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  • Webinar series: Teaching history to mixed age classes in primary

      HA webinar series for primary teachers and history subject leaders
    What does this series cover? This webinar series will explore effective approaches to planning and teaching history across mixed-age classes. We will discuss how children at different ages and key stages engage with key historical concepts and share practical strategies to support inclusive learning and adaptive teaching. Drawing on successful...
    Webinar series: Teaching history to mixed age classes in primary

  • A view from the classroom: Teachers TV, The Staffordshire Hoard And 'Doing History'

      Primary History article
    When the Historical Association was approached by Teachers' TV to produce ‘Great Ideas for Teaching History' at Key Stage 2, it was inevitable that I, as a full time teacher on the Primary Committee, would have no escape. My school agreed I could take part, with the involvement of two...
    A view from the classroom: Teachers TV, The Staffordshire Hoard And 'Doing History'

  • My Favourite History Place: Keswick

      Historian feature
    Adventure is a buzz word in the tourist trade and this old market town with under 5,000 residents advertises that it is the Lake District’s Adventure Capital. There is plenty to justify the title – the challenges of mountaineering on foot, bicycle or climbing-rope, swimming, canoeing, sailing, dragon-boat racing, hang-gliding and...
    My Favourite History Place: Keswick

  • Triumphs Show: Seeing consequences in 3D

      Teaching History feature
    ‘You think you’ve found a way to help our Year 7s explain historical consequence?’ My head of department sounded intrigued. ‘View them as shockwaves!’ I exclaimed. ‘Just like Boba Fett’s ship in Star Wars!’ My head of department raised an eyebrow. It was September 2024, and I had just joined...
    Triumphs Show: Seeing consequences in 3D

  • Parliament, people or privilege: Do we need a better understanding of constitutional history?

      Historical Association conference 2017: round table discussion
    Join our panel, including Dr Alix Green, Professor Tony Badger and Professor Justin Champion as they discuss how recent polls and election results have confounded many pundits. Do calls to ‘give us our country back’ or ‘return our sovereignty’ suggest that many people in liberal democracies need a better understanding of...
    Parliament, people or privilege: Do we need a better understanding of constitutional history?

  • Having 'Great Expectations' of Year 9

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What scope does studying a classic novel in both English and history provide for meaningful cross-curricular work and how might engaging with historical fiction help pupils engage more effectively with the realities of the past?...
    Having 'Great Expectations' of Year 9

  • Raising the profile of history in your school

      HA Primary Subject Leader Area
    All too often, primary schools allow English and mathematics to steal the limelight, unwittingly pushing other subjects to one side. Now is the time to steal some of the limelight back. Whether you are a new subject leader or you have been leading the subject for years, you have a...
    Raising the profile of history in your school

  • Cornwall Branch History

      Branch History
    The earliest information we have about the HA in Cornwall is an Annual General Meeting minute book showing that the branch was re-formed in 1963 by schoolteachers. Lecture meetings were held in various schools and these were probably all in the Truro area. The branch always appears to have been...
    Cornwall Branch History

  • Women’s History Month: Female Voices

      Primary resources
    March is Women’s History Month each year. We have produced resources to support primary school assemblies exploring the history of female suffrage in the UK. If you would like some ideas for a special assembly during Women’s history month, download our assembly ideas and powerpoint presentation to support your school assembly....
    Women’s History Month: Female Voices

  • Teaching local history through a family

      Article
    The aim of this article is to teach local history through the prism of a local family. History is primarily about people. Using a family who lived in the locality over a large number of years, especially if they impacted considerably on that locality, can help develop an understanding of...
    Teaching local history through a family

  • Using different sources to bring a topic to life: The Rebecca Riots

      Primary History article
    For primary school pupils a key aim of the National Curriculum for history is to understand the method of historical enquiry. Working with original sources is of course central to the whole process and provides a great way to inspire pupils’ experience of the subject. Young pupils, once they have...
    Using different sources to bring a topic to life: The Rebecca Riots

  • Ideas for assemblies: LGBT History Month

      Primary History feature
    LGBT History Month was established in 2004. It not only raises awareness of discrimination still faced by the LGBT+ community but also celebrates LGBT+ people and their achievements. February is LGBT History Month and its theme this year was ‘History: Peace, Reconciliation, and Activism’. 
    Ideas for assemblies: LGBT History Month

  • Film: Making an effective History curriculum

      Workshop Film: Yorkshire History Forum 2018
    Richard Kennett is a senior leader, teacher, blogger, text-book author and member of HA secondary committee. In November 2018, Richard visited the Yorkshire History Forum to talk about his school’s experience of reviewing and re-planning their Key Stage 3 curriculum. This film is of Richard’s keynote speech at the Forum....
    Film: Making an effective History curriculum

  • The Historian 167: Science

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Ask The Historian 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 Social Darwinism: the myth and its reinvention – Geoffrey M. Hodgson (Read article) 10 White heat or hot air? The politics of science in 1960s Britain – Steve Illingworth (Read article) 14 More than skin deep: unmasking the history of cold cream – Farhana...
    The Historian 167: Science

  • Using ICT in the Teaching of History

      Transition Training Session 2
    This is the second 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...
    Using ICT in the Teaching of History

  • Planning for history - the coordinator's perspective

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Editorial note: Cathie's paper can be used as a checklist of action points for the planning of Programmes of Study incorporating history. Starting points If you are responsible for leading teaching and learning in history, there...
    Planning for history - the coordinator's perspective

  • Campaign: Make an impact and history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. What is the role of history in the curriculum? Is it to give a traditional education or because history is a powerful teacher that we all can learn from? In my view well-taught history doesn't leave...
    Campaign: Make an impact and history

  • The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia

      Historian article
    Adam Simmons draws our attention to the need for further research into the relationship between the medieval Kingdoms of Ethiopia and Nubia – a fascinating time and place in African history which is neglected in the historical archive and about which, so far, there are only limited sources. The kingdoms of Ethiopia...
    The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia

  • Getting to grips with concepts in primary history

      Primary History article
    Perhaps one of the most perplexing aspects of teaching history is the fostering of conceptual understanding. History subject leaders often find this a challenging issue. Even if they have a decent grasp themselves, it can be difficult for others in the school who have to teach the subject. Over recent...
    Getting to grips with concepts in primary history

  • Magic History of Roman Britain

      Article
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum.  The Magic History of Roman Britain by Jon Nichol provides a great deal of information about life in Roman Britain in story form. It tells the story of Sam and Jane,...
    Magic History of Roman Britain

  • Raising the profile of history in your school

      Primary History article
    All too often, with increasing pressure to obtain the ‘best’ results, primary schools allow English and mathematics to steal the limelight, unwittingly pushing other subjects to one side. As a consequence, these ‘other’ subjects are squeezed into vehicles to teach English or maths – barely recognisable under the guise of...
    Raising the profile of history in your school

  • Leading Primary History

      Leading Primary History
    Please note: this guide was written before the 2014 National Curriculum and some of the advice may no longer be relevant. For more up-to-date guidance visit our Primary Subject Leader area (available to Corporate Primary Members) or see:  Progression and assessment without levels Progression from EYFS to KS3 Tracking pupil progress Assessment and...
    Leading Primary History

  • '...trying to count the stars': using the story of Bergen-Belsen to teach the Holocaust

      Teaching History article
    Maria Osowiecki's search for the right questions to frame her students' study of the Holocaust was driven initially by the proximity of her school to the site of Bergen-Belsen, and the particular interests and concerns of her students as members of British Forces families. But, as this article richly demonstrates,...
    '...trying to count the stars': using the story of Bergen-Belsen to teach the Holocaust

  • Teaching History 167: Complicating Narratives

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update: Partition of British India 08 ‘I feel if I say this in my essay it’s not going to be as strong’: multi-voicedness, ‘oral rehearsal’ and year 13 students’ written arguments – James Edward Carroll (Read article) 18 Why are...
    Teaching History 167: Complicating Narratives

  • Starting a new Branch

      Organising and running an HA branch
    The Historical Association and its branches Branches have been an essential part of the Historical Association since it began. They exist in all parts of the United Kingdom and take a variety of forms. A branch provides a local forum to bring together all those with an interest in history:...
    Starting a new Branch