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  • Delivering school-based CPD as a history subject leader

      HA Primary Subject Leader Area
    This guide provides primary history subject leaders with clear, practical support for planning and delivering effective school‑based CPD, offering strategies for securing time, engaging all staff, and building consistency across the curriculum. It includes ideas for training activities, guidance on strengthening progression and assessment, and advice for leading confident, purposeful...
    Delivering school-based CPD as a history subject leader

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 102

      1926 timeline; Castles
    Poster 1: 1926 timeline of events Poster 2: Castles: from strongholds to ruins
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 102

  • Developing historical understanding across all areas of the EYFS framework

      Primary History article
    Children in nursery and reception classes do not, of course, learn history. They meet the subject for the first time when they start Year 1. However, what children learn – and how they learn – in EYFS is important for preparing them to learn history. This goes beyond building knowledge...
    Developing historical understanding across all areas of the EYFS framework

  • Using learning outside the classroom at historic sites to explore British history units

      Primary History article
    British history in the National Curriculum (2014) provides extensive opportunities for learning outside the classroom, from the earliest times to the present day. Visiting historic sites is one experience of learning outside the classroom that provides a meaningful and stimulating focus for understanding Britain’s past. This said, any site and...
    Using learning outside the classroom at historic sites to explore British history units

  • Britain on pause: remembering the 1926 General Strike

      Primary History article
    In this article, Kate Rigby looks back at the 1926 General Strike and considers how this could be used to explore significance, cause and consequence in Key Stage 2...
    Britain on pause: remembering the 1926 General Strike

  • The Roaring Twenties: teaching a decade of change across Key Stages 1 and 2

      Primary History article
    This article explores how one topic can be used in different ways to support historical understanding at Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2. The themes highlighted could link into possible golden threads to enable connections to be made across a school’s curriculum. The ‘Roaring Twenties’ also provide a real...
    The Roaring Twenties: teaching a decade of change across Key Stages 1 and 2

  • Identifying sources to plan a local study

      Primary History article
    Local history is fascinating, but finding interesting, authentic resources can be challenging. In this article, James P. Bowen gives practical advice about how to source a local history project, setting this in the context of Baldwin’s Gate in North Staffordshire – a valuable guide for anyone devising a local history...
    Identifying sources to plan a local study

  • Task design for historical thinking

      Primary History article
    In this article, Julia Huber examines how task design can support pupils’ historical thinking in the primary classroom. Drawing on her own practice, she shares examples that develop conceptual understanding in areas such as significance, similarity and difference, continuity and change, and interpretations...
    Task design for historical thinking

  • How to link food with British history and view change through living memory in Key Stage 1

      Primary History article
    From free school milk to free school meals, in this article Polly Gillow explores how you can use food as an engaging way to explore the past in Key Stage 1. She suggests different ways to incorporate food history into your curriculum and shows how food can be an excellent...
    How to link food with British history and view change through living memory in Key Stage 1

  • What is characteristic of the Indus Valley Civilisation?

      Primary History article
    In this article, Karin Doull examines some characteristic features of the Indus Valley Civilisation and considers what these might tell us about this fascinating, less well-known empire...
    What is characteristic of the Indus Valley Civilisation?

  • Primary History 102

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    05 Editorial (Read article) 06 Developing historical understanding across all areas of the EYFS framework – Helen Crawford (Read article) 10 Using learning outside the classroom at historic sites to explore British history units – Paul Bracey (Read article) 16 Britain on pause: remembering the 1926 General Strike – Kate Rigby (Read article)...
    Primary History 102

  • Recorded webinar: Sensory approaches to history with the National Archives

      In partnership with the National Archives Education & Outreach department
    This recorded webinar explores methods that the Education & Outreach department at The National Archives is using to teach and engage audiences by allowing them to explore original documents using touch, hearing, and smell. This includes projects for school-age blind and visually impaired students, Early Years audiences, intergenerational audiences with...
    Recorded webinar: Sensory approaches to history with the National Archives

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Assassins and Templars

      Article
    In this talk, Steve Tibble discusses the Assassins and Templars, two of history's most legendary groups. One was a Shi’ite religious sect, the other a Christian military order created to defend the Holy Land. Steve Tibble traces the history of these two groups from their origins to their ultimate destruction showing how they survived...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Assassins and Templars

  • Recorded webinar: The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians at the time of Fascism

      Article
    The Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini understood more than other leaders of his generation the power of images and used them to great effect in building his personality cult which was central to Italian Fascism. In this illustrated webinar, Professor Giuliana Pieri will explore the evolution of the iconography of...
    Recorded webinar: The Cult of the Duce: Mussolini and the Italians at the time of Fascism

  • 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

  • On-demand webinar: Making sense of curriculum frameworks in EYFS

      Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS
    Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS Session 1: Making sense of curriculum frameworks in EYFS This webinar will explore ‘Understanding the World’ and its relationship to history education, understanding the child and their community, and making sense of chronology and progression in EYFS. Release date: 7 January 2026Expiry date: 6 January 2028 How...
    On-demand webinar: Making sense of curriculum frameworks in EYFS

  • 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

  • Recorded webinar: Revisiting the witch trials

      Article
    The East Anglian witch hunt under Matthew Hopkins, self-appointed Witchfinder General, has garnered a great deal of popular and historical interest over the years. An image has developed of a zealous, misogynistic young man serving crazed 'justice' against supposed witches, whipping up panic and turning neighbours against each other in...
    Recorded webinar: Revisiting the witch trials

  • 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

  • Student teacher experiences at the Historical Association Conference 2025

      Primary History article
    Three student teachers from Liverpool John Moores University had the chance to attend the recent Historical Association Conference held at the Hilton in Liverpool. In this article, they outline the sessions and the benefits of attending, focusing on the sessions that they found most useful. The next conference is being...
    Student teacher experiences at the Historical Association Conference 2025

  • She sells seashells by the seashore: teaching Mary Anning at Key Stage 1

      Primary History article
    Mary Anning was a fascinating individual who would be a purposeful addition to a history curriculum. This article outlines the rationale behind including her as a significant individual but also offers ideas for developing young children’s understanding of historical interpretations.
    She sells seashells by the seashore: teaching Mary Anning at Key Stage 1

  • 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

  • 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

  • Who were the Greeks and how diverse was their society?

      Primary History article
    Susie Townsend explores ancient Greece through the use of maps in this innovative and interesting article. The focus here is on diversity within ancient Greek civilisations and the article includes some activities to support learning. There is something for everyone to take from this piece.
    Who were the Greeks and how diverse was their society?