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Doing history: is it too dangerous to be a medieval historian?
Presidential Lecture
Podcast of Professor Anne Curry, President of the Historical Association. Friday 14th May 2010.
Head of the School of Humanities and Professor of Medieval History, Southampton University ‘Re your piece in the Daily Mail, 26 October 2009, on the battle of Agincourt, I was absolutely disgusted at the inference that...
Doing history: is it too dangerous to be a medieval historian?
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50th Anniversary of 'Carve her name with pride'
Article
The classic British war film Carve Her Name With Pride was based on the true story of Violette Szabó GC, the 23 year old French speaking single mother who volunteered during WW2 to be an agent for the top secret Special Operations Executive (SOE). Shortly after parachuting into German occupied...
50th Anniversary of 'Carve her name with pride'
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Case Study: Pictorial Recording
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated.
The innovative use of visual images as communication mode and stimulus to writing is provided by Jan, a teacher on one of the Nuffield courses. Children, and adults, have trouble in making effective...
Case Study: Pictorial Recording
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Primary Membership Sample Resources
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Bastille Day
4th July 2023
If you couldn’t get excited about the Coronation earlier this year perhaps the trigger for a revolution is more your thing?
If so, why not celebrate or commemorate Bastille Day with a little bit of French Revolution reading and listening. Collected here is one of our classic pamphlets as well...
Bastille Day
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Branch Podcast: Good Evening Sweetheart
Glasgow & West Scotland Branch Podcast
Just before the talk was due to start in Hillhead Library a young librarian rushed in waving a sheet of paper, looking very excited - the Secretary wondered if we were double booked and about to be asked to leave. But no! She announced that the speakers, Peter and Sue Mowforth, had...
Branch Podcast: Good Evening Sweetheart
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
19th December 2024
Each year on 27 January the UK observes Holocaust Memorial Day. Every year since its introduction communities, individuals, organisations and institutions have been encouraged to mark the day and remember it. The history of what is remembered is straightforward: on 27 January 1945 the Soviet Army entered into a Nazi...
Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
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Origins of the European financial markets
Transcribed podcast lecture
This article is transcribed from a 2015 podcast given by Dr Anne Murphy of the University of Hertfordshire. In it Dr Murphy looks at the early origins of the European financial markets from the Italian Renaissance to the present day, as well as providing a useful introduction to finance, the stock market and the bond market....
Origins of the European financial markets
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60th anniversary of JFK's assassination
1st November 2023
If my generation all remember where they were when the aeroplanes, hijacked by terrorists, flew into the Twin Towers on 11 September 2001, then my parents' generation all knew where they were when they heard about the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy. Before the conspiracy theorists and the...
60th anniversary of JFK's assassination
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Refugee Week 2023
19th May 2023
People become refugees all over the world for many different reasons, and they come from many different backgrounds. Refugees have been a continuous feature of human societies for thousands of years. How long people remain as a refugee can be days, weeks or a lifetime – what unites them is that they...
Refugee Week 2023
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On-demand webinar: A history teacher’s 'markbook'
Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom
Session 6: A history teacher’s 'markbook'
This session will consider what it might be most useful for history teachers to keep a record of over the course of a year. Every time we read pupils’ work or listen to...
On-demand webinar: A history teacher’s 'markbook'
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Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month
22nd May 2025
Supporting the teaching of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history
In addition to drawing together a number of resources to encourage learning this June we are also using the month to highlight the launch of our fundraising plan to create a Teacher Fellowship on Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history in memory...
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month
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Virtual Branch Film: The life and legend of the Sultan Saladin
Virtual Branch
Between 26 February and 2 March you can watch Jonathan Phillips’s 2020 HA Virtual Conference keynote talk on The life and legend of the Sultan Saladin. Phillips’s talk reveals how a man initially branded as ‘the son of Satan’ became so esteemed in Europe and, through extensive new research, we will follow how...
Virtual Branch Film: The life and legend of the Sultan Saladin
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Early Modern Britain 1509-1745
HA Secondary Resources (Key Stage 3)
While the 2014 Curriculum sets out the broad focus of each particular content area, considerable choice has been left to history departments in determining which particular events or developments to include and how they can best 'combine overview and depth studies to help pupils understand both the long arc of...
Early Modern Britain 1509-1745
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The Crusades: links
Links to Articles & Podcasts
An HA Podcasted History: The Crusades - The First, Second & Third Crusade and the Legacy of the Crusades
The First Crusade
The First Crusade: Eastern Sources and Different Interpretations
The Miraculous First Crusade
The Crusades: links
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Exclusive webinar offer with corporate membership
Built-in CPD for school members
We work hard to develop our offer in response to teachers' changing needs and recent months have seen several developments to our CPD provision. In our membership surveys you told us that you wanted more built-in free CPD for members, in 2021 we introduced a new corporate webinar offer which allows corporate school members...
Exclusive webinar offer with corporate membership
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HA Conference round-up 2022
31st May 2022
It really happened!
In May 2019 as we departed from Chester, the HA team said 'we’ll see you in Bristol'. Then Covid hit and we didn’t see you in Bristol in 2020 or 2021, but in 2022 we did! We were finally back in person having a conference and it...
HA Conference round-up 2022
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Migration - GCSE
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Podcasts
Podcast Series: England's Immigrants 1330-1550
Podcast Series: Social & Political Change in the UK 1800-present: Part 3 Diversity - A Changing Population
Podcast Series: Diversity in Early Modern Britain
Social & Political Change in the UK 1800-present: Part 5 Religion
The Huguenots in Britain & Ireland
Native North Americans...
Migration - GCSE
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Germany
Links to Articles & Podcasts
Germany
An HA Podcast Series: Modern German History (1914-1948)
Building and assessing historical knowledge on three scales
Kristallnacht
Adolf Eichmann
Reading and enquiring in Years 12 and 13: a case study on women in the Third Reich
Podcast: Cold War Germany
German Women 1900-1945
Nazism and Stalinism – suitable case for...
Germany
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Pride: 50 years
1st July 2022
1 July is the 50th anniversary of the first Pride March in the UK, in 1972. Pride was chosen to be the Saturday closest to the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots of 1969. Starting life as a small event, Pride is now an annual part of the London calendar and...
Pride: 50 years
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Windrush 75
6th June 2023
The ship the HMT Empire Windrush arrived into the UK on 22 June 1948. It carried 592 passengers from the Caribbean who were answering the UK Government’s call to fill jobs in Britain’s post-war economy. Between 1948–1971 many more Empire and Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean islands would arrive in...
Windrush 75
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Virtual Branch recording: The survival strategies of the Near Eastern powers facing Mongol invasion.
Virtual Branch Film
The Mongol invasions into the Near East had a devastating effect upon many societies, sultanates, empires and kingdoms. For decades, wave after wave of armies swept across the area, defeating every army sent against them and utterly reshaping the area’s complex political ecosystem. Some powers fell in battle; some submitted...
Virtual Branch recording: The survival strategies of the Near Eastern powers facing Mongol invasion.
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The United States
Links to Articles & Podcasts
The Effect of the Loss of American Colonies
Captain Thomas and the North West Passage
American War of Independence
Thomas Paine
Expanding the reach of the American Revolution
The American West
Harnessing the power of academia to improve teaching of US political history
Interpreting 'The Birth of a Nation'
Podcast:...
The United States
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The Medlicott Medal
HA Awards
Our annual award the Medlicott Medal is awarded to individuals for outstanding services and current contributions to history.
The Medlicott winner is notified in advance of their win so that they can give a talk. The Historical Association's annual event is becoming a must for local, educational and academic historians....
The Medlicott Medal
