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  • 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    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.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

  • ‘You hear about it for real in school.’ Avoiding, containing and risk-taking in the classroom

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Alison Kitson and Alan McCully discuss the findings of their research into history teaching in the most divided part of the United Kingdom: Northern Ireland. Drawing on interviews with students and teachers, they consider what history teaching might contribute to an understanding of the current situation and...
    ‘You hear about it for real in school.’ Avoiding, containing and risk-taking in the classroom

  • HA Secondary History Survey 2024

      24th June 2025
    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

  • 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

  • How visual learning in 'A' level history can improve memory and conceptual understanding

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Steve Garnett shares some the techniques that he uses to involve different kinds of learner in his post-16 lessons and explains how he arrived at these approaches after reflecting on problems in his own early...
    How visual learning in 'A' level history can improve memory and conceptual understanding

  • The Eighteenth Century in Britain: Long or Short?

      Article
    W. A. Speck reviews an historical debate central to the interpretation of the eighteenth century in Britain. Few British historians treat the eighteenth century as consisting simply of the hundred years from 1701 to 1800. Until recently political historians tended to end it in 1783. Many textbooks reflect this treatment...
    The Eighteenth Century in Britain: Long or Short?

  • World War 2 Letters

      Link
    Lt. Richard (Dick) Kelner Williams volunteered for the Dorset Regiment in June 1940.  He trained in Wiltshire with the 6th and 70th Dorsets in 1940 and 41.  After a period in the Intelligence Section of the Dorsets he volunteered for the 1st Air Landing Squadron and the 43rd Reconnaissance Regiment before his commission...
    World War 2 Letters

  • Getting Year 7 to set their own questions about the Islamic Empire, 600-1600

      Teaching History article
    Sometimes particular problems can lead to unexpected solutions. In this case, Sally Burnham decided to solve a problem that she had identified among her Year 12 students by changing the way in which she teaches Year 7. Her Year 12s were finding it difficult to set appropriate questions for their...
    Getting Year 7 to set their own questions about the Islamic Empire, 600-1600

  • Polychronicon 137: Bringing space travel down to Earth

      Teaching History feature
    It nearly began like this: ‘On Christmas Eve 1968, two episcopalians and a Roman Catholic were in orbit around the Moon.' I was writing a book called Earthrise, about the first views of Earth from space. Most other books about the Apollo programme of the 1960s and 1970s took an...
    Polychronicon 137: Bringing space travel down to Earth

  • Teaching controversial issues...where controversial issues really matter

      Teaching History article
    This is the fourth in a series of Teaching History articles about teaching history in N orthern Ireland co-authored by Alan McCully. The first two articles (in editions 106 and 114) outlined teaching strategies to help pupils in N orthern Ireland understand and relate to complex and often controversial issues...
    Teaching controversial issues...where controversial issues really matter

  • 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

  • Child Health & School meals: Nottingham 1906-1945

      Historian article
    Following Jamie Oliver’s devastating television series on the inadequacy of school meals the present government has been quick to be seen to address the situation. In September 2005, Ruth Kelly, the then Education Secretary, announced a war on junk food in schools.1 This was nothing new, because the history of...
    Child Health & School meals: Nottingham 1906-1945

  • What's your claim: Developing pupils' historical argument skills using asynchronous text based computer conferencing

      Teaching History article
    The potential that e-conferencing and message boarding have to engage pupils in historical debate and to enhance their ability and inclination to argue is increasingly well understood, as practice reported in these pages recently and the success and expansion of the Historical Association’s Centenary Debates initiative both demonstrate. In this...
    What's your claim: Developing pupils' historical argument skills using asynchronous text based computer conferencing

  • Peter the Great

      Classic Pamphlet
    No European ruler except Napoleon I has impressed both contemporise and later historians so profoundly as Peter I of Russia by the originality and the personal character of his achievements. Like Napoleon, Peter appeared to some observers, at least in his later years, as almost more than human. He seemed...
    Peter the Great

  • The great Liberal landslide: the 1906 General Election in perspective

      Historian article
    On 1 May 1997 the Conservative party suffered an electoral defeat so overwhelming that political commentators were left rummaging through the statistics of the previous two centuries to find anything similar. The Times concluded on 3 May that it was the party's worst performance since 1832, though 'The disaster suffered...
    The great Liberal landslide: the 1906 General Election in perspective

  • Alexander II

      Classic Pamphlet
    The ‘great reforms' of Tsar Alexander II (1855-81) are generally recognised as the most significant events in modern Russian history between the reign of Peter the Great and the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. The most important of Alexander's reforms, the emancipation of he serfs in 1861, has been described...
    Alexander II

  • How Nelson Became a Hero

      Article
    The fittest man in the world for the command' of the Mediterranean, Lord Minto declared of Horatio Nelson on 24 April 1798, following Nelson's inventive assault on Spanish ships off Cape St. Vincent. 'Admiral Nelson's victory [at the Nile]… is one of the most glorious and comprehensive victories ever achieved...
    How Nelson Became a Hero

  • Mussolini's missing marbles: simulating history at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Arthur Chapman and James Woodcock have collaborated before: Woodcock extended Chapman’s familiar casual metaphor of the final straw breaking a poor abused camel’s back. Here, they collaborate more explicitly to suggest a means of teaching students to produce adequately nuanced historical explanation. Their two central ideas are to produce a...
    Mussolini's missing marbles: simulating history at GCSE

  • Moral dilemmas: history teaching and the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    The new Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London has been very favourably received by the general public, and by teachers and their students. Initially controversial - was a war museum the ideal site for such an exhibition, for example? - it has since been widely praised for...
    Moral dilemmas: history teaching and the Holocaust

  • Home Rule for Ireland - For and against

      Historian article
    At a time when the United Kingdom continues to review its internal constitutional arrangements, Matthew Kelly explores how this constitutional debate can be traced back to Gladstone's decision to promote Home Rule for Ireland and how these proposals evolved over time and were challenged. Irish political history decisively entered a...
    Home Rule for Ireland - For and against

  • Evidence: Specific examples

      Article
    Evidence: Specific examples

  • 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

  • The United States

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    The Effect of the Loss of American Colonies Captain Thomas and the North West Passage American War of Independence Thomas Paine Expanding the reach of the American Revolution The American West Harnessing the power of academia to improve teaching of US political history Interpreting 'The Birth of a Nation' Podcast:...
    The United States

  • Warfare - GCSE

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Warfare
    Warfare - GCSE

  • Power and Democracy - GCSE

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Power and Democracy The Norman Conquest: why did it matter? HA Podcast Series:  Social & Political Change in the UK 1800-present: Part 1. Politics, Reform and War England Arise! The General Election of 1945 HA Podcasted History: William I to Henry VII HA Podcast Series: James VI & I to...
    Power and Democracy - GCSE