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  • Teaching History 119: Language

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    05 Does the linguistic release the conceptual? Helping Year 10 to improve their causal reasoning – James Woodcock (Read article) 24 Are you ready for your close-up? – Heather Scott with Judith Kidd (Read article) 15 The Tudor monarchy in crisis: using a historian’s account to stretch the most able...
    Teaching History 119: Language

  • Facing History

      Article
    Facing History is an American organisation and website that provides CPD materials and resources on identity, memory and forgiveness. They have a series of case studies and video materials for teachers. There are materials on Civil Rights and, for example, the Armenian Genocide, on their website. Facing History Website>>> Holocaust...
    Facing History

  • Exploring and Teaching Twentieth-Century History

      A secondary education publication of the Historical Association
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of history teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today  For a long time, history curricula on the 20th century prioritised...
    Exploring and Teaching Twentieth-Century History

  • The National Curriculum for History from September 2014: the view from Ofsted

      Article
    IntroductionWith the publication on 11 September 2013 of the final version of the revised National Curriculum for September 2014, subject leaders and classroom teachers could start to consider the implications of the proposed changes. For history at Key Stages 1 and 2, some parts of the programmes of study are...
    The National Curriculum for History from September 2014: the view from Ofsted

  • Primary History 44: Boudicca

      Journal
    05 Editorial 08 In My View: music in the history curriculum — Rosie Turner-Bisset (Read article) 09 History is a hot potato or thinking through history — Hilary Cooper 12 Reflections on writing ‘The song remembers when’: writing family story, writing history — Hilary Claire (Read article) 14 Think Bubble...
    Primary History 44: Boudicca

  • Teaching History 18

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The contributors, 2 Geffrye Museum: People's Museum, 3 Report: Staffordshire Courses, July 1976, 5A Renaissance in history 'A' level, 6 Exploring a Community's Past, 11 Comment, 14 Making the best use of textbooks, 16 Detective exercises are not quite enough, 22 Review article - imagination and the historian,...
    Teaching History 18

  • What is interesting about the world wars?

      Article
    In the past, the two world wars have been mainly studied as military history, focused on armies, campaigns and battles. Historians have concentrated on wars in Europe and in particular on the Western Front in 1914–18 and on the war with Nazi Germany in the west. This has given rise...
    What is interesting about the world wars?

  • HA Secondary History Survey 2014

      Survey Report
    ‘History for all' is a phrase that has been used by many, including politicians, and historical knowledge has long been viewed as an essential part of a citizens' understanding of Britain and the wider world. Unfortunately, the HA annual survey for 2014 has revealed that bit by small bit that...
    HA Secondary History Survey 2014

  • Constructivist chronology and Horrible Histories

      Primary History feature
    Hilary Cooper illuminates how Horrible Histories can be effectively used to develop an understanding of chronology. She researched two topics: children and law and order. You can download her full paper: it is included in Primary History 59 on Teaching Chronology.
    Constructivist chronology and Horrible Histories

  • How can we teach about medieval Britain in primary schools?

      Primary History article
    There is no question that the medieval period (no matter what timespan it claims) offers plenty of fascination for the primary pupil. It also allows some continuity with the period up to 1066 which forms the bedrock of the Key Stage 2 history curriculum. With opportunities to cover the medieval...
    How can we teach about medieval Britain in primary schools?

  • Sir William Capell and a Royal Chain: The Afterlives (and Death) of King Edward V

      History journal blog
    This blog post and interview complement the first view publication of the author's History journal article: ‘Sir William Capell and a Royal Chain: the Afterlives (and Death) of King Edward V’. The disappearance in 1483 of King Edward V and his brother Richard, duke of York - the 'Princes in the Tower' -...
    Sir William Capell and a Royal Chain: The Afterlives (and Death) of King Edward V

  • The Diabolical Cato-Street Plot

      Historian article
    Richard A. Gaunt reminds us that it is still possible to visit the site of a notorious conspiratorial challenge to Lord Liverpool’s government, and why this event was so significant. At around 7.30pm on Wednesday 23 February 1820, a dozen Bow Street Runners in plain clothes, led by George Thomas...
    The Diabolical Cato-Street Plot

  • The Mary Celeste: the history of a mystery

      Historian article
    Graham Faiella guides us through the historical evidence and literary speculation surrounding one of the ultimately unresolved incidents of recent times. One hundred and fifty years ago, sometime between 25 November and 4 December 1872, the brigantine Mary Celeste was abandoned at sea somewhere between the Azores and the coast of Portugal....
    The Mary Celeste: the history of a mystery

  • Recorded Webinar: ‘Drawing the Line’: the 1947 Partition of India

      Article
    August 2022 marks 75 years since British India was divided at independence into two separate states: India and Pakistan (the latter including today’s Bangladesh). As with the 70th commemoration in 2017, this anniversary will trigger a great deal of collective remembering in Britain just as in South Asia itself. Freedom from...
    Recorded Webinar: ‘Drawing the Line’: the 1947 Partition of India

  • Out and About in Upper Weardale

      Historian feature
    Tony Fox introduces us to two battlefields and the work of the Battlefields Trust. Stanhope takes its name from the ‘stony valley’ in which it sits. It is the most significant town in beautiful Upper Weardale. Like many towns in this area Stanhope’s growth accelerated in the nineteenth century as...
    Out and About in Upper Weardale

  • GCSE to AS level History

      Student Guides
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 curriculum For many students the transition from GCSE to AS level is one of the hardest stages of their school career. This is the stage where teachers begin to stop guiding you along every step of the way and start to expect you...
    GCSE to AS level History

  • Ealing Branch Programme

      Article
    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

  • Teaching local history through a family

      Article
    The aim of this article is to teach local history through the prism of a local family. History is primarily about people. Using a family who lived in the locality over a large number of years, especially if they impacted considerably on that locality, can help develop an understanding of...
    Teaching local history through a family

  • Pupil Voice Survey: Views of history – within and beyond school

      21st March 2023
    The Historical Association (HA) in conjunction with the University of Oxford Education Department are looking for schools to help carry out two very short questionnaires: (1) with any students willing to share their views of the subject including, where relevant, their decision about whether or not to choose the subject...
    Pupil Voice Survey: Views of history – within and beyond school

  • History and Journalism (2): Dunkirk - Writing 'the top line' for a news bulletin

      History and Careers Unit 2
    Context: This is aimed at Key Stage 3 students who are studying World War Two. They should know that Britain and France declared war on Germany in September 1939.
    History and Journalism (2): Dunkirk - Writing 'the top line' for a news bulletin

  • The Standing Stone

      Article
    ‘The Standing Stone’ story and the activities around it developed from several different starting-points. One was the requirement in the 2014 National Curriculum for history at Key Stage 2 for children to be taught prehistory, specifically about ‘changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age’, with Bronze...
    The Standing Stone

  • Developing local history in your primary curriculum

      HA Primary Subject Leader Area
    Field trips as a class may be problematic for the immediate future, but this doesn't mean that you can’t still plan for a local history enquiry even during periods of local lockdown. On the contrary, if the enquiry is localised then the children should still be able to access local amenities...
    Developing local history in your primary curriculum

  • The Government of the Roman Empire

      Classic Pamphlets
    The Government of the Roman Empire, as everyone knows, was autocratic, and, like all autocracies, it was ‘tempered by assassination' or by military revolution. The emperor ruled through an imperial service, at once civil and military, in which several grades, corresponding to the social classes of the empire, were always...
    The Government of the Roman Empire

  • The Historian 49: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    2 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle - Alfred R. Smyth 8 Update: Galileo - Michael Sharratt 11 Labour, language and class - John Belchem 17 Profile: Lord Curzon of Kedleston - Harry Bennett 20 Education Forum: Young Historian Prizes - Gordon Batho 20 In memoriam: F. G. Emmison - John Fines
    The Historian 49: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

  • The Historian 58: Lord Acton's Inaugural

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    2 Lord Acton's Inaugural, John Burrow 7 Local History: Local and Regional History: the Example of North East England, Norman McCord 10  The Victorians and Child Labour, Eric Hopkins 15 Education Forum: Forgotten Corner of Europe?: Scandinavian History in English History Textbooks, Leo Pekkala 16 Gladstone, Ian Machin 20 Tours...
    The Historian 58: Lord Acton's Inaugural