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Cancelled: Responding to the climate and environmental crisis through history and geography
Partnership CPD from the Historical Association and Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
Regrettably, this event has been cancelled and will no longer take place in October 2025.
In recent years, the climate crisis has become increasingly urgent and apparent. The Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education was founded at UCL in 2022. Their 2024 report highlights the responsibility of all curriculum...
Cancelled: Responding to the climate and environmental crisis through history and geography
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Sex, symbols, gods, devils: teaching Russian and Soviet cultures, gender, and sexualities
Partnership CPD for teachers of Russian and Soviet history at A-level and GCSE
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What did it mean to be a Russian in the time of the Tsars and Soviets?
This one-day event examines the building blocks of Russian identity, asking how...
Sex, symbols, gods, devils: teaching Russian and Soviet cultures, gender, and sexualities
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Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
HA webinar series for history teachers, leaders and SENDCos
What does this series cover and why should I attend?
In recent years, the UK’s SEND system has been under the spotlight. As numbers of students with identified special educational needs increase, attention has been given to how to best embed inclusive practice, enabling teachers to support all students to...
Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
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Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)
Immersive online course for experienced history teachers
Autumn 2025 Cohort
Start date: Wednesday 12 November, 5.15pm–6.30pm
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What is the Experienced Teacher Programme?
This six-week online course is designed to energise your teaching and help you engage with the history education community. In this programme you will access rich, subject-specific professional development designed specifically for experienced teachers: an...
Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)
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On-demand webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
On-demand webinar series for secondary history teachers and leaders
What does this series cover?
In this series of six webinars, Jonathan Grande will explore and exemplify a wide range of types and forms of assessment that can be used to provide precise, accurate and meaningful insights into pupils’ historical knowledge and understanding. The sessions will consider the purposes of...
On-demand webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
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On-demand webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom
HA webinar series for secondary history teachers
At the HA, we understand the importance of creating the next generation of history students who can not only write about history, but who can also effectively communicate their thinking through oracy. Current academic research highlights the importance of oracy for learning and the close relationship between being able to...
On-demand webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom
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Doing History at University 2025
Thinking of studying history at university?
Booking closed
(Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window. Please read the HA CPD terms and conditions before registering)
We are pleased to be hosting a Doing History at University event for students and teachers in partnership with the University of Sheffield. The aim of the event is to...
Doing History at University 2025
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Guidance Pack: Building a Local Teacher Network
Information
We know that it is difficult for teachers to get to events too far from school. As a national charity, the HA recognises the importance and need to build strong regional networks for the history teaching community. Many of these are already existing or organically growing across the country at...
Guidance Pack: Building a Local Teacher Network
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Fact Based Quiz Ideas For Turning 3s into 4s and 5s
Briefing Pack
Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated.
If you are looking to raise your 3/4 grades into 4s/5s, a big focus is going to be fact retention. This can be in the form of fact based quizzes and organisational activities,...
Fact Based Quiz Ideas For Turning 3s into 4s and 5s
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Doing history: is it too dangerous to be a medieval historian?
Presidential Lecture
Podcast of Professor Anne Curry, President of the Historical Association. Friday 14th May 2010.
Head of the School of Humanities and Professor of Medieval History, Southampton University ‘Re your piece in the Daily Mail, 26 October 2009, on the battle of Agincourt, I was absolutely disgusted at the inference that...
Doing history: is it too dangerous to be a medieval historian?
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Why history matters? Round Table discussion podcast
Podcasts
Podcast of the round table discussion available here!The History Matters Annual Conference in May saw the best turnout we've had for some time with a healthy and representative mix of HA members. Our thanks to all those who contributed their time and energy in delivering workshops and lectures. Our afternoon...
Why history matters? Round Table discussion podcast
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Virtual Branch Recording: Women and the Reformations
Article
The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of men. But women were central to the transformations that took place in Europe and beyond. What was life like for them in this turbulent period? How did their actions and ideas shape Christianity and influence societies around the world? ...
Virtual Branch Recording: Women and the Reformations
