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  • The Historian 150: Aspects of Africa

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial (Read article for free) 6 The British Empire on trial – Gregory Gifford (Read article) 12 Zulu and the end of Empire – Nicolas Kinloch (Read article) 17 Legacies of the Cement Armada – Steven Pierce (Read article) 22 The Christian Kingdoms of Nubia and Ethiopia: neighbouring strangers? –...
    The Historian 150: Aspects of Africa

  • Think Bubble - Jumping stories: selective chronology

      Primary History feature
    I recently finished a most interesting commission with the educational publishers, Schofield and Sims. They asked me to help put together a comprehensive timeline of British History to cover as broad a chronological perspective as possible. They wanted this to be the complete Cavemen to Cybermen story all on one...
    Think Bubble - Jumping stories: selective chronology

  • My Favourite History Place - All Saint's Church, Harewood

      Historian feature
    Harewood House, a few miles north of Leeds, attracts many historically-minded visitors to enjoy the work of Adam, Chippendale and Capability Brown but to my mind the real treasures of Harewood lie elsewhere. After negotiating the payment booths take the path immediately on your right, leading to the redundant church...
    My Favourite History Place - All Saint's Church, Harewood

  • Ofsted and History in Schools

      Article
    HM Inspector John Hamer reviews the evidence. In a lecture marking the 150th anniversary of Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Schools, Peter Gordon recalled a nineteenth century HMI, the Reverend W.H. Brookfield. His circle of friends included Tennyson, the Hallams and Thomas Carlyle.
    Ofsted and History in Schools

  • History co-ordinators' dilemmas

      Article
    Jayne Woodhouse offers advice on creating a classroom museum.
    History co-ordinators' dilemmas

  • Music in the History Curriculum

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated. In a primary school in Devon, there is a teacher who sings to his class every day: traditional songs; love songs; lyrical ballads; sea shanties; tales of mystery and suspense; songs of ritual and ceremony, hunting songs,...
    Music in the History Curriculum

  • Developing pupil explanation through web debates

      Teaching History article
    Kathryn Greenfield became dissatisfied with her pupils' written responses, particularly the rather limited explanations that they were giving in support of points that they made. Drawing here on recent work in using Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) to develop pupil historical argument and reasoning, Greenfield explains how she used web debates...
    Developing pupil explanation through web debates

  • Become a sponsor

      Develop client relationships & grow your business
    The Historical Association is many different things, a charity, a subject association for history and a membership organisation.  With that we bring together many different people with a love of history. We have over 20,000 members and a paid subscription of over 10000.  The HA can help you develop client...
    Become a sponsor

  • Exploring environmental impact alongside early skills development in the EYFS

      Primary History article
    Mary Potts draws on actual practice at St Patrick’s School in Liverpool to show how a focus on growth using seeds can help EYFS children understand ideas relevant to historical understanding such as change over time. Such potentially complex ideas can be made much more comprehensible to young children through...
    Exploring environmental impact alongside early skills development in the EYFS

  • Modern British Jewish History

      Podcast
    In this podcast Paula Kitching looks at the history of the British Jewish Community from 1800.
    Modern British Jewish History

  • High achievement in history in a nutshell

      Article
    History is a discipline that attempts to understand human beings, the civilisations, cultures, nations and communities that they make and that make them. History is about time because everything human has its time and time runs out: it is about change, development, coming into being and passing away and about...
    High achievement in history in a nutshell

  • Medieval British Jewish History

      Podcast
    In this podcast Paula Kitching looks at the history of the British Jewish Community in the Medieval Period.
    Medieval British Jewish History

  • A Social History of the Welsh Language

      Historian article
    When the historian Peter Burke wrote in 1987 ‘It is high time for a social history of language’, he could scarcely have imagined that the first to meet the challenge would be the Welsh. In November 2000 the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, a research...
    A Social History of the Welsh Language

  • Interpretations and history teaching

      Teaching History article
    Gary Howells offers us a challenge: are we sure that we are teaching the study of interpretations correctly? It is much criticised at GCSE, but do we really engage our students in the process of writing history, and in understanding how history works, from 11-14? Or do we use reductive...
    Interpretations and history teaching

  • Teaching History 149: In Search of the Question

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial  03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Ed Podesta - Helping Year 7 put some flesh on Roman bones (Read article) 18 Diana Laffin - Marr: magpie or marsh harrier? The quest for the common characteristics of the genus ‘historian' with 16- to 19-year-olds (Read article) 26 Cunning...
    Teaching History 149: In Search of the Question

  • Help shape the future of the HA as a trustee

      Trustee elections 2026
    Please note: nominations for trustees and membership of standing committees have now closed. Find out more about the work our trustees do and about the trustee election process below. Becoming a trustee of the HA What are charity trustees and what do they do? Trustees are the group of people with overall...
    Help shape the future of the HA as a trustee

  • Recorded webinar series: From Cyrus to Cleopatra: The ancient history adventure

      Free webinar series for secondary teachers from the Historical Association and the Classical Association
    This webinar series, offered in collaboration with the Classical Association, explores how ancient history can be embedded across the key stages at secondary level. Across this series, we will show you how teaching ancient history is relevant today, enriches modern classrooms and gives learners the opportunity to explore some key...
    Recorded webinar series: From Cyrus to Cleopatra: The ancient history adventure

  • The New History of the Spanish Inquisition

      Article
    Helen Rawlings reviews the recent literature which has prompted a fundamental reappraisal of the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish Inquisition — first established in 1478 in Castile under Queen Isabella I and suppressed in 1834 by Queen Isabella II — has left its indelible mark on the whole course of Spain’s...
    The New History of the Spanish Inquisition

  • The Roaring Twenties: teaching a decade of change across Key Stages 1 and 2

      Primary History article
    This article explores how one topic can be used in different ways to support historical understanding at Key Stage 1 or Key Stage 2. The themes highlighted could link into possible golden threads to enable connections to be made across a school’s curriculum. The ‘Roaring Twenties’ also provide a real...
    The Roaring Twenties: teaching a decade of change across Key Stages 1 and 2

  • Recorded webinar: Creating curriculum pathways: Government

      Webinar series: Creating curriculum pathways through primary history at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2
    Webinar series: Creating curriculum pathways through primary history at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 This webinar was recorded as part of our webinar series exploring the teaching of substantive concepts in primary history. The National Curriculum for history requires pupils to gain understanding about abstract concepts of substantive...
    Recorded webinar: Creating curriculum pathways: Government

  • Putting the Story back into History

      Primary History article
    Children love stories. They like the drama, the excitement, the chance to listen and to wonder. Narrative is a very important part of history and sometimes, by concentrating on facts or on skills, we tend to lose the view of the big picture, especially in the Key Stage 2 curriculum...
    Putting the Story back into History

  • OCR History A Level History: Democracy and Dictatorship in Germany 1919-63

      Review
    Professor Mary Fulbrook and David Williamson with Nick Fellows and Mike Wells Review by Barbara Hibbert This resource is one of a series produced by Heinemann to support the new OCR History A AS course.  It claims that it ‘exactly reflects the key issues and skills in the specification topics'. ...
    OCR History A Level History: Democracy and Dictatorship in Germany 1919-63

  • Triumphs Show 140: leading a school re-enactment group

      Teaching History feature
    Who would true valour see...let him (or her) lead a school re-enactment group While many teachers may have called on the services of historical re-enactors to inspire their students and create a living sense of the past, few have taken on the challenge of establishing their own historical re-enactment group....
    Triumphs Show 140: leading a school re-enactment group

  • Film: Tackling superpower relations with lower-ability students

      Secondary History Workshop Annual Conference 2019
    This secondary workshop took place at at the Historical Association Annual Conference, Chester, May 2019. It looked at ways of helping lower-ability students at GCSE access lesson and revision content based around superpower relations in the cold war, but is applicable to any subject area. Through a series of games and...
    Film: Tackling superpower relations with lower-ability students

  • HA Annual Conference 2026: call for papers

      Workshop proposals open until 7 November
    The HA Annual Conference will be held in Newcastle in 2026. This two-day conference on 15-16 May is a leading highlight of the history community's year. It brings together all those working in and who have an active interest in history and heritage. With top-level academics, pedagogical sessions and discussion panels, the conference is...
    HA Annual Conference 2026: call for papers