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  • Working effectively with your local history societies: the benefits and challenges

      Primary History article
    Local history provides rich opportunities to engage children in their immediate local area and understand their own history and how history contributes to a greater overall understanding and bigger picture. In this article, Nick Harman shares his school’s experience of participating in an exciting joint project with the local heritage...
    Working effectively with your local history societies: the benefits and challenges

  • Finding Bad Bridget: the lives and crimes of Irish immigrant women in America

      Historian article
    From the early nineteenth century until the First World War, millions of Irish women emigrated to North America in search of better lives. Elaine Farrell and Leanne McCormick, co-leads for the AHRC-funded Bad Bridget research project, tell us how poverty, discrimination, isolation from family as well as greed and opportunism...
    Finding Bad Bridget: the lives and crimes of Irish immigrant women in America

  • An approach to teaching the British Civil Wars in the primary classroom

      Primary History article
    Denise Greany and Andrew Hopper show how to make the British Civil Wars of the mid-seventeenth century readily accessible to primary-aged children by focusing on the experiences of people who lived through these tumultuous times. 
    An approach to teaching the British Civil Wars in the primary classroom

  • Imperial spaces of a ‘miniature world’: the case of Rugby School, c.1828–1850

      Historian article
    English public schools in the nineteenth century were training grounds not just for society’s elites but also for careers in Britain’s imperial service. In this article, Holly Hiscox explores the ways in which schools such as Rugby provided pupils with a miniature world of domestic and professional life which prepared...
    Imperial spaces of a ‘miniature world’: the case of Rugby School, c.1828–1850

  • The Brontë sisters: teaching local history through a focus on one remarkable family

      Primary History article
    Lorna Spencer’s focus on the Brontë sisters as a significant local family provides an insight into both their lives and their challenges, and how far these can be compared with those of different classes of people in the locality. Their experiences can also be related to wider issues, such as...
    The Brontë sisters: teaching local history through a focus on one remarkable family

  • Out and About: Locating the Local Lockup

      Historian feature
    If you are arrested for a crime today, you will very likely be taken to a police station and locked in a cell while officers decide if they have enough evidence to charge you. But have you ever wondered what happened to criminals and other disorderly folk – roughs, drunks...
    Out and About: Locating the Local Lockup

  • Real Lives: A German captain’s perspective on the end of WWI

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected sto greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: A German captain’s perspective on the end of WWI

  • Doing history: Contemporary narratives and the legacy of the Dagenham Ford Factory Strike of 1968

      Historian feature
    In this article, Zubin Burley looks at how a visit to the local archive can transform our understanding of an important event in British social history...
    Doing history: Contemporary narratives and the legacy of the Dagenham Ford Factory Strike of 1968

  • On-demand webinar: Curriculum coherence and transition to Key Stage 1

      Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS
    Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS Session 3: Curriculum coherence and transition to Key Stage 1 This webinar will support you to ensure well-planned transition to Key Stage 1, and will give advice on planning for mixed-age Reception/Year 1 classes. It will reflect on developing a coherent history curriculum across all...
    On-demand webinar: Curriculum coherence and transition to Key Stage 1

  • On-demand webinar: Effective pedagogy for EYFS

      Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS
    Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS Session 2: Effective pedagogy for EYFS This webinar will look at effective use of picture books to develop children’s historical vocabulary and their understanding of the past, and will explore thematic approaches for teaching ‘past and present'. Release date: 7 January 2026Expiry date: 6 January...
    On-demand webinar: Effective pedagogy for EYFS

  • Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history

      Article
    Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people are the largest minority ethnic group in some communities (and therefore in some schools) in the UK. Yet the past of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller people may rarely be part of history lessons. The result is that pupils of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritage may not...
    Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history

  • Planning a post-1066 thematic study

      HA Primary Subject Leader Area
    The requirement in National Curriculum rubric at Key Stage 2 for a study or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066 can appear intimidatingly broad at first sight, but Andrew Wrenn is here to help! Drawing on non-statutory examples provided in the National Curriculum – such as...
    Planning a post-1066 thematic study

  • 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

  • Animals who help us: teaching past and present in EYFS

      Primary History article
    Remembrance Day is a useful time to explore with EYFS pupils the people who help us. But of course animals also play a part in human conflicts. This article explores animals who have helped us in wartime now and in the past. The article includes useful teaching ideas and picture...
    Animals who help us: teaching past and present in EYFS

  • Battersea: here for every dog and cat – 165 years and still going strong

      Primary History article
    In this article Karin Doull looks at the 165th anniversary of Battersea Dogs and Cats Home. Our treatment of our most popular pets is reflective of society in a given time and Karin highlights several ways in which the history of Battersea can be used to spotlight different aspects of...
    Battersea: here for every dog and cat – 165 years and still going strong

  • Coroners, communities, and the Crown: mapping death and justice in late medieval England

      Historian article
    Life in medieval cities could be violent and dangerous, and the records generated by state officials charged with regulating that violence offer invaluable insight into everyday life. Stephanie Emma Brown takes us behind the scenes of the recently launched Medieval Murder Map project, which was based on coroners’ rolls, to...
    Coroners, communities, and the Crown: mapping death and justice in late medieval England

  • How could an ITaP help you teach more history?

      Primary History article
    Sharing our classrooms with a student teacher has changed over recent years, as the DfE has become increasingly interested in the ITT curriculum seamlessly integrating into school placement experiences. Part of this relates to ITaPs. This article outlines an ITaP designed by the University of Reading. Not only does it...
    How could an ITaP help you teach more history?

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 101

      The British Civil Wars; Young Quills 2025
    Poster 1: The British Civil Wars Poster 2: Young Quills 2025
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 101

  • The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR)

      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 In a celebration of the 200-year anniversary of the Stockton...
    The Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR)

  • Recorded webinar: Practical approaches to cause and consequence

      Webinar series: Practical approaches to disciplinary concepts in primary history
    This webinar explores introducing cause and consequence to students in both explicit and implicit ways. The session will show specific events and unit ideas which will help children grasp the concepts and show teachers how to introduce ideas of long and short term. This webinar is the first session in...
    Recorded webinar: Practical approaches to cause and consequence

  • Recorded webinar: Natural disasters in medieval Britain

      Article
    Natural disasters frequently affected medieval populations. This webinar explores some examples of what happened when meteorological hazards struck medieval communities, how they reacted and what steps they took to protect themselves against future risks. Through archaeological and historical sources of evidence, Peter Brown explores the diverse impacts unleashed by disasters...
    Recorded webinar: Natural disasters in medieval Britain

  • Primary History 9

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    4 Editorial 5 A History Curriculum for the Millennium - Sue Bennett 7 Making the Most of a Past Non-European Society in Key Stage 2: A Case Study of Ancient Egypt - Tim Lomas, Dave Cordingley and Lesley Tyreman 9 'Time Machine' at the British Museum - Alan Francis 10 Bearpark...
    Primary History 9

  • Recorded webinar: The post-emancipation Caribbean and the meanings of freedom

      Article
    This webinar examines the era of ‘post-emancipation’ in the Caribbean from around the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It interrogates the notion of ‘emancipation’ and asks what kind of ‘freedom’ did abolition bring to the formerly enslaved? How did colonial states and other authorities seek to regulate the lives of...
    Recorded webinar: The post-emancipation Caribbean and the meanings of freedom

  • What can pupil voice tell us about perceptions of history?

      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 Salma Begum and Rachel Bruce explore the use of pupil...
    What can pupil voice tell us about perceptions of history?

  • 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