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  • Out and About in Wheathampstead

      Historian feature
    Dianne Payne examines the structural local history of Wheathampstead and provides a template for wider comparisons. The rural village of Wheathampstead in Hertfordshire, situated about four miles from St Albans, lies on the River Lea. The village and surrounding land has a long history and in ancient times was owned by the...
    Out and About in Wheathampstead
  • 1906-2006 One Hundred Years of the Historical Association

      The Historian 91
    4 Foreword - Lady Antonia Fraser 6 Swanning around - Jeremy Paterson 10 A Parade of Past Presidents 1906-82 - Donald Read 24 The Norton Medlicott Medal - Bill Speck 30 For Short Time an Endless Monument: The Shifting History of a Familiar London Landmark - Lisa Jardine 38 Wise...
    1906-2006 One Hundred Years of the Historical Association
  • The Invisible Building: St John's in Bridgend

      Historian article
    Molly Cook, winner of this year's Historical Association Young Historian Local History Award, unravels the mystery of a local icon and tells us about her success in inspiring Bridgend to engage with its fascinating past. Having worked on previous projects relating to the history of Bridgend and its place in...
    The Invisible Building: St John's in Bridgend
  • Exploring diversity at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    Having already reflected on ways of improving their students' understanding of historical diversity at Key Stage 3, Joanne Philpott and Daniel Guiney set themselves the challenge of extending this to post-14 students by means of fieldwork activities at First World War battlefields sites. In addition, they wanted to link the study...
    Exploring diversity at GCSE
  • Teaching History 168: Re-examining History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update – curriculum planning questions  08 Designing end-of-year exams: trials and tribulations – Matt Stanford (Read article) 16 Learning without limits: how not to leave some learners with a thin gruel of a curriculum – Richard Kerridge (Read article) 24 From...
    Teaching History 168: Re-examining History
  • Building St James's spire: Louth's guilds and popular piety in the later middle ages

      Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
    Medieval historian Dr Claire Kennan continued our Virtual Branch series with a local history talk on the building of St James's spire, Louth.  In her talk Kennan traces the important role that Louth's major guilds of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Holy Trinity played in the building of the St James’s spire. Throughout the...
    Building St James's spire: Louth's guilds and popular piety in the later middle ages
  • Teaching History 21

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 2 Children's Inductive Historical Thought: an Interim Report from a Current Research Project - Martin Booth, 3 Classified Advertisements, 8 An Approach to Learning History in Primary Schools - R. N. Hallam, 9 Young Children and the Past - Joan Blyth, 15 Teaching the Varieties of...
    Teaching History 21
  • Teaching History 44

      Journal
    Editorial Grade Criteria: opportunity or impending disaster? - R. Ben Jones Domesday Book - past and present, John Fines and Jon Nichol An Appreciation of Joe Hunt Childwrite, Teresa Clark Computer Update The Teaching of Irish History in the Secondary School, Roger Swift The Contributors Town and Country in the...
    Teaching History 44
  • Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers

      Teaching History article
    Kate Hawkey and Helen Snelson, who have both worked for many years in initial teacher education, wanted to find ways of supporting recently qualified teachers in continuing to develop their practice. Working in two different parts of the country, they established different kinds of informal, but well-focused history-specific, support groups....
    Bridging the gap: supporting early career teachers’ professional development as history teachers
  • Primary History 74

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    04 Editorial (Read article) 05 HA Primary News 06 Learning about the past through a study of toys and games - Helen Crawford (Read article) 08 Local history as a way of developing a sense of identity and place - Anna Husband (Read article) 14 This is no ordinary story …...
    Primary History 74
  • Using sites for insights

      Teaching History article
    Working alongside local history teachers to prepare for the new GCSE specifications Steve Illingworth and Emma Manners were struck that many teachers were concerned about two issues in particular: the breadth and depth of knowledge demanded and new forms of assessment, especially the historic environment paper. In this article they...
    Using sites for insights
  • Primary History 67

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    04 Editorial 05 HA Primary News 06 Why stories? Hilary Cooper (Read article) 08 Chronology: developing a coherent knowledge and understanding of Britain's past and of the wider world - Hilary Cooper (Read article) 16 Teaching ancient Egypt - Karin Doull (Read article) 22 Ideas for Assemblies: significant women in...
    Primary History 67
  • Teaching History 20

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 The Contributors, 2 Residential Courses for Sixth Formers - Tony Taylor, 3 What is History? Two Conferences - Brian Scott, 5 Structured Sixth Form Study - David Killingray, 8 16+ Feasibility Study and Oral Assessment - John Hamer, 10 Comment, 13 Reports: Language and History Teaching, 15 History...
    Teaching History 20
  • Nottingham Branch History

      Article
    A major feature of the Historical Association's branches has been their strong links with a variety of voluntary organisations focused on, or with interests in, history.  The Association's initial aims drawn up in June 1906 included 'Co-operation for common objects with the English Association, the Geographical Association, the Modern Language...
    Nottingham Branch History
  • Teaching History 169: A Time and a Place

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update – Teaching local history at Key Stage 3 08 From temple to forum: teaching final-year history students to become critical museum visitors – Michael Harcourt (Read article) 16 Triumphs Show: Using 360° VR technology with the GCSE Historic Environment study...
    Teaching History 169: A Time and a Place
  • Looking through the keyhole at Birkenhead from 1900 to 1950 with Year 7

      Journal article
    Matt Jones wanted to harness the power of local history to help his students understand the profound social changes experienced across Britain in the first half of the twentieth century. While he hoped that the personal stories of six families in Birkenhead would help to humanise abstract concepts such as...
    Looking through the keyhole at Birkenhead from 1900 to 1950 with Year 7
  • 100 not out: the Nuneaton branch centenary

      HA News
    For the 2018–19 season, the Nuneaton Branch of the HA is celebrating its centenary. Founded in 1919, by 1921 there were 78 members. In 1924, members went on a ‘charabanc’ tour of Leicestershire churches, ending at Fenny Drayton, where they joined in the celebrations for the tercentenary of the birth...
    100 not out: the Nuneaton branch centenary
  • What can you do with a Victorian Trade Directory…?

      Primary History article
    What is a trade directory? Trade directories are the equivalent of the telephone directory and the Yellow Pages. They were published on a county or city basis every year and contain detailed descriptions of every village and town in the county. They also contain pages and pages of advertisements, for...
    What can you do with a Victorian Trade Directory…?
  • The Historian 4

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Articles include: 3 Feature: The Great Fire of Westminster 1834 – Patrick Cormack 8 Local History: Archive Services in the Metropolitan Counties and in Greater London – Elizabeth Berry 12 Record Linkage: Cartoonists and the General Elections of 1945 and 1983 – Adrian Smith 16 Update: Parliament in the Middle Ages – Helen Jewell 20 Medals of...
    The Historian 4
  • Primary History 98

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    05 Editorial (Read article) 06 Who is in charge? – Helen Crawford and Karin Doull (Read article) 10 Building history connections with the local community: how one Quality Mark School showed that ambition reaps rewards – Rachael Gorczyca (Read article) 14 Musings and misconceptions about Remembrance Day – Susie Townsend...
    Primary History 98
  • Teaching History 185: Missing stories

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article for free) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 10 Teaching Britain’s ‘civil rights’ history: activism and citizenship in context – Hannah Elias and Martin Spafford (Read article) 22 Illuminating the possibilities of the past: the role of representation in A-level curriculum planning – Claire Holliss (Read article)...
    Teaching History 185: Missing stories
  • Britain: the regional battlefields that helped to create a nation

      Historian article
    In this article Geoffrey Carter will be taking a look at battlefields as key elements in British history and how these can be incorporated into the study of history at various levels and in various periods. The regional nature of many historic conflicts is sometimes forgotten but this is an...
    Britain: the regional battlefields that helped to create a nation
  • Teaching History 182: A Sense of Period

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial: A Sense of Period (Read article for free) HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Exploring the ‘remembered’: using oral history to enhance a local history partnership – Emily Toettcher and Eliza West (Read article) 16 Triumphs Show: A public lecture series: a peek behind the scenes of...
    Teaching History 182: A Sense of Period
  • Teaching History 31

      Journal
    Editorial, 2 List of Historical Association Area Education Advisers, 3 The 'Records Road Show' or Documents in Essex Classrooms - Ian Mason, 4 Schooling the Local Historian - Gareth Elwyn Jones, 7 Local History Teaching and the Ordinary Child - R. D. Woodall, 10 Lincolnshire Teachers' Views on a 16...
    Teaching History 31
  • Nuneaton Branch History

      Branch History
    The  Nuneaton Branch of the H.A. was originally founded in November 1919 as one part of a county wide Warwickshire branch.  Instrumental in this was the editor of the Nuneaton Chronicle, Albert Francis Cross, assisted by local doctor turned local historian, Edward Nason. After this arrangement ended Nuneaton was re-founded...
    Nuneaton Branch History