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The Historian 144: War
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 The last battle: Bomber Command’s veterans and the fight for remembrance – Frances Houghton (Read article)
11 British-Army camp followers in the Peninsular War – Charles J. Esdaile (Read article)
16 Sparta and war: myths and realities – Stephen Hodkinson (Read article)
22 Losing sight of the...
The Historian 144: War
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From temple to forum: teaching final-year history students to become critical museum visitors
Journal article
Across the globe, the centenary of World War I has prompted the creation of new exhibitions devoted to its commemoration. In New Zealand, Michael Harcourt wanted to explore whether teaching strategies intended to help students to engage critically with such exhibitions would have any lasting impact on the young people’s...
From temple to forum: teaching final-year history students to become critical museum visitors
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Storytelling - how can we imagine the past?
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Simon Schama's plea to "reinvent the art and science of storytelling in the classroom" made the media headlines and echoed centuries of educational history (Bage 1999). "It is, after all, the glory of our historical tradition...
Storytelling - how can we imagine the past?
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The Historian 155: Women and power
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 Elizabeth I: ‘less than a woman’? – Tracy Borman (Read article)
12 A woman’s place is in the castle: two besieged noblewomen in medieval Scotland – Morvern French and Iain A. MacInnes (Read article)
17 Taj ul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah: a trailblazing Islamic queen – Khadija...
The Historian 155: Women and power
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Teaching History 77
The HA's journal for history teachers
6 History, Autonomy and Education or History Helps Your Students Be Autonomous Five Ways (with apologies to PAL dog food) - Peter Lee
11 Theory and Practice Essay: The Use of Resources and Teaching Aids in the Teaching of History, with particular reference to Year Eight - Elizabeth Danks
16...
Teaching History 77
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Hearts, minds and souls: Exploring values through history
Teaching History article
Steve Illingworth argues that moral and intellectual development are not merely linked in the learning of history, but that moral development is a fitting goal for the study of history in its own right. He provides practical examples of ways of getting pupils to reflect on questions of right and...
Hearts, minds and souls: Exploring values through history
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From Norwich to Nara
Historian article
Simon Kaner explores the fascinating parallels revealed by the international research project From Nara to Norwich between life and religious belief at the ends of the Silk Roads.
Nara is the ancient capital region of Japan. The eighth century imperial treasury, the Shōsōin, with its treasures from China and central Asia, is...
From Norwich to Nara
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Think Bubble - Jumping stories: selective chronology
Primary History feature
I recently finished a most interesting commission with the educational publishers, Schofield and Sims. They asked me to help put together a comprehensive timeline of British History to cover as broad a chronological perspective as possible. They wanted this to be the complete Cavemen to Cybermen story all on one...
Think Bubble - Jumping stories: selective chronology
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Building an overview of the historic roots of antisemitism
Teaching History article
‘But I still don't get why the Jews': using cause and change to answer pupils' demand for an overview of antisemitism
Research by the Centre for Holocaust Education has suggested that students need and want more help with building an overview of the historical roots of antisemitism and that they...
Building an overview of the historic roots of antisemitism
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Music in the History Curriculum
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated.
In a primary school in Devon, there is a teacher who sings to his class every day: traditional songs; love songs; lyrical ballads; sea shanties; tales of mystery and suspense; songs of ritual and ceremony, hunting songs,...
Music in the History Curriculum
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Teaching History 55
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
Empathy and History - Ann Low-Beer
Some Reflections on Empathy in History - John Cairns
Reflections on the Empathy Debate - Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley
Pupils and the Professional Historian - Neil De Marco
Some Comments on the Future of Integrated or Modular Humanities Courses in Schools -...
Teaching History 55
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Dickens...Hardy...Jarvis?! A novel take on the Industrial Revolution
Teaching History article
‘Empathy with edge' was the editorial description given eight years ago to the kind of historical fiction that Dave Martin and Beth Brooke first argued history students should be writing (TH 108). The winning entries from the annual ‘Write Your Own Historical Story Competition' to which their work gave rise...
Dickens...Hardy...Jarvis?! A novel take on the Industrial Revolution
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Cunning Plan 152.1: visual sources
Teaching History feature
The principles outlined here were developed in response to three key concerns. The first was consideration of the needs of students learning English as an additional language who face particular challenges with reading and writing.
Images could perhaps offer them more direct, less abstract, ways into an understanding of challenging...
Cunning Plan 152.1: visual sources
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Teaching Year 8 pupils to take seriously the ideas of ordinary people from the past
Teaching History article
Jacob Olivey wanted Year 8 to know that ordinary people in the nineteenth century constructed their own identities. In this reflection on how his practice developed in his training year, Olivey illustrates the importance of using historical scholarship in choosing foundational knowledge to teach. He shows how he used that...
Teaching Year 8 pupils to take seriously the ideas of ordinary people from the past
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Primary History 30: Discovering the past
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
3 Editorial – Penelope Harnett
3 Primary Noticeboard – Tim Lomas
4 How do we ensure really good local history in primary schools? – Tim Lomas (Read article)
7 Research the history of the fire service in the local community – Jayne Pascoe (Read article)
10 Children, the internet and...
Primary History 30: Discovering the past
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The Historian 133: Celebrating Asa Briggs
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews
5 Editorial
6 The Man from Keighley - Trevor James
10 Asa Briggs’s Birmingham - Roger Ward
12 Asa Briggs and labour history - Chris Wrigley
16 Asa Briggs: an appreciation - Stephen Yeo
21 The President’s Column
22 Asa Briggs and political history - Peter Catterall
26...
The Historian 133: Celebrating Asa Briggs
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Putting the Story back into History
Primary History article
Children love stories. They like the drama, the excitement, the chance to listen and to wonder. Narrative is a very important part of history and sometimes, by concentrating on facts or on skills, we tend to lose the view of the big picture, especially in the Key Stage 2 curriculum...
Putting the Story back into History
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How can citizenship education contribute to effective local history?
Primary History article
Please note: This article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated.
Citizenship education in primary schools asks children to dig deeply into issues, to gain skills to become advocates and champions for the views of themselves and others and to be confident to take action on...
How can citizenship education contribute to effective local history?
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Out went Caesar and in came the Conqueror: A case study in professional thinking
Teaching History article
A case study in professional thinking
Michael Fordham examines the evolution of his own practice as an example of how history teachers draw upon collective, professional knowledge constructed by other history teachers in journals, books, conferences and seminars. Fordham explains how a particular Year 7 enquiry examining historical change from the...
Out went Caesar and in came the Conqueror: A case study in professional thinking
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HA News, Autumn 2024
Welcome to the autumn 2024 edition of HA News magazine
Welcome to the autumn edition of HA News.
We have updates on the office team's move back into 59a, and HA President Alexandra Walsham's busy six months travelling the country supporting the HA and its activities, as well as membership, education and competition updates.
Dr Dean A. Irwin shares ‘What got me into...
HA News, Autumn 2024
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What they think they know: the impact of pupils' preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance
Teaching History article
Robin Conway suspected that his students’ concepts of the significance of different aspects of historical periods was affected by the preconceptions that they brought to his lessons. These preconceptions were leading his students into making unhistorical judgments, without any real understanding on their part of what had affected their thinking....
What they think they know: the impact of pupils' preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance
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The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1
Journal
The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education.
Articles included in this edition:
Editorial: History Education, Identity and Citizenship in the 21st Century, Bahri Ata The Turkish prospective History teachers' understanding of analogy in History education, Isabel...
The International Journal Volume 8 Number 1
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Teaching possibilities: From Plato to Nato
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
The Olympics historical dimension opens up a plethora of possibilities for history, projects and integrated approaches that draw upon the themes and approaches that underpin the primary school curriculum. Our top ten are:
1. Home and...
Teaching possibilities: From Plato to Nato
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Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
The uses of sources in History, The evidence sandwich, Teaching Pupils to analyse cartoons, shared stories and a sense of place, Working with sources, interpretations of history and much more...
The use of sources in History - Tony McAleavy (Read article)
The evidence sandwhich - Margaret Mulholland (Read article)
Teaching...
Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation
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What about history? Lessons from seven years with project-based learning
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Alternative curriculum models can take many forms. Some seem to be imposed on reluctant history teachers with little opportunity for planning. Other teachers are given the opportunity to really embed and revise models that might...
What about history? Lessons from seven years with project-based learning
