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  • Recorded webinar: Using 'One Day' to explore the actions that helped to lead to the Holocaust and actions of genocide

      HA Webinar
    This year's Holocaust Memorial Day the theme is 'One Day'. In this webinar with historian Paula Kitching, we will use the one day Wannsee Conference of January 1942 to help explore the actions of the perpetrators, the Holocaust victims and how decision making by people can lead to genocide. This...
    Recorded webinar: Using 'One Day' to explore the actions that helped to lead to the Holocaust and actions of genocide

  • Film: Tackling superpower relations with lower-ability students

      Secondary History Workshop Annual Conference 2019
    This secondary workshop took place at at the Historical Association Annual Conference, Chester, May 2019. It looked at ways of helping lower-ability students at GCSE access lesson and revision content based around superpower relations in the cold war, but is applicable to any subject area. Through a series of games and...
    Film: Tackling superpower relations with lower-ability students

  • Mini Teacher Fellowship: Medieval Perceptions of Conquest

      HA Mini Teacher Fellowship 2020–21
    In the summer of 2020 a group of teachers took part in a mini teacher fellowship on medieval perceptions of conquest. Teachers took part in a two-day course led by academic historians Dr Emily Winkler of Oxford University and Dr Owain Jones of Bangor University. Sadly, due to the covid...
    Mini Teacher Fellowship: Medieval Perceptions of Conquest

  • Recorded webinar: Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the history classroom

      Webinar
    In the last 12 months students have all missed significant chunks of school and importantly a significant chunk of history lessons. In this special one-off webinar, some members of the HA secondary committee discuss the main issues we face as history teachers and offer some potential solutions. What does catch...
    Recorded webinar: Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the history classroom

  • Film: What a strange place to be buried

      Virtual Branch Film
    Anna Cusack joined the HA Virtual Branch to discuss unique burial locations in London c.1600-1800. Anna recently completed a PhD at Birkbeck, University of London on the marginal dead of seventeenth and eighteenth-century London, focusing specifically on suicides, executed criminals, Quakers, and Jews and the treatment of their bodily remains...
    Film: What a strange place to be buried

  • Recorded Webinar: India and the Second World War

      Article
    Recorded Webinar: India and the Second World War

  • Studying History at University: Teacher's guide

      University Application Guide
    Every year hundreds of students, supported by their teachers and schools apply to study history at university. How do you make sure that you or your students stand out from the crowd and get the place they want? This helpful guide is written by Tony McConnell, Deputy Head of Merchant Taylors' Prep...
    Studying History at University: Teacher's guide

  • Teacher Fellowship Programme: The Cold War in the Classroom

      Teacher Fellowship Programme 2017
    Course Leader: Ben Walsh Academic Leader: Dr Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck) The 2017 Teacher Fellowship Programme focused on the history and historiography of the Cold War. The course was taught by historians at Birkbeck College London in collaboration with the Historical Association. The programme was fully funded, including travel and accommodation costs. The...
    Teacher Fellowship Programme: The Cold War in the Classroom

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The East India Company and Empire

      Foundations and Memory
    What can the early history of the English East India Company tell us about the foundations of the British Empire, and where does that history sit within current debates about Britain’s imperial legacy? In this session Mark Williams offers a timely insight into the history of one of the most significant...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The East India Company and Empire

  • Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare

      Presidential Lecture - Annual Conference 2014
    In Twelfth Night Shakespeare gently mocked the Puritans, who objected to stage plays and other entertainments. Yet within four decades, the Puritans had closed the London theatres and were about to seize power from Charles I. Among their many reforms were the banning of Christmas celebrations and of Twelfth Night itself....
    Puritan attitudes towards plays and pleasure in the Age of Shakespeare

  • Progression without Levels

      Briefing Pack
    "As part of our reforms to the national curriculum , the current system of ‘levels' used to report children's attainment and progress will be removed.  It will not be replaced." (DfE 2013) When National Curriculum levels were removed in 2014, it was all too easy to fall into the trap of...
    Progression without Levels

  • On-demand webinar: New approaches to teaching Britain and transatlantic slavery

      Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
    Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum Session 5: New approaches to teaching Britain and transatlantic slavery This 90-minute webinar will delve into the social, economic, and moral implications of this topic. It features an interview with historian Maxine Berg related to her research in this area, before suggesting tools for...
    On-demand webinar: New approaches to teaching Britain and transatlantic slavery

  • On-demand webinar: Histories of the African continent

      Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
    Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum Session 4: Histories of the African continent This 90-minute recorded webinar will cover three elements: an introductory discussion about the scope and opportunities for exploring African history; Enquiry One: Africa and the development of religion; Enquiry Two: Decolonisation, Ideology and Race in Africa: the struggles...
    On-demand webinar: Histories of the African continent

  • On-demand webinar: Black British history

      Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
    Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum Session 2: Black British history This 90-minute recorded webinar will cover an introductory discussion about the scope and opportunities for including Black stories in British history and an enquiry about Black Radicals in the early 19th century. Release date: Monday 30 October 2023, 4pmClosing date: Saturday 31...
    On-demand webinar: Black British history

  • On-demand webinar: Histories of Islamic societies

      Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
    Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum Session 3: Histories of Islamic societies This 90-minute recorded webinar will cover three elements: an introductory discussion about the scope and opportunities for exploring Islamic societies; Enquiry One: Science and Knowledge in Medieval Muslim societies; Enquiry Two: Modernity and Iran in the 20th century....
    On-demand webinar: Histories of Islamic societies

  • Recorded webinar: Introduction to decolonising the secondary history curriculum

      Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum
    Webinar series: Decolonising the secondary history curriculum Session 1: Introductory webinar This recorded introductory webinar will explore what we mean by decolonising the curriculum and outline principles of approach and explore key concepts involved. How to book Book this webinar only If you wish to book just this webinar, you can purchase...
    Recorded webinar: Introduction to decolonising the secondary history curriculum

  • Punk, Politics and the collapse of consensus in Britain

      Podcast
    2012 Annual Conference LectureShot by both sides: Punk, Politics and the collapse of consensus in BritainMatthew Worley: Reader in History, University of ReadingThis paper examines the way in which organisations of the far left and far right endeavoured to appropriate elements of British youth culture to validate their analysis of...
    Punk, Politics and the collapse of consensus in Britain

  • Fighting a different war

      Podcast
    2012 Annual Conference LectureFighting a different war: contesting the place of the queer soldier in the mythology of the Second World WarEmma Vickers: Lecturer in Modern British History University of Reading In the mid-1990s, the queer soldier finally became visible. On the streets, gay rights campaigners led by Peter Tatchell...
    Fighting a different war

  • War, Society and the State in Early Modern Europe

      Podcast
    Lecture from the 2012 HA Annual Conference  Frank Tallett: Fellow in History at the University of Reading and former Head of its School of Humanities Until recently, military history has largely been concerned with ‘badges and buttons', an approach that stressed tactics, strategy and weapons. The so-called New Military History has sought...
    War, Society and the State in Early Modern Europe

  • Recorded webinar: Untold Stories of D-Day

      Webinar
    The HA has worked with film-maker,  historian and Legasee ambassador Martyn Cox on a series of webinars looking at untold stories from the Second World War. Many of these stories are taken for the oral histories provided in interviews given to Martyn on film.  In this filmed webinar, Martyn goes...
    Recorded webinar: Untold Stories of D-Day

  • Podcast lecture: Mad or Bad? Was Henry VI a tyrant?

      Presidential Lecture 2011
    Professor Anne Curry delivered her final Presidential lecture at the Historical Association Annual Conference 2011 in Manchester. Henry VI (1422-61) was England's youngest king, only nine months old when he succeeded his famous father. Traditionally he is seen as incompetent, pious and, latterly, insane, and thereby causing the Wars of...
    Podcast lecture: Mad or Bad? Was Henry VI a tyrant?

  • Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom

      HA webinar series for secondary history teachers and leaders
    In recent years, many history teachers have done lots of exciting work to develop the curriculum they teach, incorporating new content, new scholarship and new enquiries. As part of this work, it is vital to uncover how far pupils are learning all that was intended, and the ways in which...
    Webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom

  • Online course: Teaching empire through material culture

      HA online course for primary and secondary teachers
    The topic of empire lends itself ideally to a material approach – the objects often provide the opportunity to bring in indigenous voices to our study of the imperial past, while our classroom experience has shown that objects provide a powerful channel through which to access complex and sometimes uncomfortable...
    Online course: Teaching empire through material culture

  • Webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom

      HA webinar series for secondary history teachers
    At the HA, we understand the importance of creating the next generation of history students who can not only write about history, but who can also effectively communicate their thinking through oracy. Current academic research highlights the importance of oracy for learning and the close relationship between being able to...
    Webinar series: Effective oracy in the secondary history classroom

  • One Year GCSE

      Briefing Pack
    Background A new development for curriculum change this year (2009) has been that many schools are now changing the pattern of GCSE/Key Stage 4 courses, following the ending of compulsory SATs for English, Maths and Science at the end of Key Stage 3. It is not yet clear how many...
    One Year GCSE