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Old age care in the time of crisis: London in the sixteenth century
Historian article
In her lecture to the General Strand of the HA Conference, Christine Fox describes the successes and failures of London institutions in dealing with the sixteenth-century crisis of poverty and elderly care.
In late medieval and early modern thinking, human life was divided into three stages; youth, maturity, and old age. The latter...
Old age care in the time of crisis: London in the sixteenth century
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Recorded webinar: The Crusades through Middle Eastern eyes: Islamic and Eastern Christian perspectives
Article
The Crusades were traditionally studied as an extension of western European history. In recent decades, however, historians have begun to study the Crusades from the perspective of Middle Eastern history, through sources left behind by local Muslims as well as Eastern Christians. This presentation will discuss this shift in the...
Recorded webinar: The Crusades through Middle Eastern eyes: Islamic and Eastern Christian perspectives
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Rethinking citizenship through the history classroom, a global perspective
Teaching History article
Teaching history and politics in an international school in Beijing, Andrew Carey found himself in a position to reflect on the teaching of citizenship in schools, particularly the concepts involved in global citizenship. He describes how global citizenship is integrated into schemes of work for a concept-based humanities course in...
Rethinking citizenship through the history classroom, a global perspective
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Cunning Plan 202: interdisciplinary teaching of landscape through time
Teaching History feature
From a young age I have been fascinated by the history of the landscape. Family holidays in the Lake District offered early encounters with the past that did not come mediated through textbooks, but through place. Driving over Dunmail Raise, my father would point out that the ancient ruler, Dunmail...
Cunning Plan 202: interdisciplinary teaching of landscape through time
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Virtual Branch Recording: A Brief History of the Coast in 100 Objects
Article
The coast means something different to everyone. It’s a place of pleasure and reckless pursuits, of fishing, fearless endeavours and a crashing, rugged beauty. The coast is, and always has been, Britain's first line of defence and springboard to other cultures.
In this talk public historian Sally Coulthard delves into...
Virtual Branch Recording: A Brief History of the Coast in 100 Objects
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How hidden local histories and geographies can be used to overcome imperial amnesia
Teaching History article
This article summarises the learning from a project that uses local history and geography to support the process of diversifying and decolonising the school curriculum. The project was inspired by a seminar within the University of Sheffield PGCE course, initially taught by Mark Cottingham and intended for history student teachers. As the...
How hidden local histories and geographies can be used to overcome imperial amnesia
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Teaching History 204: Crossing Boundaries
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
03 Editorial (Read article)
04 HA Secondary News
06 HA Update
08 Bowie knives, sugar and abolitionists: how hidden local histories and geographies can be used to overcome imperial amnesia – Mark Cottingham, Christine Winter and Katie Dennis (Read article)
18 The ‘Super’ Saxons and the ‘Nasty’ Normans: an argument...
Teaching History 204: Crossing Boundaries
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Cunning Plan… for using Lego to aid disciplinary understanding
Teaching History feature
The idea that history is constructed can be a difficult concept for pupils to grasp, yet it is foundational to disciplinary understanding and crucial if pupils are to understand both the relevance of history and the responsibility of the historian. When asked about the nature of history, many of my...
Cunning Plan… for using Lego to aid disciplinary understanding
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Move Me On: Supporting SEND students
Teaching History feature
Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
Move Me On: Supporting SEND students
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Virtual Branch recording: Crusader Castles
Article
During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the crusaders constructed tens of castles across the Middle East, some merely small watchtowers, others massive strongholds or fortress cities - but why did the crusaders place so much importance on fortifications?
Nicholas Morton explores the development of this remarkable phenomenon asking key questions...
Virtual Branch recording: Crusader Castles
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Deaf marriages and sign language recognition
Historian article
In the pre-modern world, the ability to speak and to hear were fundamental to participation in civil society. How, then, could prelingual deaf people survive and thrive? Rosamund Oates, author of the recently published Silent Histories: Deafness in Early Modern England, charts the long struggle for the recognition of sign...
Deaf marriages and sign language recognition
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Broken bodies and racial lessons: disabled Wehrmacht veterans in Nazi Germany
Historian article
Throughout history, war has been one of the great producers of disability, and the disabled veteran has often provoked feelings of pride and pity. In this article, Christopher Thomas Goodwin explores the multiple meanings of the disabled soldier in Nazi Germany...
Broken bodies and racial lessons: disabled Wehrmacht veterans in Nazi Germany
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In conversation with David Turner
Historian feature
Disabled people have always been present in Britain’s past. Yet they have often appeared only at the edge of historical narratives: as recipients of charity, as objects of medical attention, as casualties of war or work, or as figures in stories told by institutions rather than by themselves. In Disability:...
In conversation with David Turner
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Virtual Branch Recording: Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War
Article
Jane Rogoyska tells the story of the Hôtel Lutetia, the only ‘grand’ hotel on the city’s bohemian Left Bank, serving as a meeting place for artists, musicians and politicians. André Gide took his lunch here, James Joyce lived in one of its rooms, Picasso and Matisse were regular guests. But...
Virtual Branch Recording: Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War
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On-demand webinar: Creating an inclusive and equitable history curriculum
Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework
Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework
Session 3: Creating an inclusive and equitable history curriculum
Key topics:
Attending to the scope of a history curriculum
Evidencing inclusive practice through curriculum design and classroom culture
Story as a tool for inclusion
This session focuses...
On-demand webinar: Creating an inclusive and equitable history curriculum
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On-demand webinar: From implementation to impact: evidencing learning and progress in history
Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework
Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework
Session 2: From implementation to impact: evidencing learning and progress in history
Key topics:
Defining and identifying 'impact' in the history classroom
Assessing progression in substantive and disciplinary knowledge (the role of formative and summative assessment)
This...
On-demand webinar: From implementation to impact: evidencing learning and progress in history
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Making substantive concepts (do the) work
Teaching History article
Several years back, Alistair Dickins and Tommy-James Alexander realised they wanted to incorporate explicit consideration of substantive concepts into their Key Stage 3 teaching, to enable students to make sense of and order information about the past and to offer students a usable language that would support their historical reasoning. In reality,...
Making substantive concepts (do the) work
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Lesson sequence: Muslim Tommies - taster lesson
Article
This series of lessons has been designed to teach students something of the role of Muslim soldiers in the British Army in the First World War. By working with what remains of the War and how the Muslim contribution has been remembered, students will learn that the narrative is more...
Lesson sequence: Muslim Tommies - taster lesson
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Lesson sequence: Muslim Tommies
Lesson sequences
The first lesson of this sequence is available free to all secondary members here.
This series of lessons has been designed to teach students something of the role of Muslim soldiers in the British Army in the First World War. By working with what remains of the War and how the Muslim contribution...
Lesson sequence: Muslim Tommies
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Recorded webinar: Deafness in early modern England
Article
In this webinar, Professor Rosamund Oates shares her research for her new book Silent Histories: Deafness in Early Modern England (2026). Professor Oates is an expert in the historical cultures of early modern England and is passionate about exploring previously unknown stories of deaf and disabled people, using rigorous scholarly...
Recorded webinar: Deafness in early modern England
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Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust
Teaching History article
Inspired by the work of the social and cultural historian Tim Cole, Stuart Farley decided to look again at the way he teaches the Holocaust. He wanted to focus on the geographical concept of place as a way of enabling his Year 9 students to build far more diverse narratives,...
Using the concept of place to help Year 9 students to visualise the complexities of the Holocaust
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Recorded webinar: Tsarist imperial society and ethnicity
Article
In this webinar historian Shane O’Rourke – a specialist in late-Imperial Russian society and ethnicities, including the Cossacks – explores society under the last three Tsars, examining Russification in the western Russian borderlands, Russian settler colonialism, the Caucasus and deportation, and current historiographical trends.
Recorded webinar: Tsarist imperial society and ethnicity
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Exploring a logical conceptualisation of continuity with Year 9 pupils
Teaching History article
As a PGCE student, Miles Eades confronted the challenge of teaching about change and continuity. Reflecting on scientific, mathematical and sociological conceptualisations of change as a constantly occurring process led him to reconsider the common characterisation of continuity in history as the opposite of or absence of change. Eades set...
Exploring a logical conceptualisation of continuity with Year 9 pupils
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Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading
Your Virtual History Department Meeting
'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a department meeting. 'What’s the wisdom on…' provides history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of many years of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of history teaching.
To...
Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading
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Doing a Gombrich: Year 9 make connections by shaping big narratives
Article
Oliver Scott explains how he fused two goals: planning a new Year 9 history curriculum and finding a way to help Year 9 connect it all together. Inspired by the distinctive style of E.H. Gombrich, Scott decided to have his pupils write a grand narrative at mid- and end-year points. The narrative...
Doing a Gombrich: Year 9 make connections by shaping big narratives
