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  • New Multi Academy Trust History Leads Network

      Open to all MAT history leads
    New: Multi Academy Trust History Leads Network The HA is teaming 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...
    New Multi Academy Trust History Leads Network

  • Supporting Gifted and Talented

      HA Quick Guides
    It is a long way from a poor background as the son of a Greek-Cypriot postman to that of a life peer and junior minister in the British government. Yet Andrew Adonis is on record as having his youthful imagination fired by primary history, with a love of the subject...
    Supporting Gifted and Talented

  • Examining the Value of Teaching Sensitive Matters in History

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research [IJHLTR], Volume 14, Number 2 – Spring/Summer 2017 ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract Driven by the overarching objective of promoting reconciliation through education, this paper explores the impact of history teaching on youth identity and ethnic relations in Sri Lanka. Building on the arguments of scholars the...
    Examining the Value of Teaching Sensitive Matters in History

  • 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

  • Oracy and writing: Speaking, listening, discussion and debate

      Primary History article
    Editorial note: Writing is an outcome of its preparatory phase. In reviewing over fifty case-studies of writing and history for this edition of Primary History, it became clear that oracy is central to pupil development of written language, ideas and the formulation, planning, creation, drafting and revision of writing. Introduction...
    Oracy and writing: Speaking, listening, discussion and debate

  • Think Bubble 54 - Arte facts - Get my Meaning?

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. It is difficult to think of an area of primary history that has had a more transforming effect on the subject than that of artefacts. The idea of giving children a ‘real' experience of the past...
    Think Bubble 54 - Arte facts - Get my Meaning?

  • Transforming Year 7's understanding of the concept of Imperialism: a case study on the Roman Empire

      Teaching History article
    Those of us in the U.K. know that many of our pupils finish their entire historical education without a satisfactory grasp of basic substantive concepts as they are used in history. Do all our low-attaining or ‘low ability’ 14-year-olds who are pressured to drop history at 14 really emerge with...
    Transforming Year 7's understanding of the concept of Imperialism: a case study on the Roman Empire

  • The teaching and learning of history for 15-16 year olds: have the Japanese anything to learn from the English experience

      Teaching History article
    What would you expect the differences to be between Japan and England in how pupils learn history in the post-14 phase? Perhaps your guess would be: Japanese school students learn a lot of historical facts and focus upon their own identity and English school students talk a lot more in...
    The teaching and learning of history for 15-16 year olds: have the Japanese anything to learn from the English experience

  • Standards in primary history: onward and upward? A view from OFSTED

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. An OFSTED advisor discusses their views on the standards of primary history.
    Standards in primary history: onward and upward? A view from OFSTED

  • The death of Lord Londonderry

      Historian article
    Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, better known to his contemporaries and to history as Viscount Castlereagh, committed suicide on 12 August 1822, at the age of fifty-three, when Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons. He was one of the great statesmen of his age: as Chief...
    The death of Lord Londonderry

  • Enrichment Opportunities

      Briefing Pack
    Background History can be used to enrich students' experience of education in many ways.  Everything has a history and links can be made with, and support given to most other subjects.  Opportunities can be provided to classes, whole year groups, across year groups, or to individuals. Enrichment can be as...
    Enrichment Opportunities

  • Equiano - voice of silent slaves?

      Teaching History article
    Andrew Wrenn shows how a study of the life of Olaudah Equiano can support pupils’ historical learning in a number of ways. Not only is this a ‘little story’ that can help to illuminate or raise questions about the the ‘big picture’, it can also help pupils to reflect upon...
    Equiano - voice of silent slaves?

  • Robert Peel: Portraiture and political commemoration

      Article
    On 4 March 1856, during a debate in the House of Lords on a motion to form a ‘Gallery of National Portraits', the Conservative peer Earl Stanhope quoted Thomas Carlyle's view that ‘one of the most primary wants [of the historian is] to secure a bodily likeness of the personage...
    Robert Peel: Portraiture and political commemoration

  • Are historical thinking skills important to history teachers?

      IJHLTR Article
    International Journal of Historical Learning, Teaching and Research IJHLTR, Volume 14, Number 2 – Spring/Summer 2017 ISSN: 14472-9474 Abstract This article presents some findings of a qualitative interview study with 42 Austrian history teachers, conducted in the framework of an on-going three-year research project (2015–2018) funded by the Austrian Science Fund. The study...
    Are historical thinking skills important to history teachers?

  • Meet our CPD presenters

      Multipage Article
    Historical Association CPD is always led by primary and secondary history specialists, to ensure delegates receive high quality professional development based on recent classroom practice and research. Find out more about some of our regular presenters below.  Make a bespoke CPD or consultancy request
    Meet our CPD presenters

  • The Coronation of King Charles III

      2nd May 2023
    Saturday 6 May 2023 will see the first coronation of a British monarch for 70 years. Only those now in their 70s or above will remember the last one. The coronation ceremony has its roots in traditions over a thousand years old.  Whether you are a Royalist or a Republican or...
    The Coronation of King Charles III

  • How studying history can help with a range of careers involved in shaping the places we live.

      History & Careers Unit 5
    Town-planning, property development, leisure and heritage industries, archaeology and museum work. Context: This idea for a short series of lessons is aimed at year 7 students who are studying either a "Who do We think We are?" unit, or, more broadly, a unit on migration and settlement in Britain. It...
    How studying history can help with a range of careers involved in shaping the places we live.

  • Real Lives: Harry Daley

      Historian feature
    Our series ‘Real Lives’ seeks to put the story of the ordinary person into our great historical narrative. We are all part of the rich fabric of the communities in which we live and we are affected to greater and lesser degrees by the big events that happen on a daily...
    Real Lives: Harry Daley

  • Year 7 pupils collaboratively design an historical game about a medieval peasant

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Jacques Haenen and Hanneke Tuithof describe an activity that they developed for pupils as part of an initial teacher education course. Teams of Year 7 pupils were given a structure and guidelines within which they...
    Year 7 pupils collaboratively design an historical game about a medieval peasant

  • Drop the dead dictator: a Year 9 newsroom simulation

      Teaching History article
    Rosalind Stirzaker has big ambitions for her students. She wants them to do more than make a simple list of the key causes of the Second World War. Yes, she wants them to complete a piece of written work, but she wants – and gets – a great deal more...
    Drop the dead dictator: a Year 9 newsroom simulation

  • Understanding Chronology at Key Stage 2

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Introduction - Issues and Concerns Was I wise to accept the invitation to write this piece? There has been little research to shed light on the question [of what understanding of chronology can we expect of...
    Understanding Chronology at Key Stage 2

  • Membership terms and conditions

      Information
    The Historical Association [HA] is a registered charity incorporated by Royal Charter. We endeavour to make membership as accessible as possible to all, and this in turn enables us to continue to produce resources and campaign for quality history education at all levels, locally and nationally. We are grateful to...
    Membership terms and conditions

  • Webinar series: Coherence at Key Stage 4

      HA webinar series for subject leaders and teachers of history
    What does this series cover? This series of webinars will consider coherence at Key Stage 4. We will reflect on using sequencing to establish coherence, how different categories of coherence can be used to inform our planning and delivery of GCSE, and how meaningful approaches to assessment will allow pupils’...
    Webinar series: Coherence at Key Stage 4

  • Progression and coherence in history

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. "The focus for much of the planning and the teaching is on pockets of knowledge at basic levels. Thus, the notion that pupils can progress and do better over time in history is not well established...
    Progression and coherence in history

  • Thinking from the inside: je suis le roi

      Teaching History article
    Dale Banham and Ian Dawson show how active learning deepens students’ understanding of attitudes and reactions to the Norman Conquest. At the same time they build a bold argument for active learning, including a direct strike at the two most common objections to it. Many teachers still see it as...
    Thinking from the inside: je suis le roi