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  • Film: What's the wisdom on...Similarity and Difference

      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 popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a virtual department meeting....
    Film: What's the wisdom on...Similarity and Difference

  • The International Journal Volume 2 Number 2

      Journal
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 2, Number 2 July 2002 Letting the Past Speak Contributor John Fines (1938-1999) An obituary by Jon Nichol 3 Introduction 5 1 History In Schools 1. What is History for in Schools? 6 2. The Respect that is Owed to the...
    The International Journal Volume 2 Number 2

  • 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

  • Cathars and Castles in Medieval France

      Historian article
    Almost exactly 800 years ago, in September 1213, a decisive battle was fought at Muret, about ten miles south-west of Toulouse. King Peter II of Aragon, fighting with southern allies from Toulouse and elsewhere, faced an army largely made up of northern French crusaders who had invaded the region at the...
    Cathars and Castles in Medieval France

  • Film: Power and Protest in Ireland – 1714 to 1785

      Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
    In Episode 12, Professor Michael Brown of the University of Aberdeen discusses who held power in Ireland in 1714 and how the protestant ascendancy developed following the fall of James II and the rise of the Hanoverian dynasty. This is a period increasingly defined by the exclusion of Ireland’s Catholic and...
    Film: Power and Protest in Ireland – 1714 to 1785

  • From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7. Henry II & Becket

      Teaching History article
    Tim Jenner was working on a causation enquiry with his Year 7 students when he noticed that weak conceptions of change were limiting their ability to produce powerful and period-sensitive arguments. He therefore decided to digress into a temporary but explicit focus on analysing historical change. He created a deceptively...
    From human-scale to abstract analysis: Year 7. Henry II & Becket

  • Henry VIII

      Classis Pamphlet
    What shall we think of Henry VIII? However that question has been or may be answered, one reply is apparently impossible. Not even the most resolute believer in deterministic interpretations of history seems able to escape the spell of that magnificent figure; I know of no book on the age...
    Henry VIII

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity

      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... Change and continuity

  • Guidance Pack: Building a Local Teacher Network

      Information
    We know that it is difficult for teachers to get to events too far from school. As a national charity, the HA recognises the importance and need to build strong regional networks for the history teaching community. Many of these are already existing or organically growing across the country at...
    Guidance Pack: Building a Local Teacher Network

  • 'The end of all existence is debarred me': Disraeli's depression 1826-30

      Historian article
    During the years from 1826 to 1830 Benjamin Disraeli went through the slough of despond. His first major biographer,William Flavelle Monypenny, observed the ‘clouds of despondency which were now settling upon Disraeli's mind'. In his magisterial life of the great tory leader Robert Blake commented that ‘after completing Part II...
    'The end of all existence is debarred me': Disraeli's depression 1826-30

  • International Journal 14.2: Editorial review

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 14, Number 2 – Spring/Summer 2017ISSN: 14472-9474 Introduction: Thinking historically – syntactic ‘know how’ and substantive ‘know that’ knowledge As an academic discipline History has two dimensions: the ‘know how’ syntactic or procedural knowledge of the skills and processes of ‘Doing History’ and...
    International Journal 14.2: Editorial review

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Causation

      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 brand-new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Causation

  • Webinar series: Coherence at Key Stage 4

      HA webinar series for subject leaders and teachers of history
    What does this series cover? This series of webinars will consider coherence at Key Stage 4. We will reflect on using sequencing to establish coherence, how different categories of coherence can be used to inform our planning and delivery of GCSE, and how meaningful approaches to assessment will allow pupils’...
    Webinar series: Coherence at Key Stage 4

  • Seeing, hearing and doing the Renaissance (Part 1): Let's have a Renaissance party!

      Teaching History article
    In two, linked articles, appearing in this and the next edition, Maria Osowiecki shares an account of a five-lesson enquiry, based on the concept of historical significance (National Curriculum Key Element 2e) for mixed ability Year 8. She wanted to experiment with an array of creative teaching techniques that would...
    Seeing, hearing and doing the Renaissance (Part 1): Let's have a Renaissance party!

  • Film: The Two German Economies

      Film series: Power and authority in Germany, 1871-1991
    The speed at which both sides in Germany recovered economically is re-examined in this film. Professor Matthew Stibbe describes how the West Germany economy recovered and became a magnet for migrants as well as East Germans. However, he also examines how East Germany’s economy compared more successfully to some of...
    Film: The Two German Economies

  • 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

  • Film: Stalin - World War II

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film, Professor James Harris (University of Leeds) examines Stalin and the Soviet preparations for global war. The reasons why Stalin agreed the Nazi-Soviet pact are explored as are Stalin’s response to invasion in 1941. Professor Harris addresses the impact the war had on the USSR and how that...
    Film: Stalin - World War II

  • JFK: the medium, the message and the myth

      Teaching History article
    Dale Banham and Russell Hall present a multi-faceted rationale for an in-depth study of the 1991 film, JFK. They treat it as an ‘interpretation’ in the National Curriculum sense, constructing a varied and meticulous learning journey towards its analysis. By the end of that journey pupils had examined the central...
    JFK: the medium, the message and the myth

  • Webinar series: Teaching a people's history at GCSE: significant for who?

      Funded webinar series for GCSE history teachers from the HA and Inclusive Histories project
    What does this series cover? Have you ever felt that teaching significance at Key Stage 4 is hard with a limited cast of characters? Do students ask questions that you don’t have the resources to answer? Are you stuck for sources that push the standard narratives of key topics? These...
    Webinar series: Teaching a people's history at GCSE: significant for who?

  • Thrive as an NQT (Part 2)

      Thrive Part 2
    Part 2 of our Thrive as an NQT guide takes you through predictions data, planning a school trip, continual professional development and after your NQT year.
    Thrive as an NQT (Part 2)

  • Modelling the discipline

      Teaching History article
    David Hibbert and Zaiba Patel decided to work together after becoming concerned that school history curricula might not enable students to interrogate popular British mythologising about World War II. Building on these pre-existing concerns, their collaboration with the historian Yasmin Khan yielded an Interpretations enquiry which asked students to consider...
    Modelling the discipline

  • Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history

      Article
    Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people are the largest minority ethnic group in some communities (and therefore in some schools) in the UK. Yet the past of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller people may rarely be part of history lessons. The result is that pupils of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritage may not...
    Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history

  • Film: Henry VIII and Tudor Royal Authority

      Development of Tudor Royal Authority film series
    In this film, Tracy Borman, discusses the life and career of Henry VIII. Tracy examines how Henry VIII evolved from a pleasure loving prince, raised as Henry VII's 'spare heir', to becoming a king who would come to redefine England as a nation.
    Film: Henry VIII and Tudor Royal Authority

  • Brazil and the two World Wars

      Article
    Brazil and the outbreak of the First World War At the beginning of the twentieth century Brazil was on the periphery of a world order that revolved around decisions made by the great European powers. Although it was the largest and most populated nation in South America, Brazil possessed an...
    Brazil and the two World Wars

  • Your Secondary CPD calendar Summer 2026

      News Item
    "CPD from the Historical Association is always high quality and provides expert guidance and support."  At the HA we know how essential subject-specific CPD is for your development. That’s why, we offer a year-round programme of training that supports history teachers at all stages of their career, from trainees to...
    Your Secondary CPD calendar Summer 2026