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  • The Historian 79: Tony Blair, the Iraq War and a sense of history

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    Featured articles: 6 Tony Blair, the Iraq War, and a sense of history - Dr Adrian Smith (Read article) 9 John Knox and womankind: a reappraisal - Maureen M Meikle (Read article) 16 Why did regional variations exist in the prosecution of witches between 1580-1650? - Robert Hodgkinson (Read article)...
    The Historian 79: Tony Blair, the Iraq War and a sense of history

  • Breaking the 20 year rule: very modern history at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    History is the study of the past; some of the past is more recent than a glance over many schemes of work might lead us to think. Chris Culpin makes the case for ignoring the 20 year rule and tackling head on – and, crucially, historically – the big issues...
    Breaking the 20 year rule: very modern history at GCSE

  • Where might the Gunpowder Plot sit within the principles of the new model curriculum?

      Primary History article
    The government has proposed creating a model curriculum for history. This will contain a range of non-statutory and supplementary guidance to focus history teaching. In July 2022, terms of reference to identify principles and approaches underpinning the model history curriculum were published. There will be an advisory panel that will...
    Where might the Gunpowder Plot sit within the principles of the new model curriculum?

  • Equality, representation and the census with Professor David Olusoga

      Let's Count! Office for National Statistics and iChild's education resource programme
    To support Census 2021, Office for National Statistics, together with education resource centre, iChild, have developed the free primary education resource programme Let’s Count! The programme includes 14 cross-curricular resources covering key areas of the English and Welsh primary curriculum. Let’s Count! has achieved accreditation from MEI, NATE and the Geographical Association....
    Equality, representation and the census with Professor David Olusoga

  • How to make a toy museum

      Primary History article
    Making a museum in your setting or classroom is easy and children can learn all kinds of historical skills as well as developing their mark making and writing. Tees Valley Museums are a consortium of seven venues across the Tees Valley. Together they have created online support to develop a museum...
    How to make a toy museum

  • Teaching History 94: Raising the Standard

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    Raising the Standard of History education. WW2 cemetries and twenty years of curriculum change, Ordinary pupils, extraordinary results: a structured approach to raising attainment at GCSE, Talk to your inspector: making the most of your history inspection, Stretching the very able student in the mixed ability classroom, Year 11 and...
    Teaching History 94: Raising the Standard

  • Take one day: undertaking an in-depth local enquiry

      Primary History article
    Local history units of study provide teachers with valuable opportunities, but these can also seem daunting. Potential challenges for teachers include the perceived overwhelming scope of the topic, difficulties in developing subject knowledge and knowing where to find resources. However, none of these is insurmountable, if teachers identify a clear learning...
    Take one day: undertaking an in-depth local enquiry

  • 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

  • Teaching history through the use of story: Working with early years' practitioners

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links may be outdated. For more current and recent articles see Using stories to support history in the EYFS and Time for a story. In this article we argue that children in the Foundation Stage should be introduced to history as historical...
    Teaching history through the use of story: Working with early years' practitioners

  • Helping students make sense of historical time

      Primary History article
    This article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Once upon a time, educators believed that there was a property of children’s minds known as ‘understanding of time’. According to this belief, young children had little ability to understand when things happened, even within their own...
    Helping students make sense of historical time

  • In conversation with Mark Nicholls

      Historian feature
    The Historian sat down with Mark Nicholls to discuss his latest book, The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History, co-authored with Allen Boyer, which charts the history of the law of treason from its origins to the present day...
    In conversation with Mark Nicholls

  • 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

  • Teachng History 40

      Journal
    Editorial 2 `On Monday I Took Back the Armour and the Video's, Ross Lee and Richard Davis 3 Committed Historiography and History Teaching in Nigerian Secondary Schools, Noel A. Ihebuzor 8 Report: Historical Consciousness and Identity, Charles Hannam 11 The European Dimension and German History, T.C. Lewis 12 Outstanding History...
    Teachng History 40

  • Recorded webinar: Natural disasters in medieval Britain

      Article
    Natural disasters frequently affected medieval populations. This webinar explores some examples of what happened when meteorological hazards struck medieval communities, how they reacted and what steps they took to protect themselves against future risks. Through archaeological and historical sources of evidence, Peter Brown explores the diverse impacts unleashed by disasters...
    Recorded webinar: Natural disasters in medieval Britain

  • 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

  • Fifties Britain through the senses: ‘never had it so good’?

      Teaching History article
    Maya Stiasny was faced with difficulties familiar to many of us. Her new Year 12 students were struggling to get to grips with a new period of history. They were not interrogating primary sources with sufficient vigour. Her solution, detailed here, was novel. Working on the rich social history of post-war...
    Fifties Britain through the senses: ‘never had it so good’?

  • ‘But they just sit there’: using objects as material culture with Year 8

      Teaching History article
    Having specialised in the history of material culture during her degree, Gabriella West was struck by the dismissive attitude of her pupils towards the study of material objects from the past. She therefore set out to find the perfect object through which to induct her Year 8 pupils into the history...
    ‘But they just sit there’: using objects as material culture with Year 8

  • 100 Years of Suffrage

      6th February 2018
    The Representation of the People Act of 1918 gave the vote to all men and some women. Was it the greatest turning point in the history of British democracy? The Historical Association is looking forward to exploring that very question at the final of our Great Debate competition for students...
    100 Years of Suffrage

  • The Historian 120: The calm before the storm? The World in 1913

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    5 Editorial 6 The Romanov Tercentenary: nostalgia versus history on the eve of the Great War - Catherine Merridale (Read Article) 12 The world in 1913: friendly societies - Daniel Weinbren (Read Article) 17 The President's Column 18 Franz Ferdinand - Ian F. W. Beckett (Read Article) 23 Round About A...
    The Historian 120: The calm before the storm? The World in 1913

  • The hidden crisis in GCSE History

      Teaching History article
    Joining the debate launched in the last edition, John Dixon argues that in relation to competing subjects, history has become harder. He believes that this could be reviewed without loss of standards. He highlights what he sees as a perverse situation of conflicting trends: on the one hand, practice in...
    The hidden crisis in GCSE History

  • Film: An Introduction to Lesson Planning (Parts 6-10)

      Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
    This film continues our Teaching History for Beginners filmed webinar series. In this two-part film, Rachel Foster (teaching associate and secondary PGCE lead at the university of Cambridge) explores the key principles and processes of lesson planning for new teachers. View the first part here. This series is designed to support beginning...
    Film: An Introduction to Lesson Planning (Parts 6-10)

  • Teaching with Meaning: Supporting Historical Understanding in the Primary Classroom

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In essence, history is a record of human affairs. The problem in making this record is that events are past and gone and have to be reconstructed. Evidence may be uncertain and incomplete. Inevitably, several...
    Teaching with Meaning: Supporting Historical Understanding in the Primary Classroom

  • Assessment of students' uses of evidence

      Teaching History article
    Drawing on her research into students' evidential reasoning, Elisabeth Pickles explores the possibilities for how such reasoning might be assessed. Existing exam mark schemes focus too heavily on generic processes involved in the analysis of source material and insufficiently on the historical validity of reasoning and conclusions produced. Approaching the...
    Assessment of students' uses of evidence

  • Film: An Introduction to Lesson Planning (Parts 1-5)

      Teaching History for Beginners webinar series
    This film continues our Teaching History for Beginners filmed webinar series. In this two part film, Rachel Foster (teaching associate and secondary PGCE lead at the university of Cambridge) explores the key principles and processes of lesson planning for new teachers. View the second part here. This series is designed to support beginning history...
    Film: An Introduction to Lesson Planning (Parts 1-5)

  • History's big picture in three dimensions

      Historian article
    More and more historians, from diverse political viewpoints, are now expressing concern at the fragmentation of history, especially in the schools curriculum. The fragmentation of the subject has followed upon the collapse of sundry Grand Narratives, such as the ‘March of Progress', which once swept all of history into a...
    History's big picture in three dimensions