unless otherwise stated).
For a subscription to The Historian (published quarterly), access to over 300 podcasts and our huge library...
The Historian 127: Agincourt
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Primary History 60: Writing History & Literacy
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
Editorial and In My View
04 Editorial: Writing history and historical literacy
05 Writing history - Jackie Eales
06 Children writing history - John Fines (Read article)
Features
08 Think Bubble - Writing from experience - Peter Vass (Read article)
09 A view from the classroom - Cathie McIlroy...
Primary History 60: Writing History & Literacy
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Teaching History 103: Puzzling History
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
This edition looks at two types of puzzles: first, those we tackle as historians, puzzles about the past and, second, those puzzles that occured for people living in the past, puzzles form their perspectives - dilemmas, decisions and judgements that require us to imagine ourselves into their situation in a...
Teaching History 103: Puzzling History
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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.
The print version of this edition will arrive with members from 4 August.
Contents
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 Coroners, communities, and the Crown: mapping death and justice in late medieval England –...
The Historian 166: Crime and Punishment
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Seeing double: how one period visualises another
Teaching History article
When pupils study interpretations or representations of the past which are neither from their own period nor from the period being interpreted/represented, they are having to employ sophisticated knowledge and skill. Jane Card describes this as ‘double vision’: the pupils must think about the period depicted (in this case the...
Seeing double: how one period visualises another
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Cunning Plan 143: enquiries about the British empire
Teaching History journal feature
I wanted to give my Year 8 students ownership of their work on the British Empire by allowing them to suggest our ‘enquiry question'. In order to introduce the Empire, I brought in sugar, spices, bananas, chilli peppers and cotton. I then showed maps demonstrating the Empire at its height....
Cunning Plan 143: enquiries about the British empire
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Teaching History 120: Diversity and Divisions
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
05’Why can’t they just live together happily, Miss?’ Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE – Alison Stephen (Read article)
11 Breaking the 20 year rule: very modern history at GCSE – Chris Culpin (Read article)
15 Cunning Plan: Why was Berlin such a significant theatre of conflict after...
Teaching History 120: Diversity and Divisions
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'If Jesus Christ were amongst them, they would deceive Him'
Teaching History article
During discussions about planning, Tim Kemp and Charlotte Bickmore recently concluded that despite the name they give to their major Year 8 unit (The Making of the United Kingdom), they tend mainly to focus on England, and even more especially, on London. They have a good point. Ask an average...
'If Jesus Christ were amongst them, they would deceive Him'
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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
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Primary History 32: Bristol and the Slave Trade
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
3 Editorial
4 Primary Noticeboard
6 In My View: Whatever happened to……? - Colin Richards (Read article)
9 History co-ordinators’ dilemmas - Jayne Woodhouse and Tim Lomas
11 Exploring the history on your doorstep with 4Learning - Dinah Starkey
14 Reading, recovering and re-visioning Victorian Women - Jane Martin (Read...
Primary History 32: Bristol and the Slave Trade
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Primary History 46: Citizenship, Controversial Issues & Identity
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial: history, citizenship and the curriculum – a fit purpose (Read article)
05 In My View: citizenship education in primary schools – Lord Adonis
06 In My View: history and identity – Sir Keith Ajegbo
07 Citizenship, identity and culture: Two Poems – Benjamin Zephaniah and an 8th century...
Primary History 46: Citizenship, Controversial Issues & Identity
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Teaching History 54
Journal
Editorial 2
Historical Association News 3
Articles:
Computers in Secondary School History Teaching: an HMI view - Carole Baker and lain Paterson 7
Supporting the Future - MESU and the History Teacher - Sue Bennett 10
An Introduction to Computers in the History Classroom - John Simkin 12
GCSE Course...
Teaching History 54
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Teaching History 178: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 178
Constructing Accounts
Teachers of history have long recognised the tensions inherent in our role. We must deal with the existence of notions of a core narrative (or narratives) of areas of the past, communicating what those notions are while enabling our students to engage critically with...
Teaching History 178: Out now
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Teaching History 53
Journal
Editorial 2
News 3
Articles:
Multiculturalism and the Lower School History Syllabus: Towards a Practical Approach. - Paul Goalen 8
Using Audio-Visual Media with Slow Learners: A New Approach in History - Keith Hodgkinson 17
New History and Media Education - Derek McKiernan 20
Local History Studies in the Classroom...
Teaching History 53
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Teaching History 19
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Contributors, 2
The Genesis of the History Teaching Film - B. J. Elliott, 3
Film and the History Teacher - J. Duckworth, 8
A Select List of Feature Films of use in the Teaching of History - T. Gwynn, 11
New Approaches to the Study and Teaching...
Teaching History 19
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The Knights Templars
Article
Professor Malcolm Barber explores the rise and fall of the Knights Templars.
"The master of the Temple was a good knight and stout-hearted, but he mistreated all other people as he was too overweening. He would not place any credence in the advice of the master of the Hospital, Brother...
The Knights Templars
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Teaching History 45
Journal
Editorial 2
Taking advantage of Tollund Man, Rob David 3
Artefacts in the Primary School, John Davies 6
Video and History, Alan Farmer 9
Teaching History in Malawi's Secondary Schools, Sean Morrow 14
A One-year Sixthform Local Studies Course, M.C. Holvoak 20
Report: Women's History Seminar, Sue Millar 22
Letters...
Teaching History 45
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The Historian 58: Photography in Korea
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
2 Jawaharlal Nehru: the last viceroy? - Judtih M. Brown (Read article)
8 Travelling the 17th-century English Economy: a rediscovery of Celia Fiennes - Pam Sharpe (Read article)
12 War Plan Red: The American Plan for war with Britain - John Major (Read article)
15 Photography in Korea...
The Historian 58: Photography in Korea
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Teaching History 51
Journal
Editorial - Continuity, Coherence and Consistency 2
News 3
Articles:
Celebrating the Solstice: A 'History through Drama' Teaching Project on the Iron Age - Jayne Woodhouse and Viv Wilson 10
The Big Push: Active Learning in the Humanities - Jason King, John Cox and Sue Dymoke 15
Problem Solving in...
Teaching History 51
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Bruce! You're history.' The place of history in the Scottish curriculum
Teaching History article
History teachers in Scotland are feeling vulnerable. A curriculum review is leading to debates about history’s place in schools – will it or should it be a statutory part of Scotland’s curriculum for 11-14 year olds? Many of the concerns in Sam Henry’s article will ring true for teachers throughout...
Bruce! You're history.' The place of history in the Scottish curriculum
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Teaching History 50
Journal
Editorial - Towards 100 2
News 6
Articles:
History Teachers for the 1990s and Beyond - Helen Patrick 10
Survival or Training? - Martin Booth, Gwenifer Shawyer and Richard Brown 16
Jorvik: some School Children's Reactions - Jeffrey Watkin 21
Research Work in the Primary School - D. Joan Jones...
Teaching History 50
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Teaching History 181: Out now
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Read Teaching History 181
Editorial: Handling Sources
While 2020 will go down in history as the year of the coronavirus pandemic, those who teach history may also remember this year for the impetus that it gave to calls for curriculum change. Petitions to the UK parliament demanding ‘compulsory teaching of Britain’s colonial past’ and greater inclusion of...
Teaching History 181: Out now
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Teaching History 49
Journal
Editorial - Is Neutrality Possible? 2
Letters 3
News 4
Articles:
Childrens' evaluation of evidence on neutral and sensitive topics Roger Austin, Gordon Rae and Keith Hodgkinson 8
Empathy - a case of apathy? - Trevor May and Sean Williams 11
Assessing Drama at GCSE - Graham King, Jennifer Tucker...
Teaching History 49
