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Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions
Teacher Fellowship Programme 2018
The 2018 Teacher Fellowship Programme 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 embedding the teaching of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century history in UK schools through the development of teacher subject knowledge and subject...
Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions
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Teacher Fellowship Programmes
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The Historical Association's Teacher Fellowship Programme is a fully funded, rigorous, in-depth CPD programme which normally runs over 8 weeks starting with a intensive residential weekend and followed up by 8 online sessions. We bring our academic partners together with an experienced teacher educator to design a programme that brings your research...
Teacher Fellowship Programmes
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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
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Higher Education Committee biographies
HA Committees
Read the Higher Education Committee's remit
Find out more about the HA's committees
Katharine Burn
Katharine Burn is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Oxford, where she teaches on the PGCE History programme and on a range of part-time Masters courses for practising teachers. She is co-editor of the HA’s professional...
Higher Education Committee biographies
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Contribute an Article to The Historian
Contribute
The Historian is the journal of the Historical Association that is for all our general members and for teacher members who want a little bit of extra subject knowledge.
Containing a mixture of themed articles, regular features and general interest, the journal comes out four times a year. Articles are...
Contribute an Article to The Historian
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What to expect when you choose to study History at University
A student's guide from personal experience to challenges you may have to face
Challenges you may have to face include:
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This resource is free to everyone. For access to a wealth of other online resources from podcasts to articles and publications, plus support and advice though our “How To”, examination and transition to university guides and careers resources, join the...
What to expect when you choose to study History at University
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The Making of a State-Sponsored Heroine: Angela Davis, African Americans, and the Promise of the Soviet Union
History blog
Want to learn more about the connections between African Americans and the Soviet Union? Read this blog post by Andrew Jacobs introducing his recent article ‘The Making of a State-Sponsored Heroine: Angela Davis, African Americans and the Promise of the Soviet Union’.
Angela Davis has been in the spotlight for...
The Making of a State-Sponsored Heroine: Angela Davis, African Americans, and the Promise of the Soviet Union
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Blog off! Refreshing the public history blog
Article
Image: Social media sites have provided a platform for fierce debates about the statues of slave traders such as Edward Colston.
Even if we think the so-called ‘culture war’ is an overinflated red herring, there’s no denying that some of the fiercest debates about history are occurring online. Contests over...
Blog off! Refreshing the public history blog
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School History FAQs
Article
These FAQs are designed to provide a starting point for people who are interested in what is taught in school history in England. Please note that education policy is devolved in the UK and so the situation differs in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. These FAQs focus on state secondary...
School History FAQs
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Call for Papers: Ideas of Europe and Images of Russia
XV Annual Conference of the Research Network on the History of Idea of Europe
XV Annual Conference of the Research Network on the History of Idea of Europe University of East Anglia, School of History – Norwich 19-21 June 2024
The geo-cultural relationship between Europe and Russia has been a source of intrigue for scholars, historians, philosophers, novelists, and politicians since at least the late seventeenth...
Call for Papers: Ideas of Europe and Images of Russia
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Establishing a University-based HA Branch
Article
The following case study is based on my own experience of establishing the City of Lincoln HA branch, which is based at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln, where I am a Senior Lecturer in History. The branch launched at the university on Wednesday 19th February 2014.
Members of the BGU...
Establishing a University-based HA Branch
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Talking to an HA Branch
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The inevitable answer is of course that branches differ in their audiences, with some having a smattering of academics, some with teachers and others largely made up with people with an interest in the subject but not professionally involved in history. That means some people will be relying on what...
Talking to an HA Branch
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Higher Education Committee remit
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The HA's Higher Education Committee will:
raise awareness in the UK-wide HE sector of the work of and benefits offered by the HA
ensure that the HA continues to disseminate an up-to-date and appropriate understanding of the way History is taught, researched and interpreted in higher education to the teaching...
Higher Education Committee remit
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Collaborations between Higher Education Institutions and Schools
Recorded interviews
The following series of recorded interviews and a webinar are focused on the variety of ways in which HEI historians, working at a diverse range of institutions, have collaborated with local school history teachers and their pupils. The diverse range of approaches discussed in the interviews highlight that there is...
Collaborations between Higher Education Institutions and Schools
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Starting a new Branch
Organising and running an HA branch
The Historical Association and its branches
Branches have been an essential part of the Historical Association since it began. They exist in all parts of the United Kingdom and take a variety of forms.
A branch provides a local forum to bring together all those with an interest in history:...
Starting a new Branch
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Contribute an Article to Teaching History
Contribute
Do you have an idea that you'd like to share with the Teaching History community? It's through member contributions that the HA maintains such a rich subject community - we'd love to hear from you!
Please don’t worry about being tentative, and please don’t worry if you have never written before! We really...
Contribute an Article to Teaching History
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Contribute to ‘History’ journal
The Journal of the Historical Association
First published in 1912, History has been a leader in its field ever since. It is unique in its range and variety, packing its pages with stimulating articles, extensive book reviews, and editorial notes. History balances its broad chronological coverage with a wide geographical spread of articles featuring contributions from social, political, cultural, economic...
Contribute to ‘History’ journal