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  • Triumphs Show 176: Using material culture as a means to generate an enquiry on the British Empire

      Teaching History feature
    Triumphs Show is a regular feature which offers a quick way for teachers to celebrate their successes and share inspirational ideas with one another. While the ideas are always explained in sufficient depth for others to be able to take them forward in their own practice, the simple format allows...
    Triumphs Show 176: Using material culture as a means to generate an enquiry on the British Empire
  • Hidden histories: landscape spotting – a brief guide

      Historian article
    The art of landscape spotting – identifying and interpreting visible archaeological features in the countryside – is an accessible, enlightening and fun way to explore our past. By finding these clues in the fields, roads, hedges and hills around us, we can start to piece together the biography of a...
    Hidden histories: landscape spotting – a brief guide
  • Peterloo August 1819: the English Uprising

      Historian article
    Robert Poole, historical consultant to the ‘Peterloo 200’ commemorations in and around Manchester over the summer, explores the latest research into those tragic events of August 1819 and their significance in the road to democracy. On Monday 16 August 1819 troops under the authority of the Lancashire and Cheshire magistrates...
    Peterloo August 1819: the English Uprising
  • History Journal Mid-Career Research Award

      16th April 2024
    History: Journal of the Historical Association Mid-Career Research Award  Eligibility: persons of any nationality who have a PhD or equivalent publishing record and who wish to engage in research into any aspect of social, political, cultural, economic and ecclesiastical history in any period of history or geographical region. A Mid-Career...
    History Journal Mid-Career Research Award
  • History Journal Early-Career Research Award

      16th April 2024
    History: Journal of the Historical Association Early-Career Research Award Eligibility: persons of any nationality who have a PhD or equivalent publishing record and who wish to engage in research into any aspect of social, political, cultural, economic and ecclesiastical history in any period of history or geographical region. An Early-Career...
    History Journal Early-Career Research Award
  • Short course: Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History

      HA short course, 10 September–10 December 2024
    Led by Jonathan Durrant, Laura Kounine, Jan Machielsen, Lisa Tallis, Juliette Wood  Booking is not yet available for this course; however, you can be the first to know when it opens by registering your interest here. What does the course cover? This Historical Association short course is an introduction to...
    Short course: Witchcraft, Werewolves and Magic in European History
  • My Favourite History Place and Out & About

      Historian regular features
    'My Favourite History Place' and 'Out and About' are two of the regular features in The Historian magazine. 'My Favourite History Place' showcases a location of particular historical interest selected by history experts and enthusiasts, and 'Out and About' describes an actual visit to a historical site. All the places that...
    My Favourite History Place and Out & About
  • The Great Debate Final 2024

      25th March 2024
    Winner:  Emma Crow of Broxburn Academy, Broxburn, Scotland  Runners up:  Abigail Powers of The Ladies’ College, Guernsey  Erica Wright of William Farr School, Lincolnshire  Rachel McGarry of Shavington Academy, Crewe, Cheshire  Finalists Sofia Ntege, North Oxfordshire Academy, Banbury Harry Gray, Exeter School, Exeter Rhea Cherrington, Bablake School, Coventry Molly Grimshaw,...
    The Great Debate Final 2024
  • Lecture: From sex to the suffragettes

      Podcast: Keynote Lecture Annual Conference 2019
    Over the last few years, we have seen a widespread cultural failure in our history. From the rose-tinted nostalgia of politicians to a rise in destructive ideologies, history has become weaponised by those who seek to misuse, misrepresent and misunderstand it. At the same time, the field of history is...
    Lecture: From sex to the suffragettes
  • Harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for teaching history and geography

      Joint event from the Historical Association and Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
    Artificial Intelligence is becoming more and more prevalent in society and many occupational sectors. But what about teaching? Is AI a threat to history and geography teaching, assessment and quality assurance? Or is it the saviour for teacher workload and a creative force that can bring our subjects to life...
    Harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for teaching history and geography
  • Young Quills 2024 – the longlist

      HA annual awards for best historical fiction for young people
    Each year, the Historical Association runs ‘Young Quills’, a competition for published historical fiction for children and young adults (14+). The Young Quills books for each year must be published for the first time in English in the year preceding the competition – so 2023 for this year’s selection.  Our...
    Young Quills 2024 – the longlist
  • Editorial opportunity with ‘History’, the journal of the Historical Association

      23rd February 2024
    The Historical Association are seeking to appoint a new editorial team for our internationally acclaimed journal History. The journal has had an excellent relationship with the School of History at the University of East Anglia for the past fourteen years and now the time has come for the journal to...
    Editorial opportunity with ‘History’, the journal of the Historical Association
  • Kilpeck Church: a window on medieval 'mentalite'

      Article
    In the village of Kilpeck, about eight miles south-west of Hereford, may be found the small parish church of St Mary and St David, justifiably described by Pevsner as ‘one of the most perfect Norman village churches in England’ (Pevsner 1963, 201). Seemingly remote today, in the twelfth century the...
    Kilpeck Church: a window on medieval 'mentalite'
  • Child Health & School meals: Nottingham 1906-1945

      Article
    Following Jamie Oliver’s devastating television series on the inadequacy of school meals the present government has been quick to be seen to address the situation. In September 2005, Ruth Kelly, the then Education Secretary, announced a war on junk food in schools.1 This was nothing new, because the history of...
    Child Health & School meals: Nottingham 1906-1945
  • HA short courses: Terms and conditions

      Information
    Please read the short course terms and conditions carefully before you register for a place on the short course. By booking a place, you agree to adhere to these terms and conditions. Please note that these terms and conditions are only applicable to the HA’s short course and do not...
    HA short courses: Terms and conditions
  • History 359

      The Journal of the Historical Association, Volume 104, Issue 359
    Guest editors: Catherine Kelly and Joan Tumblety Articles Medical Doctors and Persuasion: Introduction (pp 5-18),Catherine Kelly, Joan Tumblety – Free access Surgery, Identity and Embodied Emotion: John Bell, James Gregory and the Edinburgh ‘Medical War’ (pp 19-41), Michael Brown – Open access ‘Upon my word, I do not see the use of...
    History 359
  • Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum

      Guidance for history teachers
    This resource is free to everyone. For access to our library of high-quality secondary history materials along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of history teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today  With Ofsted incorporating curriculum into inspections from September 2019 and finally...
    Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum
  • Disability History Month

      News Item
    Physical, mental and neurological disability and differences have existed for as long as people have roamed the earth, with different cultures, groups and communities responding differently to how to support those individuals. How disability has been recognised and treated is not something that has always been recorded over human history,...
    Disability History Month
  • Polychronicon 173: From American Indians to Native Americans

      Teaching History journal feature
    Few sub-fields of American history have undergone as many changes over time as the study of Native Americans/American Indians. While nineteenth- and early twentieth-century historians portrayed Native Americans as savage barbarians or ignored them entirely, late twentieth-century historians portrayed them as victims of circumstance and aggressive European conquest. Today, modern...
    Polychronicon 173: From American Indians to Native Americans
  • Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2023 – the winners

      The HA's writing competition for children aged 10-19 years
    Being inspired by stories of the past to tell stories for today has kept people entertained for hundreds of years. Take a look at the shelves in any bookshop and there will be plenty of historical fiction. That is why we believe in starting them young at the HA, and...
    Write Your Own Historical Fiction competition 2023 – the winners
  • Young Historian Awards 2023 – the winners

      Annual history competition for schools
    Each year the Historical Association partners with The Spirit of Normandy Trust to recognise young historians who have shown excellent knowledge and demonstrated historical argument around a subject associated with a series of themes. The competition is divided into age brackets and the entry at secondary level is by essay,...
    Young Historian Awards 2023 – the winners
  • The Handing Back of Hong Kong: 1945 and 1997

      Article
    Andrew Whitfield examines the recovery of Hong Kong from the Japanese, 52 years before its return to China. As the clock ticks ever closer to midnight on 30 June 1997, the sun will set on Britain’s last major colonial outpost. Thousands of miles from the motherland, the colony originally acted...
    The Handing Back of Hong Kong: 1945 and 1997
  • Primary History 14

      Journal
    4 Not Henry VIII!  Ann Darrant 6 History Through the Streets Robin Coulthard 8 We Plough the Fields Patrick Wood & Norma Bell 10 Digging for Victory Erica Pounce 15 An Active Approach to Ancient History: the Greeks Harriet Martin 18 Grace Darling and Reception Children Karen Salter 20 Take...
    Primary History 14
  • Women in parliament since 1918

      Primary History article
    At the 1918 election just one woman, Constance Markievicz, won a seat, in Dublin, for Sinn Fein. She was in prison at the time. At the time, of course, the whole of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom. All 73 Sinn Fein MPs refused to take up their seats, and...
    Women in parliament since 1918
  • Teaching Stalinism: knowledge and pedagogy rebooted

      Joint event from the Historical Association, Northumbria University and the Study Group of the Russian Revolution
    Book your place // This joint event from the Historical Association, Northumbria University and the Study Group on the Russian Revolution is aimed at secondary and sixth-form history teachers, lecturers, and trainee teachers. It will focus on the changes in research and pedagogy on Stalinism. Under Stalin’s leadership from 1929...
    Teaching Stalinism: knowledge and pedagogy rebooted