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  • Move Me On 190: taking questions about historical significance

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
    Move Me On 190: taking questions about historical significance

  • Move Me On 189: engendering students' curiosity

      Teaching History feature
    Move Me On is designed to build critical, informed debate about the character of teacher training, teacher education and professional development. It is also designed to offer practical help to all involved in training new history teachers. Each issue presents a situation in initial teacher education/training with an emphasis upon...
    Move Me On 189: engendering students' curiosity

  • Young Quills winners 2022

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    We are delighted to announce the 2022 competition winners for the Historical Association’s Young Quills Awards for Historical Fiction for children and young adults:  Ages 5–9 years category: Winner: The Chessmen Thief by Barbara Henderson, Pokey Hat, Cranachan PublishingHighly commended: The Valley of Lost Secrets by Lesley Parr, Bloomsbury Publishing  Ages 10–13...
    Young Quills winners 2022

  • The Historian 140: A Shared History

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Contents 4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 8 Civil Rights: 1968 and Northern Ireland – Jim McBride (Read article) 13 Dr Joseph Parry: the story of Wales’ greatest composer – Colin Wheldon James (Read article) 18 National distinctions entirely laid aside?: British history through the eyes of Welsh writers in the...
    The Historian 140: A Shared History

  • Film: Khrushchev - Foreign Policy

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film, Dr Alexander Titov (Queen's University of Belfast), looks at the early thaw in relations between the Soviet Union and the West after the death of Stalin, the resolution of outstanding issues such as the Korean War, the division of Austria, and Khruschev's resetting of relations with China and...
    Film: Khrushchev - Foreign Policy

  • 2020 Membership Survey: Results and Actions

      Our promise to you
    Talking and listening to members is central to what we do. In the summer of 2020 we conducted our largest membership survey of the decade, and invited you to tell us more about your membership experiences, what you value most, and what we can do to improve. Thank you to all who...
    2020 Membership Survey: Results and Actions

  • Website accessibility statement

      HA policies
    This website (history.org.uk) is designed to be as accessible and usable as possible for every user, and the website was built following common web standards. Accessibility Policy Our goal is to meet Level AA standard of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1). These guidelines explain how to make web...
    Website accessibility statement

  • Film: Khrushchev - Downfall and Legacy

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film, Dr Alexander Titov (Queen's University of Belfast), discusses how Khruschev went from initially being a highly popular ‘man of the people’, to becoming an authoritarian, who alienated his colleagues through rudeness and constant unexplained policy shifts, and whose predilection for risk taking and gambles brought the world perilously...
    Film: Khrushchev - Downfall and Legacy

  • Contribute an Article to Primary History

      Initial guidelines for contributors to Primary History
    To share good ideas and practice in teaching and learning history To help develop your own ideas and thinking Job progression: it can be reflected in your CV and also provides a step towards developing more extensive pieces of writing. Practitioner articles can be related to further research studies such...
    Contribute an Article to Primary History

  • Teaching History 34

      Journal
    Teaching History, October 1982 Number 34 In this issue: Editorial, 2 Museums and the Use of Evidence in History Teaching - Carol Adams and Sue Millar, 3 A Course of Local History for 12-13 year olds and their Reactions to it - John Mathews, 7 Developments in History Teaching in...
    Teaching History 34

  • Film: Discussion: The significance of the federal government to the Civil Rights Movement

      Film series: The African-American Civil Rights Movement
    Professor Tony Badger, Professor Joe Street and Professor Brian Ward discuss the African-American Civil Rights movement and examine different ways we might interpret the significance of key individuals, groups, institutions and events that played a role in its development and progress. Starting with the actions of the Supreme Court especially the...
    Film: Discussion: The significance of the federal government to the Civil Rights Movement

  • The Maya: a 4,000-year-old civilisation in the Americas

      Primary History article
    Obscured by the fame of the Aztec empire or shrouded by a veil of mystery, the cultural history of the Maya has generally been misunderstood by the British public. Maya civilisation developed in a territory the size of Germany and Denmark together (nearly 400,000 km2). This vast territory shows three...
    The Maya: a 4,000-year-old civilisation in the Americas

  • Polychronicon 153: Re-interpreting Liberation: the end of the Holocaust?

      Teaching History feature
    In August 1945, Zalman Grinberg, a doctor from Kovno and spokesman for the Liberated Jews in the American Zone of Germany, addressed 1,700 Jewish survivors. ‘What is the logic of destiny to let these individuals remain alive?!' he asked them: We are free now, but we do not know what...
    Polychronicon 153: Re-interpreting Liberation: the end of the Holocaust?

  • Film: Inequalities in the teaching and practice of history in the UK

      Discussion: Response to the RHS report
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of history teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today This film (above) recorded in March 2019 features a discussion between Jatinder...
    Film: Inequalities in the teaching and practice of history in the UK

  • Leave a legacy

      Supporting the HA
    Anyone can include a legacy to the Historical Association in their will and it does not have to be for a lot of money. Some people leave us specific gifts of money, while others choose to leave us the residue of their estate once family and friends have been looked...
    Leave a legacy

  • Ofqual guides to 2022 A-level results

      18th August 2022
    Today (18 August 2022) Ofqual have published the following documents: Guide to the 2022 AS and A-level results in England  Guide to the 2022 Level 3 qualification results for VTQs in England  Infographics showing A-level outcomes this year Infographics showing Level 3 qualification outcomes for VTQs this year Interactive analytics...
    Ofqual guides to 2022 A-level results

  • Women’s Suffrage: history and citizenship resources for schools

      Article
    Are you teaching 20th-century history in the spring term? Do you want to refresh your teaching of the campaign for women’s rights and equal representation? Don’t forget to register for the Suffrage Resources website, a free resource developed specifically for schools to help teachers and students explore the rich history of...
    Women’s Suffrage: history and citizenship resources for schools

  • Peterloo: HA interview with Mike Leigh and Jacqueline Riding

      Article
    The film Peterloo dramatises the people and events that led to the infamous ‘Peterloo’ massacre in August 1819. Respected film-maker Mike Leigh created the film using historical records and sources from the period, as he and historical adviser Jacqueline Riding explained to the HA in a recent interview, which you can watch below.  
    Peterloo: HA interview with Mike Leigh and Jacqueline Riding

  • How Michael moved us on: transforming Key Stage 3 through peer review

      Teaching History article
    Thomas Tallis history department have an interesting approach to planning. Whereas, all too often, this most time-consuming and intellectually demanding of teachers’ tasks is rendered invisible, and is supposed to happen by magic in the middle of the night, this department chose to make the planning process genuinely collaborative, pivotal...
    How Michael moved us on: transforming Key Stage 3 through peer review

  • The Vikings in Britain: a brief history

      Reference guide for primary
    Viking Age | In Britain: background | Short history | King Alfred | Later raids & rulers | Key concepts < This resource is free for everyone For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of...
    The Vikings in Britain: a brief history

  • The Historian 141: New approaches to local history

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Contents 4 Reviews (See all reviews online) 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 A European dimension to local history – Trevor James (Read article) 11 The President’s Column 12 The Diabolical Cato-Street Plot: the Cato Street Conspiracy, 1820 – Richard A. Gaunt (Read article) 16 George Eliot and Warwickshire history – David Paterson (Read article)...
    The Historian 141: New approaches to local history

  • Teaching History 24

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 3 `Public and Private Lives: Germany 1914 to 1939' - Diana Devlin, 3 The Perils of Clio in France - Clive Church, 7 Trends in History Teaching in France - L. 0. Ward, 12 How to Evaluate a History Department - John Higham, 14 Constraints in...
    Teaching History 24

  • Women’s Suffrage: the road to equality

      Web resource launched to tie in with centenary of Act allowing women to stand as MPs
    2018 has – rightly – seen a strong emphasis on the story of the suffragettes, of those courageous individuals who took to militant methods to get the vote for women. This is not their story; it is the often-overlooked story of the many thousands of women and men who fought...
    Women’s Suffrage: the road to equality

  • Gladstone spiritual or Gladstone material? A rationale for using documents at AS and A2

      Teaching History article
    Rather than taking a sledgehammer approach to planning for the new AS and A2 courses Gary Howells has used the opportunity to reflect on characteristics of students' historical learning in the post-16 phase. He argues for a much fuller rationale for using documents than mere preparation for exams or coursework....
    Gladstone spiritual or Gladstone material? A rationale for using documents at AS and A2

  • Higher Education Committee remit

      Information
    The HA's Higher Education Committee will: raise awareness in the UK-wide HE sector of the work of and benefits offered by the HA ensure that the HA continues to disseminate an up-to-date and appropriate understanding of the way History is taught, researched and interpreted in higher education to the teaching...
    Higher Education Committee remit