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  • Triumphs Show 182: A public lecture series

      Teaching History feature
    The history we present to students, however rigorous and challenging, and however full of integrity in eflecting history as a discipline, is a shiny show of our best resources. Peeling back this curtain and allowing students to see the real world of academic history was a major motivation in inviting some...
    Triumphs Show 182: A public lecture series

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

      Article
    Are you teaching 20th-century history? 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 the suffrage movement and...
    Women’s Suffrage: history and citizenship resources for schools

  • Historical Enquiries and Interpretations

      Transition Training Session 1
    This is the first of 5 sessions arising from the 2005 KS2-KS3 History Transition Project: Transition training session 1: Historical Enquiries & Interpretations Transition training session 2: Using ICT in the teaching of history Transition training session 3: Extended writing in history Transition training session 4: Joan of Arc -...
    Historical Enquiries and Interpretations

  • 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

  • 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

  • On-demand webinar: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: interpretations

      Webinar series: Direct history teaching
    Webinar series: Direct history teaching Session 4: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: interpretations In this fourth session, Jacob and Mike will explore how history teachers can teach disciplinary knowledge (how we know about the past) directly – specifically, historical interpretations. They will share examples of lessons that directly teach pupils how historians (and...
    On-demand webinar: Teaching disciplinary knowledge directly: interpretations

  • Triumphs Show: Diversifying the curriculum at A-level

      Teaching History feature
    There is a wealth of literature arguing for the importance of accommodating a wide range of perspectives and experiences in school history curricula. Many have contended that it is crucial to include the stories of those traditionally omitted from historical records in order to teach history well. Others have emphasised...
    Triumphs Show: Diversifying the curriculum at A-level

  • Young Historian Awards 2026 – take part (Secondary prizes)

      History competition for students
    The 2026 competition is now open. Entries close on 17 July 2026 (3 July for overseas entries). Researching, writing and presenting ideas about a historical theme or period is one of the best parts about studying history. We want young school and college aged students to get the bug for...
    Young Historian Awards 2026 – take part (Secondary prizes)

  • 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

  • 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

  • Triumphs Show: Shining a light on Eastern European history with Jadwiga of Poland

      Teaching History feature
    What is the value of local history? How should the history curriculum reflect the lives of our pupils and local communities? While Andrea was on her PGCE placement, we found ourselves posing these questions one afternoon, during a mentor meeting. We discussed how local history can shine a light on...
    Triumphs Show: Shining a light on Eastern European history with Jadwiga of Poland

  • 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

  • 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

  • Cunning Plan… to teach about environmental history in the medieval period

      Teaching History feature
    As an undergraduate, following a traditional history course, I was surprised and intrigued, one sunny summer day, to find myself reading about sunspots and studying graphs of solar activity. My reading list for an essay on the social and economic history of the fourteenth century included the work of historians...
    Cunning Plan… to teach about environmental history in the medieval period

  • 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?

  • Film: Discussion: Historical memory of key individuals in the Civil Rights Movement

      Film series: The African-American Civil Rights Movement
    Professor Tony Badger, Professor Joe Street and Professor Brian Ward discuss the African-American Civil Rights movement and examine different ways we might interpret the significance of key individuals, groups, institutions and events that played a role in its development and progress. This section reflects on how the past is portrayed...
    Film: Discussion: Historical memory of key individuals in the Civil Rights Movement

  • 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

  • On-demand webinar: Responding to historical questions and engaging in extended writing at A-level

      Webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level
    Webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level Session 2: Responding to historical questions and engaging in extended writing This second session will consider how teachers have helped their students to develop coherent explanations of historical processes and to form judgments in response to historical questions. The session will then engage with...
    On-demand webinar: Responding to historical questions and engaging in extended writing at A-level

  • 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

  • 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

  • Recorded webinar: History, Politics and Journalism

      Teacher and Student Study Session
    History, politics and journalism are intertwined. In this webinar (filmed in December 2021) Professor Anna Whitelock and members of her department from City, University of London explore the inter-related history, politics and journalism of Russia and the Cold War. First, Dina Fainberg explores Soviet relations with the world under Nikita...
    Recorded webinar: History, Politics and Journalism

  • 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?

  • 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