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  • Recorded Webinar: Robespierre and Danton: Heroes of the French Revolution?

      Article
    One of the oldest myths of the French Revolution is the lethal rivalry between Robespierre and Danton: Robespierre the cold, bloodthirsty dictator who ruled France through Terror, versus Danton, the warm, humane, inspirational orator who wanted to stop Terror. Throughout the 19th century Robespierre was mostly depicted as a villain,...
    Recorded Webinar: Robespierre and Danton: Heroes of the French Revolution?

  • Recorded webinar: John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War

      An enduring counterfactual
    Would US President John F. Kennedy have avoided the catastrophe that became the Vietnam War if Lee Harvey Oswald had not assassinated him in Dallas on that fateful day of 22 November 1963? This question – or a version of it – has animated discussions of the Vietnam War for...
    Recorded webinar: John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War

  • Recorded webinar: Prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome

      Article
    In this webinar, Jane Draycott shares her research on prostheses and assistive technology in ancient Greece, Rome and the neighbouring civilisations. She outlines the findings from her 2023 book on this subject, which arose from a grant to visit museums around the UK to access surviving ancient prostheses and modern...
    Recorded webinar: Prosthetics and assistive technology in ancient Greece and Rome

  • Recorded webinar: Ottoman trade with Europe in the early modern era

      Article
    For European states in the early modern era the Ottoman empire represented a huge trading bloc, stretching at its height from Hungary in the west to Iran in the east, from Ukraine in the north to Egypt in the south, and along the southern shores of the Mediterranean to the...
    Recorded webinar: Ottoman trade with Europe in the early modern era

  • Recorded webinar: The post-emancipation Caribbean and the meanings of freedom

      Article
    This webinar examines the era of ‘post-emancipation’ in the Caribbean from around the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It interrogates the notion of ‘emancipation’ and asks what kind of ‘freedom’ did abolition bring to the formerly enslaved? How did colonial states and other authorities seek to regulate the lives of...
    Recorded webinar: The post-emancipation Caribbean and the meanings of freedom

  • Recorded Webinar: Philip IV

      Decline, decadence and the end of the Golden Age
    Decline, decadence, crisis, stagnation, and adversity are terms powerfully associated with the reign of Spain’s Planet King; sombre tones that contrast sharply with the glittering cultural and artistic achievements (enhanced by his patronage) that led the period to be dubbed ‘the’ Golden Age, a label consciously competing with France’s later...
    Recorded Webinar: Philip IV

  • Recorded Webinar: Why have the Chinese rediscovered World War II?

      Article
    The Chinese regime never used to want to talk about their country’s experience in World War Two. The Japanese occupation of parts of China was felt to be a humiliating episode that was best forgotten, and the Communists were uncomfortable that their nationalist enemy Chiang Kai-Shek had been China’s main...
    Recorded Webinar: Why have the Chinese rediscovered World War II?

  • Recorded Webinar: Understanding Lenin’s Government, 1917-24

      Article
    In this webinar Dr Douds examines the nature of political authority in the nascent Soviet Republic and the institutional structures, practices and ideology of government in the Lenin period. She considers how Communist Party dictatorship and the monolithic party-state emerged in the early years following the October Revolution of 1917...
    Recorded Webinar: Understanding Lenin’s Government, 1917-24

  • Recorded Webinar: Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire

      Article
    Recorded Webinar: Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire

  • Film: Making the most of your secondary membership

      A guide to key support for individual and corporate secondary members
    Film: Making the most of your secondary membership

  • Recorded webinar: Mapping uncertainty - Holocaust Memorial Day 2025

      Retracing the trajectories of young survivors in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust
    Recorded webinar: Mapping uncertainty - Holocaust Memorial Day 2025

  • Film: Making the most of HA trainee membership 

      Article
    Film: Making the most of HA trainee membership 

  • Teacher Training (Survive Part 2)

      Survive Part 2
    Part 2 of our Teacher Training Survival Guide takes you through progression, assessment, levels, marking, inspirational lesson ideas, revision and recap & applying for jobs.
    Teacher Training (Survive Part 2)

  • The Heroine Project Presents: Dorothy Lawrence films

      Forgotten First World War heroine speaks to a new generation
    In 1915 aspiring journalist Dorothy Lawrence left London for northern France with ambitions to become the first female war correspondent. What happened next defied authority and convention – and challenges traditional depictions of women’s role in World War One. The Historical Association (HA) commissioned Theatre company The Heroine Project Presents to create...
    The Heroine Project Presents: Dorothy Lawrence films

  • Welcome back to a new school year

      Information
    Welcome back to a new school year

  • Recorded Webinar: Female slave-ownership in 18th and 19 century Britain

      Article
    Recorded Webinar: Female slave-ownership in 18th and 19 century Britain

  • Local significant individuals

      HA regional resources
    The National Curriculum specifies a local study both at Key Stages 1 and 2. Basing your local study around an individual is a great way to bring the heritage of your locality to life. Many of these individuals are part of larger national events and changes and seeing these changes at...
    Local significant individuals

  • Recorded Webinar: Our Human Planet

      Article
    Recorded Webinar: Our Human Planet

  • Beginning teachers’ professional learning

      Multipage Article
    In this section you will find ideas, resources and activities to support the professional learning of colleagues: At the very beginning of learning to be a history teacher As they gain more direct classroom experience in their first year In the second and third years of their teaching career in...
    Beginning teachers’ professional learning

  • Exploring the importance of local visits in developing wider narratives of change and continuity

      Rethinking religious rollercoasters
    The authors of this article take a well-known structural framework for students’ thinking about the Reformation and give it a twist. Their Tudor religious rollercoaster is informed by local visits in their setting in Guernsey – an area where the local picture was not quite the same as the national...
    Exploring the importance of local visits in developing wider narratives of change and continuity