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  • International relations

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    An HA Podcasted History: The Cold War The Road to World War II The World War I peace treaties The League of Nations
    International relations

  • History's secret weapon: the enquiry of a disciplined mind

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. As a local authority adviser, Andrew Wrenn's advice has often been sought by history departments, both those seeking to resist ill-conceived and potentially damaging cross-curricular initiatives and those keen to exploit new opportunities for meaningful...
    History's secret weapon: the enquiry of a disciplined mind

  • The Jesuits and the Catholic Reformation

      Classic Pamphlet
    The society of Jesus, formally approved by Pope Paul III in his bull Regimini Militantis Ecclesiae of September 1540, was one of many new religious orders of men and women - such as Barnabites, Capuchins, Oratorians, Piarists and Vincentians among the male orders, and Daughters and Sisters of Charity, Ursulines,...
    The Jesuits and the Catholic Reformation

  • Film: Lenin's legacy

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    With his body was embalmed and building high statues were erected to him Lenin’s memory seemed secured for ever. Yet how did his memory and his actual legacy differ? Did he really set the course for a future better Russia, or were his ideas of revolution better on paper than...
    Film: Lenin's legacy

  • Triumphs Show 141: using family photos to bring the diversity of Jewish lives to life

      Teaching History feature
    Headteachers, Hungarians and hats: using family photos to bring the diversity of Jewish lives to life It is 9.35am on a wet Tuesday. As the rain falls outside, fingers twitch in a Y ear 9 history classroom. The instruction is given and 28 pairs of hands spring into action, rifling...
    Triumphs Show 141: using family photos to bring the diversity of Jewish lives to life

  • Have we got the question right? Engaging future citizens in local history enquiry

      Teaching History article
    Gary Clemitshaw describes a five-lesson sequence integrating history, citizenship and ICT. He examines the varied rationales and problems underlying a citizenship-history link and then argues for the role of the local dimension in securing a connection that preserves the integrity of the discipline of history. He focuses upon causation as...
    Have we got the question right? Engaging future citizens in local history enquiry

  • Do we need another hero? Rorke's Drift

      Teaching History article
    Do we need another hero? Year 8 get to grips with the heroic myth of the Defence of Rorke's Drift in 1879 Mike Murray shares a lesson sequence in which his students examined changing interpretations of the Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879. Building on earlier work on teaching interpretations...
    Do we need another hero? Rorke's Drift

  • Webinar series: Medieval political ideas and activity in global context

      Funded webinar series for secondary teachers from the HA and the Noblesse Oblige research network
    Medieval history is often a story of kings and their dates, primarily of England or, at best, western Europe. This funded webinar series aimed at secondary history teachers will introduce teachers to educational approaches to the Middle Ages that go beyond both kings and this narrow geographical range. It takes...
    Webinar series: Medieval political ideas and activity in global context

  • The Tudor Monarchy in crisis: using a historian's account to stretch the most able students in Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Contributors to this journal have long recognised that success in public examinations is at least partly achieved by carefully teaching in Key Stage 3. A critical component of A-Level is that students who wish to...
    The Tudor Monarchy in crisis: using a historian's account to stretch the most able students in Year 8

  • 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

  • Being ambitious with the causes of the First World War: interrogating inevitability

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated Gary Howells asks hard questions about typical teaching and assessment of historical causation at Key Stage 3. Popular activities that may be helpful in addressing particular learning areas, or in teaching pupils to use the...
    Being ambitious with the causes of the First World War: interrogating inevitability

  • Move Me On 154: Mixed Ability Groups

      Teaching History feature
    This issue's problem:Joe Priestley is having problems providing sufficient challenge for the higher attainers within his mixed ability groups Joe Priestley has settled into his training placement very well and has impressed other members of the history department with his lively and engaging ideas. In his early teaching he was...
    Move Me On 154: Mixed Ability Groups

  • Radicalism and its Results, 1760-1837

      Classic Pamphlet
    Radicalism with a large "R", unlike Conservatism with a large "C" and Liberalism with a large "L", is not a historical term of even proximate precision. There was never a Radical Party with a national organization, local associations, or a treasury. But there were, and there are, "Radicals", generally qualified...
    Radicalism and its Results, 1760-1837

  • The Irish in Britain 1815-1914

      Classic Pamphlet
    Irish migration to Britain has a long and chequered history, yet only in recent years have historians examined this subject in depth, through a growing body of local, regional and national studies which have supplemented the earlier pioneering research of J. E. Handley and J. A. Jackson. These studies have...
    The Irish in Britain 1815-1914

  • Helping pupils with Special Educational Needs to develop a lifelong curiosity for the past

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Pupils in England have an entitlement to study history or geography until the age of sixteen. However, increasingly, some pupils seem to be discouraged from taking up this opportunity as it can be seen as...
    Helping pupils with Special Educational Needs to develop a lifelong curiosity for the past

  • Edward the Confessor and the Norman Conquest

      Classic Pamphlet
    Nine hundred years have elapsed since the death of Edward the Confessor, the last English king descended directly from Cerdic, king of Wessex in the sixth century - and so from the pagan gods. Nine hundred years are a long time; and if Edward had been succeeded by a son,...
    Edward the Confessor and the Norman Conquest

  • The International Journal Volume 2 Number 1

      IJHLTR
    Editorial  - Professionalism, Scholarship, Theory and Research   Ismail DemircioÄŸlu - Does the Teaching of History in Turkey Need Reform?   Terry Haydn - Subject Discipline Dimensions of ICT and Learning: History, a Case Study   Sonia Kerrigan - Creating a Community School Museum: Theory into Practice   Romero Morante...
    The International Journal Volume 2 Number 1

  • Thinking about… the Partition of British India in August 1947

      Teaching History article
    Shortly before midnight on 14 August 1947 Jawaharlal Nehru, leader of the Indian National Congress (the main nationalist organisation in British India), rose in India’s Constituent Assembly in New Delhi to deliver his famous ‘Tryst with Destiny’ speech that marked the end of 200 years of British rule in the...
    Thinking about… the Partition of British India in August 1947

  • GCSE Controlled Assessment

      Briefing Pack
    Context: Following a great deal of adverse publicity about coursework, the then-QCA carried out a study into cheating and plagiarism. It released this in 2005 and found that about 4000 students a year were being caught for breaching the rules.  The blame was laid at the internet especially custom-made essays...
    GCSE Controlled Assessment

  • Move Me On 107: Doesn't see point of teaching to those who find history difficult

      Teaching History feature
    This Issue's Problem: Brian, PGCE history student, doesn't see the point of teaching history to pupils who find it very difficult.
    Move Me On 107: Doesn't see point of teaching to those who find history difficult

  • Recorded webinar: Medieval manuscripts and modern lasers

      Article
    Modern, non-invasive scientific techniques have revolutionised knowledge of medieval inks and pigments - from the most exotic, such as lapis lazuli and Egyptian blue, to the most ordinary, indigo and ochres - and of how they were used to create magnificent illuminated manuscripts. This webinar will outline the techniques in question,...
    Recorded webinar: Medieval manuscripts and modern lasers

  • Using Femina to reframe Year 7 pupils’ understanding of the medieval world

      Teaching History article
    Concerned about the absence of women’s perspectives in her Year 7 curriculum, and inspired by Ramirez’s book Femina, Freya George set out on a research project that sought to put medieval women at the heart of a new enquiry. Rather than simply telling stories about medieval women, however, George encouraged...
    Using Femina to reframe Year 7 pupils’ understanding of the medieval world

  • Cunning Plan… for teaching the Haitian Revolution

      Teaching History feature
    One of my favourite parts of the curriculum I teach is the second half of Year 8 (for pupils aged 12–13). We look at early European empire, transatlantic slavery and the age of revolutions. Two books that I have read in the past two years have increased my enjoyment of...
    Cunning Plan… for teaching the Haitian Revolution

  • Enlightened Despotism

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet covers the often confused concept of Enlightened Despotism (also known as Enlightened Absolutism). The essential nature of Enlightened Despotism and its origin are discussed, as well as the development and character of Enlightened Despotism in various governments, followed by a judgement of its' achievements and significance. Catherine the Great,...
    Enlightened Despotism

  • The Cold War - Period Study

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    HA Podcasted History: The Cold War Foundations of the Cold War: Key figures Cold War revision aid and interpretation guide The Cold War: GCSE fact sheet Politics, history and stories about the Cold War - Designing enquiries to make students think about interpretations of the Cold War Polychronicon 166: The...
    The Cold War - Period Study