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  • 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unit was produced before the new curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links.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

  • Studying The Tudors: Britain and the wider world in Tudor times

      E-CPD
    The following unit gives some ideas to teachers on how to:a) improve subject knowledge;b) find useful contemporary sources (from Tudor times);c) link sources with the curriculum and with appropriate activities. Please note: this guide was written before the 2014 National Curriculum and some of the advice may no longer be relevant. 
    Studying The Tudors: Britain and the wider world in Tudor times

  • 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produced before the current 2014 curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links.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

  • Pull-out poster 103

      Towns and cities affected by fire and destruction
    Towns and cities affected by fire and destruction
    Pull-out poster 103

  • Virtual Branch 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...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Writing Black histories, telling Black stories

  • Census of Ireland, Dublin 1911 - National Archives of Ireland

      Article
    The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland, represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage. Click here to go to the site: National Archives of Ireland
    Census of Ireland, Dublin 1911 - National Archives of Ireland

  • Chronology: blank timelines

      Resource
    Chronology: blank timelines

  • Think Bubble: The passion to know why

      Article
    I gave half an ear recently to a radio debate on the nature of scientific genius. A number of examples were given of infants doing calculus and toddlers designing suspension bridges, but the most convincing statement came from a panellist who defined the phenomenon as ‘the passion to know’. The...
    Think Bubble: The passion to know why

  • The Great Exhibition

      Article
    ‘Of all the decades to be young in, a wise man would choose the 1850s’ concludes G.M. Young in his Portrait of An Age. His choice is understandable. Historians and contemporaries have long viewed the middle years of the century as a ‘plateau of peace and prosperity’, an ‘age of...
    The Great Exhibition

  • Queen Victoria as a Politician

      Article
    Even had Queen Victoria not presided over the achievements of the age which bears her name, her career would still hold a fascination for the historian. She was, for one thing, the solitary woman in a male political world. She was possessed of a personality at once perceptive and simple,...
    Queen Victoria as a Politician

  • The Kingdom of Benin 1500-1750

      Podcast
    In this podcast Dr Toby Green of King's College London examines the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Benin.
    The Kingdom of Benin 1500-1750

  • The Vikings in Britain

      Historian Article
    Professor Henry Loyn provides an update on recent studies of the Viking Age. Interest in the activities of the Scandinavian people in Britain during the Viking Age, c 800-1100 A.D., has been strong in the last half-century or so, and it is good to pause and assess contributions to the...
    The Vikings in Britain

  • Think Bubble - Interpretation

      Article
    One of my favourite places in France is Poitiers Cathedral. Whenever I set out from the north or drive home from the south, I can usually find an excuse to stop off there. For me, its crowning glory are its 13th Century choir stalls with their wonderful medieval figures and...
    Think Bubble - Interpretation

  • Reading into writing

      Article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated. Background The emphasis in pupil writing in the National Literacy Strategy is upon non-fiction genres (DfEE:1997; DfEE: 1998). Such genres are essential tools for life and are at the centre of an effective literacy programme (Wray...
    Reading into writing

  • Book for the Literacy Hour

      Article
    Jo Barkham reviews the book 'What Babies Used to Wear', written by Anne Witherington and Bobbie Neate.
    Book for the Literacy Hour

  • Book for the Literacy Hour

      Article
    Jo Barkham reviews the book 'A Day in the Life of a Victorian Child', written by Penelope Harnett.
    Book for the Literacy Hour

  • Recorded Webinar: Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire

      Article
    Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski is a historian based at the University of Oxford. He specialises in the history of the Cold War and is particularly interested in the history of Soviet social, cultural, and political interactions with Eastern Europe after 1945. In 2017, he published a book entitled The Near Abroad:...
    Recorded Webinar: Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire

  • Recorded Webinar: Our Human Planet

      Article
    Meteorites, mega-volcanoes, plate tectonics and now human beings; the old forces of nature that transformed Earth many millions of years ago are joined by another: us. Our actions have driven Earth into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. For the first time in our home planet's 4.5-billion year history a...
    Recorded Webinar: Our Human Planet

  • Recorded webinar: Histories of Indigenous peoples of North America

      Article
    Any study of the intercultural relationships between the Indigenous peoples of North America and British settlers usually focuses on the differences that resulted in disputes and violence. However, on closer examination, the interaction also involved the exchange of ideas and the forging of alliances, which required diplomacy and respect for...
    Recorded webinar: Histories of Indigenous peoples of North America

  • Recorded webinar: Teaching history during a climate emergency: how can we respond?

      HA Virtual Forum, November 2021
    We are at a vital moment in our attempt to tackle the climate crisis. Global warming is an inter-disciplinary challenge for the world and an inter-disciplinary challenge in education, too. In this talk, Alison Kitson argues that history provides a vital perspective that enables young people to understand our interaction...
    Recorded webinar: Teaching history during a climate emergency: how can we respond?

  • Curriculum Review Support Module - Primary

      Multipage Article
    In 2024 the then new Labour government commissioned a full Curriculum and Assessment Review (CAR) led by Becky Francis. The Historical Association consulted our members and other key stakeholders in history education and contributed to the Review's call for evidence. You can find a summary of our response here. The...
    Curriculum Review Support Module - Primary

  • Recorded webinar: Introduction to Sporting Heritage in the Curriculum

      Webinar
    Excited about the opportunity to creatively incorporate sporting history as new part of your curriculum offer or a thematic enrichment extension to it? Interested in hearing more about how this approach could inspire your students’ potential approach to EPQ? Like to influence and shape how this might be achieved? This...
    Recorded webinar: Introduction to Sporting Heritage in the Curriculum

  • Recorded Webinar: India and the Second World War

      Article
    Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War.  Their experiences are little remembered today, neither in the West where a Euro/US-centric memory of the war dominates, nor in South Asia, which privileges nationalist histories of independence from the British Empire. What was it like...
    Recorded Webinar: India and the Second World War

  • 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: New Approaches to Classical Sparta

      Article
    This webinar starts with a basic overview of the city-states of Classical Greece (roughly 500 to 350 BC) and Sparta’s place within their geography and history. It then looks at some common myths about the nature of Spartan society and politics, focusing on areas where recent research has transformed our...
    Recorded Webinar: New Approaches to Classical Sparta