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The Medlicott Medal 2025
30th April 2025
The Historical Association is delighted to announce that the Medlicott Medal 2025 will be awarded to Dr Christine Counsell.
The award seeks to recognise individuals from a diversity of backgrounds in their service to history.
Christine will be known to many at the HA, as throughout her career she has...
The Medlicott Medal 2025
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No more ‘doing’ diversity
Teaching History feature
Catherine Priggs and her history department colleagues were increasingly concerned that their curriculum was too narrow. They feared that major areas of history were being left out and that many of their own pupils were not seeing themselves, in their various ethnic, cultural and world identities, in the past. Priggs...
No more ‘doing’ diversity
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Teaching History 179: Culture in Conversation
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article for free)
03 HA Secondary News
04 HA Update
10 No more ‘doing’ diversity: how one department used Year 8 input to reform curricular thinking about content choice – Catherine Priggs (Read article)
20 What Have Historians Been Arguing About... migration and empire – Lauren Working (Read article)...
Teaching History 179: Culture in Conversation
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Great Debate Final 2025
14th April 2025
Winner:
Quinn Scott – Chesterton Community College, Cambridge
Runners up:
Anya Bensouiah – Kendrick School, Reading
Fred Bosley – The King’s School, Canterbury
Aimee Nelson – Bablake School, Coventry
Finalists:
Emily Tweddle, Earlston High School, Scottish Borders
Hannah Brearton, Upton Hall, Oxford
Rosie Thomson, The Maynard School, Exeter
Isabella Passarelli, Torquay Girls Grammar School,...
Great Debate Final 2025
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Historians in The National Archives
Historian article
The author of this article approached the Editor to give him a flavour of what might be found in The National Archives relating to political, secret service and civil service ‘interest’ in the views and activities of historians over the last century. It is certainly very significant that some of...
Historians in The National Archives
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On-demand webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
HA webinar series for primary teachers and history subject leaders
This series of webinars will consider how disciplinary knowledge is slowly introduced into the primary curriculum, built upon and strengthened. We know that substantive knowledge in history is the substance ('the stuff') we teach: the facts which we are sure about and which all have to know, the names and places, the events, and well-known...
On-demand webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
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‘Come all ye fisher lassies’
Primary History article
When considering either ‘changes within living memory’ for Key Stage 1 or ‘an aspect or theme to develop children’s chronological understanding post 1066’ for Key Stage 2 it is important to focus on a clear observable change. This enables children to draw effective comparisons with their own experiences. Washday, bread...
‘Come all ye fisher lassies’
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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
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More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach
27th February 2025
It’s been an especially grim start to 2025 for many in UK higher education. News in early January of cuts and job losses at the universities of Canterbury Christ Church, Northampton and Staffordshire has been followed by announcements from Cardiff, Durham, Newcastle, Reading and, once again, Kent. This, moreover, is...
More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach
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Sparta and war: myths and realities
Historian article
Stephen Hodkinson explains how images of ancient Sparta have been distorted and misused.
On 15 April 2017, at a violent right-wing rally in Berkeley, California, some striking ancient Greek symbols were visible amidst the swastikas and ‘Make America Great Again’ hats. Several demonstrators wore replica ‘Corinthian’ helmets, as worn by...
Sparta and war: myths and realities
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Real Lives: Flora Sandes
Historian feature
Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected to greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
Real Lives: Flora Sandes
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My Favourite History Place: Maiden Castle
Historian feature
In the six years I have been on the editorial board of The Historian I have enjoyed reading about many historians’ favourite places so it is fitting that I write my last contribution about mine. Maiden Castle is the largest Celtic hill fort in southern Europe. I forget when I first...
My Favourite History Place: Maiden Castle
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The Historian 144: War
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article)
6 The last battle: Bomber Command’s veterans and the fight for remembrance – Frances Houghton (Read article)
11 British-Army camp followers in the Peninsular War – Charles J. Esdaile (Read article)
16 Sparta and war: myths and realities – Stephen Hodkinson (Read article)
22 Losing sight of the...
The Historian 144: War
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Primary History Survey 2024: the results
The HA's biennial survey of history in primary schools
Children love history – it is accessible, interesting, there is a growth in diversity of content and it is inclusive for different abilities, according to our survey. This is down to the hard work and dedication of their teaching and support staff. It is great news for our young people....
Primary History Survey 2024: the results
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Teach Climate History free event: climate action and history teaching in Aotearoa, New Zealand
Thursday 27 February 4.30-5.30pm, online
The climate crisis demands new approaches to education. One way teachers can respond is by making different choices about what and how we teach. In this talk, Michael Harcourt and Haimana Hirini present a project from Taitā College, a secondary school in Te Awakairangi, New Zealand, that integrated mātauranga (Indigenous...
Teach Climate History free event: climate action and history teaching in Aotearoa, New Zealand
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Knowledge-rich approaches to history
Primary History article
In recent years, there has been growing support from policy makers in England for knowledge-rich curricula which view subjects like history as having cultural capital that all pupils should have access to regardless of background. The work of E.D. Hirsch has been particularly influential in arguing that a lack of...
Knowledge-rich approaches to history
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Primary History 84
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Editorial (Read article for free)
05 HA Primary News
08 Using stories to support early history skills and understanding in the EYFS – Sandra Kirkland (Read article)
10 Democratising history lessons in Key Stage 1: how pupil voice shapes history teaching and learning in our school – Stuart Boydell...
Primary History 84
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Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)
Immersive online course for experienced history teachers
Spring 2025 Cohort
Start date: Wednesday 26 February, 5.15pm–6.30pm
The Spring 2025 cohort is now fully booked. To register your interest in future cohorts, please contact Olivia at events@history.org.uk.
What is the Experienced Teacher Programme?
This six-week online course is designed to energise your teaching and help you engage with the history...
Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)
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New editorial team for the journal ‘History’
26th November 2024
The Historical Association is pleased to announce a new editorial team of the journal History. The Humanities Department of Northumbria University will be hosting an outstanding group of academics and scholars as the new commissioners and editors of the journal which was founded in 1912.
Becky Sullivan, CEO of the...
New editorial team for the journal ‘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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Real Lives: Alice Daye: mother of the English book trade
Historian feature
Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected to greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
Real Lives: Alice Daye: mother of the English book trade
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The Historian 143: Literature
The magazine of the Historical Association
4 Reviews
5 Editorial (Read article – open access)
8 Linking Law: Viking and medieval Scandinavian law in literature and history – Keith Ruiter (Read article)
13 The Memory of a Saint: managing the legacy of St Bernard of Clairvaux – Georgina Fitzgibbon (Read article)
17 Blurred Lines: the ever-decreasing...
The Historian 143: Literature
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Get involved in ‘The Historian’
15th October 2024
The Historian is a members’ magazine and we want to hear from you. We know that many of our readers are actively involved in history in some way and we would love you to share your stories with other members – who knows what you might inspire!
The editorial board...
Get involved in ‘The Historian’
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Cunning Plan 177: teaching about life in Elizabethan England by looking at death
Teaching History feature
‘We already did the Tudors in primary school’ was the most frequent comment made by students about our Year 7 scheme of learning in our annual review. Students reported covering the Tudors at least once, sometimes twice, before reaching secondary school and they had clearly not faced extensive further study...
Cunning Plan 177: teaching about life in Elizabethan England by looking at death
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Move Me on 177: using questioning effectively
The problem page for history mentors
This issue’s problem: Christine Pizan is struggling to use questioning effectively.
Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents...
Move Me on 177: using questioning effectively
