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Hertfordshire Branch Programme
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Meetings are held at the Backhouse Room, 116 Handside Lane, Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire AL8 6SZ on Saturdays at 3pm
Meetings are free for members, £3 for visitors. Associate membership £15 per season.
For more information contact Barbara Wiltshire barbarag.wiltshire@btinternet.com or telephone 01438 716020
Hertfordshire Branch Programme 2025-6
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Hertfordshire Branch Programme
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West Surrey Branch Programme
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All enquiries to: Hon. Secretary: Rollo Crookshank. Telephone: 01252 319881. Email: crookshankrollo@gmail.com
Entry to meetings is free for HA members and students. Associate membership of the branch which gives free entry to all meetings is £15 per year. Non-members £6 per meeting, payable at the door. Meetings on Tuesday except...
West Surrey Branch Programme
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Ealing Branch Programme
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Branch contact: All enquiries to Dr Philip Woods philipgwoods@outlook.com tel. 07922046578
Venue: All talks (with the exception of November meeting) start at 7.30pm on the second Tuesday of the month, and take place at Ealing Green Church, The Green, Ealing, W5 5QT. For details of transport and parking please see...
Ealing Branch Programme
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On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with significance in primary history
Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
Session 4: Avoiding confusion with significance in primary history
This practical webinar will identify what confuses pupils in the teaching of the disciplinary concept of historical significance and will show how such confusion and misconceptions can be avoided and challenged. Examples of...
On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with significance in primary history
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On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with historical interpretations in primary history
Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
Session 3: Avoiding confusion with historical interpretations in primary history
This practical webinar will identify what confuses pupils in the teaching of the disciplinary concept of historical interpretations and will show how such confusion and misconceptions can be avoided and challenged. Examples...
On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with historical interpretations in primary history
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On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with cause and consequence in primary history
Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
Session 2: Avoiding confusion with cause and consequence in primary history
This practical webinar will identify what confuses pupils in the teaching of the disciplinary concept of cause and consequence and will show how such confusion and misconceptions can be avoided and...
On-demand webinar: Avoiding confusion with cause and consequence in primary history
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On-demand webinar: A history teacher’s 'markbook'
Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
Session 6: A history teacher’s 'markbook'
This session will consider what it might be most useful for history teachers to keep a record of over the course of a year. Every time we read pupils’ work or listen to...
On-demand webinar: A history teacher’s 'markbook'
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On-demand webinar: A year in assessment
Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
Session 5: A year in assessment
This session will put forward a couple of examples of what meaningful and useable assessment could look like across a school year at Key Stage 3. The session will explore the range of...
On-demand webinar: A year in assessment
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On-demand webinar: Assessing pupils’ answers to enquiry questions
Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
Session 3: Assessing pupils’ answers to enquiry questions
This session will consider how history teachers can go about ‘marking’ pupils’ answers to enquiry questions in a way that values the pupils’ own voice and independent thinking, and avoids restricting...
On-demand webinar: Assessing pupils’ answers to enquiry questions
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On-demand webinar: Assessing the historical parts
Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
Session 2: Assessing the historical parts
This session will explore how history teachers can isolate and assess individual components, or parts, of pupils’ historical knowledge, but without reducing this to an assessment of isolated facts. The session will include examples...
On-demand webinar: Assessing the historical parts
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On-demand webinar: Assessing the historical whole
Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
Session 4: Assessing the historical whole
This session will set out a range of tasks and questions, beyond answering an enquiry question, that require pupils to draw on the knowledge they have built cumulatively throughout the curriculum. The session will...
On-demand webinar: Assessing the historical whole
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Reading Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Chris Sexton – sexton44@gmail.com Tel 01344 779321 or 07957 184342
HA members, students and school pupils free. Non-members visitors £3. Associate branch membership £10 per annum.
Venue: Reading School, Erleigh Road, Reading RG1 5LW. Suppers precede each lecture from 6pm – cost £20 per person – are...
Reading Branch Programme
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Plymouth Branch Programme
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website: www.ha-plymouth.org.uk
All enquiries to Alan H. Cousins, 1 Russell Court, Russell Close, Saltash PL12 4LZ Tel. 01752 843750 email a.cousins345@btinternet.com
Membership secretary: John Stead, 2 Jessops, Plympton, Plymouth, PL7 4HW
Meetings are open to all and are free for national or local members of the Historical Association, and for...
Plymouth Branch Programme
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Manchester Branch Programme (with Liverpool and Chester)
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Entry to meetings is free to HA members, non-members £4 per meeting.
We are delighted to be able to welcome our members and interested members of the public to our 2025-2026 series of events! Of course, circumstances are always changeable and so events may be changed or cancelled at short...
Manchester Branch Programme (with Liverpool and Chester)
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Northampton Branch Programme
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Leicester & Northampton Branches Joint Programme of Online Talks & Activities 2025-26
All talks are online and take place at 6pm-7.30pm. Booking is through Eventbrite.
Entry is free of charge.
All enquiries for Leicester Branch: Dr Alex Byrne. alexander.bryne@dmu.ac.uk
All enquiries for Northampton Branch: Professor Matthew McCormack. Matthew.McCormack@northampton.ac.uk
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Northampton Branch Programme
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Portsmouth Branch Programme
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Unless otherwise stated, all talks start at 7pm and finish no later than 8.30pm. The venue for talks is: Room 1.09, Park Building, King Henry I St, Portsmouth, PO1 2BZ. Pay on arrival: £4 per lecture, or £20 for all lectures from October to May. Students and HA members pay...
Portsmouth Branch Programme
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Swansea Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Liz McSloy FHA, Branch Secretary historyliz1565@yahoo.com 07810 304616
All meetings take place at the National Waterfront Museum, Oystermouth Road, Swansea, SA1 3RD at 11am.
The museum does not have a car park but there are a number of pay and display car parks within easy walking distance...
Swansea Branch Programme
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Taunton Deane Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Mr Geoff Bisson (gb@queenscollege.org.uk), tel. 01823 353749
All talks start at 7.30pm on Wednesdays and take place in the Birchall Hall, Queen's College, Trull Road, Taunton, TA1 4QS unless otherwise stated. There is free car parking on site.
Associate Membership: £10 per year. Talks free to national...
Taunton Deane Branch Programme
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On-demand webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
HA webinar series for primary teachers and history subject leaders
This practical series of webinars will identify what confuses pupils in primary history and how such confusion and misconceptions can be avoided and challenged. Through examples of careful planning and activities it will show how pupils can develop an accurate and nuanced understanding of chronology and change, cause and consequence,...
On-demand webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
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On-demand webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
HA webinar series for secondary history teachers and leaders
In recent years, many history teachers have done lots of exciting work to develop the curriculum they teach, incorporating new content, new scholarship and new enquiries. As part of this work, it is vital to uncover how far pupils are learning all that was intended, and the ways in which...
On-demand webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
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Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Mandy Caller, mandycaller@gmail.com or telephone 07818 063594
All meetings are hybrid, and are held at 8pm on the third Thursday of the month September to April (excluding December) at Fellowship House, 136a Willifield Way, London NW11 6YD and simultaneously online via Zoom.
Please email Dr Dudley Miles...
Hampstead & North West London Branch Programme
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Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Mrs A Wagstaff 020 8777 7742 aj60@dial.pipex.com
Entry to meetings is free for HA members and £2 for visitors.
Associate membership of the branch is £14 for 2025/2026 or £24 with our monthly news bulletin, the Beckenham Historian.
All meetings take place at 7.30 p.m. in Christ Church...
Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme
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York and North Yorkshire Branch Programme
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All enquiries to Elizabeth McCulloch, Elizabeth.McCulloch@boothamschool.com 07884 435 701
Talks free to members, £2 for visitors.
York & North Yorkshire Branch Programme 2025-26
Autumn Term
Monday Sept 29th 2025 4.30-6pm at the Castle Museum. Meet at the museum entrance.
The History of Dress
Dr. Bethan Bide at the University...
York and North Yorkshire Branch Programme
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Your Primary CPD calendar Autumn 2025
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We know that it's not easy for teachers to get out of school or have budgets to afford a plentiful supply of CPD. We know how essential your CPD is to you and that is why we have worked to provide a wide range of face to face, online learning...
Your Primary CPD calendar Autumn 2025
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Cardiff Branch Programme
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Cardiff Branch Programme 2025-26
All enquiries to Professor Peter Edbury Edbury@cardiff.ac.uk or Dr Paul Webster WebsterP@cardiff.ac.uk
All talks start at 7pm via Zoom or Teams. A link to the talk is provided by email from Dr Webster.
All talks are free and Zoom/Teams allow us to have speakers...
Cardiff Branch Programme