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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

  • 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

  • Look again: teaching about disability in history

      Teaching History article
    After listening to a talk by historian Phillipa Vincent-Connolly and following this up with reading about disability in history, Alex Fairlamb examined her own department’s teaching to consider how effectively it included narratives of disabled people. This was the beginning of a productive journey. She concluded that much more needed to be...
    Look again: teaching about disability in history

  • Triumphs Show: Seeing consequences in 3D

      Teaching History feature
    ‘You think you’ve found a way to help our Year 7s explain historical consequence?’ My head of department sounded intrigued. ‘View them as shockwaves!’ I exclaimed. ‘Just like Boba Fett’s ship in Star Wars!’ My head of department raised an eyebrow. It was September 2024, and I had just joined...
    Triumphs Show: Seeing consequences in 3D

  • Move Me On: what adjustments are reasonable to accommodate a trainee’s neurodivergence?

      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: what adjustments are reasonable to accommodate a trainee’s neurodivergence?

  • On-demand webinar: Supporting the whole pupil: building confidence and inclusion in GCSE history

      Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
    Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4 Session 3: Supporting the whole pupil: building confidence and inclusion in GCSE history Presenter: Gemma Hargraves This session explores some of the hidden barriers faced by neurodivergent pupils in the history classroom, including anxiety and low self-confidence....
    On-demand webinar: Supporting the whole pupil: building confidence and inclusion in GCSE history

  • Boudicca: facts, fictions and archaeology

      Article
    In this fascinating talk from our recent Britain and the Romans course, Professor William Bowden examines the evidence for the life of Boudicca, exploring what archaeology and classical sources can – and cannot – tell us about one of Roman Britain's most iconic figures. By separating evidence from conjecture, the...
    Boudicca: facts, fictions and archaeology

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... piracy and empire in the early modern world

      Teaching History feature
    The topic of early modern global piracy has attracted increasing scholarly attention in recent decades, partly due to its own intrinsic interest and, it must be said, its entertainment value. However, historians have also explored its connections with broader themes such as empire and colonisation, social history, global economic networks,...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... piracy and empire in the early modern world

  • How foundational concepts, supporting concepts and concrete examples can help untangle the past at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    A central organising principle of any curriculum is the substantive concepts that underpin it. They provide a secure structure and enable students to develop deep understanding through multiple encounters with essential abstract ideas that are given concrete form in different historical contexts. Identifying the different levels or tiers to which different...
    How foundational concepts, supporting concepts and concrete examples can help untangle the past at Key Stage 3

  • Interpreting Cyrus the Great for the lower school curriculum

      Teaching History article
    Tom Leather describes in this article the process by which he and his department extended their ancient history curriculum through an interpretations enquiry about Cyrus the Great. This tested both the subject knowledge of a number of members of the department, and their planning process. His reflections are illuminating not just...
    Interpreting Cyrus the Great for the lower school curriculum

  • Planning a more diverse and coherent Year 7 curriculum

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Jacob Olivey describes his department’s efforts to both diversify their Key Stage 3 curriculum and secure greater curricular coherence. Building on a large body of research and practice, Olivey sought new forms of curricular coherence through the selection and sequencing of substantive content across the curriculum. He...
    Planning a more diverse and coherent Year 7 curriculum

  • Recorded webinar: Holocaust Landscapes (Teach Environmental Histories Network)

      Teach Environmental Histories Network meeting, January 2026
    We all know that historical events take place somewhere, but how important is that somewhere - and especially its materiality - in enabling or hindering or shaping those events? That is a question that historian Tim Cole has been asking vis-a-vis the Holocaust.  In this meeting of the Teach Environmental...
    Recorded webinar: Holocaust Landscapes (Teach Environmental Histories Network)

  • On-demand webinar: Making it stick: enhancing memory retention for pupils with SEND in GCSE history 

      Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
    Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4 Session 2: Making it stick: enhancing memory retention for pupils with SEND in GCSE history  Presenter: Dale Banham This session explores how to help SEND learners retain historical knowledge by applying research-informed strategies that reduce cognitive overload...
    On-demand webinar: Making it stick: enhancing memory retention for pupils with SEND in GCSE history 

  • On-demand webinar: Literacy for historical thinking: supporting reading and writing at GCSE history 

      Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
    Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4 Session 1: Literacy for historical thinking: supporting reading and writing at GCSE history  Presenter: Catherine Priggs This session explores the essential literacy skills required to engage effectively with history at Key Stage 4. Participants will examine the unique...
    On-demand webinar: Literacy for historical thinking: supporting reading and writing at GCSE history 

  • 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

  • On-demand webinar: Teaching the whole class

      Webinar series: Direct history teaching
    Webinar series: Direct history teaching Session 3: Teaching the whole class In this third session, Jacob and Mike will argue that a history teacher should always be a sage on the stage – and not a guide on the side. They will share strategies that allow history teachers to drive learning...
    On-demand webinar: Teaching the whole class

  • Teaching History 202: Organising Principles

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 HA Update 08 How foundational concepts, supporting concepts and concrete examples can help untangle the past at Key Stage 3 – Gareth Lennon (Read article) 16 Making substantive concepts (do the) work: towards a strategy of conceptual progression at Key Stage 3...
    Teaching History 202: Organising Principles

  • Using turning points in anti-racist history to explore historical significance at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Joel Sharples explains the organising principles that underpinned his planning for a new enquiry sequence inspired by a local photography exhibition. The exhibition’s title ‘Brick Lane 1978: The Turning Point’ prompted him to think afresh about the idea of ‘a turning point’ – a concept that he...
    Using turning points in anti-racist history to explore historical significance at Key Stage 3

  • Broadening and deepening narratives of Benin for Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Josh Garry describes his effort to refresh his approach to teaching the British transatlantic slave trade. Drawing on reading, lectures and discussions during an Historical Association Teacher Fellowship programme, Garry built a sequence of lessons designed to contextualise the trade while showing African agency and complexity. The result was a sequence...
    Broadening and deepening narratives of Benin for Year 8

  • Using Femina to reframe Year 7 pupils’ understanding of the medieval world

      Teaching History article
    Concerned about the absence of women’s perspectives in her Year 7 curriculum, and inspired by Ramirez’s book Femina, Freya George set out on a research project that sought to put medieval women at the heart of a new enquiry. Rather than simply telling stories about medieval women, however, George encouraged...
    Using Femina to reframe Year 7 pupils’ understanding of the medieval world

  • Using local history to illuminate the complexities of interpretation with Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Jack Harris found that his pupils had little knowledge of Sir Harry Smith, the historical figure after whom their school was named, and who was commemorated in various ways in their local community. Researching Smith’s career and reputation, including his role in British colonialism, he uncovered varied interpretations. Harris worked...
    Using local history to illuminate the complexities of interpretation with Year 8

  • Move Me On 202: trainee is struggling to make history accessible...

      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 202: trainee is struggling to make history accessible...

  • On-demand webinar: Building different types of historical knowledge

      Webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level
    Webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level Session 1: Building different types of historical knowledge This first session will focus on building students’ knowledge of the particular periods they are studying. It will also consider the different methods teachers have used to help their students to apply their knowledge to...
    On-demand webinar: Building different types of historical knowledge

  • Working 9–5: how painters, plumbers and programmers help our pupils understand the role of the historian

      Teaching History article
    Struck by the misinformation that their pupils were bringing from social media to the history classroom, Phillips and Jackson-Buckley were keen to help their pupils identify the signs of good quality history. They decided to focus on developing their pupils’ understanding of how history works, specifically, how historians construct their...
    Working 9–5: how painters, plumbers and programmers help our pupils understand the role of the historian

  • Teaching Year 9 pupils to see and sense social memory as an expression of knowledge about the past

      Teaching History article
    Prompted by the attacks on statues in summer 2020, William Mason began to question how effectively he taught his students about popular interpretations or historical ‘myths’. He designed an enquiry about the myth of Churchill to introduce his pupils to the concept of collective memory and to ways in which...
    Teaching Year 9 pupils to see and sense social memory as an expression of knowledge about the past