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  • Film: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch

      Article
    The Medlicott Medal is awarded annually for outstanding services and contributions to history. This year the Medal went to renowned historian and author Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch who is currently Professor of the Church at Oxford. His 2008 book History of Christianity: the first three thousand years is the leading authority on the history...
    Film: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch
  • Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Writing and revision

      Article
    In this second webinar in our series on writing historical fiction, author Tony Bradman talks about the actual process of writing the story, with examples. The difficulty of the first page - how to start your story with impact and make sure the reader is gripped from the first line....
    Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Writing and revision
  • Film: A Jewish Divorce Case in Medieval England

      Virtual Branch
    In 1242, the prominent thirteenth-century Jewish financier David of Oxford attempted to divorce his wife, Muriel. In the process, he met with a number of obstacles which seriously hampered his efforts and had far-reaching implications for the Jewish community as a whole. In the end, David had to appeal directly...
    Film: A Jewish Divorce Case in Medieval England
  • Film: What a strange place to be buried

      Virtual Branch Film
    Anna Cusack joined the HA Virtual Branch to discuss unique burial locations in London c.1600-1800. Anna recently completed a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London on the marginal dead of seventeenth and eighteenth-century London, focusing specifically on suicides, executed criminals, Quakers, and Jews and the treatment of their bodily remains...
    Film: What a strange place to be buried
  • Recorded webinar: How has warfare changed over time?

      Webinar series: Teaching British history that extends chronological knowledge beyond 1066
    Webinar series: Teaching British history that extends chronological knowledge beyond 1066 How and why has warfare changed from the Battle of Hastings in 1066, fought with armed with swords and shields, to the weapons of mass destruction of today? This webinar with Andrew Wrenn considers significant turning points such as...
    Recorded webinar: How has warfare changed over time?
  • Lecture recording: Writing Black histories, telling Black stories

      Article
    In February 2021 we were delighted to continue the HA Virtual Branch with Stephen Bourne, author of a number of books including Black Poppies: Britain’s Black Community and the Great War and Black in the British Frame: The Black Experience in British Film and Television. In 2017 South Bank University awarded Stephen an Honorary Fellowship for...
    Lecture recording: Writing Black histories, telling Black stories
  • Film: Blood and Iron

      Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
    Katya Hoyer recently gave a lecture for the HA Virtual Branch on Weltkrieg: the German home front during the First World War and the devastating effects of total war on a divided and insecure society. This talk provides an insight into the First World War that is often overlooked, reminding us that...
    Film: Blood and Iron
  • Film: Making an effective History curriculum

      Workshop Film: Yorkshire History Forum 2018
    Richard Kennett is a senior leader, teacher, blogger, text-book author and member of HA secondary committee. In November 2018, Richard visited the Yorkshire History Forum to talk about his school’s experience of reviewing and re-planning their Key Stage 3 curriculum. This film is of Richard’s keynote speech at the Forum....
    Film: Making an effective History curriculum
  • Monthly primary advice drop-ins

      Free online history drop-in clinics for primary members
    At the HA we understand that sometimes our members have questions, issues or concerns about the history curriculum and provision in their school that they want or need an expert opinion on, but without having to spend money on consultation fees. We are offering our primary members a brand new...
    Monthly primary advice drop-ins
  • Online course: Teaching empire through material culture

      HA online course for primary and secondary teachers
    The topic of empire lends itself ideally to a material approach – the objects often provide the opportunity to bring in indigenous voices to our study of the imperial past, while our classroom experience has shown that objects provide a powerful channel through which to access complex and sometimes uncomfortable...
    Online course: Teaching empire through material culture
  • 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
  • Film: Medlicott Lecture 2024 - Professor Catherine Hall

      Article
    The Medlicott Medal is awarded annually for outstanding services and contributions to history. This year the Medal went to Professor Catherine Hall, who is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London. Professor Hall has a long-established academic record in feminist history and empire and post-colonial history. She was a...
    Film: Medlicott Lecture 2024 - Professor Catherine Hall
  • Survive and Thrive as a Primary History Trainee and NQT

      NQT Primary Guide
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. As a primary trainee or NQT, you might be faced with a situation in which you are expected to teach history having received little or no subject specific training. Our new guide Survive...
    Survive and Thrive as a Primary History Trainee and NQT
  • 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
  • Progression without Levels

      Briefing Pack
    "As part of our reforms to the national curriculum , the current system of ‘levels' used to report children's attainment and progress will be removed.  It will not be replaced." (DfE 2013) When National Curriculum levels were removed in 2014, it was all too easy to fall into the trap of...
    Progression without Levels
  • Storytelling

      E-CPD
    N.B. This unit was produced before the new curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links.  Why story telling is important in primary history   Story is the most wonderful way of engaging children with history. At the...
    Storytelling
  • Chronology

      E-CPD
    N.B. This unit was produced before the new curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links.  Learning about the complex concept of chronology is often considered very challenging for young children, yet this understanding underpins children's developing...
    Chronology
  • Lucy Worsley: How to build an Anniversary

      Annual Conference Film
    Do you sometimes heave a cynical sigh when you hear that it's 175 years since the invention of, say, the paperclip, and that a wealth of exhibitions, books and TV programmes are planned to celebrate the fact?  Well, anniversaries can be a powerful hook to get people interested in the...
    Lucy Worsley: How to build an Anniversary
  • Inclusion

      E-CPD
    N.B. This unit was produced before the current 2014 curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links.  Teachers face many challenges in tackling the issue of inclusive history teaching. Many teachers may not have formally studied History for...
    Inclusion
  • Leading and managing primary history

      E-CPD
    N.B. This unit was produced before the 2014 curriculum and therefore some of the references are a little dated. Nevertheless, most of the advice contained within this unit remains pertinent in helping history co-ordinators fulfil the role effectively. Primary history does not just happen.  It needs to be planned for, resourced,...
    Leading and managing primary history
  • 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
  • Assessment in Primary History - Guidance

      Assessment in Primary History
    Whilst a number of schools have had well-considered assessment procedures for primary history, these represented a minority.  With the new national curriculum, the old level descriptions have been replaced by a single sentence attainment target which states that "by the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know,...
    Assessment in Primary History - Guidance
  • New Initiatives Affecting Primary History 2010

      E-CPD
    N.B. This unit was produced before the 2014 curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links.  This unit is concerned with some of the most recent initiatives and how the knowledge management aspect might best be addressed.  It...
    New Initiatives Affecting Primary History 2010
  • Indus Valley

      Topic Pack
    The names and stories of the people and their cities are a mystery, their ideographic script yet to be deciphered. So how do we know the ruined cities of the Indus Valley belonged to a unique civilisation, forgotten for millennia?
    Indus Valley
  • Tudor Monarchy

      Topic Pack
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The Topic Pack gives you a brief summary on the Tudor Monarchy.
    Tudor Monarchy