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Film: Primary History at greater depth
Primary History Workshop Annual Conference 2019
This primary workshop took place at at the Historical Association Annual Conference, Chester, May 2019.
In this session, Stuart explored the principles of how working at greater depth can be applied into history units of work to allow the most able of learners to excel and fully reach their potential in history...
Film: Primary History at greater depth
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Move Me On 121: Teaching outside subject area
The problem page for history mentors
This Issue's Problem: Because of the demands of the modular structure on non-specialists, the school's Key Stage 3 schemes of work are extremely detailed, and include individual lesson plans that staff are encouraged to use or adapt depending on their level of confidence. Arnie began by relying on the plan...
Move Me On 121: Teaching outside subject area
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Building and assessing a frame of reference in the Netherlands
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Concerns about our ability to equip young people with a frame of reference that they can actually use to orient themselves in time are widespread. The challenges were extensively debated within the last issue of...
Building and assessing a frame of reference in the Netherlands
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‘You should be proud about your history. They make you feel ashamed’: Teaching history hurts
Teaching History article
As history teachers we are used to encouraging pupils to think; enabling them to express thoughts with clarity both verbally and in written form. Yet, if history as a school subject becomes purely cognitive, then something is missing. History deals with human behaviour and therefore the affective and the emotional...
‘You should be proud about your history. They make you feel ashamed’: Teaching history hurts
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Local and Community History Month
1-31 May each year
The aim of the month is to increase awareness of local history, promote history in general to the local community and encourage all members of the community to participate.
Activities happen across the UK and include trips, library exhibitions and local lectures. It is a great way for groups to...
Local and Community History Month
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History and Citizenship
E-CPD
N.B. This unit was produced before the 2014 curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links.
The UNIT provides guidance and help for teachers and support staff to embed the combined teaching of History and Citizenship - History...
History and Citizenship
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Primary History 39
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
04 Pupils’ reviews
05 Editorial
06 Primary Noticeboard
08 In My View: why should we continue to learn about the Second World War? — Dan Phillips
11 The impact of World War II on British children's gendered perceptions of contemporary Germany — Russell Gray (Read article)
14 When we were...
Primary History 39
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History Research Bursary Scheme: Early Career and Mid-Career Routes
Article
History: The Journal of the Historical Association is delighted to launch the 2025 round of its bursary scheme, which is designed to support research that will result in an article submission to History, which is jointly published by the Historical Association and Wiley.
We anticipate offering one award to an...
History Research Bursary Scheme: Early Career and Mid-Career Routes
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Teaching History 175: Listening to Diverse Voices
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
02 Editorial (Read article)
03 HA Secondary news
04 HA update
08 Did the Bretons break? Planning increasingly complex ‘causal models’ at Key Stage 3 – Matthew Stanford (Read article)
16 From ‘Great Women’ to an inclusive curriculum: how should women’s history be included at Key Stage 3? – Susanna Boyd (Read...
Teaching History 175: Listening to Diverse Voices
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Teaching History 69
Journal
Editorial 2
News 3
Articles:
Young Children's Thinking in History Hilary Cooper 8
The Magnificent Seven: Reasons for Teaching about Prehistory Peter Stone 13
National Curriculum History, Schemes of Work and the Primary School Child Brian Scott 19
Delivering the Primary History Curriculum Keith Crawford and Graham Rogers 22
The...
Teaching History 69
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Work experience opportunities at the HA
Information
Work experience can be a useful way to find out what kinds of careers and roles you are interested in and improve your employment prospects by gaining experience and skills, while demonstrating commitment to a particular career or subject area.
The HA is a small and busy charity with offices based near...
Work experience opportunities at the HA
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Responding to the climate and environmental crisis through history and geography
Partnership CPD from the Historical Association and Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
Book Now
(Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window/tab. Please read the HA CPD terms and conditions before registering)
In recent years, the climate crisis has become increasingly urgent and apparent. The Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education was founded at UCL in 2022. Their 2024...
Responding to the climate and environmental crisis through history and geography
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Good practice in primary history: the Quality Mark scheme
Primary History article
This article aims to cover two separate but related aspects. Firstly, using the evidence of Quality Mark visits to primary schools, Bev Forrest identifies and explains some of the best practice observed on these visits. Secondly, Mel Jones focuses on one specific case study illustrating the type of primary history...
Good practice in primary history: the Quality Mark scheme
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Cunning Plan 123: planning a school trip
Teaching History journal feature
School trips are a fantastic opportunity for learning, but they must be planned tightly. Each trip must be carefully justified – what will the students learn which they cannot learn in school? Is this sufficient to justify them (and you) having a day out of the classroom? Does the trip...
Cunning Plan 123: planning a school trip
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Curriculum Planning: World Study
Curriculum Planning
‘A non-European society that provides contrasts with British history - one study chosen from:
early Islamic civilization, including a study of Baghdad c. AD 900;
Mayan civilization c. AD 900;
Benin (West Africa) c. AD 900-1300.'
That's quite clear then - there's a choice between early Islam, Central America or...
Curriculum Planning: World Study
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Magna Carta Enquiry: free lesson sequence
Magna Carta Scheme of Work
The following sequence of lessons is designed to build on pupils' existing knowledge and understanding of the medieval period. In particular it is assumed that pupils will already have an outline knowledge of the main features of medieval kingship and how monarchs exercised their power.
In determining the focus for...
Magna Carta Enquiry: free lesson sequence
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The new history 'AS-Level': principles for planning a scheme of work
Teaching History article
The new AS and A2 specifications have led to paperwork, headaches and late nights for teachers. Rachael Rudham recognises the fresh demands that the new AS-level presents – not least of which is the opening up of post-16 history to a broader range of ability. Clearly it is not possible...
The new history 'AS-Level': principles for planning a scheme of work
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Cunning Plan 177: teaching about life in Elizabethan England by looking at death
Teaching History feature
‘We already did the Tudors in primary school’ was the most frequent comment made by students about our Year 7 scheme of learning in our annual review. Students reported covering the Tudors at least once, sometimes twice, before reaching secondary school and they had clearly not faced extensive further study...
Cunning Plan 177: teaching about life in Elizabethan England by looking at death
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Teaching History 126: Outside the Classroom
The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
06 ‘I understood before, but not like this:’ maximising historical learning by letting pupils take control of trips – Helen Snelson (Read article)
12 A search beyond the classroom: using a museum to support the renewal of a scheme of work – Hannah Moloney and Paula Kitching (Read article)
20...
Teaching History 126: Outside the Classroom
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Carr, Evans, Oakshott and Rudge: the benefits of AEA history
Teaching History article
Sometimes the only way to go beyond the exam is to take another, more difficult, test. For the top—the very top—A2 students, there is such a test available. The Advanced Extension Award [AEA] is a history paper which encourages students finishing their school careers to think about history in a...
Carr, Evans, Oakshott and Rudge: the benefits of AEA history
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Cunning Plan 107: the big idea of Freedom
Teaching History feature
Big ideas, making connections, citizenship, thinking skills. We were nothing if not ambitious in our planning for this unit for a lower attaining Year 8 group at Langley School in Solihull. Having identified the big ideas which could underpin a dialogue between history and citizenship and make the connections between...
Cunning Plan 107: the big idea of Freedom
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Cunning Plan 112: Empire
Teaching History feature
‘Empire’ is an historical concept with a rather imprecise range of meanings. Students need to be able to track their changing understanding of what an empire actually is. Into our workschemes for Years 7 to 13 we have therefore introduced a number of enquiry questions that simultaneously build knowledge about...
Cunning Plan 112: Empire
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No more mark schemes: manageable and meaningful assessment for Years 7–9
Teaching History article
In seeking to answer the question of how to make valid, reliable, and meaningful judgements about students’ work in history, Elizabeth Carr’s department abandoned criteria-based mark schemes and replaced them with a form of comparative judgement conducted in relation to a series of exemplars. In this article, Carr explains the...
No more mark schemes: manageable and meaningful assessment for Years 7–9
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Teaching and learning through personal, family and local history
E-CPD
N.B. This unit was produced before the 2014 curriculum and therefore while much of the advice is still useful, there may be some out of date references or links.
This unit is concerned with the way that primary age pupils can make use of their own personal, family and local history...
Teaching and learning through personal, family and local history
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Teaching Slavery
HA Guide
Please note: this guide was written in 2010 and some links may no longer work. For more recent guidance, see:
Teaching sensitive subjects: slavery and Britain’s role in the trade (2019)
Slavery in Britain (2013)
Sarah Forbes Bonetta - scheme of work (2015)
Diversity guidance for primary teachers and subject leaders (2019)
Teaching Slavery...
Teaching Slavery
