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The Jews of Medieval England
Historian article
The diversity of the history of the British Isles continues to be a subject of discussion in academic circles and in popular culture. Some communities have been around for hundreds of years, while others have been part of our societies and then disappeared or been eroded. One of the communities...
The Jews of Medieval England
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Resourcing sources
HA Primary Subject Leader Area
As a subject leader, are you often asked to provide historical objects and other documentary sources to support your colleagues with the teaching of history, but don’t know where to start looking? Well – read on!
Teachers need to give children experience of handling a range of sources of information....
Resourcing sources
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Aztec Experience
Lesson Plan
Take a holiday with the Aztecs! Children design holiday brochures.
History providing a context for literacy. Demonstration and modelling of the holiday brochure genre, and the transfer of understanding of the generic form into an historical context.
Pupils produced their own brochures giving information about life in the Aztec capital,...
Aztec Experience
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On-demand webinar: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories as a mentor
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Session 4: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories
The fourth webinar considers how to support beginning and early career history teachers to tackle more sensitive, emotive and controversial histories in the classroom, and harness the potential of their mentee...
On-demand webinar: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories as a mentor
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Multi Academy Trust History Leads Network
Open to all MAT history leads
Multi Academy Trust History Leads Network
The HA has teamed up with a group of history leads across different Multi Academy Trusts to re-ignite a network group dedicated to those leading history across a trust. The network will meet 3 times per year, twice online and once in-person, and meetings will focus...
Multi Academy Trust History Leads Network
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Triumphs Show 138: a kinaesthetic interpretation of Dover castle
Teaching History feature
Licking the stones: a kinaesthetic interpretation of Dover castle in 360 degrees
This is the story of one history department that, in collaboration with a local historical site, embarked on a ‘curriculum co-development project' with the art department. The aim was to use learning experiences outside the classroom to bring...
Triumphs Show 138: a kinaesthetic interpretation of Dover castle
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Welcome to HA Membership
Information
We are delighted to welcome you as a member of the Historical Association. By joining you’ve become part of a vibrant subject community made up of thousands of different people with a shared interest: history!
Whether you want to gain access to informative and engaging history resources, take part in...
Welcome to HA Membership
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From The Holocaust To Recent Mass Murders And Refugees
IJHLTR Article
International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 14, Number 2 – Spring/Summer 2017ISSN: 14472-9474
Abstract
Through studying cases of genocide and mass atrocities, students can come to realize that: democratic institutions and values are not automatically sustained but need to be appreciated, nurtured, and protected; silence and indifference to the...
From The Holocaust To Recent Mass Murders And Refugees
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Pupil Perceptions and History
E-CPD Resource
A PowerPoint presentation by Alison Kitson dealing with Pupil Perceptions and History.
Pupil Perceptions and History
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Teaching history as a national grand narrative
Article
There is no reason why highly sophisticated, intellectually challenging, creative and enjoyable ways to teach history to young children should not continue when a National Curriculum for History is based upon a country's Grand Narrative, know that knowledge, that can require knowledge of ‘facts' such as key dates, the names...
Teaching history as a national grand narrative
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The British Empire on trial
Article
In the light of present-day concerns about the place, in a modern world, of statues commemorating figures whose roles in history are of debatable merit, Dr Gregory Gifford puts the British Empire on trial, presenting a balanced case both for and against.
In June 2020 when the statue of slave-trader Edward Colston...
The British Empire on trial
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Boudicca
Lesson Plan
Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here.
Pupils asked:
Who was Boudicca?
What was she like physically and what was she like as a person?
What did other...
Boudicca
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History and Illustration: Quentin Blake
Primary History article
When, at your invitation, I bring together the words ‘History' and ‘Illustration', two images spring immediately to mind. One is John Leech's illustrations to The Comic History of England (1847-1848); the other is the drawings that Ronald Searle brought back from being a prisoner of war of the Japanese a hundred...
History and Illustration: Quentin Blake
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Using Folktales, Myths and Legends
Global Learning
This resource was commissioned by the Historical Association to offer teachers an entry point into the new primary History curriculum using stories: folktales, myths and legends from the civilisations, communities and cultures of the statutory programmes of study.
In this resource, pupils are encouraged to recall and retell stories orally,...
Using Folktales, Myths and Legends
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The Historian 17
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Sir Robert Peel, 1788-1850, Asa Briggs
8 Education Forum: The National Curriculum — what sort of history? Martin Roberts and Donald Read
9 Update: Politics and Religion in Tudor England, Ralph Houlbrooke
The Historian 17
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The Historian 25
The magazine of the Historical Association
3 Feature: Francesco Crispi and the Legacy of the Rsorgimento, Christopher Duggan
9 Update: Popular Protest in Britain c.1811-1850, John Rule
24 Education Forum: Computers in the Teaching and Learning of History, Aknic Dickinson
The Historian 25
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The Historian 72: Two Babies that could have changed world history!
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
6 Two babies that could have changed world history - Geoffrey Chamberlain MD (Read article)
12 The origins of the local government service - Kenneth Poole (Read article)
22 ‘Spy fever’ in Britain, 1900 to 1914 - James Hampshire (Read article)
28 Why did the Dome Fail? - Lucy...
The Historian 72: Two Babies that could have changed world history!
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The Historian 79: Tony Blair, the Iraq War and a sense of history
The magazine of the Historical Association
Featured articles:
6 Tony Blair, the Iraq War, and a sense of history - Dr Adrian Smith (Read article)
9 John Knox and womankind: a reappraisal - Maureen M Meikle (Read article)
16 Why did regional variations exist in the prosecution of witches between 1580-1650? - Robert Hodgkinson (Read article)...
The Historian 79: Tony Blair, the Iraq War and a sense of history
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Pride in place: What does historical geographical and social understanding look like?
Primary History case study
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
‘Some primary schools are like the High Street in many of our towns. I can predict what I will see before I go through the door. What I want to see is something that gives me...
Pride in place: What does historical geographical and social understanding look like?
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1066 and all what?
Article
Over dinner on 14 October a friend challenged me: ‘You’re a history teacher. How come everyone knows about the Battle of Hastings? There must have been loads of battles. Why that one?’ The year 1066 had an iconic role in English historical thought long before Sellar and Yeatman immortalised it...
1066 and all what?
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Teaching History 112: Empire
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
Special 64 page themed edition of Teaching History including: A case study in planning the teaching of the British Empire at key Stage 3, Using this map and all of your knowledge become Bismark, National Archives and the british Empire, Imperialism and the Roman Empire, History's challenge: facing the future,...
Teaching History 112: Empire
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Teaching History 121: Transitions
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
05 ‘It’s like they’ve gone up a year!’ Gauging the impact of a history transition unit on teachers of primary and secondary history – Geraint Brown and Andrew Wrenn (Read article)
14 Worlds in collision: university tutor and student perspectives on the transition to degree level history – Alan Booth...
Teaching History 121: Transitions
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Building meaningful models of progression
Teaching History article
Setting us free? Building meaningful models of progression for a ‘post-levels' world
Alex Ford was thrilled by the prospect of freedom offered to history departments in England by the abolition of level descriptions within the National Curriculum.
After analysing the range of competing purposes that the level descriptions were previously...
Building meaningful models of progression
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Primary History 40
Journal
05 Editorial
06 Primary Noticeboard
08 In My View: spotlight on HMS Victory and the Battle of Trafalgar — Rachel Rhodes
11 Pop-up history — Ondia Gillette
14 What is worth knowing in history? — Peter Vass
16 A history curriculum for the 21st century: From Russia With Love —...
Primary History 40
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Primary History 44: Boudicca
Journal
05 Editorial
08 In My View: music in the history curriculum — Rosie Turner-Bisset (Read article)
09 History is a hot potato or thinking through history — Hilary Cooper
12 Reflections on writing ‘The song remembers when’: writing family story, writing history — Hilary Claire (Read article)
14 Think Bubble...
Primary History 44: Boudicca
