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  • Key Stage 2-3 History Transition Project Final Report

      Final Report
    The project was steered and edited on behalf of the Historical Association by Andrew Wrenn, General Adviser for History, Cambridgeshire Advisory Service. It was funded by the Innovation Unit of the Department for Education and Skills.
    Key Stage 2-3 History Transition Project Final Report

  • Women’s Suffrage: history and citizenship resources for schools

      Article
    Are you teaching 20th-century history in the spring term? Do you want to refresh your teaching of the campaign for women’s rights and equal representation? Don’t forget to register for the Suffrage Resources website, a free resource developed specifically for schools to help teachers and students explore the rich history of...
    Women’s Suffrage: history and citizenship resources for schools

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... gender and sexuality

      Teaching History feature
    Although they overlap, gender and sexuality are each a distinctive field of historical research. Researching in these fields involves cross-disciplinary work and a range of media and methods. One of the greatest challenges is that of terminology: how to refer to the gender identity or sexuality of a subject in...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... gender and sexuality

  • Helping Year 7 make sense of the 1381 revolt

      Article
    David Ingledew was inspired by his participation in the Historical Association ‘People of 1381’ Teacher Fellowship to begin a project using local history in St Albans to disrupt established narratives of the 1381 Revolt. Keen to make the most of the local heritage, Ingledew collaborated with Steve Clarke and John Mitchell...
    Helping Year 7 make sense of the 1381 revolt

  • Podcast Series: Modern Irish History

      Modern Irish History
    An HA Podcasted Series on Modern Irish History featuring Professor Peter Gray, Dr Fearghal McGarry & Dr Stuart Aveyard of Queen's University of Belfast and Dr Matthew Kelly of the University of Southampton.
    Podcast Series: Modern Irish History

  • Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2022 - David Olusoga

      Article
    This talk was presented at the Historical Association Awards evening, 7 July 2022. The talk is by Professor David Olusoga on the evening that he received the HA Medlicott Medal for Outstanding contributions to History. It is not to be used for any purpose or publicly reported on without the...
    Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2022 - David Olusoga

  • Transforming historical understanding through scripted drama

      Teaching History article
    An article on scripted drama might seem an unlikely choice for an edition devoted to getting students talking. Surely the point about a script is that the words used are chosen and prescribed by others. However, the examples presented here by Helen Snelson, Ruth Lingard and Kate Brennan demonstrate how...
    Transforming historical understanding through scripted drama

  • Telling difficult stories about the creation of Bangladesh

      Teaching History article
    Nathanael Davies recognised that previous efforts to diversify the history taught at his school by weaving new stories into the curriculum had made little impression on his students’ assumptions about what really counted as history. Planning a new enquiry on the creation of Bangladesh was intended both to bridge a...
    Telling difficult stories about the creation of Bangladesh

  • What kinds of feedback help students produce better historical narratives of the interwar years?

      Teaching History article
    Narrative has begun to take its place alongside the essay, for so long the stereotypical currency of the history teacher and student. In this work, based on his experiences as a PGCE student, Alex Rodker argues powerfully that it is time now to consider how to help students to produce...
    What kinds of feedback help students produce better historical narratives of the interwar years?

  • Numismatics and History

      Classic Pamphlet
    Numismatics may be defined as the science of money in its physical aspects. It is only indirectly connected with the theory of money, which belongs to the sphere of economics. Its subject-matter consists of the material objects which in most societies are used to measure the worth of goods and...
    Numismatics and History

  • Studying History at university: Student's guide to applications

      University Application Guide
    So you've decided to apply to study history at university. This guide is intended to help you through the process so that your application is as good as it can be. It is not intended to replace the help and advice you can get from the people who know you...
    Studying History at university: Student's guide to applications

  • 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

  • Debates: Narratives - what matters most in school history education?

      Teaching History article
    In England, a curriculum review is imminent. Following a recent ‘call for evidence' by the government, further consultation on the future shape of history in schools will follow. The HA is currently consulting its membership and will be publishing discussion papers in January 2012. At such a time, everyone in...
    Debates: Narratives - what matters most in school history education?

  • Doing history: is it too dangerous to be a medieval historian?

      Presidential Lecture
    Podcast of Professor Anne Curry, President of the Historical Association. Friday 14th May 2010. Head of the School of Humanities and Professor of Medieval History, Southampton University ‘Re your piece in the Daily Mail, 26 October 2009, on the battle of Agincourt, I was absolutely disgusted at the inference that...
    Doing history: is it too dangerous to be a medieval historian?

  • A knowledge-rich approach to introducing China’s history to Year 9

      Teaching History article
    Freya George was wondering how best to integrate more Asian histories into her school’s curriculum when a conversation among history teachers on social media led her to Jung Chang’s Wild Swans: three daughters of China. George then planned two enquiries, one introducing twentieth-century China, and one focusing entirely on Chang’s work. George styles...
    A knowledge-rich approach to introducing China’s history to Year 9

  • Are we creating a generation of 'historical tourists'?

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. A trip to the battlefields of the First World War throws into stark relief the challenges presented by work on interpretations related to historical sites. Andrew Wrenn first drew attention to the difficulties of promoting...
    Are we creating a generation of 'historical tourists'?

  • A modest proposal for change in Canadian history education

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Peter Seixas recounts the development of a history education reform project in Canada. Like all good histories, it is a complex story and a matter of unanticipated consequences and ironic narrative twists. Seixas' history is,...
    A modest proposal for change in Canadian history education

  • Family stories and global (hi)stories

      Teaching History article
    Teaching in Greece, a country with extensive recent experience of immigration, Maria Vlachaki and Georgia Kouseri were interested to examine how they might use family history as a means of exploring the historical dimensions of this potentially sensitive topic. They hoped that encouraging pupils to explore their relatives’ stories would...
    Family stories and global (hi)stories

  • Cunning Plan… for using the story of Eunice Foote to bring environmental history into the curriculum

      Teaching History feature
    It was during a rainy Tuesday breaktime that I realised why I was so flippant about including environmental history in my curriculum. ‘The climate, you see,’  I said to my colleague Tamsin as I double-boiled the staffroom kettle, ‘can’t challenge you when you don’t include it.’ Kate Hawkey’s book History and the Climate...
    Cunning Plan… for using the story of Eunice Foote to bring environmental history into the curriculum

  • Beyond the bolt-on: placing local history at the heart of a diverse and decolonial curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Students’ rapt response to a filmed interview with a former miner now working as part of the school’s premises team convinced Fred Oxby of the power of local stories. This was not simply because they captured students’ attention, nor even because such stories enabled them to see that history was not...
    Beyond the bolt-on: placing local history at the heart of a diverse and decolonial curriculum

  • Writing Letchworth's war: developing a sense of the local within historical fiction through primary sources

      Teaching History article
    Writing Letchworth's war: developing a sense of the local within historical fiction through primary sources Local history, historical fiction, and one of the most significant events of the twentieth century come together in this article as Jon Grant and Dan Townsend suggest a way to enable students to produce better...
    Writing Letchworth's war: developing a sense of the local within historical fiction through primary sources

  • What can rituals reveal about power in the medieval world? Teaching Year 7 pupils to apply interdisciplinary approaches

      Teaching History article
    Much has been written in recent years about how historical scholarship can be used to shape practice in the classroom. As an historian of the medieval period now working as an history teacher, Dhwani Patel offers a fresh perspective on these debates. During her PGCE year, Patel found herself reflecting...
    What can rituals reveal about power in the medieval world? Teaching Year 7 pupils to apply interdisciplinary approaches

  • Cunning Plan 191: diving deep into ‘history from below’ with Year 8

      Article
    Can the ‘subaltern’ speak, Year 8s? When the Indian scholar and literary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak asked this question in 1988, she wasn’t asking Year 8s on a Monday morning. What she wanted to explore was whether those marginalised people written out of the archive – ‘the subaltern’ – could...
    Cunning Plan 191: diving deep into ‘history from below’ with Year 8

  • Cunning Plan 190: Using art to make A-level history more accessible

      Teaching History feature
    Many pupils love the Horrible Histories books, television programmes and songs. Over the years a number of A-level pupils have proudly told me that it was Horrible Histories that sparked their love of the subject, and they are quick to recite the songs word for word! But it is also the...
    Cunning Plan 190: Using art to make A-level history more accessible

  • Reimagining the ‘Aba Riots’

      Teaching History article
    As an Early Career Teacher, Eleri Hedley-Carter set out to make the history she teaches in school more reflective of her undergraduate study of history – a discipline that strives to uncover a diverse past through various lenses and historical methods. In addition to expanding her school’s curriculum to include an...
    Reimagining the ‘Aba Riots’