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  • 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

  • Power and Democracy - GCSE

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Power and Democracy
    Power and Democracy - GCSE

  • 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

  • Significance

      Key Concepts
    Please note: these links were compiled in 2009. For a more recent resource, please see: What's the Wisdom on: Historical significance.  This selection of Teaching History articles on 'Significance' are highly recommended reading to anyone who wants to get to grips with this key concept. All Teaching History articles are free to HA Secondary Members...
    Significance

  • Webinar series: Coherence at Key Stage 4

      HA webinar series for subject leaders and teachers of history
    What does this series cover? This series of webinars will consider coherence at Key Stage 4. We will reflect on using sequencing to establish coherence, how different categories of coherence can be used to inform our planning and delivery of GCSE, and how meaningful approaches to assessment will allow pupils’...
    Webinar series: Coherence at Key Stage 4

  • Thematic GCSE Content

      GCSE Resources
    The helpful guide below sets out links to a range of podcasts, articles and pamphlets that will provide subject knowledge guidance that you may find useful for all of the identified thematic topics of the  GCSE specifications. In addition there are also links to helpful articles dealing with bigger picture...
    Thematic GCSE Content

  • 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

  • Time and Place; Using a Local Historical Site with Key Stage 2 and 3

      Time and Place
    English Heritage and the Historical Association have teamed up to provide this great new CPD guide to getting the most out of local historical sites with your classes. This easy to follow unit provides the basis for an entire unit of local study using the built heritage around you. Examples...
    Time and Place; Using a Local Historical Site with Key Stage 2 and 3

  • 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

  • The Normans

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Norman Conquest The Origins of the Norman Conquest The Norman Conquest: why did it matter? KeynoteSpeech from the Historical Association 2013 Annual Conference - Podcast 1066: The Limits of our Knowledge Edward the Confessor and the Norman Conquest The strange death of King Harold II: Propaganda and the problem of...
    The Normans

  • Change and Continuity

      Key Concepts
    Please note: these links were compiled in 2009. For a more recent resource, please see: What's the Wisdom on: Change and Continuity.  This selection of useful Teaching History articles on Change and Continuity are highly recommended reading to those who would like to get to grip with these key concepts:  1. Michael Riley: Big Stories and...
    Change and Continuity

  • Fundamental British Values and history teaching

      Article
    In this article, Michael Maddison provides an overview of what schools must do in relation to promoting British values, as well as preventing extremism and radicalisation, and why it is so important that opportunities are taken in history to deal with these two pressing issues. It is an updated version...
    Fundamental British Values and history teaching

  • 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

  • New Treatments of Familiar Topics

      National Curriculum 2016
    Comparision of new GCSE Specifications Treatment of Familiar Topics If you, like many other departments are beginning to ask the questions that will determine which of the new history GCSE specifications your department will choose, one consideration may well be looking at the retention of familiar topics that you already...
    New Treatments of Familiar Topics

  • Triumphs Show 148.2: using pupil dialogue to encourage engagement with sources

      Teaching History feature
    Using pupil dialogue to encourage sophisticated engagement with source material - even at GCSE! Frustrated by the mechanistic approach that their pupils were using when working with historical sources, Tim Jenner and Paul Nightingale sought to experiment with a method of teaching sources which eschewed practice source questions in favour...
    Triumphs Show 148.2: using pupil dialogue to encourage engagement with sources

  • Cunning Plan 183: Teaching a broader Britain, 1625–1714

      Teaching History feature
    ‘Gruesome!’ was how we decided to describe our teaching of seventeenth-century British history, although ‘inadequate’ was probably more accurate. Oh, how much was wrong!  We had… Incoherence. The Civil War and Protectorate years plonked in between the Elizabethan Age and the origins of the industrial revolution. We had lost years! A...
    Cunning Plan 183: Teaching a broader Britain, 1625–1714

  • Using sites for insights

      Teaching History article
    Working alongside local history teachers to prepare for the new GCSE specifications Steve Illingworth and Emma Manners were struck that many teachers were concerned about two issues in particular: the breadth and depth of knowledge demanded and new forms of assessment, especially the historic environment paper. In this article they...
    Using sites for insights

  • English Heritage and Historical Association Local Heritage Project

      Article
    One year ago (2011), the south eastern branch of English Heritage and the Historical Association came together to see what we could do better in partnership. The outcome was the Local Heritage Partnership Project. The vision was to work together to provide access to and inspiration to carry out local...
    English Heritage and Historical Association Local Heritage Project

  • 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

  • Using family history to provoke rigorous enquiry

      Teaching History article
    The idea of using ‘little stories' to illuminate the ‘big pictures' of the past was creatively explored in Teaching History 107, which offered teachers a wealth of detailed vignettes with which to kindle young people's interest and illuminate major historical events. Paul Barrett builds on the ideas explored in that...
    Using family history to provoke rigorous enquiry

  • 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

  • Cunning Plan 147: Getting students to use classical texts

      Teaching History feature
    The following plan provides a more detailed practical example of the approaches discussed in the article on using ancient texts. Having puzzled over what ancient texts actually are - carefully constructed interpretations? testimonies? (but testimonies to what?) myths? - I wanted my Ancient History GCSE class to engage in this...
    Cunning Plan 147: Getting students to use classical texts

  • Podcast Series: The Women's Movement

      Multipage Article
    In Part 2 of our series on Social and Political Change in the UK 1800-present we look at the Women's Movement in the UK from its early origins through to the end of the 20th century Part 2 features Dr Anne Logan, Professor June Hannam and Ms Jean Spence. Also...
    Podcast Series: The Women's Movement

  • Ufton Court

      Visit
    Ufton Court, an Elizabethan Grade 1 Manor House between Reading and Newbury, is an inspirational centre for schools. The Ufton team lead residential and day visits for KS2 that aim to give children a passion for history.  Residential VisitsEnjoy sole overnight occupancy of the inspiring Tudor Manor over 1 to...
    Ufton Court

  • Relevant, rigorous and revisited: using local history to make meaning of historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The idea of engaging pupils with the relevance of local memorials is becoming commonplace in the history classroom. In Teaching History 109, Examining History  Edition, Dale Banham's pupils used First World War memorials to assess...
    Relevant, rigorous and revisited: using local history to make meaning of historical significance