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  • Learning lessons from genocides

      Teaching History article
    ‘Never again'? Helping Year 9 think about what happened after the Holocaust and learning lessons from genocides ‘Never again' is the clarion call of much Holocaust and genocide education. There is a danger, however, that it can become an empty, if pious, wish. How can we help pupils reflect seriously on...
    Learning lessons from genocides

  • Can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention?

      Teaching History article
    Patterns of genocide: can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention? Alison Stephen, who has wrestled for many years with the challenges of teaching emotional and controversial history within a multiethnic school setting, relished the opportunity to link her school's teaching of the Holocaust with a comparative study of other genocides....
    Can we educate Year 9 in genocide prevention?

  • Teaching History 153: The Holocaust & Other Genocides

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Tamsin Leyman and Richard Harris - Connecting the dots: helping Year 9 to debate the purposes of Holocaust and genocide education (Read article) 11 Darius Jackson - ‘But I still don't get why the Jews': using cause and change to answer pupils' demand for an...
    Teaching History 153: The Holocaust & Other Genocides

  • Podcast Series: Canadian Confederation

      Multipage Article
    In this podcast Professor Edward MacDonald of the University of Prince Edward Island discusses the origins of the Charlottetown Conference of 1864, Canadian Confederation and the development of Canada over the 20th Century.
    Podcast Series: Canadian Confederation

  • Filmed Interviews: The Women of Bletchley Park

      The Women of Bletchley Park
    Bletchley Park was the most important of the top secret intelligence sites during the Second World War. The quiet Buckinghamshire village hosted 10,000 people dedicated to defeating the Nazis, 75% of those were women. In this podcast we are lucky enough to have some of those women talking about their...
    Filmed Interviews: The Women of Bletchley Park

  • The 2014 History National Curriculum: how to get the best from heritage

      Primary History article
    We all know that site visits are good for children - not least because they give a break from the normal school routine - and there are a plethora of heritage sites both local and national that are able to offer facilities for school visits. But we also know that...
    The 2014 History National Curriculum: how to get the best from heritage

  • Useful Resources for History Teaching

      Useful Resources
    The following are lists of those resources which we have found genuinely useful during our NQT year, or which we feel could be used to good effect, whether as sources, interpretations or stimulus materials. The lists are not exhaustive, and are inevitably skewed towards those topics which we have taught....
    Useful Resources for History Teaching

  • Thrive as an NQT (Part 1)

      Thrive Part 1
    No matter how good your training was, starting as an NQT is a significant step up in your teaching career. You will still be wrestling with the big ideas about history teaching which you explored in your training year.  You will also have the all too real, day-to-day pressures of...
    Thrive as an NQT (Part 1)

  • A Story in Stone: the Tirah War Memorial in Dorchester

      Historian article
    The Tirah memorial stands in a corner of Borough Gardens, a Victorian park in Dorchester, county town of Dorset. It is a granite obelisk decorated with a motif of honeysuckle and laurel wreaths standing 4.5 metres high on a square granite plinth. This in turn stands upon a circular concrete...
    A Story in Stone: the Tirah War Memorial in Dorchester

  • The death of Lord Londonderry

      Historian article
    Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, better known to his contemporaries and to history as Viscount Castlereagh, committed suicide on 12 August 1822, at the age of fifty-three, when Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons. He was one of the great statesmen of his age: as Chief...
    The death of Lord Londonderry

  • The Historian 123: Newcastle & the General Strike 1926

      The magazine of the Historical Association
    4 Reviews 5 Editorial 6 Using the House by Wendy Barnes 11 The President's Column 12 Newcastle and the General Strike 1926 - Hugh Gault (Read Article)  16 A Story in Stone: the Tirah War Memorial in Dorchester - Dave Martin (Read Article) 20 The shortest war in history - Alf Wilkinson (Read...
    The Historian 123: Newcastle & the General Strike 1926

  • The shortest war in history: The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896

      Historian article
    At 9am on 27 August 1896, following an ultimatum, five ships of the Royal Navy began a bombardment of the Royal Palace and Harem in Zanzibar. Thirty-eight, or 40, or 43 minutes later, depending on which source you believe, the bombardment stopped when the white flag of surrender was raised...
    The shortest war in history: The Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896

  • The Origins of the Local Government Service

      Historian article
    The concept ‘local government’ dates only from the middle of the nineteenth century. ‘Local government service’ emerged later still. In 1903 Redlich and Hirst1 wrote of ‘municipal officers’, while in 1922 Robson2 preferred ‘the municipal civil service’. ‘Local government service’ perhaps derives its pedigree from its use in the final...
    The Origins of the Local Government Service

  • West Wiltshire Branch Programme

      Article
    B All enquiries to Mrs Jenny Ladd jladd242@gmail.com tel 01373 830514 All talks start at 7.30pm and take place in St. Thomas’ Church Hall, York Buildings, Trowbridge, Wilts. BA14 8PT. Free parking on the road, limited free parking next to Church. Associate membership £15 per year. Talks free to HA...
    West Wiltshire Branch Programme

  • The Historian 64: Mining Communities without Miners

      Article
    Featured articles: 4 The Unpredictable Rise of the Duke of Wellington by Neville Thompson 9 The Peninsula War: A Review of recent literature by Charles Esdaile 13 The defence of Britain's Eastern Empire after World War One by John Fisher 18 Mining Communities without Mines by Lucy Russell 23 The...
    The Historian 64: Mining Communities without Miners

  • The Historian 59: The Eighteenth Century Transformation of Bath

      Article
    4 The Eighteenth Century Transformation of Bath, by Trevor Fawcett 10 The Purpose and Political Significance of Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World, by Jenny Wilson 16 Working Class Conservatism and the Rise of Labour: a case study of Birmingham in the 1920s, by John Boughton 21 A National...
    The Historian 59: The Eighteenth Century Transformation of Bath

  • Progression from EYFS to Key Stage 3

      Guide
    The removal of National Curriculum levels has left many schools and teachers scratching their heads and wondering how to proceed. National Curriculum levels have been used and misused in the past to both define progress in the subject and as a basis for assessment. In this pamphlet, Jamie Byrom takes us...
    Progression from EYFS to Key Stage 3

  • Curriculum

      Information
    The Historical Association provides a wealth of resources to help teachers to develop and refine their subject knowledge for all areas of the secondary history curriculum. We also provide guidance related to key developments in the curriculum, such as revised version of the National Curriculum (2014) and on-going developments related...
    Curriculum

  • Leopold von Ranke - Pamphlet

      Classic Pamphlet
    Leopold von Ranke (21 December 1795 - 23 May 1886) was a German historian and a founder of modern source-based history. According to Caroline Hoefferle, "Ranke was probably the most important historian to shape historical profession as it emerged in Europe and the United States in the late 19th century." ...
    Leopold von Ranke - Pamphlet

  • Global Learning Programme

      Global Learning Programme
    The Global Learning Programme (GLP) is a ground-breaking new programme which will create a national network of like-minded schools, committed to equipping their students to make a positive contribution to a globalised world by helping their teachers to deliver effective teaching and learning about development and global issues at Key Stages 2...
    Global Learning Programme

  • The Tudor Court

      Classic Pamphlet
    In 1976, in one of his challenging Presidential addresses to the Royal Historical Society, Professor Geoffrey Elton drew attention to the importance of the court as a ‘point of contact' between the Tudors and their subjects. It was, he suggested, a central and essential aspect of personal government, but in...
    The Tudor Court

  • Triumphs Show 156: Fresh perspectives on the First World War

      Teaching History feature: celebrating and sharing success
    Year 9 think they know a lot about the First World War. After all, they read Michael Morpurgo's novel Private Peaceful in their English lessons all the way back in Year 7, they've seen Blackadder so many times they can recite it, and in the centenary year of the war's...
    Triumphs Show 156: Fresh perspectives on the First World War

  • Polychronicon 156: The transnational history of the First World War

      Teaching History feature
    With the publication in 2014 of the Cambridge History of the  First World War, we enter a new transnational phase in the historical understanding of the conflict. The reasons why this change has come about are evident. The first is that there are more transnational historians writing the history of...
    Polychronicon 156: The transnational history of the First World War

  • An Introduction to The Historian

      The HA's History Magazine
    The Historian is the HA’s flagship general interest magazine, offering in‑depth yet highly readable history written by leading experts alongside unique research from HA members. It provides a rich and wide‑ranging mix of articles, reviews, and original content you won’t find anywhere else, making it an essential read for anyone...
    An Introduction to The Historian

  • Teaching History 156: Chronology

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 HA Update 08 Paula Worth - ‘English king Frederick I won at Arsuf, then took Acre, then they all went home’: exploring the challenges involved in reading and writing historical narrative (Read article) 20 Polychronicon: Transnational history of WWI - Jay Winter (Read article)...
    Teaching History 156: Chronology