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  • A Victorian Christmas

      A Victorian Xmas
    The Historical Association In Alliance With Association for Language Learning. Cross-Curricular Unit: Year 5/6 French and History. A Victorian Christmas.
    A Victorian Christmas
  • How diverse is your history curriculum?

      Article
    The past was full of diverse people and our students are entitled to learn about this diverse past. History lessons should enable students to see their connection to the past and to understand the world today. Here are a list of questions for history teachers to use to support a...
    How diverse is your history curriculum?
  • Primary Curriculum Schemes of Work

      Article
    All schemes of work are free to HA Members, along with a host of other resources and benefits. If you are not yet an HA Member, you can get a taster of our schemes of work through our new open-access curriculum plan on Ancient Greece, and our other open-access units on Age of...
    Primary Curriculum Schemes of Work
  • Teaching the Ancient Greeks: an introduction

      Reference guide
    This resource 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 Please note: this guide was written before the new National Curriculum...
    Teaching the Ancient Greeks: an introduction
  • Multi Academy Trust History Leads Network

      Open to all MAT history leads
    Multi Academy Trust History Leads Network The HA has teamed up with a group of history leads across different Multi Academy Trusts to re-ignite a network group dedicated to those leading history across a trust. The network will meet 3 times per year, twice online and once in-person, and meetings will focus...
    Multi Academy Trust History Leads Network
  • Teaching and learning through personal, family and local history

      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unit was produced before the 2014 curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links.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 the way that primary age pupils can make use of their own personal, family and local history...
    Teaching and learning through personal, family and local history
  • Young Quills 2025

      16th April 2025
    Each year, the Historical Association runs 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.  Our...
    Young Quills 2025
  • The Battle of Britain

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. David Field gives a descriptive account of a History Club's project on the Battle of Britain.
    The Battle of Britain
  • Teaching Slavery

      HA Guide
    Please note: this guide was written in 2010 and some links may no longer work. For more recent guidance, see:  Teaching sensitive subjects: slavery and Britain’s role in the trade (2019) Slavery in Britain (2013) Sarah Forbes Bonetta - scheme of work (2015) Diversity guidance for primary teachers and subject leaders (2019) Teaching Slavery...
    Teaching Slavery
  • Diversity in Primary History

      Primary History articles and resources
    There has been much emphasis on ensuring that we teach a balanced history curriculum which reflects diversity. Teachers often ask the Historical Association where they can get their ideas and find examples of good practice. From the start, the journal Primary History has addressed the many strands of a diverse...
    Diversity in Primary History
  • Ancient Egypt

      Reference guide for primary
    This resource 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 Please note: this guide was written before the new National Curriculum...
    Ancient Egypt
  • Film: Lenin and the birth of Soviet Russia

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    Having changed the course of Russian society Lenin now needed to secure his Bolshevik survival. Unlike his predecessor he saw no need to continue with the Imperialist policies of a war in Europe. Territory could be sacrificed for control, but would promises and rhetoric be enough to govern among people...
    Film: Lenin and the birth of Soviet Russia
  • Film: Lenin's early thought

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    As Lenin’s own political outlook and beliefs developed so did the European movements of Socialism and Communism. Groups emerged that wanted to radically change society and social structures. Lenin positioned himself as one of the leaders and crucially one of the thinkers behind these new ideas and movements.  Dr Lara...
    Film: Lenin's early thought
  • Film: Power and Protest in Scotland – 1714 to 1785

      Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
    In Episode 9, Professor Alison Cathcart (University of Stirling) discusses who held power in Scotland in 1714 and how the Union with England, together with the arrival of the Hanoverian dynasty, transformed the nation. She examines the central role of the Church of Scotland, the influence of the Royal Burghs,...
    Film: Power and Protest in Scotland – 1714 to 1785
  • Ffilm: Grym a Phrotest yng Nghymru – 1714 i 1785

      Article
    Ym Mhennod 9, mae Dr Eryn White (Prifysgol Aberystwyth) yn trafod pwy oedd mewn grym yng Nghymru ym 1714, y berthynas newidiol rhwng Cymru a'r Deyrnas Unedig ehangach a'r datblygiadau allweddol a ddigwyddodd yng Nghymru rhwng 1714-1785. Mae Dr White yn myfyrio ar ehangu cyflym print a llythrennedd yng Nghymru...
    Ffilm: Grym a Phrotest yng Nghymru – 1714 i 1785
  • Film: Disability in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785

      Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
    In Episode 6, Dr Declan Kavanagh (University of Kent) discusses the development of ideas around, and responses to, disability in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century. Dr Kavanagh examines the definition given in Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary in 1755 and looks at the medical and charity models of responding to disability...
    Film: Disability in Britain and Ireland – 1714 to 1785
  • Film: Power and Protest in England – 1714 to 1785

      Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
    In Episode 7, Professor Carl Griffin (University of Sussex) discusses the changing landscape of England as enclosure accelerates, transforming the social dynamics of the countryside as peasants become wage labourers and their rights to use the ‘common land’ is diminished. Professor Griffin reflects on this period of protest over enclosure,...
    Film: Power and Protest in England – 1714 to 1785
  • Film: Black British History – 1714 to 1785

      Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714–2010
    In Episode 4, Dr Montaz Marché (University College London) and Professor Ryan Hanley (University of Exeter), discuss the lives and experience of 18th century Black Britons. In this discussion they look at the lives of both the exceptional and the ordinary, and reflect upon the politics of race and gender in...
    Film: Black British History – 1714 to 1785
  • Recorded webinar: Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the primary history classroom

      Webinar
    In the last 12 months many pupils have missed significant chunks of school and importantly a significant chunk of their history learning. In this special one-off webinar we discuss some of the issues we are all facing. What does catch up in history look like? How helpful is this terminology?...
    Recorded webinar: Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the primary history classroom
  • The legacy of ancient Sumer

      Primary History article
    Ancient Sumer was a fascinating civilisation that flourished at the same time as other key ancient civilisations. It is credited with having developed vital elements of technology such as the potter’s wheel, written language, complex mathematical concepts that are still used today and much else. This article focuses on the...
    The legacy of ancient Sumer
  • Scheme of work: The history of the ancient Olympic Games

      Sporting Heritage scheme of work for primary history (Key Stage 2)
    This unit produced by Sporting Heritage is designed flexibly as either a chronological or a thematic study. As such, its editable core PowerPoint resources can be used as a depth or extended overview topic in relation to:   Ancient Greece – a study of Greek life and achievements and the Greeks’...
    Scheme of work: The history of the ancient Olympic Games
  • 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
  • Language and communication in the ancient world

      Primary History article
    At the beginning of the year, I really enjoyed accompanying a school trip to see the excellent Tutankhamun exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in London. One of the many treasures that was on display was a gilded wooden and ivory case which the young Egyptian king would have used to...
    Language and communication in the ancient world
  • Schools of Vice: how a medical scandal led to the dismantling of Britain’s last prison hulks

      Historian article
    Hulks – former naval ships used as prisons for those convicted of serious crime and sentenced to transportation – were intended to be a temporary solution to a penal crisis caused by the American Revolutionary Wars. These ‘schools of vice’, or ‘floating hells’ lasted 80 years, casting a shadow over...
    Schools of Vice: how a medical scandal led to the dismantling of Britain’s last prison hulks
  • The Historian 166: Crime and Punishment

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    This edition of The Historian is free to access for all HA members. Find out about membership here. Contents 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 Coroners, communities, and the Crown: mapping death and justice in late medieval England – Stephanie Emma Brown (Read article - open access) 11 Mercurial justice: a...
    The Historian 166: Crime and Punishment