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  • Primary History 29

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    3 Editorial – Tim Lomas 3 Primary Noticeboard – Tim Lomas 5 Britain and the wider world in Tudor times – Hilary Claire (Read article) 7 ‘No one else knows this’: Scottish primary schools using ICT to investigate local history – John W Robertson (Read article) 9 Monitoring, evaluating and...
    Primary History 29

  • Seeing double: how one period visualises another

      Teaching History article
    When pupils study interpretations or representations of the past which are neither from their own period nor from the period being interpreted/represented, they are having to employ sophisticated knowledge and skill. Jane Card describes this as ‘double vision’: the pupils must think about the period depicted (in this case the...
    Seeing double: how one period visualises another

  • Lesson sequence: Eighteenth-century politics – taster lesson

      Article
    This series of lessons has been designed to enable students to learn about power and political change in Britain in the period 1688–1783. Through the unfolding narrative, students learn about key concepts, including monarchy, government and Parliament, identify causal factors and develop a sense of period. Finally, they assess how power...
    Lesson sequence: Eighteenth-century politics – taster lesson

  • Lesson sequence: Eighteenth-century politics

      Lesson sequence
    The first lesson of this sequence is available free to all secondary members here.  This series of lessons has been designed to enable students to learn about power and political change in Britain in the period 1688–1783. Through the unfolding narrative, students learn about key concepts, including monarchy, government and Parliament, identify causal...
    Lesson sequence: Eighteenth-century politics

  • Ranking and classifying: teaching political concepts to post-16 students

      Teaching History article
    Sometimes it is precisely in the interest of building better historical knowledge that facts and detail need temporarily to be abandoned. Gary Howells aims to secure discernible foundation understandings in his students by getting them to engage quickly with those aspects of political concepts that they can grasp. He is...
    Ranking and classifying: teaching political concepts to post-16 students

  • The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

      Chinese History
    The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, also called Five Dynasties, was an era of political upheaval in 10th-century imperial China. During this period, five states quickly succeeded one another in the Chinese Central Plain, while more than a dozen concurrent states were established elsewhere, mainly in south China. Traditionally,...
    The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period

  • A most horrid malicious bloody flame: using Samuel Pepys to improve Year 8 boys' historical writing

      Teaching History article
    Unusually, instead of moving from a narrative to an analytic structure, David Waters moves his pupils from causal analysis to narrative. By the time pupils are ready to produce their storyboard narrative, their thinking about the Great Fire has been shaped and re-shaped not only by structural exercises and argument...
    A most horrid malicious bloody flame: using Samuel Pepys to improve Year 8 boys' historical writing

  • Ancient Egypt - The Land of Punt

      Podcast
    In this podcast Professor Emeritus John Baines, University of Oxford, provides an introduction to the Land of Punt. The Land of Punt was an ancient region known from Ancient Egyptian records. It exported gold, aromatic resins, blackwood, ebony, ivory and wild animals, some of them perhaps traded from elsewhere. Recent...
    Ancient Egypt - The Land of Punt

  • Teaching the Ancient Greeks: an introduction

      Reference guide
    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 Please note: this guide was written before the new National Curriculum...
    Teaching the Ancient Greeks: an introduction

  • The Spice and Silk routes in the late medieval era

      Podcast
    The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century. Spanning over 6,400 kilometers (4,000 miles), it played a central role in facilitating economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between the East and West.  The spice trade involved historical civilizations in Asia, Northeast Africa and Europe. Spices such as cinnamon, cassia, cardamom, ginger, pepper, nutmeg, star anise, clove, and turmeric were known and used...
    The Spice and Silk routes in the late medieval era

  • Teaching History 114: Making history personal

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition deals with helping pupils to relate to, and empathise with, history. The Great War, Using fictional characters to explore the relationship between historical interpretation and contemporary attitudes, Josephine Butler and significance, The teaching and learning of history for 15-16yr olds: have the Japanese anything to learn from the...
    Teaching History 114: Making history personal

  • Teaching History 113: Creating Progress

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition deals with creating progress: History teachers are creating progress - the idea and the reality. Why rely on others to define and design it? The creation process is every teacher's property and there is no celing on what we might help pupils achieve. JFK, Progression models, Roleplay in...
    Teaching History 113: Creating Progress

  • Cardiff Branch Programme

      Article
    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

  • An Introduction to Early Mesopotamia (4000-2700 BC)

      Podcast
    Mesopotamia means 'Between the Rivers'. The oldest known occurrence of the name Mesopotamia dates to the 4th century BC, when it was used to designate the area between the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers. Later, the historical region included not only the area of present-day Iraq, but also parts of present-day Iran, Syria and Turkey....
    An Introduction to Early Mesopotamia (4000-2700 BC)

  • Exeter Branch History

      Branch History
    A Brief History of the Exeter BranchExeter was one of the seventeen pre-First World War branches, founded in November 1906, the same year as the Historical Association itself. The Exeter branch was founded by Professor Walter (W.J.) Harte who became President of the (national) Historical Association 1932-36. Harte was appointed...
    Exeter Branch History

  • Teaching History 44

      Journal
    Editorial Grade Criteria: opportunity or impending disaster? - R. Ben Jones Domesday Book - past and present, John Fines and Jon Nichol An Appreciation of Joe Hunt Childwrite, Teresa Clark Computer Update The Teaching of Irish History in the Secondary School, Roger Swift The Contributors Town and Country in the...
    Teaching History 44

  • The South African Labour Movement

      Podcast
    On 16 June every year South Africa celebrates Youth Day, commemorating the 20,000 students who took part in protests against the Apartheid government in 1976 known as the Soweto uprising. Their courageous act left over 200 people dead and many more injured, but was part of an important stand against...
    The South African Labour Movement

  • Hitting the right note: how useful is the music of African-Americans to historians?

      Teaching History article
    Here is a wonderful reminder of the richness of materials available to history teachers. With ever greater emphasis being placed on different learning styles, it is a good moment to remind ourselves that we can cater for virtually all of them in our classrooms. This includes a preference for learning...
    Hitting the right note: how useful is the music of African-Americans to historians?

  • Mushrooms and snake-oil: using film as AS/A level

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Seán Lang examines the power of film to shape AS/A students’ perception and even understanding of the past. He argues that teachers of Years 12 and 13 underestimate at their peril the impact film can have on how students shape their perception of history. Although, as he...
    Mushrooms and snake-oil: using film as AS/A level

  • Early British Women Engineers

      Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines
    In this podcast Henrietta Heald looks at some of the pioneering British women engineers of the early 20th century and the role they played in fighting for economic freedom. '"Women have won their political independence. Now is the time for them to achieve their economic freedom too." This was the...
    Early British Women Engineers

  • The German Industrial and Scientific Revolution

      Podcast
    In this podcast Dr Colin Storer of the University of Warwick examines the factors that led to Germany’s industrial and scientific revolution in the 19th century and its significance. Though German was previously seen as a nation of intellectuals dating back to the reformation with Luther, and more recently with Kant, Hegel and...
    The German Industrial and Scientific Revolution

  • Podcast series: Religion in England Through Time

      Religion through Time
    This set of podcasts looks at religion in England from the ancient to the modern world and features: Professor Ronald Hutton of the University of Bristol, Professor Joanna Story of the University of Leicester, Professor Nicholas Vincent of the University of East Anglia, Dr Steven Gunn of the University of...
    Podcast series: Religion in England Through Time

  • Podcast Series: Religion in the UK

      Multipage Article
    In Part 5 of our series on Social and Political Change in the UK 1800-present we look at religion in the U.K. This set of podcasts features Dr Janice Holmes of the Open University, Revd Dr Jeremy Morris, Dean, Fellow, and Director of Studies in Theology at King's College, Andrew Copson,...
    Podcast Series: Religion in the UK

  • What makes good primary history?

      Transition Training Session 5
    This is the 5th in a series of 5 sessions arising from the 2005 KS2-KS3 History Transitions Project: Transition training session 1: Historical Enquiries & Interpretations Transition training session 2: Using ICT in the teaching of history Transition training session 3: Extended writing in history Transition training session 4: Joan of Arc -...
    What makes good primary history?

  • Joan of Arc - Saint, Witch or Warrior?

      Transition Training Session 4
    This is the 4th of 5 sessions arising from the 2005 KS2-KS3 History Transitions Project: Transition training session 1: Historical Enquiries & Interpretations Transition training session 2: Using ICT in the teaching of history Transition training session 3: Extended writing in history Transition training session 4: Joan of Arc - Saint,...
    Joan of Arc - Saint, Witch or Warrior?