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  • Recorded webinar: How does good storytelling serve disciplinary thinking?

      Webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
    Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history Session 1: How does good storytelling serve disciplinary thinking? Why is storytelling so crucial to the journey of the lesson? How does powerful storytelling make knowledge memorable meaningful? How can I get better at storytelling? How does storytelling help children wrestle with...
    Recorded webinar: How does good storytelling serve disciplinary thinking?

  • Recorded webinar: Avoiding confusion with chronology and change in primary history

      Webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
    Webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history Session 1: Avoiding confusion with chronology and change in primary history This practical webinar will identify what confuses pupils in the teaching of chronology and the disciplinary concept of change and continuity and will show how such confusion and misconceptions...
    Recorded webinar: Avoiding confusion with chronology and change in primary history

  • On-demand webinar: Supporting pupils in reaching independent conclusions in primary history

      Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
    Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history Session 5: Supporting pupils in reaching independent conclusions in primary history This practical webinar will demonstrate how people can be supported in, reaching their own independent conclusions about the history, they are studying. It will suggest a number of careful ways of...
    On-demand webinar: Supporting pupils in reaching independent conclusions in primary history

  • 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

  • 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

  • On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with cause and consequence in primary history

      Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
    Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history Session 2: Avoiding confusion with cause and consequence in primary history This practical webinar will identify what confuses pupils in the teaching of the disciplinary concept of cause and consequence and will show how such confusion and misconceptions can be avoided and...
    On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with cause and consequence in primary history

  • On-demand webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history

      HA webinar series for primary teachers and history subject leaders
    This practical series of webinars will identify what confuses pupils in primary history and how such confusion and misconceptions can be avoided and challenged. Through examples of careful planning and activities it will show how pupils can develop an accurate and nuanced understanding of chronology and change, cause and consequence,...
    On-demand webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history

  • Your Primary CPD calendar Autumn 2025

      News Item
    We know that it's not easy for teachers to get out of school or have budgets to afford a plentiful supply of CPD. We know how essential your CPD is to you and that is why we have worked to provide a wide range of face to face, online learning...
    Your Primary CPD calendar Autumn 2025

  • Course: Becoming an effective primary history subject leader

      Immersive online course for new, experienced and aspiring history leaders
    Book Now (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window. Please read the HA CPD terms and conditions before registering) Autumn 2025 cohort Start date: Wednesday 15 October 2025, 4pm–5.30pm What does this course cover? This is an immersive online course for developing history leadership in primary teaching. It covers the...
    Course: Becoming an effective primary history subject leader

  • On-demand webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history

      HA webinar series for primary teachers and history subject leaders
    This series of webinars will consider how disciplinary knowledge is slowly introduced into the primary curriculum, built upon and strengthened. We know that substantive knowledge in history is the substance ('the stuff') we teach: the facts which we are sure about and which all have to know, the names and places, the events, and well-known...
    On-demand webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history

  • Research review series: History – July 2021

      Primary History article
    In this summary, Tim Lomas identifies key points presented in the history research review. Includes work of Ofsted Research and Evaluation Team.  1. More schools now seem to have adequate time for history. In primary, 1–2 hours a fortnight and in secondary, 2–4 hours. Provisional entries for 2021’s history GCSE...
    Research review series: History – July 2021

  • Primary History Survey 2024: the results

      The HA's biennial survey of history in primary schools
    Children love history – it is accessible, interesting, there is a growth in diversity of content and it is inclusive for different abilities, according to our survey. This is down to the hard work and dedication of their teaching and support staff. It is great news for our young people....
    Primary History Survey 2024: the results

  • Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2024 – the winners

      The HA's writing competition for children aged 10-15 years
    Real history contains some of the most fanciful, exciting, worrying and incredible stories – learning about the past can open our eyes to how people have interacted with the world and each other for centuries. It is not surprising that alongside the real history most cultures and traditions have a...
    Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2024 – the winners

  • Young Historian Awards 2024 – the winners

      16th September 2024
    Spirit of Normandy Trust Senior Vivaan Davda – The Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai Spirit of Normandy Trust Key Stage 3 Joshua Broadbent – Royal Grammar School, Guildford Spirit of Normandy Trust Primary Salisbury Cathedral School Best School History Magazine [sponsored by the Mid-Trent and Mercia Branch] St Alban’s School Stockport...
    Young Historian Awards 2024 – the winners

  • Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2023 – the winners

      The HA's writing competition for children aged 10-19 years
    Being inspired by stories of the past to tell stories for today has kept people entertained for hundreds of years. Take a look at the shelves in any bookshop and there will be plenty of historical fiction. That is why we believe in starting them young at the HA, and...
    Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2023 – the winners

  • 50th anniversary of the UK’s first official Pride march: 1 July 2022

      Primary History article
    2022 is a special year as it marks the 50th anniversary of the first official UK Pride march which was held in London on 1 July 1972. The Pride movement, and events like the London in Pride march, were inspired and influenced by the Stonewall riots. These were protests that took place...
    50th anniversary of the UK’s first official Pride march: 1 July 2022

  • 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

  • The 2024 Primary History survey: what are the implications for what it revealed?

      Primary History article
    This article is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today The 2024 Primary Survey follows a series of earlier biennial surveys...
    The 2024 Primary History survey: what are the implications for what it revealed?

  • Primary History summer resource 2024: the Ancient Greeks

      Primary member resource
    Our free summer resource for 2024 is intended to enhance your subject knowledge about Ancient Greece. The first article looks at an individual Greek, Pytheas. Often Greece is taught largely as an insular place of city states, but the reality is that Greece was heavily involved in trade and they...
    Primary History summer resource 2024: the Ancient Greeks

  • Filmed Lecture: 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...
    Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch

  • Primary History summer resource 2023: Early civilisations

      Primary member resource
    Our free summer resource for 2023 is intended to enhance your subject knowledge about ancient civilisations. We have selected two articles from the HA journal The Historian that provide you with an insight into current historical knowledge.  The first article includes Sumer, Indus, Shang and Egypt, early civilisations that are identified in...
    Primary History summer resource 2023: Early civilisations

  • Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2022 - David Olusoga

      Article
    This talk was presented at the Historical Association Awards evening, 7 July 2022. The talk is by Professor David Olusoga on the evening that he received the HA Medlicott Medal for Outstanding contributions to History. It is not to be used for any purpose or publicly reported on without the...
    Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2022 - David Olusoga

  • Scheme of work: The Platinum Jubilee

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 1 History (unresourced)
    In this unit, children will learn about the significance of the 2022 Platinum Jubilee. They will look at the life of Queen Elizabeth II, from her role as Princess Elizabeth to her coronation and through to 2022, as a great-grandmother and the longest-reigning British monarch. The unit will help children...
    Scheme of work: The Platinum Jubilee

  • Census 2021: using the census in the history classroom

      Article
    As we approach the next census in March 2021, we are reminded of what a rich historical source the census is. For historians, using the census can shine a light on particular people and places – a snapshot in time. Big stories can be told through a sharp local lens...
    Census 2021: using the census in the history classroom

  • Young Quills 2025 – the winners

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    Each year, the Historical Association runs the Young Quills, a competition for published historical fiction for children and young adults (14+). The Young Quills books for each year must be published for the first time in English in the year preceding the competition – so 2024 for this year’s selection....
    Young Quills 2025 – the winners