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  • RAF100 Schools Project

      Project and website launch
    The Historical Association and the Institute of Physics have teamed up to deliver an exciting project for school and youth groups as part of the Royal Air Force centenary celebrations. The RAF100 Schools Project uniquely uses the professional understanding of historians and physicists working in education to create an active...
    RAF100 Schools Project

  • Worlds in collision: university tutor and student perspectives on the transition to degree level history

      Teaching History article
    What does it mean to be good at history? At certain times during their formal education students seem to be required to adjust their understanding of what studying history entails. Alan Booth writes from the viewpoint of a university tutor. He has collated ‘student voice’ on the experience of studying...
    Worlds in collision: university tutor and student perspectives on the transition to degree level history

  • Secondary Committee biographies

      Information
    Find out more about the HA's committees here  Sally Burnham (committee chair) Sally is a history teacher in a school in Lincolnshire and also works one day a week at the University of Nottingham on the History PGCE. Sally has been a Head of Department and is now a Lead...
    Secondary Committee biographies

  • The International Journal Volume 11, Number 2

      Journal
    Content  Editorial History teaching, pedagogy, curriculum and politics: dialogues and debates in regional, national, transnational, international and supranational settings Robert Guyver, University of St Mark & St John, Plymouth   Australia Scarcely an Immaculate Conception: new professionalism encounters old politics in the formation of the Australian National History Curriculum Tony...
    The International Journal Volume 11, Number 2

  • Meeting the historian through the text

      Teaching History article
    Edna Shoham and Neomi Shiloah describe a process by which they taught their 15-year-old students to read historians’ accounts for sub-text, meaning and assumptions. In its emphasis on ‘meeting the historian’, their work overlaps with much of the thinking about teaching pupils about historical ‘interpretations’ as specifically required by the...
    Meeting the historian through the text

  • Suffrage, feudal, democracy, treaty... history's building blocks: learning to teach historical concepts

      Teaching History article
    In the UK, thoughtful history teachers have long lamented the fact that the majority of pupils emerge from their compulsory history schooling at 14 with a limited or inadequate understanding of those key historical concepts that are necessary to make sense of the world in adult life. Whilst more able...
    Suffrage, feudal, democracy, treaty... history's building blocks: learning to teach historical concepts

  • Historical Interpretation: Why is it still such a major issue?

      E-CPD
    This E-CPD unit was produced for the previous National Curriculum, when Interpretations in History were still relatively new. In the current National Curriculum, Interpretations are still central to the skills necessary for success. Perhaps more so, as it is now a separate assessment objective [AO4] at GCSE, starting in 2016,...
    Historical Interpretation: Why is it still such a major issue?

  • History and Law: Lenin - How studying history can help with a career within the field of the law

      History and Careers Unit 3
    The aim of this enquiry is to show students that a history education teaches many of the skills that are vital for a number of roles within the field of the law - i.e. solicitors, barristers, judges, serving jury members and those called as witnesses. The notes below are a...
    History and Law: Lenin - How studying history can help with a career within the field of the law

  • Doomed Youth: Using theatre to support teaching about the First World War

      Teaching History article
    Many history teachers will have taken their GCSE pupils to School History Scene's Hitler on Trial for a rigorous and inspirational session, using drama, in preparation for the GCSE examination. Josh Brooman has now broadened the work of School History Scene by writing a new play, Doomed Youth, aimed at...
    Doomed Youth: Using theatre to support teaching about the First World War

  • Anne Herbert: A life in the Wars of the Roses

      Historian article
    May I introduce you to Anne Herbert, Countess of Pembroke? I'm very fond of this modern imagined portrait by Graham Turner, partly because of the colour and detail but chiefly because it conveys a respect for the people who lived in the past and especially for Anne herself. My interest...
    Anne Herbert: A life in the Wars of the Roses

  • 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

  • Cunning Plan 105: Crusades enquiry

      Teaching History feature
    Jamie Byrom’s article ‘Using a concluding enquiry to reinforce and assess earlier learning’ (TH 99) offered a practical solution both to weak knowledge acquisition in Year 7 and to effective, worthwhile assessment. This enquiry follows the same model. The assumption is that pupils would be carrying out this enquiry at...
    Cunning Plan 105: Crusades enquiry

  • Why Gerry now likes evidential work

      Teaching History article
    Phil Smith resurrects the lovable Gerry who was first introduced to Teaching History readers by Ben Walsh. Gerry now pops up in another history classroom, and, sadly, has had a few terrible teachers since Ben was looking after him. Phil brings Gerry back to the path of righteousness. Through an...
    Why Gerry now likes evidential work

  • Professional wrestling in the history department: a case study in planning the teaching of the British Empire at Key Stage 3

      Article
    Three years ago ( TH 99, Curriculum Planning Edition), Michael Riley illustrated ways in which history departments could exploit the increased flexibility of the revised National Curriculum.1 He showed that precisely-worded enquiry questions, positioned thoughtfully across the Key Stage, help to ensure progression, challenge and coherence. His picturesque image for...
    Professional wrestling in the history department: a case study in planning the teaching of the British Empire at Key Stage 3

  • The 'structured enquiry' is not a contradiction in terms: focused teaching for independent learning

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Mike Gorman uses the language of the National Curriculum Order to describe and analyse his practice. Yet he throws down a challenge to those who use it uncritically rather than interpreting it to make their...
    The 'structured enquiry' is not a contradiction in terms: focused teaching for independent learning

  • Previous Young Quills winners

      Information
    Each year the Historical Association runs the Young Quills, a competition for published historical fiction for children and young adults. The Young Quills books for each year must be published for the first time in English in the year preceding the competition. Divided by age suitability, the books are given...
    Previous Young Quills winners

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Enquiry questions (Part 2)

      Your Virtual History Department Meeting
    We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances, so we wanted to lend a helping hand. 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Enquiry questions (Part 2)

  • Podcast: The Historical Medicalization of Homosexuality & Transvestism

      Podcast
    In this podcast, Dr Tommy Dickinson of the University of Manchester, looks at the historical medicalization of homosexuality and transvestism.  1. Introduction: the historical medicalization of homosexuality and transvestism  HA Members can listen to the full podcast here Suggested Reading:  Tommy Dickinson (2015) "Curing Queers": MentalNurses and their Patients  1935-1974.  Peter Conrad &...
    Podcast: The Historical Medicalization of Homosexuality & Transvestism

  • How We Used to Sleep

      School Resources
    Want to take a fresh look at medicine through time with your students? If so, you might be interested in teaching them about sleep’s history in the Renaissance. By focusing on sleep – something that we all do and have an opinion on – students can be introduced to changing...
    How We Used to Sleep

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Interpretations

      Your Virtual History Department Meeting
    We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances, so we wanted to lend a helping hand. 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Interpretations

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Evidence and sources

      Your Virtual History Department Meeting
    We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances, so we wanted to lend a helping hand. 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Evidence and sources

  • The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2

      Journal
    The International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR] was founded to provide an international medium for reporting on History Education. Articles in the edition: Erinc Erdal and Ruken Akar Vural Teaching History through Drama: the ‘Armenian Deportation' Terry Haydn and Richard Harris Children's ideas about what it means...
    The International Journal Volume 8 Number 2

  • Philip II of Spain: The Prudent King

      Article
    On the eve of the 400th anniversary of Philip II’s death James Casey rejects the traditional portrayal of the Spanish ruler as a cruel despot and argues his achievements were more the result of an extraordinary sense of duty fully in tune with the hopes and aspirations of his people....
    Philip II of Spain: The Prudent King

  • The International Journal Volume 9 Number 2

      IJHLTR
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 9, Number 2 - Autumn/Winter 2010 ISSN 1472-9466   1. Editorial Hilary Cooper and Jon Nichol. 04 2. Articles Eleni Apostolidou 06 Oscillating Between the Recent Past and the Remote Past: The Perceptions of the Past and the Discipline of History...
    The International Journal Volume 9 Number 2

  • Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust

      Historian article
    Daniel Goldhagen defines anti-semitism as ‘negative beliefs and emotions about Jews qua Jews.' Nazis believed Jews to be the source of Germany's misfortunes, and that they must be denied German citizenship and removed from German society. Hitler never compromised on the need to settle what he regarded as the Jewish...
    Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust