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  • New, Novice or Nervous? 160: Progression in evidential understanding

      Teaching History feature
    You have a wealth of fascinating sources you would love to explore with students but despair at their seeming inability to connect ‘source work' with the construction of historical claims. Year 7 get stuck in the ‘it's biased so we can never know' trap again and again. Year 9 students...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 160: Progression in evidential understanding

  • The Historian 137: Branches

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 HA Conference 8 A year in the life of a branch co-ordinator – Jenni Hyde (Read article) 14 Private Lives of the Tudors – Tracy Borman (Read article) 19 The President’s Column 20 Good Evening Sweetheart: experiences of an ordinary couple in the...
    The Historian 137: Branches

  • Terms and Conditions

      A masterclass for senior leaders
    Please read the terms and conditions carefully before you register for a place on the programme. Please also refer to the CPD Events terms and conditions It is prohibited to share or copy the contents and videos of this course with anyone. You will be given access to the programme content on receipt of payment and...
    Terms and Conditions

  • Triumphs Show 148.2: using pupil dialogue to encourage engagement with sources

      Teaching History feature
    Using pupil dialogue to encourage sophisticated engagement with source material - even at GCSE! Frustrated by the mechanistic approach that their pupils were using when working with historical sources, Tim Jenner and Paul Nightingale sought to experiment with a method of teaching sources which eschewed practice source questions in favour...
    Triumphs Show 148.2: using pupil dialogue to encourage engagement with sources

  • Case Study: Engaging history with National Trust tracker packs

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. White Horse Hill in Oxfordshire is home to the famous chalk White Horse, and it has been for the last 3000 years. The history surrounding this hill, high up on the Berkshire Downs, goes back...
    Case Study: Engaging history with National Trust tracker packs

  • The particular and the general

      Teaching History article
    When your pupils use terms such as ‘king’ and ‘Parliament,’ what image do they have in their head? Do they know what they are talking about at all? Do they have a nuanced, period-specific vision of what these terms mean in the context of their current historical studies, and of...
    The particular and the general

  • The current condition of primary history

      Article
    This section looks at how primary history is currently performing largely through an analysis of a wide range of OFSTED evidence but also by examining the results of a recent Historical Association survey.
    The current condition of primary history

  • 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

  • The Great Powers in the Pacific

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet covers a very large period of history in a very important region with great detail and focus. Themes that are covered include the transition of power and dominance in the pacific region, the conflicts that frequently arose in the struggle for pacific dominance throughout the centuries, as well...
    The Great Powers in the Pacific

  • The Historian 127: Agincourt

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    This edition of HA's The Historian magazine is free to download in full via the link at the bottom of the page (individual article links within the page are not free access unless otherwise stated). For a subscription to The Historian (published quarterly), access to over 300 podcasts and our huge library...
    The Historian 127: Agincourt

  • Central and Local Government in Scotland Since 1707

      Classic Pamphlet
    This pamphlet provides an interesting approach to a historical topic which has been too frequently covered from a single viewpoint. The pamphlet delivers a thoroughly Scottish approach to the nature of the 1707 Union and the changing nature of Scotland in the following centuries. It highlights the disparity of the...
    Central and Local Government in Scotland Since 1707

  • The knowledge illusion

      Teaching History article
    Focusing on students’ attempts to explain the relative significance of different factors in Hitler’s rise to power, Catherine McCrory explores the vexed question of why students who seem able to express necessary historical knowledge on one occasion cannot effectively reproduce it on another. Drawing on a detailed analysis of what...
    The knowledge illusion

  • Writing Family Story, Writing History

      Primary History article
    Why did I research my family history and write a memoir based on my ancestors’ and my own life? And why is all this relevant to readers of the Primary History Journal and not just self indulgent musing? Because it is an insider’s story of trying to write honest history...
    Writing Family Story, Writing History

  • Polychronicon 135: Post-modern Holocaust Historiography

      Teaching History feature
    The field of Holocaust studies has been hit by an intellectual earthquake whose precise magnitude and long-term consequences cannot be ascertained at this stage. In 2007 Saul Friedländer published The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews 1939-1945. The book has been rightly celebrated as the first victim-centred synthetic history...
    Polychronicon 135: Post-modern Holocaust Historiography

  • Teaching History 68

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    Articles: 9 History Teaching and Economic Awareness: A Sample Topic - P. J. Rogers  14 A Land Fit for Heroes: Recreating the Past through Drama - Kate Fleming  17 Holt Hall, 1940: A Residential 'Living History' Project - Alan Childs and Mike Pond  20 History and Computers in Dorset - Dave Martin  26 Clear...
    Teaching History 68

  • Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the twentieth century

      Teaching History article
    In the first of our special, extra ‘Europages’, funded by the Council of Europe (CoE), Mark McLaughlin briefly outlines the purpose and outcomes of a CoE project on ‘learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the twentieth century’. His short article reminds all history teachers of the need...
    Learning and teaching about the history of Europe in the twentieth century

  • Teaching History 51

      Journal
    Editorial - Continuity, Coherence and Consistency 2 News 3 Articles: Celebrating the Solstice: A 'History through Drama' Teaching Project on the Iron Age - Jayne Woodhouse and Viv Wilson 10 The Big Push: Active Learning in the Humanities - Jason King, John Cox and Sue Dymoke 15 Problem Solving in...
    Teaching History 51

  • Recorded webinar: Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the primary history classroom

      Webinar
    In the last 12 months many pupils have missed significant chunks of school and importantly a significant chunk of their history learning. In this special one-off webinar we discuss some of the issues we are all facing. What does catch up in history look like? How helpful is this terminology?...
    Recorded webinar: Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the primary history classroom

  • 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

  • The Great Debate Final 2024

      25th March 2024
    Winner:  Emma Crow of Broxburn Academy, Broxburn, Scotland  Runners up:  Abigail Powers of The Ladies’ College, Guernsey  Erica Wright of William Farr School, Lincolnshire  Rachel McGarry of Shavington Academy, Crewe, Cheshire  Finalists Sofia Ntege, North Oxfordshire Academy, Banbury Harry Gray, Exeter School, Exeter Rhea Cherrington, Bablake School, Coventry Molly Grimshaw,...
    The Great Debate Final 2024

  • Recorded webinar: Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the history classroom

      Webinar
    In the last 12 months students have all missed significant chunks of school and importantly a significant chunk of history lessons. In this special one-off webinar, some members of the HA secondary committee discuss the main issues we face as history teachers and offer some potential solutions. What does catch...
    Recorded webinar: Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the history classroom

  • The Historian 134: The End of Empire

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article) 6 The end of the Roman Empire – Guy de la Bédoyère (Read article) 10 My Favourite History Place: Hadrian’s Wall – Sue Temple (Read article) 11 Empire cocktails in ten tweets 12 The Aztec Empire: a surprise ending? – Matthew Restall (Read article) 19 The President’s...
    The Historian 134: The End of Empire

  • What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the British Empire on Britain?

      Teaching History feature
    The murder of George Floyd during the summer of 2020 and the ongoing ‘culture war’ in Britain over the legacy of the British Empire have reignited interest in imperial history. This focuses, in particular, on the question of the empire’s impact on Britain itself: on how the act of conquering...
    What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the impact of the British Empire on Britain?

  • 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

  • Storytelling the past

      Primary History article
    This article will demonstrate how to engage children through storytelling and how it can be used to develop their critical understanding of the past. Why story? Despite their common derivation, the words ‘history’ and ‘story’ suggest very different kinds of knowledge, the former carrying overtones of detached understanding of the...
    Storytelling the past