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  • Polychronicon 171: Policing in Nazi Germany

      Teaching History feature
    The nature of policing in Nazi Germany is a subject which continues to fascinate historians. The Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei) was an integral part of the Nazi terror system but historians have been and still are at odds as to how it actually functioned. Areas of debate have focused on the...
    Polychronicon 171: Policing in Nazi Germany

  • Seeing beyond the frame

      Teaching History article
    History teachers frequently show pupils visual images and often expect pupils to interrogate such images as evidence. But confusions arise and opportunities are missed when pupils do this without guidance on how to ‘read’ the image systematically and how to place it in context. Barbara Ormond gives a detailed account...
    Seeing beyond the frame

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 171: Teaching Medieval History

      Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
    Was your diet of school history mostly modern? Are you more comfortable debating the industrial revolution than the feudal revolution? And do you now find yourself teaching more medieval history, particularly at GCSE and A-level? Recent changes to the examination specifications in England have made the medieval mainstream, and as...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 171: Teaching Medieval History

  • Move Me On 171: Using existing lesson plans

      The problem page for history mentors
    The 'Move Me On' feature of Teaching History is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher...
    Move Me On 171: Using existing lesson plans

  • 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 171: Knowledge

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition is free to download via the link at the bottom of the page (individual articles are also free to access). For a subscription to the journal (published quarterly), plus access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community...
    Teaching History 171: Knowledge

  • Lucy Hughes-Hallett on telling an HA branch about a book

      Historian article
    Dave Martin interviews the author of Cleopatra: histories, dreams and distortions, winner of the Fawcett Prize and the Emily Toth Award.
    Lucy Hughes-Hallett on telling an HA branch about a book

  • Good Evening Sweetheart

      Historian article
    The talk given by Sue and Pete Mowforth to the Glasgow Branch, reading from a selection of their parents’ war-time letters, resulted in a flurry of media interest from the national press and radio, including an appearance on the BBC’s The One Show in February 2017. Olga and Cyril Mowforth married in June...
    Good Evening Sweetheart

  • Out and About in Oxford

      Historian feature
    The Sheffield Branch of the Historical Association is a very active one. In addition to our monthly meetings we organise a range of study visits, from one-day trips to longer residential tours in the UK and occasionally in mainland Europe. In recent years, these have included visits to Portsmouth, Lincoln and Newark, Newcastle and Northumberland, and the battlefields of Waterloo....
    Out and About in Oxford

  • ‘Cromwell’s trunks’

      Historian article
    Ted Vallance discusses the extent to which Richard Cromwell was able to muster broader support for his rule than is sometimes acknowledged. If the second Lord Protector, Richard Cromwell, is remembered at all, it is as a byword for political failure. Succeeding to the position of head of state after his father, Oliver Cromwell’s death in September...
    ‘Cromwell’s trunks’

  • The Borgia: from fact to fiction

      Historian article
    For their meeting in September 2017 the Bolton Branch requested a talk on Renaissance Italy. What they heard dealt with the Italian portion of the Borgia family, led by Pope Alexander VI, though the topicality of Catalan nationalism meant that the principal figures were introduced with comment on the Italian,...
    The Borgia: from fact to fiction

  • Will China Democratise?

      Historian article
    Michael T. Davis compares the parallels between the democratic expectations, or possibilities, of modern-day China with Britain's democratic evolution from the eighteenth century to the emerging democracy of the nineteenth century. The future is an unfamiliar place for historians. Yet we stand on the edge of an historic shift away...
    Will China Democratise?

  • 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

  • The Standing Stone

      Article
    ‘The Standing Stone’ story and the activities around it developed from several different starting-points. One was the requirement in the 2014 National Curriculum for history at Key Stage 2 for children to be taught prehistory, specifically about ‘changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age’, with Bronze...
    The Standing Stone

  • Polychronicon 170: The Becket Dispute

      Journal article
    ‘The Becket Dispute’ (or ‘Controversy’) refers to the quarrel between Henry II and Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, which dominated English ecclesiastical politics in the 1160s. It was a conflict with multiple dimensions: a clash of Church and State; a prolonged struggle between two prominent individuals; a close friendship turned...
    Polychronicon 170: The Becket Dispute

  • History 354

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:  1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.   NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new window or tab. Access the full edition online ‘Give...
    History 354

  • The LGBT civil rights movement in Britain

      Historian article
    This article has been created from the podcast of the same name on this website by Professor Sally R. Munt, University of Sussex. It has been put into article form by Paula Kitching, and the factual and arguments of the piece are those of the original author. 
    The LGBT civil rights movement in Britain

  • Homosexuality in Britain Since 1967

      Historian article
    Harry Cocks marks the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act with an examination of what has happened since this crucial piece of legislation.
    Homosexuality in Britain Since 1967

  • Paris: 50 Years on from the Great War, 2 August 1964

      Historian article
    Just over 50 years ago, Chris Wrigley, a past President of the Historical Association, while a sixth-former, witnessed a highly significant historic re-enactment in Paris to mark the anniversary of the start of the Great War.
    Paris: 50 Years on from the Great War, 2 August 1964

  • Securing contextual knowledge in year 10

      Teaching History article
    Using regular, low-stakes tests to secure pupils' contextual knowledge in Year 10 Lee Donaghy was concerned that his GCSE students' weak contextual knowledge was letting them down. Inspired by a mixture of cognitive science and the arguments of other teachers expressed in various blogs, he decided to tackle the problem...
    Securing contextual knowledge in year 10

  • History Teaching in Belarus: Between Europe and Russia

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 15, Number 1 – Autumn/Winter 2017 ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract This paper is devoted to social uses of history teaching and history textbooks. It analyses, first, how the history of the lands of Belarus, at the crossroads between Europe and Eurasia, was...
    History Teaching in Belarus: Between Europe and Russia

  • The development of the Department of Health

      Historian article
    Health as a specific feature of central government strategy is a relatively recent phenomenon and Hugh Gault identifies how this feature of everyday headlines in our newspapers has been managed until the present time. At the start of the twentieth  century Lord Salisbury’s Cabinet comprised four Secretaries of State –...
    The development of the Department of Health

  • The Russian Revolution 100 years on: a view from below

      Historian article
    Sarah Badcock sheds light on how ordinary Russians responded to the revolutions of 1917 that sought to change their lot and bring them freedom.
    The Russian Revolution 100 years on: a view from below

  • ‘Our March’: art and culture in the Russian Revolution

      Historian article
    Peter Waldron explores the role of art in communicating to the masses the ideas of politics and change in Bolshevik Russia.
    ‘Our March’: art and culture in the Russian Revolution

  • History 353

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:  1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.   NB all links below go to the Wiley Online Library site and open in a new window or tab. Access the full edition online Political...
    History 353