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  • Causation

      Key Concepts
    Please note: these links were compiled in 2009. For a more recent resource, please see: What's the Wisdom on: Causation.  These Teaching History Articles on 'Causation' are highly recommended reading to those who would like to get to grips with this key concept: 1. Move Me On 92. Problem page for history mentors. Teaching...
    Causation

  • Teaching History 135: To They or Not To They

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Drilling down: how one history department is working towards progression in pupils’ thinking about diversity across Years 7, 8 and 9 – Matthew Bradshaw (Read article) 13 Cunning Plan: The generalisation game - challenging generalisations (Read article) 16 Were industrial towns ‘death-traps’? Year...
    Teaching History 135: To They or Not To They

  • Lloyd George and Leadership: the Influences of Mr Gladstone and Abraham Lincoln

      Branch Podcast
    On 26 November 2010, 4pm, at the National Waterfront Museum, the Swansea Branch Anniversary Lecture was delivered by Kenneth O Morgan (Baron Morgan of Aberdyfi in the County of Gwynedd) on ‘Lloyd George and Leadership: the Influences of Mr Gladstone and Abraham Lincoln'.
    Lloyd George and Leadership: the Influences of Mr Gladstone and Abraham Lincoln

  • Anglo-Saxons and Normans

      Video podcast series by History Hub, Royal Holloway, University of London
    In this series of videos, produced by Royal Holloway, University of London, students and staff explore Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, exploring the Anglo-Saxon Witan and Moots, how law and order was maintained and the Norman conquest, including a multi-chronicler account of the Battle of Hastings. Other videos examine how William...
    Anglo-Saxons and Normans

  • Sharing The Past: Northamptonshire's Black History

      Book Review
    Northamptonshire Black History Association Pub 2008; ISBN:978 0 9557139 1 0; £12.95 [+£2.30 p and p] from: NBHA, Doddridge Centre, 109 St James Road, Northampton, NN5 5LD. How fortunate Northamptonshire history teachers are! With the current emphasis on community cohesion and diversity in the New Secondary Curriculum, they are presented...
    Sharing The Past: Northamptonshire's Black History

  • Peace & Negotiation in Medieval Britain (c. 1000–c. 1300)

      The importance of trusted messengers and negotiators.
    The idea of medieval diplomacy conjures scenes of great drama: royal stalemates in which armies stared each other down across a river; surrender terms after decisive battles; and the pomp and circumstance of taking oaths, making knights, and performing homage. To maintain or establish peace, rulers had to make and...
    Peace & Negotiation in Medieval Britain (c. 1000–c. 1300)

  • Teaching History 130: Picturing History

      The HA's journal for secondary history teachers
    02 Editorial 03 HA Secondary News 04 Redrawing the Renaissance: non-verbal assessment in Year 7 – Matt Stanford (Read article) 13 Nutshell 14 Thinking across time: planning and teaching the story of power and democracy at Key Stage 3 – Ian Dawson (Read article) 24 Stepping into the past: using...
    Teaching History 130: Picturing History

  • Why history matters? Round Table discussion podcast

      Podcasts
    Podcast of the round table discussion available here!The History Matters Annual Conference in May saw the best turnout we've had for some time with a healthy and representative mix of HA members. Our thanks to all those who contributed their time and energy in delivering workshops and lectures. Our afternoon...
    Why history matters? Round Table discussion podcast

  • Teaching History 128: Beyond the Exam

      Journal
    04 Teaching Year 9 about historical theories and methods – Kate Hammond (Read article) 11 Getting Year 7 to set their own questions about the Islamic Empire, 600-1600 – Sally Burnham (Read article) 18 Does scaffolding make them fall? Reflecting on strategies for developing causal argument in Years 8 and...
    Teaching History 128: Beyond the Exam

  • Numismatics and History

      Classic Pamphlet
    Numismatics may be defined as the science of money in its physical aspects. It is only indirectly connected with the theory of money, which belongs to the sphere of economics. Its subject-matter consists of the material objects which in most societies are used to measure the worth of goods and...
    Numismatics and History

  • Charles XII

      Classic Pamphlet
    The reputation of Charles XII who became king of Sweden before he was fifteen years old and had the responsibility of absolutist goverment thrust upon him within the next six months - contrary to the plans laid down for him by his father - has tended to attract political rather...
    Charles XII

  • An English Absolutism?

      Classic Pamphlet
    The term 'Absolutism' was coined in France in the 1790s, but the concept which described it was familiar to many Englishmen in the late seventeenth century. They talked of 'absolute monarchy', 'tyranny', 'despotism' and above all 'arbitrary government'. Their use of such terns were pejorative: they described political regimes of...
    An English Absolutism?

  • The Chapel and the Nation

      Classic Pamphlet
    The Noncoformitst chapel has played a crucial role in the history of the English and Welsh nations. When the great French historian Elie Halevy sought to explain the contrast between the turbulent history of his own country and the peaceful evolution of England in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries...
    The Chapel and the Nation

  • Revolutionaries In Europe: 1815-1848

      Classic Pamphlet
    In the three and a half decades which followed the defeat of Napoleon, conspiracy, riot and revolt were constant features of the European scene. No prison was storng enough to prevent Blanqui from plotting, no place of excile distant enough to seperate Mazzini from his revolutionary agents. Cities were insubordinate,...
    Revolutionaries In Europe: 1815-1848

  • Teaching History 125: Significance

      Journal
    06 ‘Maybe they haven’t decided yet what is right:’ English and Spanish perspectives on teaching historical significance – Lis Cercadillo (Read article) 10 What they think they know: the impact of pupils’ preconceptions on their understanding of historical significance – Robin Conway (Read article) 16 Polychronicon 18 Creating controversy in the classroom: making...
    Teaching History 125: Significance

  • How to Read Local Archives 1550-1700

      Classic Pamphlet
    The aim of this pamphlet is to encourage those interested in English history, especially university and school teachers, trainee teachers, and tutors of English and local history courses and classes, to teach themselves and their students how to read the last of the pre-italic handwritings, if they are not familiar...
    How to Read Local Archives 1550-1700

  • Religion and Party in Late Stuart England

      Classic Pamphlet
    The second English Revolution of the seventeenth century, the Revolution of 1688, ushered in during the next twenty-five years a series of changes which were to be profoundly important to the ultimate development of the country. Most conspicuously, the reigns of William III and Anne released Englishmen - though not...
    Religion and Party in Late Stuart England

  • 1906-2006 One Hundred Years of the Historical Association

      The Historian 91
    4 Foreword - Lady Antonia Fraser 6 Swanning around - Jeremy Paterson 10 A Parade of Past Presidents 1906-82 - Donald Read 24 The Norton Medlicott Medal - Bill Speck 30 For Short Time an Endless Monument: The Shifting History of a Familiar London Landmark - Lisa Jardine 38 Wise...
    1906-2006 One Hundred Years of the Historical Association

  • Teaching History 123: Constructing History

      Journal
    06 Asses, archers and assumptions: strategies for improving thinking skills in history in Years 9 to 13 – Arthur Chapman (Read article) 14 Triumphs Show 16 Little Jack Horner and polite revolutionaries: putting the story back into history – Alf Wilkinson (Read article) 21 Putting life into history: how pupils...
    Teaching History 123: Constructing History

  • Teaching History 118: Re-thinking Differentiation

      Journal
    05 Does differentiation have to mean different? – Richard Harris (Read article) 13 Engaging with each other: how interactions between teachers inform professional practice – Simon Letman (Read article) 17 Seeing, hearing and doing the Rennaissance (Part 2) – Maria Osowiecki (Read article) 26 Polychronicon: Henry VII: Diligent bureaucrat or paranoid blunderer? (Read...
    Teaching History 118: Re-thinking Differentiation

  • Teaching History 117: Dealing with distance

      Journal
    This edition deals with how to help pupils to notice in themselves those assumptions that are based on their own familiar world and which actually get in the way of making sense of past actions and belief. How one period visualises another, Ideas for developing chronological understanding, Modern day parallels...
    Teaching History 117: Dealing with distance

  • Teaching History 113: Creating Progress

      Journal
    This edition deals with creating progress: History teachers are creating progress - the idea and the reality. Why rely on others to define and design it? The creation process is every teacher's property and there is no celing on what we might help pupils achieve. JFK, Progression models, Roleplay in...
    Teaching History 113: Creating Progress

  • The Knights Templars

      Article
    Professor Malcolm Barber explores the rise and fall of the Knights Templars. "The master of the Temple was a good knight and stout-hearted, but he mistreated all other people as he was too overweening. He would not place any credence in the advice of the master of the Hospital, Brother...
    The Knights Templars

  • How studying history can help with a range of careers involved in shaping the places we live.

      History & Careers Unit 5
    Town-planning, property development, leisure and heritage industries, archaeology and museum work. Context: This idea for a short series of lessons is aimed at year 7 students who are studying either a "Who do We think We are?" unit, or, more broadly, a unit on migration and settlement in Britain. It...
    How studying history can help with a range of careers involved in shaping the places we live.

  • A history trainee early in their teaching placement

      HITT Film 1
    This film series was produced to accompany materials in the Beginning Teacher units. It contains a Key Stage 3 history lesson and lesson debrief. The materials are not designed specifically to be examples of good practice; rather they are to promote discussion about good practice in teacher training. The films show a lesson taught...
    A history trainee early in their teaching placement