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  • Professor Justin Champion

      18th June 2020
    With great sadness the Historical Association has learned of the death of our former President, Professor Justin Champion on 10th June after a long illness. Justin was President of the Historical Association from May 2014 until May 2017 and he was a very popular choice, partly because of his background...
    Professor Justin Champion

  • Teacher Fellowship Programme: Broadcasting and Social Change in Sixties Britain

      Teacher Fellowship Programme 2022
    This Teacher Fellowship Programme focused on developing the teaching of the history of equality and diversity in postwar Britain using video and audio sources. The programme was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council BBC History 100 Fellowship. The programme has sought to refresh the teaching of modern British history in schools by diversifying its content,...
    Teacher Fellowship Programme: Broadcasting and Social Change in Sixties Britain

  • Teaching History 165: Conceptualising breadth

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 ‘Victims of History’: challenging students’ perceptions of women in history - Bridget Lockyer and Abigail Tazzyman (Read article) 16 ‘It’s like Lord of the Rings, Sir. But real!’: Teaching, learning and sharing medieval history for all Chris Eldridge (Read article)...
    Teaching History 165: Conceptualising breadth

  • The International Journal Volume 14, Number 1

      IJHLTR
    Editorial and Editorial Review pp 5–12 National, International, Local And Regional History Curricula – Issues And Concerns pp 16–66 Australia pp 16–27 Resisting The Regime: An Insider’s View Of Australian History Education 2006–2014 Tony Taylor, University of Technology Sydney/Federation University Australia, Ultimo, Sydney/Churchill, Victoria Greece pp 28–54 The Traumatic Memory...
    The International Journal Volume 14, Number 1

  • Teacher Fellowship Programme: The People of 1381

      Teacher Fellowship Programme 2022
    This Teacher Fellowship programme focused on developing the teaching of medieval history and the history of revolt, popular protest, power and the people, in partnership with The People of 1381 project. The project is focused on revealing new insights into the diverse range of people who played a part in...
    Teacher Fellowship Programme: The People of 1381

  • The Great Yarmouth Suspension Bridge Disaster of 1845

      Historian article
    Many communities have cataclysmic disasters which tend to dominate or define their local history. Gareth Davies reveals that the sudden collapse of the Great Yarmouth Suspension Bridge is a telling example of this trend. Beside the waters of the River Bure in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk stands a shiny black memorial...
    The Great Yarmouth Suspension Bridge Disaster of 1845

  • A-level Topic Guide: USA in the 20th century

      Multipage Article
    The twentieth century in the USA was an eventful period of wars, civil rights movements and political, social and economic developments that shaped the USA into the country it is today. AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC all offer units covering aspects of twentieth-century American history. Whichever board you are studying with...
    A-level Topic Guide: USA in the 20th century

  • Role Play 1: The Society Game

      Teaching History Article
    Applicable to Britain 1066-1500, Britain 1500-1750, Britain 1750-1900, and many aspects of GCSE and AS/A2 courses. The version given in full here is for use in a study of Victorian Britain. This tackles the troublesome concept of relative status in a changing society. Exactly what is it that bestows status...
    Role Play 1: The Society Game

  • Populism, Progressivism and Trumpism

      Historian article
    Populism, Progressivism and Trumpism: third party, inter-party and intraparty candidates in campaigns for the American presidency Michael Dunne explores the complexities of American presidential political campaigning over the last 200 years. Vox populi, vox dei. The voice of the people is the voice of God. Since these words were first...
    Populism, Progressivism and Trumpism

  • Carter Review of Initial Teacher Training 2014

      Article
    An independent review of the quality and effectiveness of ITT courses, to be led by Andrew Carter was announced in May 2014 by the then Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove. The review, which closed on September 22nd 2014, looked across the full range of ITT courses and sought views...
    Carter Review of Initial Teacher Training 2014

  • What made Cleopatra so special?

      Article
    Ancient Egyptian civilisation is rich and mysterious with distinctive visual imagery and strange animal-headed gods. The exotic differences of the society have always intrigued the western imagination and so they continue to ensure that this is a popular unit with both teachers and children. There are plentiful resources with new...
    What made Cleopatra so special?

  • Incorporating the Second World War into your local history work

      Primary History Summer Resource 2018
    The 2018 primary summer resource for members is bursting with practical ideas on how to incorporate the Second World War into your local history work. September 2019 is the 80th anniversary of the start of the Second World War, so what better time to start thinking about how to embed this...
    Incorporating the Second World War into your local history work

  • 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

  • My journey to Bosnia: The Balkans Conflict 22 years on

      A personal account of an educational visit to Sarajevo and Srebrenica
    In these pages HA Education Manager Melanie Jones shares her own personal experiences and reflections from a recent educational visit to Bosnia, and looks at ways in which British schools might be able to explore aspects of the 1990s Balkans Conflict.  In September 2017 I was approached by a small charitable organisation Remembering...
    My journey to Bosnia: The Balkans Conflict 22 years on

  • The Swansea Branch Chronicle 13

      Branch Publication
    3 From the Editor 4 A Royal Picnic - John Law 6 The Vivians at War - Ralph A Griffiths 7 A Good Butcher - RHV Phillips 10 The Swansea Canal - Clive Reed 12 Aberfan - Jeff Griffiths 13 Men of Steel - Mike Smith 16 Contributors - 18...
    The Swansea Branch Chronicle 13

  • Primary Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions

      Teacher Fellowship Programme 2018
    The 2018 Teacher Fellowship Programme was the first to include a dedicated strand for primary teaching, led by Karin Doull. It looked at developing teaching of the Age of Revolutions (1755-1848) and was fully funded by the Age of Revolution education legacy project. It focused on improving the teaching of...
    Primary Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions

  • Teaching History 164: Feedback

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial (Read article) 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 10 Paula Worth - ‘My initial concern is to get a hearing’: exploring what makes an effective history essay introduction (Read article) 22 Nick Dennis - Cognitive psychology and low-stakes testing without guarantees (Read article) 29 Carolyn Massey - Asking...
    Teaching History 164: Feedback

  • Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Korean War and its legacy

      Teacher Fellowship Programme 2019
    Why Korea? Why Now? 70 years after the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, its impact still reverberates in the Korean peninsula and around the world. Tensions in the region continue to feature prominently in the news: with the Armistice ending the Korean War still in place but peace...
    Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Korean War and its legacy

  • The Phoney War: teaching WWII

      Primary History article
    The term ‘phoney war’ refers to the period at the beginning of WWII between September 1939 and April 1940 when there was little fighting. It was brought to an abrupt end by the German invasion of Norway in April 1940. The term is thought to have been coined by an...
    The Phoney War: teaching WWII

  • Teacher Fellowship Programme: Britain and Transatlantic Slavery

      Teacher Fellowship Programme 2019
    Transatlantic slavery remains one of the most widely taught topics in secondary schools' history curricula and poses challenges of principle and practice that require considerable reflection and critical rigour. This Teacher Fellowship Programme explored the teaching of Britain's complex entanglement in transatlantic slavery and abolition, and of the legacies of that...
    Teacher Fellowship Programme: Britain and Transatlantic Slavery

  • Teacher Fellowship Programme: Conflict, Art and Remembrance

      Teacher Fellowship Programme 2019
    Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red was a commemorative art installation of 888,246 handmade ceramic poppies at the Tower of London in 2014, by artists Paul Cummins and Tom Piper. It has been described as “the most popular art installation as well as arguably the most effective expression of commemoration...
    Teacher Fellowship Programme: Conflict, Art and Remembrance

  • Teacher Fellowship Programme: Local history

      Teacher Fellowship Programme 2021–22
    At the heart of this Teacher Fellowship programme in partnership with the British Association for Local History was the concept of integrating local history into the classroom through the stories of the people and places which make the history of your school's community exciting and unique. Through the lens of local history...
    Teacher Fellowship Programme: Local history

  • Mini Teacher Fellowship: Medieval Perceptions of Conquest

      HA Mini Teacher Fellowship 2020–21
    In the summer of 2020 a group of teachers took part in a mini teacher fellowship on medieval perceptions of conquest. Teachers took part in a two-day course led by academic historians Dr Emily Winkler of Oxford University and Dr Owain Jones of Bangor University. Sadly, due to the covid...
    Mini Teacher Fellowship: Medieval Perceptions of Conquest

  • Primary Teacher Fellowship Programme: Local history

      Teacher Fellowship Programme 2021-22
    At the heart of this Teacher Fellowship programme in partnership with the British Association for Local History was the concept of integrating local history into the classroom through the stories of the people and places which make the history of your school's community exciting and unique. Through the lens of local history...
    Primary Teacher Fellowship Programme: Local history

  • New, Novice or Nervous? 163: Historical significance

      Teaching History feature: the quick guide to the no-quick-fix
    Historical significance first appeared in England’s National Curriculum for history in 1995. It entered the assessment framework (Level Descriptions) in 2008. In 2014, it became part of the History NC ‘Aims’. One thing never changes, however: it is hard. But history teachers have written a great deal about historical significance...
    New, Novice or Nervous? 163: Historical significance