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  • Doing History at University 2025

      Thinking of studying history at university?
    Booking closed (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window. Please read the HA CPD terms and conditions before registering) We are pleased to be hosting a Doing History at University event for students and teachers in partnership with the University of Sheffield. The aim of the event is to...
    Doing History at University 2025

  • Podcast: Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr?

      Podcast
    2012 Annual Conference Presidential Lecture Charles I: The People's Martyr? Jackie Eales, HA President and Professor of Early Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University Charles I was renowned for his distrust of ‘popularity'. Yet during the 1640s he was forced to appeal to his people for support and in...
    Podcast: Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr?

  • The Historical Association's response to Curriculum Review 2024

      20th November 2024
    New government, new curriculum review. It always happens when there is a big change in who is in charge. But just because it always happens doesn’t mean we can ignore it. Ten years ago, substantial changes were made to education, and they have affected a whole generation of children and teachers....
    The Historical Association's response to Curriculum Review 2024

  • American West Depth Study Podcasts

      GCSE Topic Guide
    In this series of podcasts Dave Martin examines the American West. What is the American West depth study actually about?What can we learn from the parallel lives of Custer and Crazy Horse?Who was with Custer at the Little Big Horn?Why did the Plains Indians lose the struggle for the Great...
    American West Depth Study Podcasts

  • Webinar series: Historical thinking in a digital world: how history builds digital and media literacy

      HA webinar series for secondary history teachers, history subject leaders, senior leaders, teacher educators and KS2–3 transition leads
    What does this series cover? This series makes the case that history is a natural subject for digital literacy because it teaches how knowledge is made, contested, evidenced, and communicated – the exact habits students need for navigating misinformation, manipulated media, and AI-generated content. Across six sessions, participants build a...
    Webinar series: Historical thinking in a digital world: how history builds digital and media literacy

  • Report on Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum

      End Sexism in Schools research report
    Congratulations to the team behind the new report The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum. The publication of some of the outcomes from the report in The Guardian has brought to public attention the important evidence that despite being at least 50% of the population, women are...
    Report on Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum

  • Previous Young Quills winners

      Information
    Each year the Historical Association runs the Young Quills, a competition for published historical fiction for children and young adults. The Young Quills books for each year must be published for the first time in English in the year preceding the competition. Divided by age suitability, the books are given...
    Previous Young Quills winners

  • Webinar series: Making history accessible

      On-demand webinar series for subject leaders and teachers of history
    What does this series cover and why should I attend? In recent years, the UK’s SEND system has been under the spotlight. As numbers of students with identified special educational needs increase, attention has been given to how to best embed inclusive practice, enabling teachers to support all students to...
    Webinar series: Making history accessible

  • On-demand webinar series: Direct history teaching

      HA webinar series for history teachers at KS3 and KS4
    What does this series cover? In this webinar series, explore a direct approach to teaching history. Presenters Jacob Olivey and Mike Hill will advocate for ‘lean lessons’ that focus on reading, explanation, and discussion to build pupils’ historical knowledge and understanding – with no worksheets, activities, or group work in...
    On-demand webinar series: Direct history teaching

  • On-demand webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level 

      HA webinar series for subject leaders and teachers of history at KS5
    What does this series cover? This webinar series will help you to support your A-level students to gain detailed knowledge of particular periods and to engage in rigorous historical thinking. The topics covered will include building students’ knowledge, developing students’ disciplinary understanding in order to help them construct arguments in...
    On-demand webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level 

  • Webinar series: Coherence at Key Stage 4

      HA webinar series for subject leaders and teachers of history
    What does this series cover? This series of webinars will consider coherence at Key Stage 4. We will reflect on using sequencing to establish coherence, how different categories of coherence can be used to inform our planning and delivery of GCSE, and how meaningful approaches to assessment will allow pupils’...
    Webinar series: Coherence at Key Stage 4

  • On-demand webinar series: Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history

      On-demand webinar series for secondary history teachers and leaders
    What does this series cover? This series of webinars will consider how disciplinary thinking has perhaps become something of an afterthought in curriculum planning, for a range of valid reasons, and start to explore ways to build it back in. It will encourage colleagues to hold up a mirror to...
    On-demand webinar series: Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history

  • On-demand webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom

      On-demand webinar series for secondary history teachers and leaders
    What does this series cover? In this series of six webinars, Jonathan Grande will explore and exemplify a wide range of types and forms of assessment that can be used to provide precise, accurate and meaningful insights into pupils’ historical knowledge and understanding. The sessions will consider the purposes of...
    On-demand webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom

  • Online course: Teaching empire through material culture

      HA online course for primary and secondary teachers
    The topic of empire lends itself ideally to a material approach – the objects often provide the opportunity to bring in indigenous voices to our study of the imperial past, while our classroom experience has shown that objects provide a powerful channel through which to access complex and sometimes uncomfortable...
    Online course: Teaching empire through material culture

  • On-demand webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom

      HA webinar series for secondary history teachers
    At the HA, we understand the importance of creating the next generation of history students who can not only write about history, but who can also effectively communicate their thinking through oracy. Current academic research highlights the importance of oracy for learning and the close relationship between being able to...
    On-demand webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom

  • Secondary Committee biographies

      Information
    Find out more about the HA's committees here  Sally Burnham (committee chair) Sally is a history teacher in a school in Lincolnshire and also works one day a week at the University of Nottingham on the History PGCE. Sally has been a Head of Department and is now a Lead...
    Secondary Committee biographies

  • On-demand webinar series: Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school

      On-demand webinar series for secondary history mentors
    What does this series cover? Being an excellent history mentor is very different from being an excellent history teacher. In this series of five webinars, Laura London and Victoria Crooks outline the core principles that underpin the effective subject-specific mentoring of beginning and early career history teachers. With plenty of...
    On-demand webinar series: Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school

  • Italian history teachers day

      Partnership CPD from the Historical Association, Association for the Study of Modern Italy, University College London and Royal Holloway, University of London
    Saturday 12 October 2024, 10am–3pmUniversity of London This event will feature lectures from academics from the University of Leicester, UCL and Royal Holloway on a variety of topics within Italian history from 1900-1946. It will provide up to date academic knowledge on key topics within this period of Italian history...
    Italian history teachers day

  • Welcome back to a new school year

      Information
    Welcome back to a new school year

  • Webinar series: Making substantive and disciplinary knowledge work together in the secondary history curriculum

      HA on-demand webinar series for secondary history teachers
    The last few years have, rightly, seen a lot of discussion about 'what' we include in the history curriculum. This has meant that many schools now teach a wider-ranging and more inclusive form of history. As this work has an impact, it is important to continue to think about how...
    Webinar series: Making substantive and disciplinary knowledge work together in the secondary history curriculum

  • HA South West History Network

      10 Minute Mini CPD
    The HA South West Network are pleased to offer a new series of 10-minute Mini CPD sessions: bite-sized talks on what teachers in the South West are doing for everyone to enjoy. Details and booking links will be published on the Network's Twitter account @HASWNetwork.  Date Presenter Focus Tuesday 29...
    HA South West History Network

  • Find out more about Corporate Secondary Membership

      Supporting high quality history
    Read Simon's 4 reasons for taking out Corporate membership  Watch the film above for an overview of corporate membership benefits. Corporate membership supports quality history provision across your school. It's the ideal option if you'd like multiple staff in your department to benefit from available resources and CPD support, while enjoying enhanced...
    Find out more about Corporate Secondary Membership

  • Making the most of your secondary membership

      Information
    Making the most of your HA membership HA membership offers much more than just your subscription to Teaching History. As a member you can enjoy a holistic package of benefits and resources designed to support you, whatever challenge you may face. With the vast array of support available it can...
    Making the most of your secondary membership

  • Supporting resources

      Information
    A wealth of resources exist on the rest of the HA website and on the HA Secondary Committee’s blog onebighistorydepartment (OBHD) to help teachers and to support better history teaching. In addition, many books and articles have been published that are easily available to school history teachers. On this page you...
    Supporting resources

  • Ofqual: Quality assurance for GCSE, AS and A level

      27th April 2021
    With exams cancelled, summer 2021 grades will be determined by schools and colleges. Every year, there is teacher assessment in subjects with non-exam assessment and schools and colleges will be familiar with moderation arrangements. This summer, with exams cancelled, the context is very different, so the quality assurance (QA) process...
    Ofqual: Quality assurance for GCSE, AS and A level