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  • Teaching History 175: Listening to Diverse Voices

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary news 04 HA update 08 Did the Bretons break? Planning increasingly complex ‘causal models’ at Key Stage 3 – Matthew Stanford (Read article) 16 From ‘Great Women’ to an inclusive curriculum: how should women’s history be included at Key Stage 3? – Susanna Boyd (Read...
    Teaching History 175: Listening to Diverse Voices

  • Polychronicon 166: The ‘new’ historiography of the Cold War

      Teaching History feature
    A great deal of new writing on the Cold War sits at the crossroads of national, transnational and global perspectives. Such studies can be so self-consciously multi-archival and multipolar, methodologically pluralist in approach and often ‘decentring’ in aim, that some scholars now worry that the Cold War risks losing its coherence as a distinct object of...
    Polychronicon 166: The ‘new’ historiography of the Cold War

  • Teaching about heritage through a cross-curricular enquiry

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What should we do with our brightest and best? Neal Watkin and Johannes Ahrenfelt suggest an enquiry for a very high ability Year 8 group which is both challenging and genuinely historical. The enquiry itself...
    Teaching about heritage through a cross-curricular enquiry

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 81

      What was it like to be a child in World War II? and Images of three female pilots
    1. What was it like to be a child in World War II? 2. Three female pilots - can you use the words in the box to talk about each pilot?
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 81

  • Using history to launch the creative curriculum

      Primary History case study
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. At its core, the creative curriculum is a carefully planned, thematic approach to teaching and learning, designed to support and stimulate children's natural curiosity and creativity. Children can work in depth, giving them time to reflect,...
    Using history to launch the creative curriculum

  • My Favourite History Place: Gladstone’s Library at Hawarden

      Historian feature
    When I first visited Gladstone’s residential library in 1977 for a pre-university History degree reading week, I barely knew who Gladstone was. I had just come back from a holiday in Italy and the contrast between Florence and Hawarden, a Welsh border town, was startling. I came from the sunny remains...
    My Favourite History Place: Gladstone’s Library at Hawarden

  • Polychronicon 177: The New Deal in American history

      Teaching History feature
    Over 50 years ago I read my first serious book on American history. I can still remember the excitement of reading William E. Leuchtenburg’s Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940. His description of FDR and American politics in the 1930s seemed so much more colourful and dramatic than...
    Polychronicon 177: The New Deal in American history

  • Using remote voting to involve everyone in classroom thinking at AS and A2

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Diana Laffin shares her findings on an action research project into the use of remote voting systems in the AS and A2 classroom. She was particularly interested in examining the impact of such devices on...
    Using remote voting to involve everyone in classroom thinking at AS and A2

  • Developing early history skills and understanding through the EYFS

      Primary History article
    Read more like this: EYFS scheme of work EYFS Medium term plan: Toys and Games Early Years Foundation Stage (article) Early Years: learning about the past (article) Using 'Development Matters' in the Foundation Stage (article) For many children, going to nursery school is a key part of their day. It...
    Developing early history skills and understanding through the EYFS

  • Berlin and the Holocaust: a sense of place?

      Teaching History article
    As more and more schools take students on visits to locations associated with the history of the Holocaust, history teachers have to find ways to make these places historically meaningful for their students. David Waters shows here how he introduced his students to the multiple narratives associated with the history...
    Berlin and the Holocaust: a sense of place?

  • One of my favourite history places: Meldon Viaduct

      Primary History feature
    'One of my favourite history places' is a regular feature in Primary History – see all favourite history places here. In this edition, Tim Lomas explores Meldon Viaduct and its surroundings: Visiting places you have read about or seen pictures of can sometimes prove an anticlimax. Others far exceed expectations. One such is...
    One of my favourite history places: Meldon Viaduct

  • Challenging stereotypes and avoiding the superficial: a suggested approach to teaching the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Alison Kitson provides a rationale for a scheme of work for Year 9 (13-14 year-olds). She argues that teachers should analyse the kind of historical learning that is taking place when the Holocaust is studied. Critical of the assumption that learning will take place as a result of exposure, she...
    Challenging stereotypes and avoiding the superficial: a suggested approach to teaching the Holocaust

  • The Historian 124: Friend or Foe?

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial 6 An interview with Linda Colley (Watch the interview) 11 The President's Column 12 Friend or foe? Foreigners in England in the later Middle Ages - Mark Ormrod (Read Article) 18 Daniel Defoe, public opinion and the Anglo-Scottish Union - Ted Vallance (Read Article) 23 Memorial...
    The Historian 124: Friend or Foe?

  • Using a house for your local history study

      Primary History article
    A house can be an extremely effective focus for learning about the past, giving us insights into changes to domestic and social life.  We can explore how different inventions (e.g. electric lighting, washing machines, televisions) have changed the way we live, and we can look at some of the ways...
    Using a house for your local history study

  • One of my favourite history places: Bournville

      Article
    One of my favourite places is Bournville Village in the south of Birmingham – every time I go there it feels as if I am entering a different world, away from the noise and bustle of the city. Less than five minutes' walk away from the tourist attraction of Cadbury World is the village...
    One of my favourite history places: Bournville

  • The First Fifty Years of the Historical Association

      Classic Pamphlet
    It was in the 19th century for the most part that the study of the past was revolutionized through the progress in criticism, the opening of archives and the great development of what we call ‘historical thinking’. In the same century the historical approach produced a transformation in many branches of...
    The First Fifty Years of the Historical Association

  • My Favourite History Place: Edinburgh's Royal Mile

      Historian feature
    Maggie Wilson whets our appetite for exploration of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. Edinburgh’s Royal Mile runs between the Castle and Holyrood Palace. In addition to these and other well-known sites such as St Giles Cathedral, John Knox’s house, the Canongate Tolbooth and Canongate Kirk, and stories of Deacon Brodie, David Hume, James Boswell, Robert Burns and, obviously,...
    My Favourite History Place: Edinburgh's Royal Mile

  • One of my favourite history places: Saltaire

      Primary History article
    Saltaire is my favourite place and one I never tire of visiting as each time a new discovery may be made. As you walk down the uneven cobbles of the narrow streets, even with the trappings of the twenty-first century (especially cars) in evidence, you cannot help but feel that...
    One of my favourite history places: Saltaire

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 66

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

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 67

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

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68

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

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 70

      Alternative sources for the Romans, and a variety of Enquiry questions
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 70

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 73

      Map of ancient civilisations
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 73

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 78

      Investigating the Shang Dynasty and History in the primary curriculum
    1. Investigating the Shang Dynasty; 2. History in the primary curriculum - what does it offer?
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 78

  • The history of medicine – warts and all – for Key Stage 2

      Primary History article
    The story of the history of medicine is HUGE! In fact, it’s a story within story within a story… You only have to note the substantial amounts that have been written on the subject in the past, to realise that this is a story that could baffle and perplex even...
    The history of medicine – warts and all – for Key Stage 2