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Virtual Branch Recording: A Brief History of the Coast in 100 Objects
Article
The coast means something different to everyone. It’s a place of pleasure and reckless pursuits, of fishing, fearless endeavours and a crashing, rugged beauty. The coast is, and always has been, Britain's first line of defence and springboard to other cultures.
In this talk public historian Sally Coulthard delves into...
Virtual Branch Recording: A Brief History of the Coast in 100 Objects
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Recorded webinar: Bringing history alive through local people and places
Diversity in local history
The webinar takes participants through a brief introduction to understand the value and importance of learning history through local people and places. It will consider the impact this has on children’s depth and quality of learning, understanding and identity. It will offer a series of practical activities and resources which...
Recorded webinar: Bringing history alive through local people and places
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Recorded Webinar: Nineteenth-century crime and punishment
Article
This webinar with Dr Emma D Watkins explores the changing understanding of crime and responses to it in the nineteenth-century. It provides a brief overview on the general shift from punishment of the body, to banishment, all the way through to imprisonment.
With a particular emphasis on the use of...
Recorded Webinar: Nineteenth-century crime and punishment
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Weaving historical scholarship into primary history: Benin
On-demand webinars for primary teachers
Webinar series: Weaving historical scholarship into primary history
Primary teachers are expected to be experts in everything. If you feel that your history subject knowledge could do with a brush up, then this series is for you. The Historical Association has teamed up with some leading historians and experienced teachers...
Weaving historical scholarship into primary history: Benin
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Weaving historical scholarship into primary history: Ancient Rome
On-demand webinar
Webinar series: Weaving historical scholarship into primary history
Primary teachers are expected to be experts in everything. If you feel that your history subject knowledge could do with a brush up, then this series is for you. The Historical Association has teamed up with some leading historians and experienced teachers...
Weaving historical scholarship into primary history: Ancient Rome
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Weaving historical scholarship into primary history: Anglo-Saxons
On-demand webinars for primary teachers
Webinar series: Weaving historical scholarship into primary history
Primary teachers are expected to be experts in everything. If you feel that your history subject knowledge could do with a brush up, then this series is for you. The Historical Association has teamed up with some leading historians and experienced teachers...
Weaving historical scholarship into primary history: Anglo-Saxons
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Weaving historical scholarship into primary history: Ancient Greece
Article
Webinar series: Weaving historical scholarship into primary history
Primary teachers are expected to be experts in everything. If you feel that your history subject knowledge could do with a brush up, then this series is for you. The Historical Association has teamed up with some leading historians and experienced teachers...
Weaving historical scholarship into primary history: Ancient Greece
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Writing the history of nineteenth-century Europe
Annual Conference 2013 Podcast
Keynote Speech from the Historical Association 2013 Annual Conference - Podcast
Sir Richard Evans FBA - Regius Professor of History and President of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge
‘Study problems, not periods', Lord Acton famously advised in his Inaugural Lecture at Cambridge. Centuries in themselves have no historical meaning; the...
Writing the history of nineteenth-century Europe
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Film: Primary History at greater depth
Primary History Workshop Annual Conference 2019
This primary workshop took place at at the Historical Association Annual Conference, Chester, May 2019.
In this session, Stuart explored the principles of how working at greater depth can be applied into history units of work to allow the most able of learners to excel and fully reach their potential in history...
Film: Primary History at greater depth
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On-demand webinar: AI and Technology: enhancing primary history
Webinar series: AI in primary history
Webinar series: AI in primary history
Session 2: AI and Technology: enhancing primary historyPresenter: Chris Goodall, Beth Humphrey, Ryan Reece Moor, Zehra Fagan
Discover how Bourne Education Trust's comprehensive digital strategy is transforming history education through thoughtful AI integration. This webinar showcases Bourne’s Trust-wide approach to digital innovation, demonstrating how...
On-demand webinar: AI and Technology: enhancing primary history
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Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Significance (Primary)
Article
Please note: the 'What's the Wisdom On' film series has been produced principally for secondary school history teachers, however some of the content is transferrable to a primary setting. Secondary members can view this film here
'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for...
Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Significance (Primary)
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Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Interpretations (Primary)
Article
Please note: the 'What's the Wisdom On' film series has been produced principally for secondary school history teachers, however some of the content is transferrable to a primary setting. Secondary members can view the film here
We know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances. We also understand your need...
Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Interpretations (Primary)
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On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with historical interpretations in primary history
Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
Session 3: Avoiding confusion with historical interpretations in primary history
This practical webinar will identify what confuses pupils in the teaching of the disciplinary concept of historical interpretations and will show how such confusion and misconceptions can be avoided and challenged. Examples...
On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with historical interpretations in primary history
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On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with significance in primary history
Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
Session 4: Avoiding confusion with significance in primary history
This practical webinar will identify what confuses pupils in the teaching of the disciplinary concept of historical significance and will show how such confusion and misconceptions can be avoided and challenged. Examples of...
On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with significance in primary history
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On-demand webinar: Helping pupils articulate their understanding of history through speaking and listening
Webinar series: History and literacy: better together
History and literacy: better together
Session 4: Helping pupils articulate their understanding of history through speaking and listening
This webinar will look at the vital role speaking and listening plays in helping pupils to think, read and write in historical ways as well as developing general oracy skills. It will...
On-demand webinar: Helping pupils articulate their understanding of history through speaking and listening
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Film: Primary History and the Ofsted Inspection Framework
Article
In May of 2021, Ofsted published a blog post of findings from visits carried out to 24 different primary schools in order to gather evidence as to the quality of history education provided by these outstanding schools. You can find the blog here: https://educationinspection.blog.gov.uk/2021/04/27/history-in-outstanding-primary-schools/
Areas of both strength and improvement were outlined, although the...
Film: Primary History and the Ofsted Inspection Framework
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On-demand webinar series: History and literacy: better together
On-demand webinar series for primary teachers and history subject leaders
History is a highly literate discipline, but what should the relationship be between primary history and the general teaching of literacy and English? The answer is that primary history should be modelling what it is like to think, speak, read, write and listen in an historical way. However, the subject...
On-demand webinar series: History and literacy: better together
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On-demand webinar: Using stories and storytelling in the primary history classroom
Webinar series: History and literacy: better together
History and literacy: better together
Session 2: Using stories and storytelling in the primary history classroom
This webinar will explore the different ways stories and storytelling can be used in primary history: as an evocative way of conveying substantive knowledge for retrieval, and as a stimulus to hook pupils’ initial interest...
On-demand webinar: Using stories and storytelling in the primary history classroom
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Recorded webinar: Teaching the 'People's History' of the Munich Crisis
Mental health, class, gender and diversity
Professor Julie Gottlieb has written extensively on inter-war British political and gender history, and her more recent work has provided alternative perspectives on seemingly settled debates in the historiography of British foreign policy and the history of appeasement. Through the lens of women/gender, social history, and now psychology/emotion, she argues for a...
Recorded webinar: Teaching the 'People's History' of the Munich Crisis
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On-demand webinar: Immersive history, AI, and the making/unmaking of student understanding
Webinar series: AI in primary history
Webinar series: AI in primary history
Session 5: Immersive history, AI, and the making/unmaking of student understandingPresenter: Ailsa Fidler and Simon Lea
AI-driven immersive history is entering our classrooms in ways previously unimaginable. Through interactive simulations, image and video generation and storytelling, students will be able to explore historical events and...
On-demand webinar: Immersive history, AI, and the making/unmaking of student understanding
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On-demand webinar: Using the work of historians in the primary history classroom
Webinar series: History and literacy: better together
History and literacy: better together
Session 3: Using the work of historians in the primary history classroom
This webinar will show how the writing and insights of real historians can be used across medium-term plans in primary history. It will give examples of how historians' ideas can be simplified for presentation...
On-demand webinar: Using the work of historians in the primary history classroom
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Webinar series: Embedding historical knowledge through story
HA webinar series for primary teachers, history subject leaders and senior leaders
What does this series cover?
Stories can sometimes be seen as a frivolous indulgence in an already crowded lesson. But the evidence is clear: the power of a well-told story in a history lesson for world building and knowledge acquisition should not be underestimated. When a story is expertly delivered,...
Webinar series: Embedding historical knowledge through story
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Film: Queer British History – 1714 to 1785
Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
In episode 10, Dr Declan Kavanagh (University of Kent), reflects on Queer British history 1714-1785. Dr Kavanagh looks at the history of the language of LGBTQ+, in particular the term ‘queer’ in its very recent usage and how the language of descriptors for these communities has been influenced. Dr Kavanagh draws...
Film: Queer British History – 1714 to 1785
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Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Research and planning
Article
In this first webinar about writing historical fiction, author Tony Bradman will talk about how ideas grow from reading and thinking about history. Once you have a good idea, then you need to research it properly, starting with secondary sources for context, then moving on to more specific reading. Visits...
Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Research and planning
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Course: Practical approaches to teaching primary history
HA CPD course for history subject leaders in mainstream schools
Upcoming dates
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Autumn term: 7 December 2026, 9.30am-5pm (online)
What does the course cover?
Discover what makes quality teaching of history by exploring how to ensure coverage of the National Curriculum through practical creative methods, which will engage children in interactive methods which can be adopted and adapted for different...
Course: Practical approaches to teaching primary history
