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  • How to teach chronology

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. For more recent resources see: Chronology: Developing a coherent knowledge (2014) Scheme of work (KS2): Chronology: Books through time Scheme of work (KS2): Chronology: Numbers through time  Britain and World timeline 4000-2000BC Britain and World timeline 2000BC to 0BC Britain and World timeline, 0BC...
    How to teach chronology

  • Towards a new primary curriculum: The Cambridge Primary Review 2009

      Primary History article
    Towards a new primary curriculum: Cambridge Primary Review Part 1, Past and Present, Part 2, The Future - An editorial response to the Cambridge Primary Review.  Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Introduction The Cambridge Primary Review, director Robin Alexander, is the...
    Towards a new primary curriculum: The Cambridge Primary Review 2009

  • Bertrand Russell's Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis

      Historian article
    'An attack on the United States with 10,000 megatons would lead to the death of essentially all of the American people and to the destruction of the nation.’ ‘In 1960 President Kennedy mentioned 30,000 megatons as the size of the world’s stockpile of nuclear weapons.’ In the autumn of 1962...
    Bertrand Russell's Role in the Cuban Missile Crisis

  • How to fill out your UCAS

      Quick Guide
    How to fill out your UCAS 1. How to Slideshow by BUCKS University     2. UCAS website Interactive tools for UCAS   3. Studential Website Studential.com was created in 2002 to provide in-depth information about going to university and the application process involved. Whilst their primary aim is to...
    How to fill out your UCAS

  • HA Branches in the East Midlands

      Branch details by region
    Leicester Branch Joint programme with Northampton Branch Leicester Chair: Annabelle Larsen leicesterha@gmail.com (Northampton Chair: David Waller david@davidwaller.org.uk) Most talks will be on the second Tuesday of the month, 18.00-19.30. Leicester branch programme   Lincoln Branch Branch contact: enquiries to Prof. Jamie Wood jwood@lincoln.ac.uk Venue: All talks start at 6.15pm and take place at the Brayford Pool Campus of...
    HA Branches in the East Midlands

  • Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch Programme

      Article
    For any branch enquiries please telephone Marie Davidson on 0141 956 1172 All meetings are held at 11am on the second Saturday of the month at Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church Observatory Road, Glasgow West End G12 9AR.  Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch Programme 2025 11 January 2025 The Blitz...
    Glasgow & West of Scotland Branch Programme

  • Chata in a Nutshell

      Article
    OK, so it's another acronym. What's it mean? Concepts of History and Teaching Approaches at Key Stages 2 and 3. Chata tried to get a picture of 7 to 14 year-old kids' ideas about history (just over 400 of them in all). That's their ideas about the discipline and how...
    Chata in a Nutshell

  • Richmond & Twickenham Branch Programme

      Article
    Enquiries: Richard Turk at richardgturk@yahoo.com or call 07958 729526 Entry to meetings is free for HA members, non-members £2.00 per meeting. Local membership of the Branch is £14.00 per year. All Meetings begin at 8pm and take place at Richmond Library Annexe, Quadrant Road, Richmond upon Thames,TW9 1DH. Quadrant Road is...
    Richmond & Twickenham Branch Programme

  • An introduction to ‘History’, the journal of the HA

      Information
    History is the Journal of the Historical Association. First published in 1912, History has been a leader in its field ever since. It is unique in its range and variety, packing its pages with stimulating articles, extensive book reviews, and editorial notes. History balances its broad chronological coverage with a...
    An introduction to ‘History’, the journal of the HA

  • Local and Community History Month

      1-31 May each year
    The aim of the month is to increase awareness of local history, promote history in general to the local community and encourage all members of the community to participate. Activities happen across the UK and include trips, library exhibitions and local lectures. It is a great way for groups to...
    Local and Community History Month

  • Talking to an HA Branch

      Information
    The inevitable answer is of course that branches differ in their audiences, with some having a smattering of academics, some with teachers and others largely made up with people with an interest in the subject but not professionally involved in history. That means some people will be relying on what...
    Talking to an HA Branch

  • Diversity and Inclusion Strategy

      HA policies
    As a membership charity our purpose is to promote the study, teaching and enjoyment of history to the widest possible audience. We want everyone, regardless of background, to be able to engage with, debate, examine and shape history. As part of our ethos on diversity and inclusion we will not...
    Diversity and Inclusion Strategy

  • Global Learning Programme

      Global Learning Programme
    The Global Learning Programme (GLP) is a ground-breaking new programme which will create a national network of like-minded schools, committed to equipping their students to make a positive contribution to a globalised world by helping their teachers to deliver effective teaching and learning about development and global issues at Key Stages 2...
    Global Learning Programme

  • Teaching controversial issues...where controversial issues really matter

      Teaching History article
    This is the fourth in a series of Teaching History articles about teaching history in N orthern Ireland co-authored by Alan McCully. The first two articles (in editions 106 and 114) outlined teaching strategies to help pupils in N orthern Ireland understand and relate to complex and often controversial issues...
    Teaching controversial issues...where controversial issues really matter

  • The Historian 23

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    3 Feature: Women in the Two World Wars, Penny Summer 10 Update: Modern India; Imperialism and Nationalism 1880 1947, Judith M Brown 13 Record Linkage: Heraldry and the Historian, Adrian Ailes 20 Anniversary: 150 Years of Photography
    The Historian 23

  • Primary History 21

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    4 Primary Update – Tim Lomas 7 Making the most of ICT at Key Stage 2 – Miriam Norton 10 Mathematics from history – Colin Miller 11 Citizenship and history: equipped to meet the challenge – David Kerr 13 Changes in the National Curriculum – planning for Key Stage 1 history – Jayne Woodhouse 15 Story...
    Primary History 21

  • Building and assessing learner autonomy within the Key Stage 3 history classroom

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Oliver Knight is an experienced Advanced Skills Teacher who has taught in four different secondary schools, three of them multi-ethnic, multi-lingual and multi-cultural and at least two wrestling with significant problems arising from social deprivation....
    Building and assessing learner autonomy within the Key Stage 3 history classroom

  • Migration - GCSE

      Links to Articles & Podcasts
    Podcasts Podcast Series: England's Immigrants 1330-1550 Podcast Series: Social & Political Change in the UK 1800-present: Part 3 Diversity - A Changing Population Podcast Series: Diversity in Early Modern Britain Social & Political Change in the UK 1800-present: Part 5 Religion The Huguenots in Britain & Ireland  Native North Americans...
    Migration - GCSE

  • Note-making, knowledge-building and critical thinking are the same thing

      Teaching History article
    Heidi Le Cocq sets out the classic problem of the history teacher: how does she cover the content and ensure that pupils reflect and analyse at the same time? She relates this to a another problem: how do you prepare pupils well for coursework (ensuring, for example, that they adopt...
    Note-making, knowledge-building and critical thinking are the same thing

  • Primary History 13

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    4 Viewpoint - Grant Bage 4 Primary History Teachers - an endangered species? - Alan Hodkinson 5 Corinthian Helmet - Patrick Wood 6 Begin at the Beginning: The Iliad - Patrick Wood 8 Using Greek Vases in a Study of the Greeks at Key Stage 2 - Keith Dickson 10...
    Primary History 13

  • Local study: Fulwell Windmill

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: This article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references may be outdated. The lesson formed part of a local study of Fulwell and Fulwell Windmill in Sunderland. It could also be taught as part of the Victorian Britain Study Unit. The children had already looked at maps and...
    Local study: Fulwell Windmill

  • History, citizenship and Oliver Stone

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. When is a work of art a work of history? How can we get our students to appreciate the difference without ignoring the overlap? How should we ask our students to approach the historical film...
    History, citizenship and Oliver Stone

  • Nazi aggression: planned or improvised?

      Historian article
    Read more like this: Nazism and Stalinism Fascism in Europe 1919-1945 Kristallnacht Anti-semitism and the Holocaust The Coming of War in 1939 Political internment without trial in wartime Britain Neville Chamberlain: villain or hero? The Mechanical Battle of Britain Since the 1960s, there have been two main schools of thought...
    Nazi aggression: planned or improvised?

  • Extended Writing in History

      Transition Training Session 3
    This is the third of 5 sessions arising from the 2005 KS2-KS3 History Transitions Project: Transition training session 1: Historical Enquiries & Interpretations Transition training session 2: Using ICT in the teaching of history Transition training session 3: Extended writing in history Transition training session 4: Joan of Arc - Saint, Witch...
    Extended Writing in History

  • Thrive as an NQT (Part 1)

      Thrive Part 1
    No matter how good your training was, starting as an NQT is a significant step up in your teaching career. You will still be wrestling with the big ideas about history teaching which you explored in your training year.  You will also have the all too real, day-to-day pressures of...
    Thrive as an NQT (Part 1)