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  • The Historian 170: Disability

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Letters 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 Update: Disability history – Daniel Blackie and Alexia Moncrieff (Read article) 10 Deaf marriages and sign language recognition – Rosamund Oates (Read article) 16 Thinking with disability: mapping a disability history perspective onto the history of the British Empire – Esme Cleall (Read...
    The Historian 170: Disability

  • Confronting otherness: developing scrutiny and inference skills through drawing

      Teaching History article
    There are two main reasons why it is important for history teachers to make sense of the art teacher's processes, aims and perspectives: first, if we are concerned to improve pupils' historical knowledge and understanding then we will want to know about how learning in other subjects impacts upon it...
    Confronting otherness: developing scrutiny and inference skills through drawing

  • Triumphs Show: The BeBold Network

      Teaching History feature
    In April 2019, I was in a bit of a rut. My enquiry questions and lesson sequences seemed stale. I felt like I had been at my school for too long. To mix things up, I secured a new role for September at a start-up school.  Full of excitement, I...
    Triumphs Show: The BeBold Network

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the English Reformation

      Teaching History feature
    Since the first stirrings of religious reform in the sixteenth century, people have been writing the history of the Reformation, debating what happened and why it happened. John Foxe arguably became the first historian of the English Reformation when he published Actes and Monuments in 1563. Better known as ‘The...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the English Reformation

  • Cunning Plan 155: interpreting WW1 events

      Teaching History feature
    Enquiry Question: What's worth knowing about the First World War? At the end of our scheme of work on the First World War, I asked myself how I might encourage my Year 9 pupils to reflect on the historical significance of the events we had studied. I was particularly interested...
    Cunning Plan 155: interpreting WW1 events

  • Raising the bar: developing meaningful historical consciousness at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. How can we help pupils make sense of the history that they learn so that the whole adds up to more than the sum of its parts? How can we help pupils develop and sophisticate...
    Raising the bar: developing meaningful historical consciousness at Key Stage 3

  • Dickens...Hardy...Jarvis?! A novel take on the Industrial Revolution

      Teaching History article
    ‘Empathy with edge' was the editorial description given eight years ago to the kind of historical fiction that Dave Martin and Beth Brooke first argued history students should be writing (TH 108). The winning entries from the annual ‘Write Your Own Historical Story Competition' to which their work gave rise...
    Dickens...Hardy...Jarvis?! A novel take on the Industrial Revolution

  • Some Reflections on Empathy in History

      Article
    Undoubtedly, the introduction of empathy into the GCSE National Criteria for History has caused considerable problems for teachers and pupils, as debates in the national educational press have shown. It cannot be presupposed that...
    Some Reflections on Empathy in History

  • Teaching History 199: Ordinary People

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 HA Update 08 When a name is not enough: telling rich stories about women’s lives in the American West at GCSE – Nicole Ridley (Read article)  16 Volunteers against fascism and appeasement: teaching Year 9 about the ordinary people who fought in...
    Teaching History 199: Ordinary People

  • Teaching History 198: Curriculum Journeys

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 HA Update 08 Unpacking the enquiry puzzle – Ben Arscott (Read article) 16 ‘What’s the point of learning history?’ Establishing a dialogue with Year 9 about why environmental history matters – Alex Benger (Read article) 26 Cunning Plan… for using the story of Eunice Foote...
    Teaching History 198: Curriculum Journeys

  • Teaching History 201: Interpreting the Past

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    03 Editorial (Read article) 04 HA Secondary News 06 HA Update: SEND matters 08 Working 9–5: how painters, plumbers and programmers help our pupils understand the role of the historian – Jessie Phillips and Sarah Jackson-Buckley (Read article) 18 What use is the myth of Winston Churchill? Teaching Year 9...
    Teaching History 201: Interpreting the Past

  • Polychronicon 131: At your leisure

      Teaching History feature
    Leisure time - like time itself - is fluid, and keeps changing its social meanings. From a ‘serious' high political perspective there is no history of leisure and leisure is trivial. Such perspectives have long lost their grip on the historical imagination, of course, and we have had histories of...
    Polychronicon 131: At your leisure

  • Cunning Plan 192: A suggested itinerary for visiting Berlin

      Teaching History feature
    The principles and approaches outlined in our article on Pages 59 to 64 of this edition can be applied to any site, although not necessarily all on the same trip! If you are visiting Berlin, and you want to examine it as a contested space, in what order might you...
    Cunning Plan 192: A suggested itinerary for visiting Berlin

  • Virtual Branch: Birds and British History

      Article
    In his recent book The Cuckoo's Lea Michael J Warren provides a exploration of how birds are entwined with British history, particularly in our place names.  Join us for an exclusive Q&A with the author to weave together literature, history and ornithology and discover a fascinating heritage that matters deeply now when so...
    Virtual Branch: Birds and British History

  • Can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention?

      Teaching History article
    Patterns of genocide: can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention? Alison Stephen, who has wrestled for many years with the challenges of teaching emotional and controversial history within a multiethnic school setting, relished the opportunity to link her school's teaching of the Holocaust with a comparative study of other genocides....
    Can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention?

  • What Does the English Baccalaureate mean for me?

      Briefing Pack
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Some content may be outdated and some links may no longer work. History constitutes a key player in the new English Baccalaureate, being one of the two choices that students may opt for in the Humanities section. The English Baccalaureate is a...
    What Does the English Baccalaureate mean for me?

  • Leopold von Ranke - Pamphlet

      Classic Pamphlet
    Leopold von Ranke (21 December 1795 - 23 May 1886) was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history. According to Caroline Hoefferle, "Ranke was probably the most important historian to shape historical profession as it emerged in Europe and the United States in the late 19th century." ...
    Leopold von Ranke - Pamphlet

  • Into the unknown: changing technology and the history classroom

      Teaching History article
    John Simkin has an important tale to tell. He lived through the earliest forays of history teachers into computer technology in the classroom and he pioneered influential approaches through software publishing projects. His story of classroom teachers overcoming obstacles, battling scepticism and taking responsibility for forging the future is one...
    Into the unknown: changing technology and the history classroom

  • Polychronicon 150: Interpreting the French Revolution

      Teaching History feature
    For most of the last two centuries, historical interpretations of the French Revolution have focused on its place in a grand narrative of modernity. For the most ‘counter-revolutionary' writers, the Revolution showed why modernity was to be resisted - destroying traditional institutions and disrupting all that was valuable in an...
    Polychronicon 150: Interpreting the French Revolution

  • The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

      Journal
    Editorial  - History and the History Curriculum Articles Isabel Barca - Prospective teachers' ideas about assessing different accounts    Keith Barton - Primary children's understanding of the role of historical evidence: Comparisons between the United States and Northern Ireland    Carley Dalvarez - The Contribution of History to Citizenship Education ...
    The International Journal Volume 1 Number 2

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 154: Using historical scholarship in the classroom

      Teaching History feature
    As another World Book Day goes past, you have been watching the English department wax lyrical about all of the wonderful books that pupils might read. You know that there is a wealth of well-written historical scholarship out there for pupils to dive into, yet you are not sure about...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 154: Using historical scholarship in the classroom

  • Social Studies Teachers’ Resistance to Teaching Francophone Perspectives in Alberta

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 15, Number 1 – Autumn/Winter 2017ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract It is increasingly common for social studies programs to call for the teaching of multiple perspectives on past and current issues. Within the Canadian context, the province of Alberta’s social studies program mandates...
    Social Studies Teachers’ Resistance to Teaching Francophone Perspectives in Alberta

  • On-demand Secondary CPD calendar

      Information
    We know that it’s not easy for teachers to access CPD: workload is high, budgets are tight and it can be difficult to get out of school. We know how essential subject-specific professional development is to you and that is why we have worked to provide a wide range of...
    On-demand Secondary CPD calendar

  • Teaching History 194: Climate and Environment

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition of HA's Teaching History journal is free to download via the link at the bottom of the page (individual articles are also free to access). For a subscription to Teaching History (published quarterly), plus access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD and...
    Teaching History 194: Climate and Environment

  • Ensuring progression continues into GCSE: let's not do for our pupils with our plan of attack

      Teaching History article
    Dale Banham continues a theme explored by many other teacher-authors in recent years, how to ensure that progression does not just stop in Year 9, leaving pupils stagnant in key areas of historical learning before getting picked up again in Year 12. He produces a more thorough rationale and commentary...
    Ensuring progression continues into GCSE: let's not do for our pupils with our plan of attack