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  • History and Citizenship

      E-CPD
    N.B. This unit was produced before the 2014 curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links.  The UNIT provides guidance and help for teachers and support staff to embed the combined teaching of History and Citizenship - History...
    History and Citizenship

  • The potential of primary history

      Primary History article
    In this article Alison Kitson and Michael Riley consider the potential of the primary history curriculum to educate children about climate change and sustainability. They suggest some important principles, and a range of strategies, that could be used to develop a stronger emphasis on environmental history in primary history.
    The potential of primary history

  • Writing Lilian Harrison into history

      Article
    In this article Matthew Brown and Pablo Scharagrodsky introduce us to the little-known story of Anglo-Argentinian swimmer Lilian Harrison, who in 1923 became the first person to swim the 42km from Uruguay to Argentina at the estuary of the Rio de la Plata. Her story shows how she had to battle against not only tides and...
    Writing Lilian Harrison into history

  • Happy and Glorious: exploring and celebrating the Platinum Jubilee

      Primary History article
    History is full of significant royals, yet few seem quite so remarkable as Her Majesty the Queen. Since her birth in 1926, she has witnessed the tragedy of a world war, the decline of the British Empire and the birth of the Commonwealth of Nations. Not only is she the...
    Happy and Glorious: exploring and celebrating the Platinum Jubilee

  • Historical Association public statement on the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

      9th September 2022
    The Historical Association is deeply saddened by the death of our Patron, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. On behalf of our organisation and members we offer our sincere condolences to the Royal Family. For 70 years Elizabeth II has represented continuity and stability in an ever-changing world. Her life of...
    Historical Association public statement on the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

  • The Historian 19

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Remembering Australia, K.S. Inglis 10 Update: Anglo-Saxon England, Henry Loyn 12 Comment: Curiouser and Curiouser, Colin Richmond 13 Portfolio: Cabinets of Curiosities, R. W. Unwin 18 Historical Reconstruction, Peter Brears 19 Education Forum: The Lost Generation? George Bernard 20 Local History: Shall I buy a Computer? David Short
    The Historian 19

  • ‘Man, people in the past were indeed stupid’

      Teaching History journal article
    In this article, which is based on Huijgen’s PhD dissertation Balancing between the past and the present, Tim Huijgen and Paul Holthuis present the results of an experimental method of teaching 14–16-year-old students to contextualise their historical studies in a different way. In the four lessons described, students’ initial reactions...
    ‘Man, people in the past were indeed stupid’

  • Triumphs Show 180: From ‘most able’ to ‘mini’ historians

      Teaching History feature
    Finding ways to stretch and challenge the highest-attaining students has been a long-standing concern of many history teachers, and strategies for doing so have developed far beyond merely bolting on additional tasks. One way in which I have sought to challenge my own high-attaining students has been by setting them...
    Triumphs Show 180: From ‘most able’ to ‘mini’ historians

  • Insights from a year of leading the development of a ‘knowledge-rich curriculum’

      Primary History article
    Raynville Primary School serves a highly disadvantaged area of West Leeds and we work hard to provide our children with the best opportunities to learn and enjoy their time with us. One jewel in the crown of our school’s curriculum is children’s historical learning as part of a knowledge-rich curriculum....
    Insights from a year of leading the development of a ‘knowledge-rich curriculum’

  • Teaching History 189: Collaboration

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Adding up marginal gains: using Lesson Study to make microimprovements in teaching Year 8 how to use sources – Tony McConnell, Davinia Daley, Rebecca Levy, Lisa Waddell and Richard Waddington (Read article) 23 Triumphs Show: ‘The Strands of Memory’: how a...
    Teaching History 189: Collaboration

  • Using the back cover image: Exploring the collections of Victorian naturalists

      Primary History feature
    Many museums around the country house natural history collections that offer children the opportunity to engage with a wide variety of species from around the world. Using the collections of Victorian explorers and naturalists offers children a historical perspective with a cross-curricular approach which has a great appeal. Yet for...
    Using the back cover image: Exploring the collections of Victorian naturalists

  • Historical Association Privacy Notice

      Information
    The Historical Association is committed to the protection of your privacy. We take your rights seriously and treat all the information you give us with care. This privacy notice explains how and why we collect, store and use the personal data you give us, to ensure you stay informed and...
    Historical Association Privacy Notice

  • Introducing History Lab

      A crowd-sourced history club
    In 2021, teacher Richard Lewis founded History Lab as an idea for a history club that goes beyond the curriculum and enables students to think, form opinions and voice them as well as learning from one another's perspectives. The club can be led by a teacher, librarian or other knowledgeable...
    Introducing History Lab

  • Creating effective history displays

      Primary History article
    Having been an history co-ordinator for over 15 years, I was fortunate enough to be able to plan a wide range of history displays which covered multiple periods. I enjoyed it because, for me, it provided the opportunity to inspire, inform and provoke a response. When preparing a display, I would...
    Creating effective history displays

  • Timelines in teaching history

      Primary History article
    ‘History is about time, it subsists in time, time is the medium by which it happens’ (John Fines, Primary History 59, 2011). Yet the fact that time is fundamental to the study of history does not make it any easier to teach (Hoodless, 2008). The abstract nature of time as a concept is...
    Timelines in teaching history

  • Debates: Narratives - what matters most in school history education?

      Teaching History article
    In England, a curriculum review is imminent. Following a recent ‘call for evidence' by the government, further consultation on the future shape of history in schools will follow. The HA is currently consulting its membership and will be publishing discussion papers in January 2012. At such a time, everyone in...
    Debates: Narratives - what matters most in school history education?

  • History Abridged: Balmoral

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. Think Horrible Histories for grownups (without the songs and music). See all History Abridged articles Royal majesty is buttressed by...
    History Abridged: Balmoral

  • Cunning Plan 151: When and for whom has 1688 been 'Glorious'?

      Teaching History feature
    This enquiry is about how interpretations are formed and why they change. It aims to show Year 9, right at the end of their study of British history, the ways in which meanings of 1688 have shifted over time. It will test students' knowledge and strengthen their chronology of 300...
    Cunning Plan 151: When and for whom has 1688 been 'Glorious'?

  • Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 History (Early Years)

      Primary History article
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. History education needs to be placed in a wider pattern of curriculum development. Part I of this paper looks at general issues linking History with citizenship education and the early years. Part 2...
    Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 History (Early Years)

  • Conducting the orchestra to allow our students to hear the symphony

      Teaching History article
    Alex Ford and Richard Kennett both welcome the renewed emphasis on knowledge within recent curriculum reforms in England, but are concerned about some of the ways in which the principle of a ‘knowledge-rich’ curriculum has been interpreted and transformed into particular pedagogical prescriptions. In this article they explain their reasons...
    Conducting the orchestra to allow our students to hear the symphony

  • Teaching History 153: The Holocaust & Other Genocides

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Tamsin Leyman and Richard Harris - Connecting the dots: helping Year 9 to debate the purposes of Holocaust and genocide education (Read article) 11 Darius Jackson - ‘But I still don't get why the Jews': using cause and change to answer pupils' demand for an...
    Teaching History 153: The Holocaust & Other Genocides

  • Environmental history and the challenges of the present

      Historian article
    In a wide-ranging survey of the field, Amanda Power explains what it means to do environmental history at a time of climate crisis, and points to the opportunities and challenges in this thriving area of research...
    Environmental history and the challenges of the present

  • Using Large Learning Models in the History Classroom: practical perspectives

      Article
    History: The Journal of the Historical Association has a long tradition of addressing questions of pedagogic practice in its pages. Most recently, this has included an article on school-university collaborations in our June 2025 issue. Moreover, our December 2025 issue is set to feature a series of contributions on 'Creative History in...
    Using Large Learning Models in the History Classroom: practical perspectives

  • Bolton Branch History

      Branch History
    The Bolton Branch of the Historical Association, having been founded in 1927, celebrated its 80th birthday suitably spectacularly in October 2007. Not only did it have, for the occasion, a distinguished Chief Guest as visiting lecturer, and an audience of nearly 200, but it also had a large, decorative and...
    Bolton Branch History

  • Podcast: From sex to the suffragettes

      Podcast: Keynote Lecture Annual Conference 2019
    Over the last few years, we have seen a widespread cultural failure in our history. From the rose-tinted nostalgia of politicians to a rise in destructive ideologies, history has become weaponised by those who seek to misuse, misrepresent and misunderstand it. At the same time, the field of history is...
    Podcast: From sex to the suffragettes