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  • Podcast Series: The Cold War

      Multipage Article
    An HA Podcasted History of the Cold War featuring Dr Elena Hore of the University of Essex, Dr Matthew Grant of Teeside University, Dr Holger Nehring of the University of Sheffield, Dr Michael Shin of the University of Cambridge, Professor Mark White of Queen Mary University of London, Professor Charles...
    Podcast Series: The Cold War

  • Young Historian Awards 2025 – the winners

      4th September 2025
    Spirit of Normandy Trust SeniorAvani De Santis [Guildford Grammar School, Western Australia]Kyle Luk [Loughborough Grammar School] Caspar Wright [Wells Cathedral School] Spirit of Normandy Trust Key Stage 3 Anne Andrews [St Mary’s Menston Catholic Voluntary Academy, Leeds]Rafferty Ludlow-Maisey [Crypt Grammar School, Gloucester]Robert Moczynski [Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield] Spirit of...
    Young Historian Awards 2025 – the winners

  • Young Quills 2026 shortlist

      The HA's annual awards for best historical fiction for young people
    Each year, the Historical Association runs ‘Young Quills’, a competition for published historical fiction for children and young adults (14+). The Young Quills books for each year must be published for the first time in English in the year preceding the competition – so 2025 for this year’s selection. Our...
    Young Quills 2026 shortlist

  • Write Your Own Historical Fiction 2025 – The winners

      The HA’s writing competition for children aged 10-15 years
    Take time, a place and a character or two, and you can create some of the most exciting stories ever told – and by telling a story you unleash a desire to seek knowledge, to entertain, to inform and to enrich the lives of others. Storytelling is one of the oldest...
    Write Your Own Historical Fiction 2025 – The winners

  • Podcast: Mad or Bad? Was Henry VI a tyrant?

      Presidential Lecture 2011
    Professor Anne Curry delivered her final Presidential lecture at the Historical Association Annual Conference 2011 in Manchester. Henry VI (1422-61) was England's youngest king, only nine months old when he succeeded his famous father. Traditionally he is seen as incompetent, pious and, latterly, insane, and thereby causing the Wars of...
    Podcast: Mad or Bad? Was Henry VI a tyrant?

  • Where are we? The place of women in history curricula

      Teaching History article
    Joanne Pearson reflects on her experiences as a history teacher and teacher educator, considering the ways in which she has seen women represented in the history curricula of different schools in England. She makes the case that greater attention needs to be paid by history teachers to the criteria against...
    Where are we? The place of women in history curricula

  • Webinar series: Leading SEND provision in secondary history

      HA webinar series for history teachers, leaders and SENDCos
    What does this series cover? As the SEND system moves towards earlier intervention, tiered support and greater mainstream accountability, expectations of subject leaders in delivering inclusive education are sharpening. This series explores how history departments can respond proactively: building strong partnerships with SEND specialists, what inclusive curriculum design looks like...
    Webinar series: Leading SEND provision in secondary history

  • What Does the English Baccalaureate mean for me?

      Briefing Pack
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Some content may be outdated and some links may no longer work. History constitutes a key player in the new English Baccalaureate, being one of the two choices that students may opt for in the Humanities section. The English Baccalaureate is a...
    What Does the English Baccalaureate mean for me?

  • Webinar series: Historical thinking in a digital world: how history builds digital and media literacy

      HA webinar series for secondary history teachers, history subject leaders, senior leaders, teacher educators and KS2–3 transition leads
    What does this series cover? This series makes the case that history is a natural subject for digital literacy because it teaches how knowledge is made, contested, evidenced, and communicated – the exact habits students need for navigating misinformation, manipulated media, and AI-generated content. Across six sessions, participants build a...
    Webinar series: Historical thinking in a digital world: how history builds digital and media literacy

  • Pedagogy, politics and the profession

      Teaching History article
    History curriculum reform proposals and debates are a persistent feature of the contemporary educational landscape in England and, very probably, a ‘sign of the times' that can reveal a great deal about contemporary predicaments and concerns. History curriculum controversy is also a global phenomenon and one that can fruitfully -and,...
    Pedagogy, politics and the profession

  • Podcast: Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr?

      Podcast
    2012 Annual Conference Presidential Lecture Charles I: The People's Martyr? Jackie Eales, HA President and Professor of Early Modern History at Canterbury Christ Church University Charles I was renowned for his distrust of ‘popularity'. Yet during the 1640s he was forced to appeal to his people for support and in...
    Podcast: Presidential Lecture - Charles I: The People's Martyr?

  • The Bloody Code - Early Modern Crime and Punishment

      Podcast
    Between circa 1690 and 1820 the number of crimes punishable by the death penalty grew from 50 to over 200. This short podcast will help to explain why this trend developed.
    The Bloody Code - Early Modern Crime and Punishment

  • Webinar series: Embedding oracy in secondary history  

      HA webinar series for secondary history teachers and subject leaders
    What does this series cover? The Curriculum and Assessment Review places fresh emphasis on the vital role of oracy for work and life, and oracy will become high profile across curriculum subjects and in their own subject specific ways. Join us for this special webinar series to get ahead of...
    Webinar series: Embedding oracy in secondary history  

  • Webinar series: Making history accessible

      On-demand webinar series for subject leaders and teachers of history
    What does this series cover and why should I attend? In recent years, the UK’s SEND system has been under the spotlight. As numbers of students with identified special educational needs increase, attention has been given to how to best embed inclusive practice, enabling teachers to support all students to...
    Webinar series: Making history accessible

  • 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

  • Muslim Rescuers of the Holocaust CPD

      CPD Unit
    This CPD unit focuses on the experience of Muslim rescuers during the Holocaust and the Second World War. It was written by Andrew Wrenn, Cambridgeshire Humanities Advisor, to complement  another unit published earlier on this website called Muslim Tommies which dealt with the experience of Muslim soldiers fighting for Britain...
    Muslim Rescuers of the Holocaust CPD

  • Lord North: The Noble Lord in the Blue Ribbon

      Classic Pamphlet
    In the last weeks of his life Lord North, we are told, expressed anxiety about his place in history - ‘how he stood and would stand in the world'. This, he owned, ‘might be a weakness, but he could not help it'. It was a weakness one suspects that he...
    Lord North: The Noble Lord in the Blue Ribbon

  • Young Historian Awards 2024 – the winners

      16th September 2024
    Spirit of Normandy Trust Senior Vivaan Davda – The Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai Spirit of Normandy Trust Key Stage 3 Joshua Broadbent – Royal Grammar School, Guildford Spirit of Normandy Trust Primary Salisbury Cathedral School Best School History Magazine [sponsored by the Mid-Trent and Mercia Branch] St Alban’s School Stockport...
    Young Historian Awards 2024 – the winners

  • HA Secondary History Survey 2024

      Survey Report on History in Secondary Schools
    For the last 15 years the Historical Association has carried out an annual or biennial survey of history teaching in Secondary Schools. The survey data now provides us with an up-to-date insight into the successes, pressures and concerns in schools affecting history and how those factors have developed, changed or...
    HA Secondary History Survey 2024

  • Podcast Series: Early Modern Ireland

      Multipage Article
    This series of podcasts featuring Professor Sean Connolly and Professor David Hayton of Queen's University Belfast looks at Irish History from 1500-1800. Topics covered include Tudor Ireland, the Eleven Years War, Restoration Ireland, the significance of the reigns of James II and William III and politics in Ireland during the...
    Podcast Series: Early Modern Ireland

  • Young Quills shortlist for 2025

      The HA's annual awards for best historical fiction for young people
    Each year, the Historical Association runs ‘Young Quills’, a competition for published historical fiction for children and young adults (14+). The Young Quills books for each year must be published for the first time in English in the year preceding the competition – so 2024 for this year’s selection. Our aim...
    Young Quills shortlist for 2025

  • Crime and Punishment - Roman to Early Modern

      Podcast
    This podcast gives you an overview of the main changes and continuities in crime, punishment, trials and policing between the end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Early Modern Period. Rome to Early Modern Crime and Punishment>>>
    Crime and Punishment - Roman to Early Modern

  • Crime & Punishment - Factors and Time Periods

      Podcast
    The history of crime and punishment across time spreads over 2500 years. It is really important that you have a way of making sense of this. In this podcast you will hear how the course has been divided into time periods, and learn about the main factors that affect crime,...
    Crime & Punishment - Factors and Time Periods

  • Roman Crime and Punishment

      Podcast
    The Romans are known as forward thinkers who were well advanced for their time.  But did they manage to conquer crime? Listen to this podcast to find out.
    Roman Crime and Punishment

  • Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2024 – the winners

      The HA's writing competition for children aged 10-15 years
    Real history contains some of the most fanciful, exciting, worrying and incredible stories – learning about the past can open our eyes to how people have interacted with the world and each other for centuries. It is not surprising that alongside the real history most cultures and traditions have a...
    Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2024 – the winners