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  • The Insanity of Henry VI

      Article
    Carole Rawcliffe examines medieval attitudes to madness and the case of Henry VI. Mad kings are all the rage at present. The remarkable success, first of Alan Bennett’s stage play, The Madness of George III, and then of the widely acclaimed film version, has prompted a spate of newspaper articles...
    The Insanity of Henry VI

  • Top Tip: Approaches to planning interpretations-focused enquiries.

      Article
    Top Tip: Approaches to planning interpretations-focused enquiries.
    Top Tip: Approaches to planning interpretations-focused enquiries.

  • Cunning Plan 102: measuring and understanding progress

      Article
    Steven Barnes provides an innovative method for measuring and understanding progress.
    Cunning Plan 102: measuring and understanding progress

  • Nutshell

      Article
    This edition of 'Nutshell' highlights concerns about the AS/A2 assessments.
    Nutshell

  • Reading C.V. Wedgwood

      Article
    Christine Counsell comments on the C.V. Wedgwood text used for this edition's Cunning Plan.
    Reading C.V. Wedgwood

  • Nutshell

      Article
    This edition of 'Nutshell' discusses David Hume.
    Nutshell

  • Nutshell

      Article
    This edition of 'Nutshell' investigates narratives.
    Nutshell

  • Nutshell

      Article
    This edition of 'Nutshell' discusses spiritual development.
    Nutshell

  • Nutshell 105

      Article
    This edition of 'Nutshell' focuses on the development of speaking and listening skills in Year 9.
    Nutshell 105

  • Nutshell

      Article
    This edition of 'In a Nutshell' discusses 'Transforming Teaching and Learning in the Foundation Subjects'.
    Nutshell

  • Recorded Webinar: Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire

      Article
    Dr Zbigniew Wojnowski is a historian based at the University of Oxford. He specialises in the history of the Cold War and is particularly interested in the history of Soviet social, cultural, and political interactions with Eastern Europe after 1945. In 2017, he published a book entitled The Near Abroad:...
    Recorded Webinar: Ukraine and the Soviet Politics of Empire

  • Recorded webinar: Supporting less able students in your GCSE classroom

      History for all series
    In this webinar recording aimed primarily at beginning teachers, Sally Burnham looks at practical strategies to help motivate and support our lower attainers in the history classroom, particularly at GCSE. She explores ways to help students develop secure knowledge, recall that knowledge and use the knowledge effectively so that all students can access...
    Recorded webinar: Supporting less able students in your GCSE classroom

  • Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)

      Spring 2026 cohort, starts 11 March
    This six-week online course is designed to energise your teaching and help you engage with the history education community. In this programme you will access rich, subject-specific professional development designed specifically for experienced teachers: an antidote to one-size-fits-all training. We will explore of some of the biggest questions, the thorniest...
    Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)

  • Recorded Webinar: Our Human Planet

      Article
    Meteorites, mega-volcanoes, plate tectonics and now human beings; the old forces of nature that transformed Earth many millions of years ago are joined by another: us. Our actions have driven Earth into a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. For the first time in our home planet's 4.5-billion year history a...
    Recorded Webinar: Our Human Planet

  • Thrive as an NQT (Part 2)

      Thrive Part 2
    Part 2 of our Thrive as an NQT guide takes you through predictions data, planning a school trip, continual professional development and after your NQT year.
    Thrive as an NQT (Part 2)

  • Recorded webinar: Invisible assessment within an enquiry

      Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
    Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom Session 1: Invisible assessment within an enquiry This session explores the constant, routine assessment that goes on throughout the history lessons that make up a single enquiry – assessment that forms such a natural part of history teaching that it’s sometimes...
    Recorded webinar: Invisible assessment within an enquiry

  • Recorded webinar: Histories of Indigenous peoples of North America

      Article
    Any study of the intercultural relationships between the Indigenous peoples of North America and British settlers usually focuses on the differences that resulted in disputes and violence. However, on closer examination, the interaction also involved the exchange of ideas and the forging of alliances, which required diplomacy and respect for...
    Recorded webinar: Histories of Indigenous peoples of North America

  • Recorded webinar: Teaching history during a climate emergency: how can we respond?

      HA Virtual Forum, November 2021
    We are at a vital moment in our attempt to tackle the climate crisis. Global warming is an inter-disciplinary challenge for the world and an inter-disciplinary challenge in education, too. In this talk, Alison Kitson argues that history provides a vital perspective that enables young people to understand our interaction...
    Recorded webinar: Teaching history during a climate emergency: how can we respond?

  • Curriculum Review Support Module - Secondary

      Multipage Article
    In 2024 the then new Labour government commissioned a full Curriculum and Assessment review (CAR) led by Becky Francis. The Historical Association consulted our members and other key stakeholders in history education and contributed to the Review's call for evidence. You can find a summary of our response here. The...
    Curriculum Review Support Module - Secondary

  • Recorded webinar: Introduction to Sporting Heritage in the Curriculum

      Webinar
    Excited about the opportunity to creatively incorporate sporting history as new part of your curriculum offer or a thematic enrichment extension to it? Interested in hearing more about how this approach could inspire your students’ potential approach to EPQ? Like to influence and shape how this might be achieved? This...
    Recorded webinar: Introduction to Sporting Heritage in the Curriculum

  • Recorded Webinar: India and the Second World War

      Article
    Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War.  Their experiences are little remembered today, neither in the West where a Euro/US-centric memory of the war dominates, nor in South Asia, which privileges nationalist histories of independence from the British Empire. What was it like...
    Recorded Webinar: India and the Second World War

  • The Scottish Parliament by Robert S. Rait

      Classic Pamphlet
    This short pamphlet by the former Historiographer Royal for Scotland, Robert S. Rait, provides an introduction to the Scottish Parliament from its early origins to the Acts of Union of 1707.
    The Scottish Parliament by Robert S. Rait

  • Ideas on the Shape, Size and Movements of the Earth - Pamphlet

      Classic Pamphlet
    This classic pamphlet takes you through some of the key ideas on the shape, size and movements of the Earth as they changed over time from classical cosmology to the work of Galileo and Isaac Newton.
    Ideas on the Shape, Size and Movements of the Earth - Pamphlet

  • Recorded Webinar: New Approaches to Classical Sparta

      Article
    This webinar starts with a basic overview of the city-states of Classical Greece (roughly 500 to 350 BC) and Sparta’s place within their geography and history. It then looks at some common myths about the nature of Spartan society and politics, focusing on areas where recent research has transformed our...
    Recorded Webinar: New Approaches to Classical Sparta

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Magna Carta

      Article
    This month at the Virtual Branch, renowned medieval historian David Carpenter will delve into the enduring legacy of Magna Carta. Drawing on his recent work uncovering and authenticating a Magna Carta document in the United States, Carpenter will explore why both the dating and the content of this foundational charter...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Magna Carta