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  • The Great Debate 2020: speeches

      Should we judge historical figures by the morals of today?
    Many things have been different this year – especially things that involve people coming together physically in one setting. That was certainly the case for our Great Debate competition. Fortunately, all of the regional heats had taken place across the UK before the first lockdown came into effect last spring,...
    The Great Debate 2020: speeches

  • Will China Democratise?

      Historian article
    Michael T. Davis compares the parallels between the democratic expectations, or possibilities, of modern-day China with Britain's democratic evolution from the eighteenth century to the emerging democracy of the nineteenth century. The future is an unfamiliar place for historians. Yet we stand on the edge of an historic shift away...
    Will China Democratise?

  • Britain 1900-1918

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Writing the First World War - Podcasts Richard Evans Medlicott lecture: The Origins of the First World War Gary Sheffield: Origins of the First World War   The Parliament Act of 1911 The Suffragette Movement - Podcast LGBT History 1914-18 Domestic impact of World War I  First World War treaties...
    Britain 1900-1918

  • Cunning Plan 139: Victorian debates about progress

      Teaching History feature
    How can we interest students in the world of ideas? How can we help them to see how important ideas were in shaping and reflecting the world of the Victorians? Working with the overarching enquiry question, ‘Why did some Victorians believe in progress in the nineteenth century and others did not?’ I devised...
    Cunning Plan 139: Victorian debates about progress

  • Super history teaching on the Superhighway: the Internet for beginners

      Article
    Isobel Jenkins and Mike Turpin answer some of those basic questions which many history teachers are afraid to ask, like ‘What exactly is it anyway?' and ‘Is this really worth my valuable time?' They outline the internet's value as a means of improving information access and as a way of...
    Super history teaching on the Superhighway: the Internet for beginners

  • Tyne Cot Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium

      Historian feature
    My Favourite History Place: Tyne Cot Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium  We can truly say that the whole circuit of the Earth is girdled with the graves of our dead. In the course of my pilgrimage, I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace...
    Tyne Cot Cemetery, near Ypres, Belgium

  • Polychronicon 119: The Second World War and popular culture

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its own age. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' investigates World War...
    Polychronicon 119: The Second World War and popular culture

  • Teaching pupils to analyse cartoons

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In this practical account of a key aspect of history departmental policy, Joseph O'Neill presents a rationale for the systematic teaching of analytical techniques. Alert to the dangers of mechanistic and formulaic examination responses, the...
    Teaching pupils to analyse cartoons

  • 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

  • Teaching History Curriculum Supplement 2014

      Changes to the secondary history curriculum
    Although modifications to the content of the National Curriculum for history have not been as dramatic as once feared, the effective revocation of the previous attainment target is radical indeed. When these changes are considered alongside the fact that more than half of maintained secondary schools (all academies and free...
    Teaching History Curriculum Supplement 2014

  • HA Secondary History Survey 2012

      HA Survey
    A little over a year ago Michael Gove announced the introduction of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc). It would transform education and rid schools and young people of ‘soft subjects'. However the real impact so far has been less than impressive. Those schools that already taught history well to GCSE continued...
    HA Secondary History Survey 2012

  • Podcast: End of the World Cults

      Podcast
    In this podcast Professor Penelope Corfield looks at the history of 'End of the World Cults'.  1. Why do people at times become urgently convinced that 'the End of the World is Nigh?' HA Members can listen to the full podcast here Short Reading list for End-of-the-World Cults: Two wide-ranging introductions:...
    Podcast: End of the World Cults

  • Cunning Plan... for teaching about climate change through the history curriculum

      Teaching History feature
    Is this climate change lesson geography or history, Miss? When thinking about teaching climate change in schools we often associate it with subjects like geography or even science, but we hardly think about history. And yet, history has as much claim on this topic as other subjects do, especially when...
    Cunning Plan... for teaching about climate change through the history curriculum

  • Developing sixth-form students' thinking about historical interpretation

      Teaching History article
    Understanding historical interpretation involves understanding how historical knowledge is constructed. How do sixth formers model historical epistemology? In this article Arthur Chapman examines a small sample of data relating to sixth form students' ideas about why historians construct differing interpretations of the past. He argues that understanding interpretation requires students to...
    Developing sixth-form students' thinking about historical interpretation

  • Curriculum

      Information
    The Historical Association provides a wealth of resources to help teachers to develop and refine their subject knowledge for all areas of the secondary history curriculum. We also provide guidance related to key developments in the curriculum, such as revised version of the National Curriculum (2014) and on-going developments related...
    Curriculum

  • Bruce! You're history.' The place of history in the Scottish curriculum

      Teaching History article
    History teachers in Scotland are feeling vulnerable. A curriculum review is leading to debates about history’s place in schools – will it or should it be a statutory part of Scotland’s curriculum for 11-14 year olds? Many of the concerns in Sam Henry’s article will ring true for teachers throughout...
    Bruce! You're history.' The place of history in the Scottish curriculum

  • Helping students put shape on the past; systematic use of analogies to accelerate understanding

      Teaching History article
    One of the challenges facing pupils in the history classroom is conceptual understanding. Pupils also find it difficult to recognise themes or patterns across different parts of time and space. Ian Myson has recognised the importance of analogy as a way to facilitate pupils’ understanding. He is quick to recognise,...
    Helping students put shape on the past; systematic use of analogies to accelerate understanding

  • Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion

      Teaching History article
    How do we help pupils to write better paragraphs without actually doing it for them? How do we break down the process of essay writing into smaller steps without taking away pupils’ sense of the essay as a whole? How do we give lower-attaining pupils models, structures and frames without...
    Direct teaching of paragraph cohesion

  • Polychronicon 147: Witchcraft, history and children

      Teaching History feature
    Witchcraft is serious history. 1612 marks the 400th anniversary of England's biggest peacetime witch trial, that of the Lancashire witches: 20 witches from the Forest of Pendle were imprisoned, ten were hanged in Lancaster, and another in York. As a result of some imaginative commemorative programmes, a number of schools...
    Polychronicon 147: Witchcraft, history and children

  • Cunning Plan 147: Getting students to use classical texts

      Teaching History feature
    The following plan provides a more detailed practical example of the approaches discussed in the article on using ancient texts. Having puzzled over what ancient texts actually are - carefully constructed interpretations? testimonies? (but testimonies to what?) myths? - I wanted my Ancient History GCSE class to engage in this...
    Cunning Plan 147: Getting students to use classical texts

  • Animated Guide: Become a Museum Curator

      Multipage Article
    Have you ever visited a museum or exhibition and wondered who puts it all together? Being a museum, library or archive curator is a very responsible job. Not only do they have to look after rare and precious items in their care, but they must also know all about their...
    Animated Guide: Become a Museum Curator

  • Writing the First World War - Podcasts

      Writing the First World War
    The Writing the First World War event in partnership with the English Association and the British Library took place at the British Library in London on April 14th. Over 80 teachers attended a wonderful day of stimulating professional development which was kicked off by a thought provoking take on how...
    Writing the First World War - Podcasts

  • Teaching for beginners

      Multipage Article
    This section is divided into three sub-sections: 2.1 What is history in schools?2.2 Historical knowledge2.3 History classroom practice An introduction to the discipline of history in schools is covered in ‘What is history in schools?’ Beginning teachers need to learn and think about the nature and purposes of history in the school classroom...
    Teaching for beginners

  • Triumphs Show 102: communicating historical difference to children with literacy problems

      Teaching History feature
    With the summer break stretching forth its welcome hand and the final lesson with my lowband Year 7 class looming, I wanted to ensure that the enthusiasm and dedication that this class had shown throughout the year was kept alive over the holiday period. We had been studying the Norman...
    Triumphs Show 102: communicating historical difference to children with literacy problems

  • Cunning Plan 106: Political literacy

      Teaching History feature
    The onset of citizenship brings with it the need to cover political literacy. The topic can be seen as dry and complex by Year 9 pupils. But ‘democracy is not boring’ (Lang in Teaching History 96). We need to educate our pupils to understand the complexity and features of a...
    Cunning Plan 106: Political literacy