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  • Case Study: Constructing women's past and gender perspective

      Primary History article
    Pupils as Journalists Background of the Study Historiography has expanded to include all social groups and identities in the community. The social historiographical approach became extremely important in the 20th century (Cooper, 2007, pp. 41-2). In parallel with social historiography and related second wave feminism, women began to write their...
    Case Study: Constructing women's past and gender perspective

  • The Sir Martin Gilbert History Prize 2022

      16th March 2022
    The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is delighted to announce the 2022 Sir Martin Gilbert History Prize. The essay question for this year is:   "Debates about war are important, but not more important than the human story of those who fought in them." – Sir Martin Gilbert  Discuss with reference to a...
    The Sir Martin Gilbert History Prize 2022

  • Developing KS3 students’ ability to challenge their history curriculum through an early introduction of significance

      Teaching History article
    Offered five weeks to teach ‘whatever he wanted’ to Year 7, Andrew Slater decided that he wished to tackle the concept of significance head-on early in his students’ time in his school. He chose the expectedly unfamiliar substantive content of the Khmer Empire, challenging his students to justify the significance of...
    Developing KS3 students’ ability to challenge their history curriculum through an early introduction of significance

  • Swansea Branch Programme

      Article
    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

  • Triumphs Show 170: making a place for fieldwork in history lessons

      Journal article
    Why ‘do’ local history? The new (grades 9–1) GCSE specifications place a lot of importance on the local environment. The rationale for this is to get students to situate a site in its historical context, and to examine the relationship between local and national developments. Initially this change was the...
    Triumphs Show 170: making a place for fieldwork in history lessons

  • Teaching History 180: How History Works

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial: How History Works (read article for free) 03 HA Secondary News   04 HA Update   10 Curating the imagined past: world building in the history curriculum – Michael Hill (read article) 21 Staying with the shot: shaping the question, lengthening the narrative, broadening the meaning of transatlantic slavery...
    Teaching History 180: How History Works

  • Pupil-led historical enquiry: what might this actually be?

      Teaching History article
    The current National Curriculum for history requires pupils to ‘identify and investigate specific historical questions, making and testing hypotheses for themselves'. While Kate Hammond relished the encouragement that this gave to her pupils to engage in the process of historical enquiry, she was keen to develop a much clearer sense...
    Pupil-led historical enquiry: what might this actually be?

  • Using oral history to enhance a local history partnership

      Teaching History article
    Eliza West and Emily Toettcher explain how a partnership between school and museum has evolved into a four-year enquiry into local history. The article focuses on the successful introduction of an oral history element in the GCSE syllabus and how the investigation into ‘remembered’ history helps students to appreciate the complexities of truth...
    Using oral history to enhance a local history partnership

  • History through Drama, A Teachers' Guide - Revisited

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. It is now some seventeen years since the publication of our original pamphlet by the Historical Association [HA] as part of the Teaching of History Series (Wilson and Woodhouse, 1990). This article offers a personal review...
    History through Drama, A Teachers' Guide - Revisited

  • The Historian 8

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Institute of Historical Research, F.M.L. Thompson 10 Domesday Celebrations: Robert Smith, John Palmer 16 Local History: The Victoria County History, C.R J. Currie 20 Past Presidents: W.N. Medlicott 31 Spotlight: Cambridge
    The Historian 8

  • Using Virtual Reality to promote historical contextualisation in classrooms

      Teaching History article
    In this article, Mannak, Huijgen and Tuithof share their experience of using Virtual Reality to promote historical contextualisation of the Berlin Blitz with their 13–15 year old students. They outline some strategies for using VR well in the classroom, and ways to avoid potential pitfalls. They then introduce a pedagogical...
    Using Virtual Reality to promote historical contextualisation in classrooms

  • Careers with History

      Multipage Article
    A history degree equips you with many skills that are attractive to employers. History is actually very practical, because it involves: Learning about people – how they interact, the motives and emotions that can tear people apart into rival factions or help them to work together for a common cause (useful...
    Careers with History

  • Teaching History 116: Place

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition deals with how the purpose of history relates to the purpose of geography or how geography's shaping concepts fit into those of history. How do the two subjects strengthen each other? 06 Sense, Relationship, and Power: Uncommon Views of Place - Liz Taylor (Read article) 14 Cunning Plan: Geography...
    Teaching History 116: Place

  • What’s The Wisdom On... Consequence

      Teaching History feature
    Consequence easily becomes ‘causation’s forgotten sibling’, as Fordham noted, in the title of a workshop presented at the 2012 Historical Association conference. The choice to treat consequence separately from causation in this series of articles is, therefore, a very deliberate one. Yet an emphasis on the importance of consequences should...
    What’s The Wisdom On... Consequence

  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Introducing students to historical interpretation

      Historian article
    High school history teacher Brent Dyck is one of our Canadian readers. He has offered this item to The Historian as a contribution to our commitment to explore the historical approaches and values that we are seeking to convey to young people and the wider public. We hope that you may...
    Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Introducing students to historical interpretation

  • Film: Creating a more positive interpretation of the Middle Ages at Key Stage 3

      Secondary History Workshop Annual Conference 2019
    Popular perceptions of life, politics and morality in the Middle Ages are overwhelmingly negative, a far cry from images being developed by historians through their research. This workshop explores how to tweak and change familiar topics (including the reign of Richard III) to create a more historically accurate, positive and...
    Film: Creating a more positive interpretation of the Middle Ages at Key Stage 3

  • 'A lot of guess work goes on': Children's understanding of historical accounts

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated The ESRC-funded Project Chata has collected evidence of children's ideas about the discipline of history and attempted to see if there is any progression in those ideas. Here, Peter Lee describes how Chata has tried...
    'A lot of guess work goes on': Children's understanding of historical accounts

  • Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    The uses of sources in History, The evidence sandwich, Teaching Pupils to analyse cartoons, shared stories and a sense of place, Working with sources, interpretations of history and much more... The use of sources in History - Tony McAleavy (Read article) The evidence sandwhich - Margaret Mulholland (Read article) Teaching...
    Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation

  • The International Journal Volume 4 Number 1

      Journal
    Editorial  Historical Consciousness, Teaching and Understanding History    Articles Peter Lee'Walking backwards into tomorrow' Historical consciousness and understanding history   Robert Guyver and Jon NicholFrom Novice to effective Teacher: a Study of Postgraduate Training and History Pedagogy
    The International Journal Volume 4 Number 1

  • Music, blood and terror: making emotive and controversial history matter

      Teaching History article
    Lomas and Wrenn, co-authors and compilers of the Historical Association’s DfES-funded T.E.A.C.H 3-19 Report (Teaching Emotive and Controversial History), explore further ideas and examples of good practice from issues arising out of the report’s conclusions. Lomas and Wrenn propose five distinct categories of emotive and controversial history that further develop...
    Music, blood and terror: making emotive and controversial history matter

  • Politics, history and stories about the Cold War

      Article
    Interpretation of the Cold War is a fascinating area. Many students begin to study it certain pre-formed ideas – gleaned from their parents, perhaps, or from films or computer games. Historians have interpreted it in different ways – and those who believe in the ‘twenty-year rule’ that historical judgment is...
    Politics, history and stories about the Cold War

  • Creating confident historical readers at A-level

      Teaching History article
    How can we help pupils learn to read historically? Gary Howells explores this question by explaining how he builds reading challenges into the course of his pupils' post-16 studies and by describing some of the tasks that pupils are set and the principles that underpin them. Howells argues that over...
    Creating confident historical readers at A-level

  • Helping Year 7 make sense of the 1381 revolt

      Article
    David Ingledew was inspired by his participation in the Historical Association ‘People of 1381’ Teacher Fellowship to begin a project using local history in St Albans to disrupt established narratives of the 1381 Revolt. Keen to make the most of the local heritage, Ingledew collaborated with Steve Clarke and John Mitchell...
    Helping Year 7 make sense of the 1381 revolt

  • A revolution in primary history teaching, quietly consolidated over the past 35 years

      Primary History article
    This article 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 In my 38 years in history education, the most profound...
    A revolution in primary history teaching, quietly consolidated over the past 35 years

  • Triumphs Show: Making their historical writing explode

      Teaching History feature
    ‘Who hates PEE paragraphs?’ A collective groan resounds around my classroom. ‘Today, Year 10 we are going to master PEE  paragraphs, and make our written historical explanations explode.’ I always remember one deflated Year 10 student who said, ‘Miss, I just don’t get PEE paragraphs. I couldn’t do them in Year 7, and I still...
    Triumphs Show: Making their historical writing explode