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Germany
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Germany
An HA Podcast Series: Modern German History (1914-1948)
Building and assessing historical knowledge on three scales
Kristallnacht
Adolf Eichmann
Reading and enquiring in Years 12 and 13: a case study on women in the Third Reich
Podcast: Cold War Germany
German Women 1900-1945
Nazism and Stalinism – suitable case for...
Germany
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Poland
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Podcast: Twentieth-century Poland
Podcast: British-Polish relations and the British Polish community
Polychronicon: Why did the Cold War End?
Podcast: The USSR and Eastern Europe
Film: The Partitions of Poland-Lithuania (1772-1795): Repercussions for German-Polish Relations and their Legacy
Resources from other organisations
Beyond Borders: Polish-British Cultural Connections (Polish Cultural Institute, London; resources by Helen...
Poland
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Britain 1900-1918
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Writing the First World War - Podcasts
Richard Evans Medlicott lecture: The Origins of the First World War
Gary Sheffield: Origins of the First World War
The Parliament Act of 1911
The Suffragette Movement - Podcast
LGBT History 1914-18
Domestic impact of World War I
First World War treaties...
Britain 1900-1918
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Charles I, Civil War and Restoration England
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr?
King Charles I
The Personal Rule of Charles I 1629-40
Polychronichon – interpreting the revolution of 1688
Cunning Plan
King Charles II
Jacobinism
The Jacobites
Oliver Cromwell
HA Podcasts: From James to Anne
Charles I, Civil War and Restoration England
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Elizabethan England
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Polychronichon – interpreting Elizabeth I
How Glorious was Gloriana?
Elizabeth I and II comparison
Women in Britain1500-1700
Revising the Elizabethans
Elizabethan England
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Henry VIII and Ministers
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Henry VIII
Faction in Tudor England
The Tudors podcasted series
Tudor government
Henry VIII and Ministers
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King John and Magna Carta
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Magna Carta: oblivion and revival
Magna Carta and the Origins of Parliament
King John
King John and Magna Carta (Part 1)
King John and Magna Carta (Part 2)
King John and Magna Carta
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Edward I
Links to Articles & Podcasts
The Nation of the Scots and the Declaration of Arbroath
The Scottish Wars of Independence
Edward I: Relations between England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
Edward I: Law and State
Edward I
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International relations
Links to Articles & Podcasts
An HA Podcasted History: The Cold War
The Road to World War II
The World War I peace treaties
The League of Nations
International relations
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Warfare - GCSE
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Warfare
Warfare - GCSE
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Migration - GCSE
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Podcasts
Podcast Series: England's Immigrants 1330-1550
Podcast Series: Social & Political Change in the UK 1800-present: Part 3 Diversity - A Changing Population
Podcast Series: Diversity in Early Modern Britain
Social & Political Change in the UK 1800-present: Part 5 Religion
The Huguenots in Britain & Ireland
Native North Americans...
Migration - GCSE
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Crime and Punishment - GCSE
Links to Articles
Crime and Punishment:
HA Podcast: Crime & Punishment - Factors and Time Periods
HA Podcast: Crime and Punishment - Roman to Early Modern
HA Podcast: The Bloody Code - Early Modern Crime and Punishment
HA Podcast: Roman Crime and Punishment
Topic Pack: Crime and Punishment Through Time
Crime and Punishment - GCSE
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Medicine - GCSE
Links to Articles
GCSE Thematic Study LinksMedicine:
Medicine - GCSE
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Big Picture History - GCSE
Links to Articles
GCSE Thematic Study LinksBigger picture history and teaching change and continuity over time.
Big Picture History - GCSE
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New Saxon, Viking and Medieval GCSE Content
GCSE Resources
As you will no doubt be aware, GCSEs are changing. New specifications (subject to accreditation) will require students to learn history from a range of different time periods. Different specifications will specify different content, but whichever specification you end up teaching, you are very likely to be teaching some medieval...
New Saxon, Viking and Medieval GCSE Content
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Historical Perspective & 'Big History'
Teaching History article
Moving forward, looking back - historical perspective, ‘Big History' and the return of the longue durée: time to develop our scale hopping muscles
‘Big history' is a term receiving a great deal of attention at present, particularly in North America where considerable sums of money have been invested in designing curricula...
Historical Perspective & 'Big History'
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Transforming Year 11's conceptual understanding of change
Teaching History article
For all that history teachers appreciate the need to build substantive knowledge and conceptual understanding systematically over time, they are also likely to have experienced that sickening moment when they realise that a Year 11 pupil has somehow missed something fundamental.
In Anna Fielding's case, her pupil's misconception was related to...
Transforming Year 11's conceptual understanding of change
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Ideas on the Shape, Size and Movements of the Earth - Pamphlet
Classic Pamphlet
This classic pamphlet takes you through some of the key ideas on the shape, size and movements of the Earth as they changed over time from classical cosmology to the work of Galileo and Isaac Newton.
Ideas on the Shape, Size and Movements of the Earth - Pamphlet
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Helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house
Teaching History article
A host of histories: helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house
Described by the author Monica Ali as a building that ‘sparks the imagination and sparks conversations', 19 Princelet Street, now a Museum of Diversity and Immigration, captivated the imagination of teacher David Waters. He...
Helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house
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Themes over Time
HA Resources
The study of an aspect or theme in British history that consolidates and extends pupils'chronological knowledge from before 1066While the 2014 Curriculum sets out the broad focus of each particular content area, considerable choice has been left to history departments in determining which particular events or developments to include and...
Themes over Time
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Podcast series: Politics in England Through Time
Politics in England through Time
In this set of podcasts we look at how power and politics have changed in England from the Iron Age to the twentieth century.
Podcast series: Politics in England Through Time
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Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front
Teaching History article
Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front to help pupils take a more critical approach to what they encounter
The first year of the government's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme is now under way, allowing increasing numbers of students from across Britain...
Remembering the First World War: Using a battlefield tour of the Western Front
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Podcast Series: The History of Science
Multipage Article
In this series of podcasts we take a look at the history of the Royal Society and the influence it has had on the history and development of science.
This series features: Keith Moore, Head of Libraries and Archives at the Royal Society, Dr Jordan Goodman, Dr Patricia Fara of...
Podcast Series: The History of Science
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Triumphs Show 155: beyond trivial judgements of 'bias'
Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
Towards victory in that battle...
10A were nearly a term into their GCSE history course, working on an 1890-1918 British history ‘depth study'. They had already completed work on the Liberal welfare reforms and on the women's suffrage movement, and they had been practising a range of source evaluation approaches....
Triumphs Show 155: beyond trivial judgements of 'bias'
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My Favourite History Place - Sackville College, East Grinstead
Historian feature
Sackville College almshouse in East Grinstead, Sussex, was founded in 1609, by Robert Sackville, 2nd Earl of Dorset, when he wrote his will. He died 17 days later without seeing one stone laid, yet the College still stands, providing affordable accommodation for local elderly people of limited means. It is...
My Favourite History Place - Sackville College, East Grinstead
