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  • Webinar series: Draft Ofsted toolkits: implications for primary history

      HA webinar series for current and aspiring primary history subject leaders
    What does this series cover? This series of webinars will investigate the implications of the new draft Ofsted inspection toolkit on primary history to help subject leaders feel confident to prepare and support teachers in obtaining a positive outcome for the school’s report card. After an overview session on the...
    Webinar series: Draft Ofsted toolkits: implications for primary history

  • Employment, employability and history

      Teaching History article
    Employment, employability and history: helping students to see the connection Five years ago, in Teaching History 132, Harris and Haydn drew attention to the fact that while the vast majority of Key Stage 3 students claimed to enjoy history and even to regard it as a useful subject, relatively few...
    Employment, employability and history

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Enquiry questions (Part 1)

      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 new and already popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Enquiry questions (Part 1)

  • Cunning Plan 202: interdisciplinary teaching of landscape through time

      Teaching History feature
    From a young age I have been fascinated by the history of the landscape. Family holidays in the Lake District offered early encounters with the past that did not come mediated through textbooks, but through place. Driving over Dunmail Raise, my father would point out that the ancient ruler, Dunmail...
    Cunning Plan 202: interdisciplinary teaching of landscape through time

  • Bruce! You're history.' The place of history in the Scottish curriculum

      Teaching History article
    History teachers in Scotland are feeling vulnerable. A curriculum review is leading to debates about history’s place in schools – will it or should it be a statutory part of Scotland’s curriculum for 11-14 year olds? Many of the concerns in Sam Henry’s article will ring true for teachers throughout...
    Bruce! You're history.' The place of history in the Scottish curriculum

  • Diversity and the History Curriculum

      Article
    It's very dangerous if you make it seem like history is the province of a certain segment of society. History should belong to and include all of us. The curriculum needs to appeal to as many children as possible or a number of them could become disenchanted with education because they...
    Diversity and the History Curriculum

  • Your Secondary CPD calendar Summer 2026

      News Item
    "CPD from the Historical Association is always high quality and provides expert guidance and support."  At the HA we know how essential subject-specific CPD is for your development. That’s why, we offer a year-round programme of training that supports history teachers at all stages of their career, from trainees to...
    Your Secondary CPD calendar Summer 2026

  • Out and About with Garibaldi

      Historian feature
    One approach used by British local historians is to explore and examine patterns in the landscape, based on a belief that the patterns will instruct and develop our historical awareness and understanding. Although approaches to local history may be less developed abroad, we can still apply our techniques to the...
    Out and About with Garibaldi

  • Contribute to our Podcast Series

      Get Involved
    The Historical Association was founded in 1906 with the intention of supporting everyone interested in the study and teaching of history. Over the last few years we have produced over 400 podcast albums on a diverse range of topics covering everything from Ancient to Modern history. The aim of these...
    Contribute to our Podcast Series

  • Teaching Year 9 pupils to see and sense social memory as an expression of knowledge about the past

      Teaching History article
    Prompted by the attacks on statues in summer 2020, William Mason began to question how effectively he taught his students about popular interpretations or historical ‘myths’. He designed an enquiry about the myth of Churchill to introduce his pupils to the concept of collective memory and to ways in which...
    Teaching Year 9 pupils to see and sense social memory as an expression of knowledge about the past

  • The Historian 167: Out now

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Read The Historian 167: Science 2025 is a memorable year for scientific anniversaries: it is 350 years since the foundation of the Royal Observatory at Greenwich; 200 years since the start of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures and Michael Faraday’s discovery of benzine; and for the contemporary historians among our...
    The Historian 167: Out now

  • Teaching the very recent past

      Teaching History article
    ‘Miriam's Vision' is an educational project developed by the Miriam Hyman Memorial Trust, an organisation set up in memory of Miriam Hyman, one of the 52 victims of the London bombings of 2005. The project has developed a number of subject-based modules, including history, which are provided free to schools...
    Teaching the very recent past

  • Historical Fiction: warts and all

      Historian article
    The perception is that, for historical fiction, this is the best of times. It has never been more popular: witness the 2012 Christmas day schedule-jostling between Downton Abbey and Call the Midwife. It has never been more literary: witness Hilary Mantel winning her second Man Booker prize for Bring Up the...
    Historical Fiction: warts and all

  • Marr: magpie or marsh harrier?

      Teaching History article
    The quest for the common characteristics of the genus ‘historian' with 16- to 19-year-olds Diana Laffin writes about historical language and explores how understanding different historians' use of language can help sixth form students refine and deepen both their understanding of the discipline of history and their abilities to practise...
    Marr: magpie or marsh harrier?

  • Creating controversy in the classroom: making progress with historical significance

      Teaching History article
    No longer is historical significance the ‘forgotten key element.’ Indeed, it is now being remembered at last – by politicians, telly-dons and the media in any case. Matthew Bradshaw suggests that the popular emphasis on significant events is wrong. Instead, we should be enabling our pupils to make their own...
    Creating controversy in the classroom: making progress with historical significance

  • Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch

      Article
    The Medlicott Medal is awarded annually for outstanding services and contributions to history. This year the Medal went to renowned historian and author Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch who is currently Professor of the Church at Oxford. His 2008 book History of Christianity: the first three thousand years is the leading authority on the history...
    Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch

  • Who inherits the house? Using heritage to shape pupils’ thinking about historical significance

      Teaching History article
    Reflecting on the reasons why generic models for teaching historical significance are never quite adequate, Rachel Foster found herself considering, instead, the specific contexts in which arguments about historical significance arise.  These reflections took her to the fascinating example of stately homes. Drawing on scholarship such as that of Peter...
    Who inherits the house? Using heritage to shape pupils’ thinking about historical significance

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 162: GCSE Thematic Study

      Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
    Thematic studies have been a long-standing feature of the Schools History Project (SHP) GCSE specifications in England and Wales; but for teachers of ‘Modern World’ GCSE specifications, the thematic study in the new GCSE specifications for teaching in England from September 2016 is unfamiliar territory. Perhaps you are entirely new...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 162: GCSE Thematic Study

  • Oppenheimer – a review

      Paula Kitching
    It is a blockbuster summer and autumn for films as the big studios seem to be hitting back following the Covid slump. Even better, rather than it just being about comic-book superheroes and supervillains, this year some of the film studios have hit on historical topics to get the audiences...
    Oppenheimer – a review

  • Pupils as apprentice historians (2)

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. "Without knowing how the history we receive was arrived at, we can only take it as a series of mysterious assertions, which can only be learned in the sense of learning off by heart. Rote-learned history...
    Pupils as apprentice historians (2)

  • Who was King Alfred? And was he really ‘Great’?

      Primary History article
    Gaining the depth and richness of subject knowledge needed to teach different aspects of history effectively can prove challenging for busy primary school teachers. In this article Francis Leneghan presents key subject knowledge and suggested enquiry questions to inform and structure a depth study of King Alfred. The article focuses...
    Who was King Alfred? And was he really ‘Great’?

  • Teaching History 151: Continuity

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Rachel Foster - The more things change, the more they stay the same: developing students' thinking about change and continuity (Read article) 18 Polychronicon: The Revolution of 1688 - Ted Vallance (Read article) 20 Cunning Plan: The 'Glorious' revolution of 1688...
    Teaching History 151: Continuity

  • Primary History 25: special edition: Curriculum 2000

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    A guide to the Curriculum Orders 2000  4 The main features of Curriculum 2000 and the likely implications 5 The current condition of primary history 7 What is good history: the criteria for effective primary school history 8 Issues relating to the youngest children 10 Keeping the content manageable in...
    Primary History 25: special edition: Curriculum 2000

  • Primary History 46: Citizenship, Controversial Issues & Identity

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    04 Editorial: history, citizenship and the curriculum – a fit purpose (Read article) 05 In My View: citizenship education in primary schools – Lord Adonis 06 In My View: history and identity – Sir Keith Ajegbo 07 Citizenship, identity and culture: Two Poems – Benjamin Zephaniah and an 8th century...
    Primary History 46: Citizenship, Controversial Issues & Identity

  • Think Bubble 54 - Arte facts - Get my Meaning?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. It is difficult to think of an area of primary history that has had a more transforming effect on the subject than that of artefacts. The idea of giving children a ‘real' experience of the past...
    Think Bubble 54 - Arte facts - Get my Meaning?