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  • Teaching History 106: Citizens and Communities

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition deals with the complex debate about whether history should be taught for intrinsic or extrinsic reasons. Balancing the rationaland the emotional in the teaching of contentious topics, Historical significance, Local historical enquiry, Citizenship, Teaching political concepts to post-16 students and much more... ‘Don’t worry, Mr. Trimble. We can...
    Teaching History 106: Citizens and Communities

  • Significance - Powerpoint Presentation - Changes in the KS3 Curriculum

      Article
    What is historical significance?The starting quote is taken from the address of Michael Spinney to the Independent Association of Prep Schools. His comments are typical of those that have been made in national political and education fora ever since the introduction of a history National Curriculum. At their heart is...
    Significance - Powerpoint Presentation - Changes in the KS3 Curriculum

  • Polychronicon 128: The Death of Captain Cook

      Teaching History feature
    In popular perception, anthropologists and historians cut very different figures. The anthropologist, a hybrid of Indiana Jones and a Kiplingesque colonial official, wears a bush hat or pith helmet and tirelessly trudges up mountains or hacks through jungle in search of lost tribes and ancient, unchanging, folklore. The historian, a...
    Polychronicon 128: The Death of Captain Cook

  • Approaches to planning interpretations-focused enquiries.

      Article
    Michael Riley, member of the HA Secondary Committee and History PGCE Tutor at Bath Spa University. In recent years, teaching about different interpretations of history has been one of the most exciting and challenging aspects of Key Stage 3 history. Interpretations-focused enquiries allow pupils to see that argument and debate are...
    Approaches to planning interpretations-focused enquiries.

  • Tim Lomas: Effective Practice in Key Stage 3

      Article
    Vice President of the HA provides a presentation on how to ensure effective practice within the Key Stage 3 history classroom. Click the link below>>>
    Tim Lomas: Effective Practice in Key Stage 3

  • Key Stage 3 New Programme of study resources: Part 1

      Article
    The HA supported by the CfBT is in the process of developing resources to enable secondary teachers to tackle the new Key Stage 3 programme of study for history. We shall be devoting an entire section of the website to these resources taking you through the concepts, processes, range and...
    Key Stage 3 New Programme of study resources: Part 1

  • Liz Kellaway's Top Tips

      Article
    " If you are close enough to a university library and the university is willing, try to take A level students there for research on their individual assignments and general extended reading. Often sixth formers are allowed to use the university library as a reference library. This is really useful...
    Liz Kellaway's Top Tips

  • PowerPoint presentation on developing ways to mainstream Black and Asian British history

      Article
    A new PowerPoint presentation by Dan Lydon on developing ways to mainstream Black and Asian British history in the secondary classroom...Click the link below to open the presentation>>>
    PowerPoint presentation on developing ways to mainstream Black and Asian British history

  • Facing History

      Article
    Facing History is an American organisation and website that provides CPD materials and resources on identity, memory and forgiveness. They have a series of case studies and video materials for teachers. There are materials on Civil Rights and, for example, the Armenian Genocide, on their website. Facing History Website>>> Holocaust...
    Facing History

  • Building a better past: plans to reform the curriculum

      Teaching History article
    David Nicholls summarises some of the problems facing history education and offers a commentary on various cases for reform. He argues that we need to look at provision holistically from 5 to 21 and urges collaboration across phases and sectors. By working more closely together, the history community as a...
    Building a better past: plans to reform the curriculum

  • Census of Ireland, Dublin 1911 - National Archives of Ireland

      Article
    The household returns and ancillary records for the censuses of Ireland of 1901 and 1911, which are in the custody of the National Archives of Ireland, represent an extremely valuable part of the Irish national heritage. Click here to go to the site: National Archives of Ireland
    Census of Ireland, Dublin 1911 - National Archives of Ireland

  • Carr, Evans, Oakshott and Rudge: the benefits of AEA history

      Teaching History article
    Sometimes the only way to go beyond the exam is to take another, more difficult, test. For the top—the very top—A2 students, there is such a test available. The Advanced Extension Award [AEA] is a history paper which encourages students finishing their school careers to think about history in a...
    Carr, Evans, Oakshott and Rudge: the benefits of AEA history

  • 11 Ways to Use Multimedia Videos in History Lessons

      Article
    Dan Moorhouse provides: 11 ways to use multimedia videos in lessons: 1)      To develop an understanding of the ways in which different interpretations of events are formed. For example, pupils may study Cromwell and his times and may then be asked to consider how and for what purpose a particular interpretation...
    11 Ways to Use Multimedia Videos in History Lessons

  • ICT Resources for GCSE History Teachers

      Article
    The HA has compiled 3 invaluable spreadsheets that take you through the main History GCSE specifications, topic by topic, providing online resources for each topic and covering all the areas specified by the main awarding bodies. Each spreadsheet takes you through each specification and is filled with links to all the best available...
    ICT Resources for GCSE History Teachers

  • Teaching Year 9 about historical theories and methods

      Teaching History article
    Kate Hammond sets out a rationale for linking the National Curriculum requirement to study interpretations of history with her pupils’ own evidence handling skills. She makes connections with history-teacher-led debates and innovations in both areas, but particularly the work of Howells (2005). She describes and evaluates a learning sequence that...
    Teaching Year 9 about historical theories and methods

  • The Great Exhibition

      Article
    ‘Of all the decades to be young in, a wise man would choose the 1850s’ concludes G.M. Young in his Portrait of An Age. His choice is understandable. Historians and contemporaries have long viewed the middle years of the century as a ‘plateau of peace and prosperity’, an ‘age of...
    The Great Exhibition

  • The Spanish Collection

      Article
    For the art historian, a thorough study of works of art, their creators and the environment in which they were produced, as well as their significance then and now, is a specialised endeavour. This, nevertheless, does not exhaust the presentation of art to contemporaries, least of all in the context...
    The Spanish Collection

  • Saint Robert and the Deer

      Article
    It is almost a commonplace that there is an affinity between a holy man and the creatures of the wild. The archetype is St. Francis of Assisi but the phenomenon was well marked both before and after his time. I would like to consider briefly an episode in the life...
    Saint Robert and the Deer

  • Beware the serpent of Rome

      Article
    On 14 February 1868, the Carlisle Journal reported as follows: … two meetings were held in the Athenaeum in this city , “for the purpose of forming an auxiliary to co-operate with the Church Association in London, to uphold the principles and order of the United Church of England and...
    Beware the serpent of Rome

  • British History Online - Digital Resources

      Article
    British History Online is the digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, we aim to support academic and personal users around the...
    British History Online - Digital Resources

  • Does scaffolding make them fall? Reflecting on strategies for developing causal argument in Years 8 and 11

      Teaching History article
    Jennifer Evans and Gemma Pate, history teachers in two Essex schools, had noticed that sometimes a writing frame did the opposite of what was intended. Sometimes a card sort fostered rich discussion and ownership; sometimes it led the students down a reductive rather than mind-opening path. Sometimes modelling of paragraphs...
    Does scaffolding make them fall? Reflecting on strategies for developing causal argument in Years 8 and 11

  • Where do I begin?

      Article
    Planning a new Key Stage 3 Curriculum: A Powerpoint presentation from the Regional Subject CfBT/HA Conferences 3 Curriculum aims are: successful learners who enjoy learning, make progress and achieve confident individuals who are able to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society...
    Where do I begin?

  • England Arise! The General Election of 1945

      Historian article
    ‘The past week will live in history for two things’, announced the Sunday Times of 29 July 1945, ‘first the return of a Labour majority to Parliament and the end of Churchill's great war Premiership.’ Most other newspapers concurred. The Daily Mirror, of 27 July, proclaimed that the 1945 general election...
    England Arise! The General Election of 1945

  • 'ICT Starter for 10' a primer for Secondary History Educators

      Article
    This resource is intended to provide a short ‘aide memoire’ to the hard pressed teacher providing a series of ‘launching pads’ for historical enquiry…
    'ICT Starter for 10' a primer for Secondary History Educators

  • Attitudes to Liberty and Enslavement: the career of James Irving, a Liverpool slave ship surgeon and captain

      Historian article
    Prior to abolition in 1807, Britain was the world’s leading slave trading nation. Of an estimated six million individuals forcibly transported from Africa in the transatlantic slave trade in the eighteenth century, almost 2.5 million (40 per cent) were carried in British vessels.2 The contemporary attitudes and assumptions which underpinned...
    Attitudes to Liberty and Enslavement: the career of James Irving, a Liverpool slave ship surgeon and captain