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Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing
Article
'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a department meeting. 'What’s the wisdom on…' provides history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of many years of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of history teaching.
To...
Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Writing
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Past Forward: University history and school history
Article
Recent trends in university history University historians have little incentive to discover what goes on in school history classrooms and many disincentives, as pressures of work mount and the ogres of university management point to the overwhelming need to improve, or sustain, current Research Assessment Exercise grades. History is rarely...
Past Forward: University history and school history
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Knowledge and the Draft NC
Teaching History article
Silk purse from a sow's ear? Why knowledge matters and why the draft History NC will not improve it
Katie Hall and Christine Counsell attempt to construct a Key Stage 3 scheme of work out of the draft National Curriculum for history that was released for consultation in England in...
Knowledge and the Draft NC
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The International Journal Volume 1 Number 1
Journal
Editorial
Old Wine, New Bottles : National Identity, Citizenship and the History Curriculum for the 21st Century
Articles
Penelope Harnett - History in the Primary School: Re-Shaping Our Pasts. The Influence of Primary School Teachers' Knowledge and Understanding of History on Curriculum Planning and Implementation.
Laura Capita,...
The International Journal Volume 1 Number 1
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Content restricted and maturation retarded? Problems with the post-16 history curriculum
Teaching History article
Mike Tillbrook examines the impact of the new AS and A2 courses, raising several serious concerns. He explores problems for effective and rigorous assessment as well as implications of the new course structure for the quality and range of historical learning. Critical of new restrictions in content, he suggests that...
Content restricted and maturation retarded? Problems with the post-16 history curriculum
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Film: What's the wisdom on...Similarity and Difference
Your Virtual History Department Meeting
We’ve been talking to our secondary school members and we know how difficult life is for teachers in the current circumstances, so we wanted to lend a helping hand.
'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a virtual department meeting....
Film: What's the wisdom on...Similarity and Difference
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What’s in a narrative? Unpicking Year 9 narratives of change in Stalin’s Russia
Teaching History article
Is it structure or the selection of knowledge that makes writing historical narrative so difficult? Where does a conceptual focus on change, or causation, come in? James Ellis set out to explore the challenges his Year 9 pupils faced in writing historical narratives about change. Inspired by the work of...
What’s in a narrative? Unpicking Year 9 narratives of change in Stalin’s Russia
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Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit
The mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times
Dr Jo Fox continued our virtual branch lecture series this July on the subject 'Reimagining the Blitz Spirit: the mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times'. Fox is the Director of the Institute of Historical Research and a well-known historian specialising in the history of propaganda, rumour and truth telling.
In this talk...
Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit
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What is interesting about the Cold War?
Article
Almost 30 years after the end of the Cold War, diversity is suddenly galvanising the field of scholarly research into the Cold War. As the historian Federico Romero has argued, older, simpler interpretations ‘seem to be giving way to a looser understanding of the Cold War as an era that encompassed...
What is interesting about the Cold War?
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Making reading routine
Teaching History article
Inspired by the growing number of history teachers who have sought to introduce younger pupils to academic historical scholarship in the classroom, Tim Jenner wanted to bring about his own reading revolution at Key Stage 3. But rather than simply develop one-off lessons or enquiries based on scholarship his goal...
Making reading routine
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HA Honorary Fellows 2025
HA awards
We are delighted to announce the Honorary Fellows for 2025.
Each year the Historical Association awards Honorary Fellowships to a small group of people. These awards are to recognise and celebrate outstanding services to history and to the Historical Association. The awards cover services to the Historical Association Branches (of which there are...
HA Honorary Fellows 2025
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Ideas for Assemblies: historical events
Article
Here are a few suggestions for assemblies over the next few months (March-June); each idea is linked to a specific historical event from that month...
Ideas for Assemblies: historical events
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Assessment in Primary History - Guidance
Assessment in Primary History
Whilst a number of schools have had well-considered assessment procedures for primary history, these represented a minority. With the new national curriculum, the old level descriptions have been replaced by a single sentence attainment target which states that "by the end of each key stage, pupils are expected to know,...
Assessment in Primary History - Guidance
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Why did you write it like a story rather than just saying the information?
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Six-year-old Rebecca asked me this question when I visited her classroom to share a book which I had written with her and her classmates. It seemed to me at the time that Rebecca was identifying a...
Why did you write it like a story rather than just saying the information?
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Using 1980s popular music to explore historical significance
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Scott Allsop helped his students to uncover the implicit criteria informing someone else's attribution of historical significance to past events. That ‘someone else' was Billy Joel whose 1989 song became the focus for deconstructive analysis....
Using 1980s popular music to explore historical significance
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Polychronicon 164: The End of the Cold War
Teaching History feature
A quarter-century on from 1989-91, with a large amount of archive and media material available, these epic years are ripe for historical analysis. Yet their proximity to our time also throws up challenging questions about the practice of ‘contemporary history’, and the complexity of events raises larger issues about how...
Polychronicon 164: The End of the Cold War
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Teaching History 17
Journal
About the journal, 2
The Editors, 2
Islam in history, 3
Resources - Islam in history, 5
African history in the classroom, 7
History in Central Africa, 10
Review article - recently published books on African history, 13
The historian's method - a course for the 'A' level student, 15...
Teaching History 17
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HA Honorary Fellows 2024
HA awards
Each year the Historical Association awards Honorary Fellowships to a small group of people. These awards are to recognise and celebrate outstanding services to history and to the Historical Association. The awards cover services to the Historical Association Branches (of which there are over 45 across the country), our committees and...
HA Honorary Fellows 2024
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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
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Teaching History 19
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Contributors, 2
The Genesis of the History Teaching Film - B. J. Elliott, 3
Film and the History Teacher - J. Duckworth, 8
A Select List of Feature Films of use in the Teaching of History - T. Gwynn, 11
New Approaches to the Study and Teaching...
Teaching History 19
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Teaching History 20
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Contributors, 2
Residential Courses for Sixth Formers - Tony Taylor, 3
What is History? Two Conferences - Brian Scott, 5
Structured Sixth Form Study - David Killingray, 8
16+ Feasibility Study and Oral Assessment - John Hamer, 10
Comment, 13
Reports:
Language and History Teaching, 15
History...
Teaching History 20
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Teaching History 23
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Contributors, 2
Teaching History: A Content Analysis of Numbers 1 to 20 - Keith Hodgkinson and J. B. Thomas, 3
History in Sixth Form Colleges in Hampshire - Joan Blyth, 7
`Booth at Hitchin': Assessing Thinking in History - Bernard Barker and Alan Southgate, 10
The Britannicus Letters...
Teaching History 23
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Teaching History 24
Journal
Editorial, 2
The Contributors, 3
`Public and Private Lives: Germany 1914 to 1939' - Diana Devlin, 3
The Perils of Clio in France - Clive Church, 7
Trends in History Teaching in France - L. 0. Ward, 12
How to Evaluate a History Department - John Higham, 14
Constraints in...
Teaching History 24
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Teaching History 25
Journal
Editorial, 2
Imaginative Writing Competition 1980, 2
The Teaching History Imaginative Writing Competition 1979, 3
The Contributors, 3
Patrick Richardson (1927-1979), 5
CEE History - One approach - Ian Dawson, 6
The Teaching of History, 11-18, A Consistent Approach - Jon Nichol, 9
Contradictory Ideas - Hugh Nicklin, 15
The...
Teaching History 25
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Teaching History 26
Journal
Editorial, 2
Contributors, 3
Trainee Teachers of History and Infants as Learners - John Fines, 3
Howler of the Year Competition, 5
A Castle in a Classroom - Carole Taylor and Joan Allmark, 6
Indian Village: a Simulation Exercise - Thomas F. Willer and Bruce M. Haight, 9
Bias in...
Teaching History 26
