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Journal
Editorial 2
Teaching the Schools Council History Project in Hong Kong, 3
Andy Homden
Lancashire Texti :es and the Indian Connection, Mary Searle-Chatterjee 7
Olivares, Ian Bradbury 9
History Across the Spectrum, John Higham 12
Simulation and History - what actually happens in the classroom? 14
Ian Cardall
Talking History,...
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Journal
Editorial 2
Taking advantage of Tollund Man, Rob David 3
Artefacts in the Primary School, John Davies 6
Video and History, Alan Farmer 9
Teaching History in Malawi's Secondary Schools, Sean Morrow 14
A One-year Sixthform Local Studies Course, M.C. Holvoak 20
Report: Women's History Seminar, Sue Millar 22
Letters...
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Journal
Editorial - Is Neutrality Possible? 2
Letters 3
News 4
Articles:
Childrens' evaluation of evidence on neutral and sensitive topics Roger Austin, Gordon Rae and Keith Hodgkinson 8
Empathy - a case of apathy? - Trevor May and Sean Williams 11
Assessing Drama at GCSE - Graham King, Jennifer Tucker...
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Journal
Editorial - Towards 100 2
News 6
Articles:
History Teachers for the 1990s and Beyond - Helen Patrick 10
Survival or Training? - Martin Booth, Gwenifer Shawyer and Richard Brown 16
Jorvik: some School Children's Reactions - Jeffrey Watkin 21
Research Work in the Primary School - D. Joan Jones...
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Journal
Editorial 2
News 3
Articles:
Multiculturalism and the Lower School History Syllabus: Towards a Practical Approach. - Paul Goalen 8
Using Audio-Visual Media with Slow Learners: A New Approach in History - Keith Hodgkinson 17
New History and Media Education - Derek McKiernan 20
Local History Studies in the Classroom...
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Teaching History 56
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 History Across the Primary Secondary Divide - Pat Lackenby and Mel French
14 Evacuation - Fifty Years On - Rob David and the Evacuation Project Team
18 A Fourth Year B.Ed Student asks some questions - Kay Clarke
20 Women's History and Children's perception of gender - Fiona Terry
25 Grasping the...
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Teaching History 57
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
7 'Not the White Tights again!': Role-play in History Teaching at Degree Level - Ian Dawson
14 The Impact of GCSE History on Further Education - Ian Aveyard
17 Some Sixth-Former's Views of History - Janice C. Vaudry
25 A Small Oral History Project in Four Rural Cumbrian Primary Schools - Dilys M....
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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 58
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
7 National Curriculum History: Interim Report - Martin Booth
10 Teachers' Concerns over the Current Vogue in Teaching History - Peter Truman
17 Story-Telling in History - Alan Farmer
24 'Mr. History': the Achievement of R. J. Unstead Reconsidered - Sean Lang
27 'Let's Think about this': GCSE History - Computer Aided Course...
Teaching History 58
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Teaching History 59
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
History and Economic Awareness in the National Curriculum - David Kerr
Deconstruction to Reconstruction: Women's History through Local History - Dave Welbourne
Keeping the Past under Review - Linda Vitagliano and Peter Lim
History as Ethnography: a Pyschological Evaluation of a Theatre in Education Project - George Shand, Rosemary Linnell and Derek...
Teaching History 59
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Teaching History 60
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
9 The Nature of History and the National Curriculum - Michael Honeybone
11 Information Processing in Primary History Topic Work - Philip Powell
14 Blickling 1698 - Alan Childs and Mike Pond
17 The Women in Modern Britain Project - Sebastian Bees
21 The Time Machine: A Cross Curricular Approach to Teaching History...
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Teaching History 61
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Who is the National Curriculum in History for? - Sylvia Collicott
13 A Race between Education and Catastrophe: The Final Report of the History Working Group - Sue Styles
17 Why does it Matter? A Personal Response to the Final Report - Ian Dawson
22 From the Ivory Tower: A University...
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Teaching History 62
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Always Historicise: Unintended Opportunities in National Curriculum History - Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley
15 'From Little Acorns Grow...': A Liaison with Nursery, Infant and Junior Schools in the Framwellgate Moor Area of Durham City - D. R. Featonby
19 Standing the World on its Head: A Review of Eurocentrism...
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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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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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The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Using Evidence in the GCSE History Classroom - Heather Fry
18 Preparing to Teach about Causation - Ian Davies and Margaret Marshall
23 History Through Drama: A Curriculum Development Project - Graeme Easdown
28 The Appliance of Science: History and the Use of Artefacts in the Primary Curriculum - Peter Vass
33...
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Teaching History 64
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 The Professional Craft Knowledge of the History Teacher - Peter John
12 Talking about History: Group Work in the Classroom - Practice and Implications - Kenneth Brzezicki
17 Issues in the Teaching of History - Towards a Skills/Concept-led Approach - Jane Jenkins
22 Bebba and her Sisters - Gully Robson
26 Time...
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Teaching History 65
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Replies to Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley: Always Historicise? - Richard Aldrich
13 Clarity Please! - Gavin Alexander
15 Economic Awareness through History - P. J. Rogers
21 National Curriculum History and Teacher Autonomy: The Major Challenge - Robert Phillips
25 Teaching History: Art American Experience - Sean McGrath
28 Learning about Museum Resources - Sue...
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Teaching History 66
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
7 The Discursive Turn: Tony Bennett and the Textuality of History - Keith Jenkins
17 History Reprieved? - Terry Haydn
21 Overwhelming Evidence: Written Sources and Primary History - Peter Vass
27 Towards a Controllable Time Machine' - Sean O'Conaill
31 Beating the Invader in 1941: A 7-year-old's Experiences - John Kinross
35 Key Stage...
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Teaching History 68
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
9 History Teaching and Economic Awareness: A Sample Topic - P. J. Rogers
14 A Land Fit for Heroes: Recreating the Past through Drama - Kate Fleming
17 Holt Hall, 1940: A Residential 'Living History' Project - Alan Childs and Mike Pond
20 History and Computers in Dorset - Dave Martin
26 Clear...
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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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The HA's journal for history teachers
11 Using the Attainment Targets in Key Stage 2: AT2, 'Interpretations of History' - Pam Harper
14 Using the Attainment Targets in Key Stage 3: AT2, 'Interpretations of History' - Tony McAleavy
18 A Way of Looking at History: Local-National-World Links - Sylvia L. Collicott
23 Deja vu - The...
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The HA's journal for history teachers
7 The Aims of School History - John White
10 Beyond the Old Dichotomies: Some Reflections on Hayden White - Keith Jenkins
17 Teaching Post-Modern History: A Rational Proposition for the Classroom? - Peter Brickley
23 What is the Future for the History National Curriculum? - Frances M. Connelly
27...
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On-demand webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
On-demand webinar series for primary teachers and history subject leaders
What does this series cover?
This practical series of webinars will identify what confuses pupils in primary history and how such confusion and misconceptions can be avoided and challenged. Through examples of careful planning and activities it will show how pupils can develop an accurate and nuanced understanding of chronology...
On-demand webinar series: Avoiding confusion and challenging misconceptions in primary history
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The HA's journal for history teachers
2 Editorial
3 News
5 The Dearing Final Report - Threat or Opportunity? - Carol White
7 Responses to the Dearing Report: History Post-16 - Laurie Taylor
9 Making Dearing Enduring - A Personal View - Roy Hughes
11 Teaching History at Key Stage 2 - One School's Approach -...
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