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  • Using a house for your local history study

      Primary History article
    A house can be an extremely effective focus for learning about the past, giving us insights into changes to domestic and social life.  We can explore how different inventions (e.g. electric lighting, washing machines, televisions) have changed the way we live, and we can look at some of the ways...
    Using a house for your local history study

  • One of my favourite history places: Bournville

      Article
    One of my favourite places is Bournville Village in the south of Birmingham – every time I go there it feels as if I am entering a different world, away from the noise and bustle of the city. Less than five minutes' walk away from the tourist attraction of Cadbury World is the village...
    One of my favourite history places: Bournville

  • The First Fifty Years of the Historical Association

      Classic Pamphlet
    It was in the 19th century for the most part that the study of the past was revolutionized through the progress in criticism, the opening of archives and the great development of what we call ‘historical thinking’. In the same century the historical approach produced a transformation in many branches of...
    The First Fifty Years of the Historical Association

  • My Favourite History Place: Edinburgh's Royal Mile

      Historian feature
    Maggie Wilson whets our appetite for exploration of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile. Edinburgh’s Royal Mile runs between the Castle and Holyrood Palace. In addition to these and other well-known sites such as St Giles Cathedral, John Knox’s house, the Canongate Tolbooth and Canongate Kirk, and stories of Deacon Brodie, David Hume, James Boswell, Robert Burns and, obviously,...
    My Favourite History Place: Edinburgh's Royal Mile

  • One of my favourite history places: Saltaire

      Primary History article
    Saltaire is my favourite place and one I never tire of visiting as each time a new discovery may be made. As you walk down the uneven cobbles of the narrow streets, even with the trappings of the twenty-first century (especially cars) in evidence, you cannot help but feel that...
    One of my favourite history places: Saltaire

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 66

      Process map for writing a new Scheme of Work for history
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 66

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 67

      Britain and World timeline, 0BC to present
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 67

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68

      Britain and World timeline 2000BC to 0BC; The Dark Ages
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 68

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 70

      Alternative sources for the Romans, and a variety of Enquiry questions
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 70

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 73

      Map of ancient civilisations
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 73

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 78

      Investigating the Shang Dynasty and History in the primary curriculum
    1. Investigating the Shang Dynasty; 2. History in the primary curriculum - what does it offer?
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 78

  • The history of medicine – warts and all – for Key Stage 2

      Primary History article
    The story of the history of medicine is HUGE! In fact, it’s a story within story within a story… You only have to note the substantial amounts that have been written on the subject in the past, to realise that this is a story that could baffle and perplex even...
    The history of medicine – warts and all – for Key Stage 2

  • Resources for courses: ideas for your history curriculum

      Primary History article
    In times of tight budgets and with the new financial year on the horizon in April, now might be a good time to look at different ways to resource your history curriculum effectively. Alongside all the resources for teachers available from Primary History and the HA website, the following list...
    Resources for courses: ideas for your history curriculum

  • How foundational concepts, supporting concepts and concrete examples can help untangle the past at Key Stage 3

      Teaching History article
    A central organising principle of any curriculum is the substantive concepts that underpin it. They provide a secure structure and enable students to develop deep understanding through multiple encounters with essential abstract ideas that are given concrete form in different historical contexts. Identifying the different levels or tiers to which different...
    How foundational concepts, supporting concepts and concrete examples can help untangle the past at Key Stage 3

  • Making substantive concepts (do the) work

      Teaching History article
    Several years back, Alistair Dickins and Tommy-James Alexander realised they wanted to incorporate explicit consideration of substantive concepts into their Key Stage 3 teaching, to enable students to make sense of and order information about the past and to offer students a usable language that would support their historical reasoning. In reality,...
    Making substantive concepts (do the) work

  • My Favourite History Place: The Guild Chapel

      Historian feature
    Trevor James highlights a very important building to visit and celebrate during the HA's Annual Conference in Stratford-upon-Avon in May 2018.
    My Favourite History Place: The Guild Chapel

  • The British Association for Local History (BALH)

      History Network
    The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serves local historians. Its purpose is to encourage and assist the study of local history as an academic discipline and as a rewarding leisure pursuit for both individuals and groups. Local history enriches our lives...
    The British Association for Local History (BALH)

  • My Favourite History Place: Lord Street, Southport

      Historian feature
    Trevor James introduces an international dimension to local history, revealing how a future French Emperor interpreted his affection for Southport’s Lord Street into the extensive redesign of Parisian streets.
    My Favourite History Place: Lord Street, Southport

  • Identity in history: why it matters and must be addressed!

      Teaching History journal article
    Sophia Nzeribe Nascimento, a mixed-race teacher working in a diverse London school, set out to explore her students’ assumptions about who historians are. While her own ethnicity and gender may have convinced at least some of her students that history is not exclusively the preserve of old white men, she...
    Identity in history: why it matters and must be addressed!

  • Hidden in plain sight: the history of people with disabilities

      Teaching History journal article
    Recognising the duty placed on all teachers by the 2010 Equality Act to nurture the development of a society in which equality and human rights are deeply rooted, Helen Snelson and Ruth Lingard were prompted to ask whether their history curricula really reflected the diverse pasts of all people in...
    Hidden in plain sight: the history of people with disabilities

  • Pull-out Posters: Primary History 76

      Posters: Communication and Sutton Hoo helmet
    1. Communication Across the Ages; 2. The British Museum's Sutton Hoo Helmet
    Pull-out Posters: Primary History 76

  • 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

  • One of my favourite history places: Durham Cathedral

      Primary History feature
    The best thing about Durham Cathedral is how it impresses on every scale and from every viewpoint. As you approach the city by train, it looms over the skyline hugging the River Wear and even dwarfing its imposing neighbour, Durham Castle. When you finally make the steep walk up towards cathedral green, the building towers above...
    One of my favourite history places: Durham Cathedral

  • Triumphs Show 172: The history classroom lending library

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    Tim Jenner and Jessica Angell share how the History Department Lending Library at Cambourne Village College began and developed, and the positive impact it has had on both students and staff.
    Triumphs Show 172: The history classroom lending library

  • Teaching History 136: Shaping the Past

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 When were Jews in medieval England most in danger? Exploring change and continuity with Year 7 – Ben Jarman (Read article) 13 Shaping macro-analysis from micro-history: developing a reflexive narrative of change in school history – Hywel Jones (Read article) 22 Triumphs show: How...
    Teaching History 136: Shaping the Past