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Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework
HA webinar series for secondary history teachers, history subject leaders and senior leaders overseeing curriculum
What does this series cover?
This three-part series explores how the new Ofsted framework shapes expectations for history teaching, curriculum design, and evidence of impact. It continues to re-emphasise inclusive approaches, ensuring they are genuinely meaningful for all pupils rather than performative compliance.
Drawing on Ofsted’s Research Review (2021) and...
Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework
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On-demand webinar: Helping the past take shape with historical enquiry
Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
Session 5: Helping the past take shape with historical enquiry
This session focuses into enquiry and on second order concepts. It offers practical advice to how second order concepts can be introduced in a way that is historically rigorous. We will explicitly address...
On-demand webinar: Helping the past take shape with historical enquiry
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History Teacher Development Programme
Spring 2027 cohort
The History Teacher Development Programme is an online course aimed at history teachers who want to re-focus their attention on teaching ambitious and rigorous history.
Are you a relatively new teacher coming to the end of your ECT years?
Are you a more experienced teacher who wants to re-engage with...
History Teacher Development Programme
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History Teacher Development Programme
Autumn 2026 cohort
The History Teacher Development Programme is an online course aimed at history teachers who want to re-focus their attention on teaching ambitious and rigorous history.
Are you a relatively new teacher coming to the end of your ECT years?
Are you a more experienced teacher who wants to re-engage with...
History Teacher Development Programme
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History Teacher Development Programme
Spring 2026 cohort
The History Teacher Development Programme is an online course aimed at history teachers who want to re-focus their attention on teaching ambitious and rigorous history.
Are you a relatively new teacher coming to the end of your ECT years?
Are you a more experienced teacher who wants to re-engage with...
History Teacher Development Programme
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History Teacher Development Programme
Autumn 2025 cohort
The History Teacher Development Programme is an online course aimed at history teachers who want to re-focus their attention on teaching ambitious and rigorous history.
Are you a relatively new teacher coming to the end of your ECT years?
Are you a more experienced teacher who wants to re-engage with...
History Teacher Development Programme
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History Teacher Development Programme
Spring 2025 cohort
The History Teacher Development Programme is an online course aimed at history teachers who want to re-focus their attention on teaching ambitious and rigorous history.
Are you a relatively new teacher coming to the end of your ECT years?
Are you a more experienced teacher who wants to re-engage with...
History Teacher Development Programme
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On-demand webinar: Teaching language directly
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Session 6: Teaching language directly
In this sixth and final session, Jacob and Mike will explain how history teachers can teach words and phrases very directly to their pupils. They will suggest that 'drill and thrill' – rather than laminated word mats – can make the language...
On-demand webinar: Teaching language directly
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On-demand webinar: Teaching the whole class
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Session 3: Teaching the whole class
In this third session, Jacob and Mike will argue that a history teacher should always be a sage on the stage – and not a guide on the side. They will share strategies that allow history teachers to drive learning...
On-demand webinar: Teaching the whole class
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Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2025 - Dr Christine Counsell
Dr Christine Counsell
The Historical Association's Medlicott Medal 2025 was awarded to Dr Christine Counsell. The award seeks to recognise individuals from a diversity of backgrounds in their service to history. Read more about Christine, her work and her award here.
As is the custom, Dr Christine Counsell received her award and presented her...
Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2025 - Dr Christine Counsell
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Literacy and Oracy in History
Multipage Article
Argument is at the heart of history. The historically literate student can argue. Historical speaking and writing is about presenting an evidence-based argument, even when producing a narrative. History students need to bring together knowledge of different kinds to form an argument. They need to know how to defend and...
Literacy and Oracy in History
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Adaptive teaching and scaffolding in history
On-demand course for secondary history teachers and subject leaders
This autumn, as part of our regular termly CPD offer, the Historical Association is proud to launch this five-part, pre-recorded webinar series. It will equip teachers to anticipate barriers that history students may face in reading, writing, processing explanations and vocabulary and then to address them by using subject-specific scaffolds,...
Adaptive teaching and scaffolding in history
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Teaching history as a non-specialist
An induction course providing essential support for non-specialists teaching Key Stage 3 and GCSE history
Are you teaching history without a history background? Whether you’re an RS, geography, or general humanities teacher picking up some Key Stage 3 history – or have found yourself unexpectedly teaching a bit of GCSE – this flexible, supportive induction course is designed just for you.
With a series of...
Teaching history as a non-specialist
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Using oral history in the classroom
Multipage Article
The Oral History Society has kindly agreed to produce two new films aimed at history teachers who are new to carrying out or using oral histories either in their teaching or with students. These two films will equip teachers with the essential tools and knowledge for using and devising effective...
Using oral history in the classroom
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On-demand webinar: Developing subject knowledge as a mentor
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Session 1: Developing subject knowledge
This first webinar will begin with the question: What do beginning and early career history teachers need to know about history? It will explore the substantive and disciplinary subject knowledge that is essential for...
On-demand webinar: Developing subject knowledge as a mentor
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Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2022 by David Olusoga
Article
Professor David Olusoga is a revered TV historian, a writer and a practising academic at Manchester University. In 2022 he was the recipient of the Historical Association's annual Medlicott medal, awarded for outstanding contributions to history.
The recipient of the medal provides the closing lecture of the HA's annual awards evening. Professor...
Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2022 by David Olusoga
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Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967
Virtual Branch
In the centenary year of the BBC, this Virtual Branch talk from Marcus Collins relates the strange tale of how the BBC did and did not broadcast about homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s and what it tells us about sexuality, broadcasting and the origins of permissiveness in mid-twentieth century Britain.
Marcus Collins...
Film: “The Talk Should Not Be Broadcast”: Homosexuality and the BBC before 1967
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Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading
Your Virtual History Department Meeting
'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a department meeting. 'What’s the wisdom on…' provides history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of many years of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of history teaching.
To...
Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading
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Webinar series: Improving outcomes in GCSE History: rich and authentic encounters with the past at Key Stage 4
HA webinar series for secondary history teachers and subject leaders
Under pressure to increase student attainment at GCSE but hesitant about what that might look like? Struggling to make a content-heavy course accessible to all learners? In this webinar series, Ed Durbin will take a fresh look at approaches to teaching GCSE History. With all eyes on the new specifications...
Webinar series: Improving outcomes in GCSE History: rich and authentic encounters with the past at Key Stage 4
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Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence
Your Virtual History Department Meeting
'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a department meeting. 'What’s the wisdom on…' provides history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of many years of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of history teaching.
To...
Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence
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Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit
The mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times
Dr Jo Fox continued our virtual branch lecture series this July on the subject 'Reimagining the Blitz Spirit: the mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times'. Fox is the Director of the Institute of Historical Research and a well-known historian specialising in the history of propaganda, rumour and truth telling.
In this talk...
Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit
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Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing
Article
'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a department meeting. 'What’s the wisdom on…' provides history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of many years of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of history teaching.
To...
Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing
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Film: What's the wisdom on...Similarity and Difference
Your Virtual History Department Meeting
We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances, so we wanted to lend a helping hand.
'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a virtual department meeting....
Film: What's the wisdom on...Similarity and Difference
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On-demand webinar: Teaching substantive knowledge directly
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Webinar series: Direct history teaching
Session 2: Teaching substantive knowledge directly
In this second session, Jacob and Mike will share how history teachers can teach substantive knowledge (what we know about the past) in more direct ways – whilst still challenging and engaging pupils. They will share ideas about using lean...
On-demand webinar: Teaching substantive knowledge directly
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Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity
Your Virtual History Department Meeting
We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances, so we wanted to lend a helping hand.
'What’s the wisdom on…' is a new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity
