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Virtual Branch Recording: Food and drink in the medieval monastery
Article
In his recent book The Monastic World, Andrew Jotischky looks at how from the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe. The history of monasticism is defined by the fierce and passionate abandonment of the ordinary comforts of life, the most striking being food and drink....
Virtual Branch Recording: Food and drink in the medieval monastery
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History Research Bursary Scheme: Early Career and Mid-Career Routes
Article
History: The Journal of the Historical Association is delighted to launch the 2025 round of its bursary scheme, which is designed to support research that will result in an article submission to History, which is jointly published by the Historical Association and Wiley.
We anticipate offering one award to an...
History Research Bursary Scheme: Early Career and Mid-Career Routes
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Primary History 2
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
5 Back to Worrying – Paul Noble
5 History Update – NCC and SEAC
6 In My Opinion – Pat Hughes
7 Evacuation Day – Dave Martin and Andy Cobb
9 Televising the Tudors and Stuarts – Nick Whines
10 Conference Report – Sue Lynn
11 Hands on Experience –...
Primary History 2
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History 391
The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 110, Issue 391
All HA members have access to all History journal articles (Wiley Online Library site). To access History content:
1. Sign in to the HA website (top right of any page)2. Then click this link to allow access to History content on the Wiley site.
NB all links below go to...
History 391
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Historians in History, part 1: 1912-1939
Article
This is the first in a new series looking at the historians who have published in History: The Journal of the Historical Association, since it was founded in 1912. The journal has a long-standing record of featuring some of the most distinguished UK and UK-based historians and its pages constitute...
Historians in History, part 1: 1912-1939
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A view from the Editor’s desk 1997–2006
Primary History article
This article is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today
Congratulations on the publication of the 100th issue of Primary...
A view from the Editor’s desk 1997–2006
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Film: Foreign Intervention in the Cold War
Branch Lecture: Nuneaton Branch
This filmed Branch Lecture entitled "Foreign Intervention in the Cold War" features Dr Volker Prott of Aston University. In his talk, Dr Prott, looks at three international crises of the 1960s and early 1970s, the Congo Crisis, the Kashmir dispute and the Indo Pakistan conflict over East Pakistan/Bangladesh.
Dr Prott examines when, why and...
Film: Foreign Intervention in the Cold War
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Primary History 100
The primary education journal of the Historical Association
This edition of HA's Primary History magazine is currently free to download via the link at the bottom of the page. For a subscription to Primary History (published termly), plus access to our huge library of high-quality resources by primary history experts, free or discounted CPD and membership of a...
Primary History 100
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Recorded webinar: The post-emancipation Caribbean and the meanings of freedom
Article
This webinar examines the era of ‘post-emancipation’ in the Caribbean from around the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. It interrogates the notion of ‘emancipation’ and asks what kind of ‘freedom’ did abolition bring to the formerly enslaved? How did colonial states and other authorities seek to regulate the lives of...
Recorded webinar: The post-emancipation Caribbean and the meanings of freedom
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Virtual Branch Recording: Women and the Reformations
Article
The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of men. But women were central to the transformations that took place in Europe and beyond. What was life like for them in this turbulent period? How did their actions and ideas shape Christianity and influence societies around the world? ...
Virtual Branch Recording: Women and the Reformations
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Recorded webinar: Researching the history of migration and refugees in Europe
When the present informs the past
Research on the history of migration continues to flourish and grow, but scholarship is also becoming increasingly splintered, often focusing on particular settings or population groups. Migration is often used as a way to discuss questions of national identity or diverse religious, ethnic, religious and local identities in the UK,...
Recorded webinar: Researching the history of migration and refugees in Europe
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Recorded webinar: Ottoman trade with Europe in the early modern era
Article
For European states in the early modern era the Ottoman empire represented a huge trading bloc, stretching at its height from Hungary in the west to Iran in the east, from Ukraine in the north to Egypt in the south, and along the southern shores of the Mediterranean to the...
Recorded webinar: Ottoman trade with Europe in the early modern era
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On-demand webinar: 'Move Me On’ skills practice for mentors
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Session 5: 'Move Me On’ skills practice
This final webinar of the series brings together the strands of mentoring through a ‘Move Me On’ style case-studies workshop, with participants tackling common mentoring quandaries together.
Release date: Tuesday 22 April 2025Expiry...
On-demand webinar: 'Move Me On’ skills practice for mentors
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On-demand webinar: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories as a mentor
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Session 4: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories
The fourth webinar considers how to support beginning and early career history teachers to tackle more sensitive, emotive and controversial histories in the classroom, and harness the potential of their mentee...
On-demand webinar: Navigating sensitive, emotive and controversial histories as a mentor
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On-demand webinar: Observation and feedback as a mentor
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Session 3: Observation and feedback
In this third webinar, Laura and Victoria explore strategies for dialogic and history-specific observation and post-lesson reflection. This session will focus on how mentors can forefront historical learning in the observation cycle.
Release date: Tuesday...
On-demand webinar: Observation and feedback as a mentor
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On-demand webinar: Supporting planning as a mentor
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Session 2: Supporting planning
In this second webinar, Victoria and Laura model how they get beginning and early career teachers planning with a strong sense of coherence, direction and historical purpose over a sequence of lessons.
Release date: Tuesday 22...
On-demand webinar: Supporting planning as a mentor
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On-demand webinar: Developing subject knowledge as a mentor
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Mentoring beginning and early career history teachers in the secondary school
Session 1: Developing subject knowledge
This first webinar will begin with the question: What do beginning and early career history teachers need to know about history? It will explore the substantive and disciplinary subject knowledge that is essential for...
On-demand webinar: Developing subject knowledge as a mentor
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On-demand webinar: Helping the past take shape with historical enquiry
Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
Session 5: Helping the past take shape with historical enquiry
This session focuses into enquiry and on second order concepts. It offers practical advice to how second order concepts can be introduced in a way that is historically rigorous. We will explicitly address...
On-demand webinar: Helping the past take shape with historical enquiry
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On-demand webinar: Historical writing
Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
Session 4: Historical writing
This session focuses on how we can support our students to write like historians. We will explain why PEE models and other simplistic frameworks actually limit our students and instead we should look to the work of historians as...
On-demand webinar: Historical writing
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On-demand webinar: Interpretations: complexity without confusions
Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
Session 3: Interpretations: complexity without confusions
This session delves into interpretations. It analyses how we can be both too simplistic and too complex with our approach. It will explore a different approach to interpretations and give practical approaches to exemplify what this could...
On-demand webinar: Interpretations: complexity without confusions
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On-demand webinar: Keeping sources messy
Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
Embracing messiness: teaching disciplinary thinking in history
Session 2: Keeping sources messy
This session looks into how source work has often been too tidy in the classroom setting and the reasons behind this. It will explore a different approach to working with sources and evidence and give practical approaches to exemplify what...
On-demand webinar: Keeping sources messy
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On-demand webinar: Helping children build secure evidential thinking
Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
Session 5: Helping children build secure evidential thinking
Handling sources is something all children learn to do in Key Stage 2 history, but often that crucial distinction between ‘source’ and ‘evidence’ is confused. No archaeologist digs up ‘evidence’. And labelling sources as either...
On-demand webinar: Helping children build secure evidential thinking
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On-demand webinar: Helping children think about change and continuity
Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
Session 4: Helping children think about change and continuity
Historians, when studying a period of history, ask ‘what changed over this period?’ and ‘what stayed the same over this period?’ This session will explore disciplinary thinking around change and continuity, helping children to...
On-demand webinar: Helping children think about change and continuity
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On-demand webinar: Helping children think about similarity and difference
Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
Session 3: Helping children think about similarity and difference
Historians, when comparing civilisations or places, ask, ‘what is similar?’ and ‘what is different?’ This session will explore disciplinary thinking around similarity and difference, building secure knowledge and equipping children with the vocabulary...
On-demand webinar: Helping children think about similarity and difference
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On-demand webinar: Helping children think about cause and consequence
Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history
Session 2: Helping children think about cause and consequence
One of the most common questions asked by historians is ‘why...?’ Why did this event happen? How did the event happen? What were the results of this event? This session will explore disciplinary thinking...
On-demand webinar: Helping children think about cause and consequence
