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  • Teaching History 117: Dealing with distance

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition deals with how to help pupils to notice in themselves those assumptions that are based on their own familiar world and which actually get in the way of making sense of past actions and belief. How one period visualises another, Ideas for developing chronological understanding, Modern day parallels...
    Teaching History 117: Dealing with distance

  • Cooperative Learning: the place of pupil involvement in a history textbook

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Pupil involvement is at the heart of every good history lesson. Its planning ensures that pupils are given the opportunity to think for themselves, share ideas, discuss evidence and debate points. The history education community...
    Cooperative Learning: the place of pupil involvement in a history textbook

  • The International Journal Volume 9 Number 2

      IJHLTR
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research Volume 9, Number 2 - Autumn/Winter 2010 ISSN 1472-9466   1. Editorial Hilary Cooper and Jon Nichol. 04 2. Articles Eleni Apostolidou 06 Oscillating Between the Recent Past and the Remote Past: The Perceptions of the Past and the Discipline of History...
    The International Journal Volume 9 Number 2

  • Cunning Plan 173: using Black Tudors as a window into Tudor England

      Teaching History journal feature
    On 29 September 2018 I was fortunate enough to get involved with a collaborative project with Dr Miranda Kaufmann, the Historical Association, Schools History Project, and a brilliant group of people from different backgrounds all committed to teaching about black Tudors. In this short piece, I will share how I...
    Cunning Plan 173: using Black Tudors as a window into Tudor England

  • What difference has the opening (and closing) of archives after 1991 made to the historiography of the Cold War?

      Twentieth-century history
    Prior to the East European revolutions of 1989, and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, commentators outside the region were largely reliant on printed material collected by specialist research libraries, informal rrangements with contacts ‘behind the iron curtain’, information that could be gleaned from visits to the region, and...
    What difference has the opening (and closing) of archives after 1991 made to the historiography of the Cold War?

  • The International Journal Volume 7 Number 1

      Journal
    Articles Dursun DilekUsing a Thematic Teaching Approach Based on Pupils' Skill and Interest in Social Studies Teaching   Helena GillespieTeaching Emotive and Controversial History to 7-11 Year Olds: a Report for The Historical Association   Robert GuyverThe History Curriculum in Three Countries - Curriculum Balance, National Identity, Prescription and Teacher...
    The International Journal Volume 7 Number 1

  • History is literacy: 'doing history' with written and printed sources

      Primary History article
    Introduction: English, Literacy & History - The Bullock Report In 1975 the British government published a very great and wise man, Lord Bullock's report, on the teaching of English. Lord Bullock, a world-class historian, worked closely and intensely with distinguished figures in the teaching of English [literacy]. Lord Bullock, with...
    History is literacy: 'doing history' with written and printed sources

  • Building and assessing historical knowledge on three scales

      Teaching History article
    The knowledge that ‘flavours' a claim: towards building and assessing historical knowledge on three scales While marking some Year 11 essays, Kate Hammond found her interest caught by significant differences between one kind of strong analysis and another. Some scored high marks but were less convincing. The achievement in these...
    Building and assessing historical knowledge on three scales

  • Who were the Nuns? English Convents in Exile 1600-1800

      Public History Podcast
    An HA Public History Podcast featuring Dr Andrew Foster and Dr Caroline Bowden discussing the project: Who were the Nuns? A Prosopographical study of the English Convents in exile 1600-1800. 'Who were the Nuns?' is a funded project at Queen Mary, Universty of London that has been making a comprehensive study of...
    Who were the Nuns? English Convents in Exile 1600-1800

  • Teaching History 113: Creating Progress

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    This edition deals with creating progress: History teachers are creating progress - the idea and the reality. Why rely on others to define and design it? The creation process is every teacher's property and there is no celing on what we might help pupils achieve. JFK, Progression models, Roleplay in...
    Teaching History 113: Creating Progress

  • Mussolini's missing marbles: simulating history at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Arthur Chapman and James Woodcock have collaborated before: Woodcock extended Chapman’s familiar casual metaphor of the final straw breaking a poor abused camel’s back. Here, they collaborate more explicitly to suggest a means of teaching students to produce adequately nuanced historical explanation. Their two central ideas are to produce a...
    Mussolini's missing marbles: simulating history at GCSE

  • Case Study: Children's questions about historical pictures

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. Pictures are an important source of evidence for children to use to find out about the past. They have an immediate impact and children of all ages and abilities find that they have...
    Case Study: Children's questions about historical pictures

  • She sells seashells by the seashore: teaching Mary Anning at Key Stage 1

      Primary History article
    Mary Anning was a fascinating individual who would be a purposeful addition to a history curriculum. This article outlines the rationale behind including her as a significant individual but also offers ideas for developing young children’s understanding of historical interpretations.
    She sells seashells by the seashore: teaching Mary Anning at Key Stage 1

  • Tony Blair, the Iraq War, and a sense of history

      Historian article
    Blair the war leader provided historians with countless opportunities to get their names in the newspapers, let alone voice their opinions across the airwaves. The usual suspects were lined up (Eric Hobsbawm and Ben Pimlott in the Guardian, Andrew Roberts and John Keegan in the Telegraph, Niall Ferguson in The...
    Tony Blair, the Iraq War, and a sense of history

  • Introducing the Empire through coins

      Lesson Plan
    This coins lesson introduces children to the complex and controversial subject of the British Empire in a practical, hands-on way. (These resources are attached below) The lesson can stand alone or form an introduction to an in-depth study of empire, immigration and emigration. It overlaps usefully with geography and citizenship....
    Introducing the Empire through coins

  • The Undergrowth of History

      Classic Pamphlet
    We can do all kinds of things with the past - examine it analytically, or question whether it ever existed, or churn it up inside ourselves until it turns into personal experience. We can dream it as we lounge amidst a heap of ruins, or petrify it into a museum;...
    The Undergrowth of History

  • Polychronicon 159: Interpreting Magna Carta

      Teaching History feature
    First some history: the question of how historiographic and public historical representations of Magna Carta have changed over the last 800 years is an important one. The ‘myth' of Magna Carta as a foundational document for modern democracy is still very powerful. That tradition of understanding the legacy and history...
    Polychronicon 159: Interpreting Magna Carta

  • Primary History 34: What the Dickens?

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    3 Editorial 4 Primary Noticeboard 6 In My View: Enjoying a good story – Paul Bracey 9 Breadth, Balance and the Literacy Hour – Roger Beard 11 “But why did Guy Fawkes try to blow up the king, Miss?” Investigating support for explanatory understanding in primary history books – A....
    Primary History 34: What the Dickens?

  • Primary History 36: Through the viewfinder

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    3 Editorial 4 Primary Noticeboard 6 In My View: ‘History at Three. Over my Dead Body!’ – Hilary Cooper 8 Optional Assessment Materials for History at Key Stage 2 – Elin Jones 10 History co-ordinators’ dilemmas: Tim Lomas and Keith Dickson 12 A Load Of Rubbish: Using Victorian throwaways in...
    Primary History 36: Through the viewfinder

  • Should empathy come out of the closet?

      Teaching History article
    What is historical empathy and why is it important? What has gone wrong and what had gone right in past attempts to develop students' empathetic understanding? What does progression look like in this area of historical thinking and what are the  preconceptions that can act as barriers to progression? Lee...
    Should empathy come out of the closet?

  • The Historian 111: An Intimate History of Your Home

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 An Intimate History of Your Home - Lucy Worsley (Read Article) 10 The Tale of Two Winstons - Warren Dockter (Read Article) 13 The President's Column - Jackie Eales  14 Drought, Dust and Despair: The Story of pioneering British settlers' heartbreaking struggle to survive in the Victorian Mallee - 1923-1936 -...
    The Historian 111: An Intimate History of Your Home

  • Into the Key Stage 3 history garden: choosing and planting your enquiry questions

      Teaching History article
    Drawing upon a range of practice, Michael Riley analyses the characteristics of a good enquiry question. He explores the importance of careful wording of the question if it is genuinely to help the teacher to integrate areas of content into a purposeful learning journey and without distortion.He then moves on...
    Into the Key Stage 3 history garden: choosing and planting your enquiry questions

  • Reshaping students’ understanding of empire

      Teaching History article
    In interviews with GCSE students across a range of school contexts, Abigail Branford found that many young people regarded Africa as an economic ‘dead zone’ prior to colonial intervention. This conception, as Branford briefly illustrates, is at profound odds with current historical scholarship; yet it persists. In seeking to support history...
    Reshaping students’ understanding of empire

  • Telling difficult stories about the creation of Bangladesh

      Teaching History article
    Nathanael Davies recognised that previous efforts to diversify the history taught at his school by weaving new stories into the curriculum had made little impression on his students’ assumptions about what really counted as history. Planning a new enquiry on the creation of Bangladesh was intended both to bridge a...
    Telling difficult stories about the creation of Bangladesh

  • Italian history teachers day

      Partnership CPD from the Historical Association, Association for the Study of Modern Italy, University College London and Royal Holloway, University of London
    Saturday 12 October 2024, 10am–3pmUniversity of London This event will feature lectures from academics from the University of Leicester, UCL and Royal Holloway on a variety of topics within Italian history from 1900-1946. It will provide up to date academic knowledge on key topics within this period of Italian history...
    Italian history teachers day