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  • Reading documents and simulation exemplar: Victorian trade directories

      Exemplar
    The Year 5 class was soon to visit a local museum where a Victorian parade of shops is recreated. We decided to use the 1857 trade directory for our town, Crediton in Devon, to bring its main shopping street to life before the visit. Trade directories, together with census returns...
    Reading documents and simulation exemplar: Victorian trade directories

  • The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait 1898-1899: The birth of social anthropology?

      Article
    Dr John Shepherd reviews the history of a major anthropological expedition one hundred years ago. On 10 March 1898 The Times reported that Cambridge Anthropological Expedition led by Alfred Cort Haddon had sailed from London, bound for the Torres Strait region between Australia and New Guinea. In Imperial Britain, the...
    The Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait 1898-1899: The birth of social anthropology?

  • Storytelling: Socrates, Alcibiades, and Athenian democracy

      Lesson Plan
    Nigel Parker's Year 5 class had just made a start on the Ancient Greeks. In this lesson we began with Athenian democracy, where the free adult male citizens decided everything, even ostracizing generals they didn't like.The story of SocratesI told the children some of the story of Socrates, who taught...
    Storytelling: Socrates, Alcibiades, and Athenian democracy

  • Ancient Egypt

      Reference guide for primary
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today Please note: this guide was written before the new National Curriculum...
    Ancient Egypt

  • Visual image and discussion exemplar: questioning a photograph

      Exemplar
    Almost more than any other source a photograph provides an incentive to dig, to burrow, to stretch, to tease out, to investigate and follow up leads. A good starter activity. We used a photo in this way to begin our Britain since 1930 unit with a mixed Year 5/6 class....
    Visual image and discussion exemplar: questioning a photograph

  • Urban spaces: inner-city Leeds

      Lesson Resources
    Please note: this free resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. This is an account of a series of six lessons focusing on a local urban square. Teachers can adapt this to suit their own circumstances. The teaching took place in an inner-city Leeds primary school, with pupils from 48 different...
    Urban spaces: inner-city Leeds

  • The Vikings in Britain: a brief history

      Reference guide for primary
    Viking Age | In Britain: background | Short history | King Alfred | Later raids & rulers | Key concepts < This resource is free for everyone For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of...
    The Vikings in Britain: a brief history

  • Anglo-Saxons: a brief history

      Reference guide for primary
    Jump to: Anglo-Saxons in Britain | Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms | Areas to examine | Key concepts & links This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject...
    Anglo-Saxons: a brief history

  • Britain and the Wider World in Tudor Times

      Reference
    The wider world: The Tudors ruled Britain during a fascinating and fast-changing century. Europe emerged from the Middle Ages, and Europeans sailed across the oceans, reaching the East, discovering the New World of America, establishing colonies, and circumnavigating the world for the first time (Ferdinand Magellan in 1517, and Francis...
    Britain and the Wider World in Tudor Times

  • Theseus and the Minotaur

      Lesson Plan
    The year 5/6 lessons were planned around interpretations of history, incorporating myths and legends for a cross-curricular approach. The story of Theseus and the Minotaur formed an excellent starting point for an investigation of the Knossos palace, with a focus on the archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans' interpretation of the palace...
    Theseus and the Minotaur

  • Cunning Plan 103: why did Henry VIII marry so many times?

      Teaching History feature
    This enquiry sequence was inspired by an Historical Association lecture given last year by Susan Doran entitled, ‘Why did Elizabeth I not marry?’ Through its 14-19 conferences, sections of this journal and local branch activity, the Historical Association has started to secure stronger connection between up-to-date historical scholarship and classroom...
    Cunning Plan 103: why did Henry VIII marry so many times?

  • Teaching History 59

      The HA's journal for history teachers
    Articles: History and Economic Awareness in the National Curriculum - David Kerr Deconstruction to Reconstruction: Women's History through Local History - Dave Welbourne Keeping the Past under Review - Linda Vitagliano and Peter Lim History as Ethnography: a Pyschological Evaluation of a Theatre in Education Project - George Shand, Rosemary Linnell and Derek...
    Teaching History 59

  • Taunton Deane Branch Programme

      Article
    All enquiries to Mr Geoff Bisson (gb@queenscollege.org.uk), tel. 01823 353749 All talks start at 7.30pm on Wednesdays and take place in the Birchall Hall, Queen's College, Trull Road, Taunton, TA1 4QS unless otherwise stated. There is free car parking on site. Associate Membership: £10 per year. Talks free to national...
    Taunton Deane Branch Programme

  • Key Stage 2-3 History Transition Project

      Guide to KS2-KS3 Transition
    Please note: these resources pre-date the 2014 National Curriculum. For more recent resources on Transition KS2-KS3 please see: Transition KS2–KS3 (Primary History article, 2021) Smooth Transitions: Key Stage 2 to 3 (Primary History article, 2020) Transition Key Stage 2 and 3 (Primary History article, 2016) Before 1066 & All That: Transition between...
    Key Stage 2-3 History Transition Project

  • Manchester Branch Programme (with Liverpool and Chester)

      Article
    Entry to meetings is free to HA members, non-members £4 per meeting. We are delighted to be able to welcome our members and interested members of the public to our 2025-2026 series of events! Of course, circumstances are always changeable and so events may be changed or cancelled at short...
    Manchester Branch Programme (with Liverpool and Chester)

  • Reformation

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The planning of an English church building in 1530, and what happened to it in the period of the Reformation in the 1540s, provides an excellent focus for the children to learn about what the Reformation meant to Tudor men and...
    Reformation

  • Putting life into history: how pupils can use oral history to become critical historians

      Teaching History article
    However imaginative and enquiring classroom history may be, the history itself is usually constructed by a historian, a textbook author or a teacher. It is rare that pupils gain the opportunity to construct original histories of their own. Oral history can offer this opportunity. Yet as a methodology, oral history...
    Putting life into history: how pupils can use oral history to become critical historians

  • Essex Branch Programme

      Article
    Talks on Saturdays, 2.30pm, Trinity Methodist Church, Rainsford Road, Chelmsford, CM1 2XB. Please check the calendar on this website for details. Visitors and prospective members warmly welcomed - £5, Associate Members fee £15.00 / £20.00 for 2 members at same address Branch Contact: Tony Tuckwell: 01245 256423  tonytuckwell28@outlook.com    For further...
    Essex Branch Programme

  • Bath Branch Programme

      Article
    Entry to lectures is free for national HA members and Bath branch local members who have paid an annual subscription. Visitors are welcome and are asked to pay £5 per lecture. For more information please contact Mike Short, Branch Secretary, mikeshort20@btinternet.com or 01225 812945. Lectures begin at 7.30 pm at...
    Bath Branch Programme

  • The Spanish Armada

      Lesson Plan
    Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. This is a highly interactive and stimulating simulation for years 3 and 4, and a very effective way of involving children in a range of issues. We introduced the story of the Armada, outlining the main parties involved and the nature...
    The Spanish Armada

  • Vikings settle down

      Lesson Plan (KS2)
    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here. This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts...
    Vikings settle down

  • An integrated literacy and history unit of work

      Primary History article
    The passing of Harry Patch - the last World War I veteran - in the summer of 2009 is a fitting starting point for children in Key Stage 2 (7-11 year-olds) to begin to tackle some of the issues of the First World War. Many classes already study the Second...
    An integrated literacy and history unit of work

  • Asses, archers and assumptions: strategies for improving thinking skills in history in Years 9 to 13

      Teaching History article
    Thinking skills’ is a term that has been substantially over-used. It often seems to be rather a lazy shorthand for justifying the teaching of history by suddenly bolting on some ‘thinking’ - as if history is not all about thought in the first place. Arthur Chapman suggests using techniques from...
    Asses, archers and assumptions: strategies for improving thinking skills in history in Years 9 to 13

  • Sheffield Branch Programme

      Article
    All enquiries to Janine Baigent janine.baigent@hotmail.com     Meetings are held at the Lecture Theatre, Grayson Building, Birkdale School, Oakholme Road, S10 3DH. Entrance via the Endcliffe Grange Crescent gate.  Parking available. Date is usually the first or second Thursday of the month, doors will open at 7 pm and the...
    Sheffield Branch Programme

  • Richmond & Twickenham Branch Programme

      Article
    Enquiries: Richard Turk at richardgturk@yahoo.com or call 07958 729526 Entry to meetings is free for HA members, non-members £3 per meeting. Local membership of the Branch is £18 per year. All Meetings begin at 8pm and take place at Richmond Library Annexe, Quadrant Road, Richmond upon Thames, TW9 1DH. Quadrant Road is between...
    Richmond & Twickenham Branch Programme