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  • On-demand webinar: Helping children think about cause and consequence

      Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
    Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history Session 2: Helping children think about cause and consequence One of the most common questions asked by historians is ‘why...?’ Why did this event happen? How did the event happen? What were the results of this event? This session will explore disciplinary thinking...
    On-demand webinar: Helping children think about cause and consequence

  • Film: 'Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World'

      Article
    Historian and author Martyn Whittock recently gave a lecture for the HA Virtual Branch on 'Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World'. In 1620, 102 ill-prepared asylum seekers landed two months later than planned, in the wrong place on the eastern coast of North America. By the next summer, half of...
    Film: 'Mayflower Lives: building a New Jerusalem in the New World'

  • Powerful Pedagogy

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. The introduction of National Curriculum History in England as a statutory subject in 1989/90 faced primary teachers with a major challenge of how to teach a de facto new subject. The Nuffield Foundation funded a curriculum...
    Powerful Pedagogy

  • Principles for a history curriculum

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In the mid 1990s the Nuffield Foundation funded the development of a primary history curriculum for Yaroslavl in Russia. It was a contemporary curriculum, choosing issues and concepts of central concern to contemporary society and studying their...
    Principles for a history curriculum

  • The International Journal Volume 4 Number 2

      Journal
    Jannet van Drie and Carla van BoxtelEnhancing Collaborative Historical Reasoning by Providing Representational Guidance   Nadine Fink  Pupils' Conceptions of History and History Teaching   Alan HodkinsonMaturation and the Assimilation of the Concepts of Historical Time: a Symbiotic Relationship, or Uneasy Bedfellows? An Examination of the Birth-Date Effect on Educational...
    The International Journal Volume 4 Number 2

  • 1450: The Rebellion of Jack Cade

      Classic Pamphlet
    ‘When Kings and chief officers suffer their under rulers to misuse their subjects and will not hear nor remedy their people's wrongs when they complain, then suffereth God the rebel to rage and to execute that part of His justice which the partial prince will not.' Thus did the Tudor...
    1450: The Rebellion of Jack Cade

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Assassins and Templars

      Article
    In this talk, Steve Tibble discusses the Assassins and Templars, two of history's most legendary groups. One was a Shi’ite religious sect, the other a Christian military order created to defend the Holy Land. Steve Tibble traces the history of these two groups from their origins to their ultimate destruction showing how they survived...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Assassins and Templars

  • Key Stage 1 local history through fresh eyes

      Primary History article
    Upon approaching this article on teaching the local history component of the National Curriculum for Key Stage 1 I decided to focus on one school, to look at what they normally deliver, and to put forward suggestions that could be used to enhance their existing unit of study. I visited Pencoys...
    Key Stage 1 local history through fresh eyes

  • Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month

      22nd May 2025
    Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month (GRTHM) is an important way of highlighting the history and cultural traditions of groups of people who have identified as being non-stationary, and who have long been marginalised in British and European history. While Gypsies, Roma and Travellers are distinct groups with their own...
    Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month

  • Recorded webinar: Revisiting the witch trials

      Article
    The East Anglian witch hunt under Matthew Hopkins, self-appointed Witchfinder General, has garnered a great deal of popular and historical interest over the years. An image has developed of a zealous, misogynistic young man serving crazed 'justice' against supposed witches, whipping up panic and turning neighbours against each other in...
    Recorded webinar: Revisiting the witch trials

  • Ideas for Assemblies: the role of the international community in the First World War

      Article
    As part of our First World War centenary-themed assemblies, in the last issue of Primary History we focused on the importance of the local dimension. Here we have chosen to look at the role of the international community in the First World War. This approach reflects and celebrates our multi-cultural...
    Ideas for Assemblies: the role of the international community in the First World War

  • What our Members say

      Hear more from our members
    HA membership is for anybody with a professional or personal interest in history Whether you’re a head of history in school, an academic, a primary history teacher, or simply love history for the sake of it, there’s something for everyone.  Don't just take our word for it; hear what our...
    What our Members say

  • Pipes's punctuation and making complex historical claims

      Teaching History article
    Long, unreadable sentences in her students' essays led Rachel Foster to improve her post-16 students' punctuation. Her journey resulted, however, in more than improved punctuation. It led her to theorise what historians are really doing in their ‘signpost sentences'. She found herself showing students how an academic historian anticipates a chunk of argument in a single, well-turned, opening sentence. Foster created an intervention in which students...
    Pipes's punctuation and making complex historical claims

  • Exclusive free resource samples

      Information
    Get a taste of the HA's high-quality primary teaching materials delivered straight to your inbox! Complete the form below to receive a series of the HA's expert-produced resources, and see first-hand how HA membership can help to build your confidence and transform history teaching in your school. You'll receive a...
    Exclusive free resource samples

  • From Home to the Front: World War I

      Primary History article
    Events which encapsulate family, community, national and global history provide rich opportunities for engaging children. Some of these draw on positive memories associated with past events: the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, how people responded to the first flight to the moon, the Millennium celebrations. Yet it is perhaps gruelling...
    From Home to the Front: World War I

  • Film: Lenin's legacy

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    With his body was embalmed and building high statues were erected to him Lenin’s memory seemed secured for ever. Yet how did his memory and his actual legacy differ? Did he really set the course for a future better Russia, or were his ideas of revolution better on paper than...
    Film: Lenin's legacy

  • Film: Lenin and the Russian Civil War

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    Revolution is never simple. Lenin and the Bolsheviks quickly found that not everyone in Russia or outside of it approved of their new radical agenda. Russia was plunged into a civil war of devastating circumstances. How would its new leader manage and how much were the needs of the people...
    Film: Lenin and the Russian Civil War

  • 'Doing Local History' through maps and drama

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Editorial note: John Fines produced two case studies of Local History for the Nuffield Primary History Project. One on them is published here for the first time.
    'Doing Local History' through maps and drama

  • Film: Gorbachev - Domestic Reform

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the USSR
    Emeritus Professor Archie Brown explains how Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985 and describes the domestic and international situation the USSR found itself in at this point of the Cold War. He discusses Gorbachev's political and economic agenda and priorities, looks at the support and...
    Film: Gorbachev - Domestic Reform

  • 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

  • Talking History competition 2025 – the winners

      11th September 2025
    Talking History is now into its second year and gathering speed. Following the pattern of The Great Debate but adapted for Years 5 and 6 the competition seeks to encourage young people’s history and oracy skills through a public presentation. Schools are encouraged to enter their pupils into the online...
    Talking History competition 2025 – the winners

  • Mesopotamia: Making a picture of Mesopotamia in our heads

      Article
    Working in a small rural primary school in North Gloucestershire I was inspired by national news reports from Iraq to change the focus of our Ancient History study from Ancient Egypt to Mesopotamia, ‘the land between the rivers'. A study of this region of the Middle East fulfilled so many...
    Mesopotamia: Making a picture of Mesopotamia in our heads

  • The revised EYFS Framework: exploring ‘Past and Present’

      Primary History article
    A new Early Years Foundation Stage framework will become statutory from September 2021. Around three thousand primary schools in England are already implementing this revised framework – these settings have been deemed early adopter schools. The actual curriculum for EYFS is not changing. There will still be seven areas of learning...
    The revised EYFS Framework: exploring ‘Past and Present’

  • History of the Gloucestershire Branch 1919-2021

      HA branch history
    This article is based on a talk originally given after the 2003 Branch AGM which drew on branch records subsequently deposited with the County Archives. These comprise AGM and committee minutes as well as notes on, and some details of, speakers for each meeting from the 1928-9 season to 1957,...
    History of the Gloucestershire Branch 1919-2021

  • Michael Wood, Hadrian and the Making of Early England

      Article
    Michael Wood opened the summer lecture series for the HA virtual Branch on the Making of Early England. In it he introduced key characters and texts that help to establish the cultural past of that time and also reveal to us what we know of it. These people included overlooked...
    Michael Wood, Hadrian and the Making of Early England