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  • Recorded webinar: Medieval manuscripts and modern lasers

      Article
    Modern, non-invasive scientific techniques have revolutionised knowledge of medieval inks and pigments - from the most exotic, such as lapis lazuli and Egyptian blue, to the most ordinary, indigo and ochres - and of how they were used to create magnificent illuminated manuscripts. This webinar will outline the techniques in question,...
    Recorded webinar: Medieval manuscripts and modern lasers

  • Frameworks for linking pupils' evidential understanding with growing skill in structured, written argument: the 'evidence sandwich'

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. History teachers are increasingly good at designing exercises which develop skill in evidence analysis. The ubiquitous ‘source' is invariably analysed for utility and reliability. But how do pupils integrate such understandings with extended written work?...
    Frameworks for linking pupils' evidential understanding with growing skill in structured, written argument: the 'evidence sandwich'

  • Concerns over future of teacher training 2014

      Article
    The Facts Increasing numbers of trainee teachers are entering the profession with little or no history-specific training. Opportunities for graduates to increase subject knowledge alongside subject-based teaching practice in university centred school partnerships have been cut. Our research shows that 90% of respondents agreed that all trainees should receive a...
    Concerns over future of teacher training 2014

  • Teaching History 72

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    11 Using the Attainment Targets in Key Stage 2: AT2, 'Interpretations of History' - Pam Harper 14 Using the Attainment Targets in Key Stage 3: AT2, 'Interpretations of History' - Tony McAleavy  18 A Way of Looking at History: Local-National-World Links - Sylvia L. Collicott  23 Deja vu - The...
    Teaching History 72

  • Merseyside Branch programme

      Article
    Branch contact: For all enquiries, please contact Dr Heather Hatton Merseysideha@gmail.com Venue: All talks start at 6:00 pm and take place in the Liverpool John Moores Student Life Building, room 2.06, unless otherwise stated. Address: Copperas Hill, Liverpool L3 5AJ The venue is next to Liverpool Lime Street Station and for those...
    Merseyside Branch programme

  • Preserving Ancient Cultural Heritage in a New State: Montenegro and the Looting of Doclea, 1882

      Article
    Our recent article on the plundering of the ancient site of Doclea in July 1882 provides an important case study in how new states preserved cultural heritage. The event occurred soon after Montenegro gained independence in 1878. A group of looters took advantage of the early stages of state formation...
    Preserving Ancient Cultural Heritage in a New State: Montenegro and the Looting of Doclea, 1882

  • Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs

      Article
    On Friday 19 September, the editorial team of History: The Journal of the Historical Association – one of the longest-running generalist historical journals in the English language – is organising a workshop to support PhD students and early-career researchers yet to publish their first article. Held at the Historical Association...
    Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs

  • Driving Your Discussion

      Article
    Welcome to Driving Your Discussion – a new resource from the Historical Association's Secondary Committee. The resource takes the form of a series of discussion cards to support teacher collaboration by guiding critical reflection on topical themes such as curriculum design, assessment, inclusion, and pedagogy. Each discussion card offers structured prompts,...
    Driving Your Discussion

  • Teaching Year 9 about the ordinary people who fought in the Spanish Civil War

      Teaching History article
    Teaching Year 9 about the ordinary people who fought in the Spanish Civil War

  • 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

  • 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

  • The 'Penny Dreadful'

      Historian article
    "I wish I know'd as much as you, Dick. How did you manage to pick it up?" "Mother taught me most, and I read all the books I can get." "So do I; sich rattling tales, too ---‘The Black Phantom; or, the White Spectre of the Pink Rock.' It's fine,...
    The 'Penny Dreadful'

  • Visual Literacy: Learning through pictures and images

      Primary History Article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and references are outdated. What questions does the portrait raise in your mind? What messages does the artist intend to convey? How does the artist convey those messages to the intended audience? What might have been the circumstances under which the...
    Visual Literacy: Learning through pictures and images

  • Film: Brezhnev and Détente

      Film Series: Power and authority in Russia and the Soviet Union
    In this film Dr Edwin Bacon blanks about the modernisation of the soviet union in the 1960s and 70s under Brezhnev, with some scholars predicting that as the East and West evolved, they would eventually converge as modern developed industrialised societies. The problem with convergence theory is that it didn’t...
    Film: Brezhnev and Détente

  • The Urban Working Classes in England 1880-1914

      Historian article
    On reading the title of this article, any reader at all familiar with the social history of late Victorian and Edwardian England is likely to think of the revelations at the time of the extent of urban poverty. Two major enquiries, one into London poverty, and the other into poverty...
    The Urban Working Classes in England 1880-1914

  • Weaving historical scholarship into primary history: Ancient Rome

      Article
    Webinar series: Weaving historical scholarship into primary history Primary teachers are expected to be experts in everything. If you feel that your history subject knowledge could do with a brush up, then this series is for you. The Historical Association has teamed up with some leading historians and experienced teachers...
    Weaving historical scholarship into primary history: Ancient Rome

  • Cunning Plan 137: making homework more exciting

      Teaching History journal feature
    Ever since I started teaching, homework has been something of a bugbear. Administration alone is a hassle: not only remembering when to set and collect it in, but keeping track of the various students who fail to deliver anything on time (except highly creative excuses) and of the follow-up action...
    Cunning Plan 137: making homework more exciting

  • Building and assessing a frame of reference in the Netherlands

      Teaching History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. Concerns about our ability to equip young people with a frame of reference that they can actually use to orient themselves in time are widespread. The challenges were extensively debated within the last issue of...
    Building and assessing a frame of reference in the Netherlands

  • Teaching History 137: Marking Time

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Jerome Freeman and Joanne Philpott - ‘Assessing Pupil Progress': transforming teacher assessment in Key Stage 3 history (Read article) 14 Jannet van Drie, Albert Logtenberg, Bas van der Meijden and Marcel van Riessen - "When was that date?" Building and assessing a frame of reference...
    Teaching History 137: Marking Time

  • Pride in place: What does historical geographical and social understanding look like?

      Primary History case study
    Please note: this article pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. ‘Some primary schools are like the High Street in many of our towns. I can predict what I will see before I go through the door. What I want to see is something that gives me...
    Pride in place: What does historical geographical and social understanding look like?

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife

      Lives of medieval women
    What was life really like for women in the medieval period? How did they think about sex, death and God? Could they live independent lives?  Few women had the luxury of writing down their thoughts and feelings during medieval times. But remarkably, there are at least four who did: Marie de France,...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife

  • Primary History 53: Living history

      The primary education journal of the Historical Association
    Living history - a primary history curriculum for the 21st century: Historical, Geographical and Social Understanding 03 Editorial 04 The Historical Association’s response to the Rose Review 05 In my view: Towards a new primary curriculum: Cambridge Primary Review Part 1, Past and Present, Part 2, The Future — An...
    Primary History 53: Living history

  • Virtual Branch Recording: Locating and Mapping the Jews of Medieval Lincoln

      Article
    As part of a project to identify and write biographies of all of the Jews of the medieval Lincoln Jewry, Natasha Jenman, Luka Liu, and Josh Outhwaite have been working on records of Jewish property ownership in the city across the thirteenth century. This allows them to identify those individuals who will be...
    Virtual Branch Recording: Locating and Mapping the Jews of Medieval Lincoln

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic

      Article
    Oliver Cromwell’s death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of Englishmen faced each other across the Scottish border; and the Long Parliament was finally dissolved after two decades.  Why...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The Fall of the English Republic

  • Conwy Borough Branch Programme

      Branch programmes
    Branch Contact: Gemma Campbell conwyboroughha@gmail.com    Meetings are held on the third Monday of the month at Sheldons, 8 Penrhyn Rd, Colwyn Bay LL29 8LG unless otherwise stated.  Refreshments will be available to purchase (payment not included with the talk).   Doors open at 6.30 for refreshments and networking, talks begin at...
    Conwy Borough Branch Programme