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  • History Abridged: POTUS - President of the United States

      Historian article
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. Think Horrible Histories for grownups (without the songs and music). See all History Abridged articles Described as the most powerfully...
    History Abridged: POTUS - President of the United States

  • What’s The Wisdom On... Extended writing

      Teaching History feature
    Writing history is hard! But the things that make it challenging are the things that make it worth doing. They are also the key to enabling all students to write, to embrace the challenge and to enjoy its rewards enough to keep going. A big mistake is to kid ourselves...
    What’s The Wisdom On... Extended writing

  • Bombing and the Air War on the Italian Front 1915-1918

      Article
    During the First World War air operations were on a much smaller scale on the Italian front than in France and Flanders. Italian fighter pilots claimed to have shot down fewer than a tenth of the number of enemy aircraft officially credited to German fighter pilots operating over the Western...
    Bombing and the Air War on the Italian Front 1915-1918

  • Czech Uranium and Stalin's Bomb

      Article
    Z.A.B. Zeman uncovers a fateful link between Czechoslovakia’s brief monopoly of uranium in Europe and the country’s subordination to the USSR. The great uranium rush started in 1943 and lasted for about seven years. Unlike the gold rushes of the past, uranium did not promise untold riches to individuals but...
    Czech Uranium and Stalin's Bomb

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading (Primary)

      Article
    Please note: the 'What's the Wisdom On' film series has been produced principally for secondary school history teachers, however some of the content is transferrable to a primary setting. Secondary members can view the film here 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading (Primary)

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading

      Your Virtual History Department Meeting
    'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a department meeting. 'What’s the wisdom on…' provides history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of many years of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of history teaching. To...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Extended Reading

  • Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    The uses of sources in History, The evidence sandwich, Teaching Pupils to analyse cartoons, shared stories and a sense of place, Working with sources, interpretations of history and much more... The use of sources in History - Tony McAleavy (Read article) The evidence sandwhich - Margaret Mulholland (Read article) Teaching...
    Teaching History 91: Evidence and Interpretation

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence (Primary)

      Article
    Please note: the 'What's the Wisdom On' film series has been produced principally for secondary school history teachers, however some of the content is transferrable to a primary setting. Secondary members can view the film here 'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence (Primary)

  • The importance of history

      Article
    The importance of history: Powerpoint presentation from the Regional Subject CfBT/HA ConferencesStarting point. Creating a departmental vision.The construction of any curriculum begins with questions about the purpose and philosophy of the curriculum. The new orders for history offer departments a ready made statement of history's importance and purpose.
    The importance of history

  • Primary History summer resource 2021: Using historical sources

      Primary member resource
    This year's free summer resource for primary members looks at using historical sources with primary pupils. Introducing children to sources is an important part of understanding the disciplinary nature of history. One of the key ideas we need to get pupils to understand is that history is based on sources, which...
    Primary History summer resource 2021: Using historical sources

  • What’s The Wisdom On... Extended Reading

      Teaching History feature
    Why, in a history lesson (or out of a history lesson; let’s say, for a homework perhaps) might we want pupils to read more than a paragraph, to stay with the text, to actually read? We don’t mean plucking facts from information boxes, nor ploughing through four comprehension questions. We...
    What’s The Wisdom On... Extended Reading

  • Where do I begin?

      Article
    Planning a new Key Stage 3 Curriculum: A Powerpoint presentation from the Regional Subject CfBT/HA Conferences 3 Curriculum aims are: successful learners who enjoy learning, make progress and achieve confident individuals who are able to live safe, healthy and fulfilling lives responsible citizens who make a positive contribution to society...
    Where do I begin?

  • Progression in primary history

      HA Primary Subject Leader Area
    In this guide Tim Lomas looks at how we can plan for progression in primary history, different measures we can use to check on it, and how we can make it work in practice. It also covers some key ‘dos and don’ts’ and offers some exemplar case studies, including an...
    Progression in primary history

  • Film: Meet the author: Marc Morris on The Anglo-Saxons

      Article
    In this Virtual Branch talk best-selling author and renowned historian Marc Morris joined us to discuss the process of researching for, structuring and writing his new book The Anglo-Saxons: a history of the beginnings of England.  Drawing on a vast range of original evidence - chronicles, letters, archaeology and artefacts - Morris's...
    Film: Meet the author: Marc Morris on The Anglo-Saxons

  • Film: Curriculum and progression in history and Ofsted’s work with schools

      Article
    Tim Jenner, the Ofsted Subject Lead for History, gave a clear and informative keynote session at the Historical Association 2021 virtual annual conference which not only gave a clear picture of what a deep dive in history might involve, but also dispelled myths about what Ofsted would and would not expect to see during a...
    Film: Curriculum and progression in history and Ofsted’s work with schools

  • Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history

      Article
    Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people are the largest minority ethnic group in some communities (and therefore in some schools) in the UK. Yet the past of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller people may rarely be part of history lessons. The result is that pupils of Gypsy, Roma and Traveller heritage may not...
    Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history

  • Film: Primary History and the Ofsted Inspection Framework

      Article
    In May of 2021, Ofsted published a blog post of findings from visits carried out to 24 different primary schools in order to gather evidence as to the quality of history education provided by these outstanding schools. You can find the blog here: https://educationinspection.blog.gov.uk/2021/04/27/history-in-outstanding-primary-schools/  Areas of both strength and improvement were outlined, although the...
    Film: Primary History and the Ofsted Inspection Framework

  • Sporting Heritage EPQ

      Article
    Are you interested in both history and sport and undertaking an EPQ project?   Sporting Heritage is a not-for-profit community interest company working specifically to support the collection, preservation, access, and research of sporting heritage in the UK and wider.   Part of their remit also involves fostering interest in and dissemination...
    Sporting Heritage EPQ

  • Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence

      Your Virtual History Department Meeting
    'What’s the wisdom on…' is a popular feature in our secondary journal Teaching History and provides the perfect stimulus for a department meeting. 'What’s the wisdom on…' provides history teachers with an overview of the ‘story so far’ of many years of practice-based professional thinking about a particular aspect of history teaching. To...
    Film: What's the wisdom on... Consequence

  • Teaching History 64

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    Articles: 8 The Professional Craft Knowledge of the History Teacher - Peter John  12 Talking about History: Group Work in the Classroom - Practice and Implications - Kenneth Brzezicki  17 Issues in the Teaching of History - Towards a Skills/Concept-led Approach - Jane Jenkins  22 Bebba and her Sisters - Gully Robson  26 Time...
    Teaching History 64

  • A Project on Working Class Education in the Victorian Period

      Primary History article
    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content may be outdated. In the third year at London Metropolitan University, history B.ED students research and prepare a resource about an aspect of life in C19th Britain for use with their chosen age group. Nicky made a book,...
    A Project on Working Class Education in the Victorian Period

  • The Value of Biography in History

      Article
    7 April 2000: Historical Association, Norton Medlicott Medal Lecture. President, fellow members, ladies and gentlemen. I am deeply conscious that having just received the Norton Medlicott Medal; which means so much to me, that I must try to live up to the honour itself and the traditions of the recipients....
    The Value of Biography in History

  • Building St James's spire: Louth's guilds and popular piety in the later middle ages

      Virtual Branch Lecture Recording
    Medieval historian Dr Claire Kennan continued our Virtual Branch series with a local history talk on the building of St James's spire, Louth.  In her talk Kennan traces the important role that Louth's major guilds of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Holy Trinity played in the building of the St James’s spire. Throughout the...
    Building St James's spire: Louth's guilds and popular piety in the later middle ages

  • History Abridged: The Berlin Conference 1884–1885

      Historian feature
    History Abridged: This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. Think Horrible Histories for grownups (without the songs and music). See all History Abridged articles In 2020 there was lots...
    History Abridged: The Berlin Conference 1884–1885

  • What’s The Wisdom On... Consequence

      Teaching History feature
    Consequence easily becomes ‘causation’s forgotten sibling’, as Fordham noted, in the title of a workshop presented at the 2012 Historical Association conference. The choice to treat consequence separately from causation in this series of articles is, therefore, a very deliberate one. Yet an emphasis on the importance of consequences should...
    What’s The Wisdom On... Consequence