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  • Catherine de Medici & the Ancien Regime

      Classic Pamphlet
    Catherine de Medici is one of the most controversial figures of the early modern period. Her name has come to symbolize her age and both have long retained an exceptionally powerful emotive force. Consequently they have attracted many writers primarily seeking to apportion blame for the sombre events of the...
    Catherine de Medici & the Ancien Regime

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Causation

      Your Virtual History Department Meeting
    We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances, so we wanted to lend a helping hand. 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a brand-new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Causation

  • Resources & Training from AQA

      AQA: HA Sponsor
    Whether this is your first or fortieth year of teaching, settling in to the autumn term always takes a bit of getting used to. We’ve compiled the essential information to help you get back into the swing of things. Free resources AQA free resources will help you plan, teach and...
    Resources & Training from AQA

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 83

      The Historical Association Historical Fiction Prize
    This poster includes an extract from one of the winners of our The Historical Association Historical Fiction Prize. Esther Kerr has written a story called ‘Save the Books’ detailing the effects on a bombing raid in World War II. The HA plans to run this competition in future years. Before starting, it...
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 83

  • Films: Boris Yeltsin – Interpretations

      Film series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    Borisn Yelstin was the Russian leader from the collapse of the Soviet Union through to the leadership of Vladimir Putin. A key pivotal figure of the twentieth century, he had as an important an impact on Russia and global politics as any of the Soviet leaders of the 1970s and 80s and...
    Films: Boris Yeltsin – Interpretations

  • The Armada Campaign of 1588

      Classic Pamphlet
    Between 1585 and 1588 a state of undeclared war existed between England and Spain. During the course of those years, Philip II devised a plan for the 'Enterprise of England'. It was probably  the most ambitious military operation of the sixteenth century: a massive invasion to be mounted jointly by...
    The Armada Campaign of 1588

  • 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

  • Exeter & District Branch Programme

      Article
    Programme 2025 Wednesday 26 March 2025, 6-7.30pm Queen’s Lecture Theatre 4.2, University of Exeter Nicholas Orme Public Lecture 2025, presented by the Centre for Medieval Studies Medieval Lived Religion: The Complex Lives of Medieval Ritual Objects Speaker: Prof. Roberta Gilchrist (University of Reading) Preceded by a postgraduate research symposium (13h-15h,...
    Exeter & District Branch Programme

  • Records for a study of the life of Agricultural Labourers in Somerset in the mid 19th century

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. This article focuses on extracts from the mid nineteenth and provides information on the wages and living standards of agricultural labourers. In the article Sue Berry suggests numerous ways in which these extracts can be used in lessons at Key Stage 1...
    Records for a study of the life of Agricultural Labourers in Somerset in the mid 19th century

  • Primary History 85

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    04 Editorial (Read article for free) 05 HA Primary News 06 HA Update 08 How to incorporate EYFS as a subject leader – Rob Nixon (Read article) 10 Smooth transitions – Linda Cooper (Read article) 14 ‘Come all ye fisher lassies’ – Karin Doull (Read article) 20 Using different sources to bring a topic...
    Primary History 85

  • Away from the Western Front launches two national projects

      Creative Writing Competition and National Music Project
    ‘Away from the Western Front’ has launched two national projects and is offering everyone a chance to make a contribution to this First World War centenary commemoration. A National Music project and a Creative Writing Competition are part of the Heritage Lottery funded First World War 'Away from the Western...
    Away from the Western Front launches two national projects

  • The George Square Statues

      Article
    Collectively, the 12 statues in the Square with Wellington adjacent comprise a superb history of the nineteenth century both locally and nationally. The statues fall into 5 groups: royalty – Victoria and Albert; politics – Oswald, Peel, Gladstone; literature – Scott, Burns, Campbell; military – Moore, Clyde; science & technology...
    The George Square Statues

  • Roman Britain: a brief history

      Reference guide for primary
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today From the founding of the city of Rome in the...
    Roman Britain: a brief history

  • HA Branches in the South East

      Branch details by region
    Beckenham & Bromley Branch Branch contact: Mrs A Wagstaff 020 8777 7742 aj60@dial.pipex.com  Cost: Entry to meetings is free for HA members and £2 for visitors. Associate membership of the branch is £12 for 2024/25 or £19.50 with our monthly news bulletin, The Beckenham Historian. Venue: All meetings take place at 7.45...
    HA Branches in the South East

  • Webinar series: Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS

      HA webinar series for Early Years
    This webinar series will support your teaching of ‘past and present’ at the Early Years Foundation Stage. It will help you to make sense of curriculum frameworks in EYFS, consider what makes effective pedagogy at EYFS, and develop curriculum coherence and transition to Key Stage 1. How is the series...
    Webinar series: Teaching ‘past and present’ in EYFS

  • A Tale of Two Chancellors: The Ineffectual Reformation in Elizabethan Staffordshire

      Historian article
    The Elizabethan Reformation in Staffordshire had a shallow seedbed. The radical reformers of the 1540s had greeted the conversion of the county with a mixture of high hopes and hyperbole. The East Anglian preacher and disciple of Latimer, Thomas Becon, wrote a treatise The Iewel of Ioye urging that itinerant...
    A Tale of Two Chancellors: The Ineffectual Reformation in Elizabethan Staffordshire

  • Creating Variety in the Classroom

      Article
    Sometimes, pupils complain that there is a sameness to history lessons. History though offers scope for all kinds of exciting and varied activities targeting the key concepts and processes of the National Curriculum. Over the years, the following list has been gathered showing this variety. It could be used as...
    Creating Variety in the Classroom

  • Scheme of Work: Waterloo and the Age of Revolutions

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (resourced)
    This scheme of work explores the 'Age of Revolutions' period across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It was written for the Historical Association by Karin Doull to supplement the Age of Revolutions Teacher Fellowship Programme, which is funded by Waterloo 200. The Napoleonic wars shaped their age: children...
    Scheme of Work: Waterloo and the Age of Revolutions

  • Primary Committee biographies

      Information
    Find out more about the HA's committees here   Helen Crawford (Committee Chair) Helen studied history at university and has worked in primary schools for twenty years as a class teacher, history subject leader, inclusion manager and senior leader. Most of her teaching career has been in London schools, but...
    Primary Committee biographies

  • 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

  • Story-telling and simulation exemplar: The Great Exeter Fish War of 1309

      Exemplar
    The lesson was taught to 44 Year 3 children in a first school in Exeter. It describes how a story was used to introduce a local history unit, and how we followed it up. To begin, we sat the children on the carpet and told them John Hooker's story about...
    Story-telling and simulation exemplar: The Great Exeter Fish War of 1309

  • Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit

      The mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times
    Dr Jo Fox continued our virtual branch lecture series this July on the subject 'Reimagining the Blitz Spirit: the mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times'. Jo Fox is the Director of the Institute of Historical Research and a well-known historian specialising in the history of propaganda, rumour and truth telling.  This...
    Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit

  • Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history

      Article
    Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people are the largest minority ethnic group in some communities (and therefore in some schools) in the UK. Yet the past of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller people may rarely be part of history lessons. The result is that pupils of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritage may not...
    Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history

  • Teaching History 162: Scales of Planning

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 From the history of maths to the history of greatness: towards worthwhile cross-curricular study through the refinement of a scheme of work - Harry Fletcher-Wood (Read article) 16 The whole point of the thing: how nominalisation might develop students’ written...
    Teaching History 162: Scales of Planning

  • Teaching history to young children

      Article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. History is a subject whose meaning is properly appreciated only in our maturity. In their old age we find those we consider wisest turning to Gibbon, Burckhardt, and Thucydides. The richness and endlessly elaborated meaning of...
    Teaching history to young children