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  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... youth culture?

      Teaching History feature
    For such a boldly iconoclastic work, the Key Stage 3 textbook A New Focus on ... British Social History, c.1920–2000 (2023) provides a disarmingly conventional account of youth in the 1960s as ‘mostly better educated and informed than their parents had been at their age [and able] … to find...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... youth culture?

  • Diogenes: Creativity and the Primary Curriculum

      Primary History article
    Diogenes: WHITHER CREATIVITY?! A consideration of the article Creativity and the Primary Curriculum In June 2010 the journal Primary Headship included an article entitled Creativity and the Primary Curriculum which endeavoured to pull together a range of positions as to where the curriculum might be going in the immediate future. These...
    Diogenes: Creativity and the Primary Curriculum

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 89

      Vikings in 'these islands'; Ancient Greece
    Where did the Vikings go to in ‘these islands’? Ancient Greece – Did you know…?
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 89

  • OFSTED, primary history and creativity

      Primary History article
    Co-ordinators concerns: OFSTED, primary history and creativity I'm told the emphasis in schools now is for a rigorous approach to history where the children are taught the main facts and features of history. I recall a time not so long ago when the whole curriculum was about creativity but surely...
    OFSTED, primary history and creativity

  • HA Awards Evening 2019

      17th July 2019
    On a hot afternoon in July key figures of the history world came together to celebrate history in all its diversity. Throughout the year, across the UK individuals with a passion for history work to educate, inform, entertain and excite those around them about the past. The Historical Association awards...
    HA Awards Evening 2019

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading (Primary)

      Article
    Please note: the 'What's the Wisdom On' film series has been produced principally for secondary school history teachers, however some of the content is transferrable to a primary setting. Secondary members can view the film here 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading (Primary)

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 88 – Diversity

      Diversity in Primary History
    There has been much emphasis on ensuring that we teach a balanced history curriculum that reflects diversity. Teachers often ask the Historical Association where they can get their ideas and find examples of good practice. From the start, this journal has addressed the many strands of a diverse primary history...
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 88 – Diversity

  • Teaching History 188: Out now

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Read Teaching History 188: Representing History History teachers are familiar with the challenges that arise as we try to help our students make historical sense of past worlds. Building historical representations of the past is imaginatively demanding – it requires ‘world-making’ and narrative expertise. The challenges are probative, not merely...
    Teaching History 188: Out now

  • Primary history through the secondary school lens

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. Trying to explain what pupils at primary school should know and understand about history to help their progress at secondary school is an extremely tricky question to answer (so thanks Jon!). Ultimately there are...
    Primary history through the secondary school lens

  • Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Writing and revision

      Article
    In this second webinar in our series on writing historical fiction, author Tony Bradman talks about the actual process of writing the story, with examples. The difficulty of the first page - how to start your story with impact and make sure the reader is gripped from the first line....
    Recorded Webinar: Writing historical fiction - Writing and revision

  • Polychronicon 157: Reinterpreting police-public relations in modern England

      Teaching History feature
    The relationship between the police and the public has long been a key subject in English social history. The formative work in this field was conducted between the 1970s and 1990s, but the past few years have witnessed something of a revival of research in the area. By focusing on...
    Polychronicon 157: Reinterpreting police-public relations in modern England

  • Teacher trainees writing history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. Introduction I would like to share some Cumbria University Year 4 primary history specialist student's written work with you. These students who are in their final year have just completed their last assignment...
    Teacher trainees writing history

  • Historical scholarship, archaeology and evidence in Year 7

      Teaching History article
    The stimulus for this article came from two developmental tasks that Barbara Trapani was set during the course of her initial teacher education programme: planning her first historical enquiry and bringing the work of an historian into the classroom. Trapani chose to tackle the two tasks together, using Susan Whitfield’s...
    Historical scholarship, archaeology and evidence in Year 7

  • The Vikings - Primary E-CPD

      Primary e-CPD unit
    The purpose of this unit is to provide for teachers' subject knowledge on the Vikings. This reflects a need for up-to-date and scholarly historical knowledge, but this also demonstrates that it is essential to see the Vikings as having diversified experiences and impacts over time in a variety of geographical contexts...
    The Vikings - Primary E-CPD

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Significance (Primary)

      Article
    Please note: the 'What's the Wisdom On' film series has been produced principally for secondary school history teachers, however some of the content is transferrable to a primary setting. Secondary members can view this film here 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Historical Significance (Primary)

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 87

      Could you manage old money? and Examples of picture books
    ‘Twelve pennies make a shilling; twenty shillings make a pound’ - Could you manage old money? Examples of picture books
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 87

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Similarity and Difference (Primary)

      Article
    Please note: the 'What's the Wisdom On' film series has been produced principally for secondary school history teachers, however some of the content is transferrable to a primary setting. Secondary members can view the film here 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a department meeting....
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Similarity and Difference (Primary)

  • Exclusive webinar offer with corporate membership

      Built-in CPD for school members
    We work hard to develop our offer in response to teachers' changing needs and recent months have seen several developments to our CPD provision. In our membership surveys you told us that you wanted more built-in free CPD for members, in 2021 we introduced a new corporate webinar offer which allows corporate school members...
    Exclusive webinar offer with corporate membership

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... schooling and the British Empire

      Teaching History feature
    The history of schooling and the British Empire encompasses a complex body of literature.  Histories of formal education intersect with work on race, class and capitalism and link to adjacent fields such as histories of childhood. A basic contention shared throughout this field, however, is that there was a profound...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... schooling and the British Empire

  • Global Learning Project - Hawkshead Primary

      GLP Case Study
    Hawkeshead Primary School in the Lake District is a small village school, with a teaching head. Yet they have gone to great pains to integrate the ideals of Global Learning into their curriculum. They are an Expert Centre, leading a team of 20 local schools - primary and secondary -...
    Global Learning Project - Hawkshead Primary

  • Volunteering in Heritage

      Briefing Pack
    How to: get a volunteering placement in heritage Rachel Clark, Volunteering Adviser, National Trust  has written a useful mini guide to getting a volunteering placement which can be found here... Volunteering with Heritage Organisations There are many different organisations across the UK dedicated to preserving our cultural heritage. If you want to...
    Volunteering in Heritage

  • Towards inclusion: A study of significant figures and disability within the national curriculum

      Primary History article
    Since the early days of the National Curriculum, considerable progress has been made to introduce children to an inclusive view of history. The research of the late Hilary Claire (1996) served as a major impetus and now primary teachers strive to ensure that no groups or individuals are marginalised, particularly...
    Towards inclusion: A study of significant figures and disability within the national curriculum

  • Helen Snelson, 1969–2024

      30th August 2024
    It is with deep regret that we share the news that our good friend, supporter and Deputy President Helen Snelson passed away at the end of August. After her cancer recurred, she spent her final few days with her husband David, close family and friends. Helen was a passionate history...
    Helen Snelson, 1969–2024

  • Pull-out posters: Primary History 86

      Re-imagining statues: how should we do this? and Historical fiction prizes: Summer 2020
    Re-imagining statues: how should we do this? Historical fiction prizes: Summer 202
    Pull-out posters: Primary History 86

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity (Primary)

      Article
    Please note: the 'What's the Wisdom On' film series has been produced principally for secondary school history teachers, however some of the content is transferrable to a primary setting. Secondary members can view the film here We know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances. We also understand your need...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Change and continuity (Primary)