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  • What’s the wisdom on… enquiry questions

      Teaching History feature
    One way of explaining what is meant by an enquiry question is to start with what it is not. What's the Wisdom On... is a short guide providing new history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of history teaching. It...
    What’s the wisdom on… enquiry questions

  • Polychronicon 127: The Crusades

      Teaching History feature
    Modern research on the crusades has concentrated on three basic questions. What were they? How were they justified? What motivated the crusaders? The first of these questions became controversial twenty-five years ago, when historians with a traditional approach to the subject, who took into consideration only those expeditions launched to...
    Polychronicon 127: The Crusades

  • The particular and the general

      Teaching History article
    When your pupils use terms such as ‘king’ and ‘Parliament,’ what image do they have in their head? Do they know what they are talking about at all? Do they have a nuanced, period-specific vision of what these terms mean in the context of their current historical studies, and of...
    The particular and the general

  • Why this? Why now? Reviewing your history curriculum

      North West History Forum keynote
    Richard Kennett gave the keynote at the first HA North West History Forum at the end of January. He has turned his talk into this article so more of us can benefit from his thinking about curriculum. This piece is unashamedly about curriculum. Put simply, curriculum is what stuff we choose...
    Why this? Why now? Reviewing your history curriculum

  • Move Me on 177: using questioning effectively

      The problem page for history mentors
    This issue’s problem: Christine Pizan is struggling to use questioning effectively. 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...
    Move Me on 177: using questioning effectively

  • Teaching 20th-Century History Resources

      Article
    We hope you enjoyed reading Exploring and Teaching Twentieth-Century History. To help you explore the topic further we’ve put together a selection of just a few additional 20th-century history and teaching resources below. All these resources are available free to HA Secondary Members – find out more about Secondary Membership. 20th-century history podcast series We have recorded...
    Teaching 20th-Century History Resources

  • The Great Debate 2026

      The HA's public speaking competition open to school years 10-13
    The Historical Association is delighted to announce Rayburn Tours as the official sponsor of the Great Debate 2026. Find out more What is the Great Debate? The Great Debate is a public speaking competition where students have 5 minutes to present their speech arguing their answer to the question. Over the past couple of...
    The Great Debate 2026

  • Triumphs Show 176: Using material culture as a means to generate an enquiry on the British Empire

      Teaching History feature
    Triumphs Show is a regular feature which offers a quick way for teachers to celebrate their successes and share inspirational ideas with one another. While the ideas are always explained in sufficient depth for others to be able to take them forward in their own practice, the simple format allows...
    Triumphs Show 176: Using material culture as a means to generate an enquiry on the British Empire

  • The Great Debate Final 2024

      25th March 2024
    Winner:  Emma Crow of Broxburn Academy, Broxburn, Scotland  Runners up:  Abigail Powers of The Ladies’ College, Guernsey  Erica Wright of William Farr School, Lincolnshire  Rachel McGarry of Shavington Academy, Crewe, Cheshire  Finalists Sofia Ntege, North Oxfordshire Academy, Banbury Harry Gray, Exeter School, Exeter Rhea Cherrington, Bablake School, Coventry Molly Grimshaw,...
    The Great Debate Final 2024

  • Teaching History 174: Structure

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary news 04 HA update 08 Austin’s narrative: an exploratory case study, with Year 8, into what kinds of feedback help students produce better historical narratives of the interwar years – Alex Rodker (Read article) 16 Cunning Plan: Teaching Year 8 to create and...
    Teaching History 174: Structure

  • Ants and the Tet Offensive: teaching Year 11 to tell the difference

      Article
    The history department at Morpeth School in East London has improved performance at GCSE. The department has also done something unusual: it has abandoned coursework. This might seem a surprising decision but the rationale is interesting and clear. Arguably, the fundamental examination skills are identical to those needed for coursework...
    Ants and the Tet Offensive: teaching Year 11 to tell the difference

  • Teaching History 173: Opening Doors

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Identity in history: why it matters and must be addressed! – Sophia Nzeribe Nascimento (Read article) 20 Triumphs Show: teaching Black Tudors as a window into Tudor England – Chris Lewis (Read article) 23 Cunning Plan... to use Black Tudors as a...
    Teaching History 173: Opening Doors

  • Eleanor and Franklin: Women and the New Deal

      Annual Conference 2018 Film: Presidential Lecture
    As a pioneering First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt refused, as one admirer put it, ‘to step into her little mould in the biscuit tin of President’s wives that was ready and waiting for her’.  She broadcast on the radio, wrote a newspaper column, travelled endlessly and spoke out fearlessly in defence...
    Eleanor and Franklin: Women and the New Deal

  • The devil is the detail

      Teaching History journal article
    Like many history departments, Hugh Richards' department at Huntington School uses enquiry questions to structure their medium-term planning. Yet Richards noticed that his efforts to build knowledge across an enquiry by teaching macro-narratives as an unfolding story seemed to make it harder for some pupils to see and retain the...
    The devil is the detail

  • Couching counterfactuals in knowledge when explaining the Salem witch trials with Year 13

      Teaching History journal article
    Puzzled by the shrugs and unimaginative responses of his students when asked certain counterfactual questions, James Edward Carroll set out to explore what types of counterfactual questions would elicit sophisticated causal explanations. During his pursuit of the ‘gold standard’ of counterfactual reasoning, Carroll drew upon theories of academic history in...
    Couching counterfactuals in knowledge when explaining the Salem witch trials with Year 13

  • Manifesto for learning outside the classroom

      Article
    the Learning Outside the Classroom Manifesto – launched a few months ago - is intended to be a ‘movement’, the purpose of which is to canvas support for education beyond the school walls. It grew out of the education and skills select Committee’s report of 2005 which acknowledged the challenges...
    Manifesto for learning outside the classroom

  • Move Me On 159: Writing Frames

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem: Hannah Mitchell would like to wean pupils off the use of writing frames. Hannah Mitchell has embarked on her PGCE training after a year spent working as a Teaching Assistant. Her varied experiences in that role - sometimes working one-to-one with young people, within a targeted intervention programme,...
    Move Me On 159: Writing Frames

  • Podcasts: Recent scholarship updates at speed

      Multipage Article
    The HA has teamed up with the University of York Institute for the Public Understanding of the Past to provide scholarship updates for teachers. In this module you will find a collection of podcasts on different topics that complement the school curriculum. They are designed to provide teachers with the up-to-date specific...
    Podcasts: Recent scholarship updates at speed

  • Climate change: greening the curriculum?

      Teaching History article
    Inspired by the news that Bristol had become the UK’s first Green Capital, Kate Hawkey, Jon James and Celia Tidmarsh set out to explore what a ‘Green Capital’ School Curriculum  might look like. They explain how they created a cross-curricular project to deliver in-school workshops focused on the teaching of...
    Climate change: greening the curriculum?

  • Cunning Plan 126: What can Berlin tell us about Germany in the 20th century?

      Teaching History feature
    Berlin is a microcosm of twentieth century European history; a city that still bears many of the signs and scars of its experiences and upheavals. It is a must for any history department teaching the Modern World, taking history out of the textbooks and breathing life into it. All pupils...
    Cunning Plan 126: What can Berlin tell us about Germany in the 20th century?

  • How do we get better at going on trips: Planning for progression outside the classroom

      Teaching History article
    School trips are, it seems, always in the news. They are under threat, or vital, or the preserve of wealthier students, or a forum for poor behaviour, or a day out of the classroom to build relationships, or a fantastic learning experience where students learn important life skills (such as...
    How do we get better at going on trips: Planning for progression outside the classroom

  • A team-taught conspiracy: Year 8 are caught up in a genuine historical debate

      Teaching History article
    Are top sets always our top priority? Of course, we know that every child matters (should that now have capital letters?) but those of us who teach in an ability-setted context also know that a bottom set left unable to access the curriculum is likely to pose bigger problems than...
    A team-taught conspiracy: Year 8 are caught up in a genuine historical debate

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

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

  • The Spanish Collection

      Article
    For the art historian, a thorough study of works of art, their creators and the environment in which they were produced, as well as their significance then and now, is a specialised endeavour. This, nevertheless, does not exhaust the presentation of art to contemporaries, least of all in the context...
    The Spanish Collection

  • 16-19 Curriculum 2000 in a nutshell

      Article
    I'VE HEARD OF THIS. BROADER COVERAGE, GAPS BRIDGED BETWEEN GCSE AND A LEVEL AND BETWEEN VOCATIONAL AND ACADEMIC EDUCATION, A HIGHLY LITERATE, NUMERATE AND COMPUTER-LITERATE WORKFORCE FOR THE 21st CENTURY. WHOM SHOULD WE THANK? Sir Ron Dearing, who else? His review of post-16 education was accepted by the last government...
    16-19 Curriculum 2000 in a nutshell