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Dr Black Box or How I learned to stop worrying and love assessment
Teaching History article
Drawing upon experimental work in different history departments, Mark Cottingham explores ‘assessment for learning' principles in practice. He raises the problem of a clash between these approaches and the progression model inherent in the National Curriculum Attainment Target, and, crucially, the way in which history departments are expected to use...
Dr Black Box or How I learned to stop worrying and love assessment
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Teaching History 66
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
7 The Discursive Turn: Tony Bennett and the Textuality of History - Keith Jenkins
17 History Reprieved? - Terry Haydn
21 Overwhelming Evidence: Written Sources and Primary History - Peter Vass
27 Towards a Controllable Time Machine' - Sean O'Conaill
31 Beating the Invader in 1941: A 7-year-old's Experiences - John Kinross
35 Key Stage...
Teaching History 66
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Computers don't bite! Your first tentative steps in using ICT in the classroom.
Article
This article is for beginners. It will also provide perspectives and ideas for those training history teachers in the use of ICT for improving pupils’ learning. Drawing upon his experience in managing the HA’s NOF training programme, Alf Wilkinson outlines some practical activities that are ideal for getting the novice...
Computers don't bite! Your first tentative steps in using ICT in the classroom.
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The development of the British Navy
Podcast
In this podcast, Professor Bruce Collins of Sheffield Hallam University explores the development of the British navy during the French Wars and the 19th century. Professor Collins outlines the place of the navy in Britain’s psyche at the beginning of the French Wars and the importance of coastal transport, as well...
The development of the British Navy
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The Historian 75: Keats' Deathbed Companion
Article
Featured articles:
6 Whigs, Tories, East Indiamen and rogues: the history of Parliament, 1690-1715 – Paul Seaward
11 Kingship and Authorship: History and Royalty in the Crown of Aragon – Suzanne F. Cawsey
19 The Wizard Earl of Northumberland: an Elizabethan scholar-nobleman – Gordon Batho
25 Keats' deathbed companion: in...
The Historian 75: Keats' Deathbed Companion
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Film: Introducing Professor Peter Mandler
Peter Mandler becomes the new HA President in May 2020
Professor Peter Mandler has accepted the position of President of the HA and will be taking over the position from Professor Tony Badger who will step down this later this year.
Peter Mandler was born in the USA in 1958, educated at Oxford and Harvard Universities, and has taught in Britain...
Film: Introducing Professor Peter Mandler
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Teaching History 71
The HA's journal for history teachers
10 Bridge that Gap! Are There Opportunities within the National Curriculum to Promote Co-operative Work between History and English? - Ian Davies and Mary Bousted
15 The National Oracy Project - Hilary Kemeny
17 Oral History: Working with Children - Inge Cramer
20 Historically Speaking - Pauline Loader
23 Skilful...
Teaching History 71
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Out and About in ‘The most Loyal and Ancient City of Taunton’
Historian feature
The Somerset town of Taunton featured prominently in the highly significant political and religious conflicts of the seventeenth century. Isabella Peach examines Taunton’s role in these events and the impact they had on the town. Her article is based on her winning entry in the 2023 Young Historian Post-16 Local...
Out and About in ‘The most Loyal and Ancient City of Taunton’
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Here come the Vikings! Making a saga out of a crisis
Primary History Article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
What are your first impressions when you think of Alfred the Great? Perhaps it's the story of the heroic individual being humbled by burning the cakes or for those of a certain age, it may...
Here come the Vikings! Making a saga out of a crisis
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British Defence and Appeasement Between the Wars 1919-1939
Classic Pamphlet
Armed forces never exist in isolation, but always operate against a background of political, economic, social, cultural, intellectual and ideological conditions and attitudes, as well as in relation to diplomatic and strategic factors. Some governments regards their military forces especially their armies, more as instruments for maintaining internal order than...
British Defence and Appeasement Between the Wars 1919-1939
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Teaching History 196: Out now
Article
Read Teaching History 196: Demanding history
History can be a very demanding subject, in a number of senses. The past can make demands on us – it can demand attention and demand to be addressed. There can, as it were, be historical as well as financial ‘final demands’, reminders of...
Teaching History 196: Out now
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Primary history and the curriculum: a South African perspective
Primary History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated.
The issues surrounding the construction of a post-conflict history curriculum are complex. At its most basic level, the memory choice for a country emerging from mass violence is between remembering and forgetting, with...
Primary history and the curriculum: a South African perspective
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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
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The history of bigamy
Historian article
Though people are still sometimes prosecuted for repeatedly marrying immigrants to rescue them from the attentions of the Home Office, while forgetting to get divorced between times, one uncovenanted result of the now common practice of living together without matrimony is the decline of that celebrated Victorian institution: bigamy.
In...
The history of bigamy
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A hankering for the blank spaces: enabling the very able to explore the limits of GCSE
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Many of us would love to have the problems encountered by Oliver Knight at his previous school. His students were simply doing too well - leaving him wondering how to stretch them to the limit...
A hankering for the blank spaces: enabling the very able to explore the limits of GCSE
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Learning to read, reading to learn: strategies to move students from 'keen to learn' to 'keen to read'
Teaching History article
Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated.
Conventionally, students learn to read before they come to secondary school. As a result, for the majority of our students, reading can be taken for granted. Yet sometimes, as history teachers, we can find that...
Learning to read, reading to learn: strategies to move students from 'keen to learn' to 'keen to read'
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Teaching History 67
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 History for Ordinary Children - Terry Haydn
11 'Real Books' and Interpretations of History' in the National Curriculum - Hugh D. J. Nicklin
17 'Just for Laughs?' The History Day as an Experiment in Cross-phase Learning - Derek Peaple
22 The Valence House Project - John Ubsdell and Gillian Gillespie
24 Instuctional...
Teaching History 67
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Virtual Branch Recording: The House of Dudley
Article
The Dudleys thrived at the court of Henry VII, but were sacrificed to the popularity of Henry VIII. Rising to prominence in the reign of Edward VI, the Dudleys lost it all by advancing Jane Grey to the throne over Mary I. That was until the reign of Elizabeth I,...
Virtual Branch Recording: The House of Dudley
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Recorded webinar: Mapping uncertainty - Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
Retracing the trajectories of young survivors in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust
Recorded webinar: Mapping uncertainty - Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
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Primary History summer resource 2024: the Ancient Greeks
Primary member resource
Our free summer resource for 2024 is intended to enhance your subject knowledge about Ancient Greece.
The first article looks at an individual Greek, Pytheas. Often Greece is taught largely as an insular place of city states, but the reality is that Greece was heavily involved in trade and they...
Primary History summer resource 2024: the Ancient Greeks
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Teaching History 65
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 Replies to Keith Jenkins and Peter Brickley: Always Historicise? - Richard Aldrich
13 Clarity Please! - Gavin Alexander
15 Economic Awareness through History - P. J. Rogers
21 National Curriculum History and Teacher Autonomy: The Major Challenge - Robert Phillips
25 Teaching History: Art American Experience - Sean McGrath
28 Learning about Museum Resources - Sue...
Teaching History 65
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Triumphs Show: Embracing scholarship to guide Year 7 on an exploration of the Silk Roads
Teaching History feature
It has been the same for history teachers all over the country: the dramatic shift in perspective after reading Peter Frankopan’s The Silk Roads. Frankopan’s groundbreaking scholarship transported me to distant lands. His book introduced me to cultures and civilisations previously unknown. I wanted my pupils to venture along the same...
Triumphs Show: Embracing scholarship to guide Year 7 on an exploration of the Silk Roads
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Teaching History 64
The HA's journal for history teachers
Articles:
8 The Professional Craft Knowledge of the History Teacher - Peter John
12 Talking about History: Group Work in the Classroom - Practice and Implications - Kenneth Brzezicki
17 Issues in the Teaching of History - Towards a Skills/Concept-led Approach - Jane Jenkins
22 Bebba and her Sisters - Gully Robson
26 Time...
Teaching History 64
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Henry III, Simon de Montfort and the Origins of Parliament
Video podcast series by History Hub, Royal Holloway, University of London
In this series of videos, produced by Royal Holloway, University of London, staff and students explore the reign of Henry III, baronial grievances and the Second Barons’ War, including the 1258 Provisions of Oxford, the most radical scheme of constitutional reform to be attempted in England until the post-Civil War...
Henry III, Simon de Montfort and the Origins of Parliament
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The Historian 166: Out now
The magazine of the Historical Association
Read The Historian 166: Crime and Punishment
Last summer, crime and punishment made the headlines as Britain’s prisons came close to full capacity. In response, the Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, ordered the release of nearly 10,000 prisoners who had served a significant portion of their sentence. The aim was to...
The Historian 166: Out now
