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  • Secondary Committee biographies

      Information
    Find out more about the HA's committees here  Helen Snelson (committee chair) Helen Snelson is the current chair of the Secondary Committee. She is the course leader of the History PGCE at the University of York. Helen taught history in 11-18 schools for over 20 years. In addition to supporting...
    Secondary Committee biographies

  • 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

  • Oppenheimer – a review

      Paula Kitching
    It is a blockbuster summer and autumn for films as the big studios seem to be hitting back following the Covid slump. Even better, rather than it just being about comic-book superheroes and supervillains, this year some of the film studios have hit on historical topics to get the audiences...
    Oppenheimer – a review

  • Eleanor and Franklin: Women and the New Deal

      Annual Conference 2018 Film: Presidential Lecture
    As a pioneering First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt refused, as one admirer put it, ‘to step into her little mould in the biscuit tin of President’s wives that was ready and waiting for her’.  She broadcast on the radio, wrote a newspaper column, travelled endlessly and spoke out fearlessly in defence...
    Eleanor and Franklin: Women and the New Deal

  • Young Quills winners 2023

      The Young Quills Awards for best historical fiction for young people
    It is with great pleasure that the HA is able to announce the winners of the Young Quills for Historical Fiction for 2023: Young readers category Winner: Tony Bradman for Bruno and Frida (Barrington Stoke)Highly Commended: Judith Eagle for Accidental Stowaway (Faber) Intermediate category Winner: Tom Palmer for Resist (Barrington...
    Young Quills winners 2023

  • HA Awards Evening 2023 round-up

      14th July 2023
    It was a joy to bring together so many people to celebrate the study of history at our annual ‘Medlicotts’ awards evening on 12 July. Originally formed around awarding the Medlicott Medal for History to that year’s recipient it is now also an opportunity to celebrate all the awards, honours...
    HA Awards Evening 2023 round-up

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

      Article
    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?

  • HA Honorary Fellows 2023

      5th July 2023
    Each year the Historical Association awards a small number of Honorary Fellowships. These awards are to recognise and celebrate outstanding services to history and to the Historical Association. The awards cover services to the Historical Association Branches (of which there are over 45 across the country); our committees; the work...
    HA Honorary Fellows 2023

  • Course: Supporting SEND pupils in your primary history lessons

      HA CPD course for history subject leaders in mainstream schools
    Do you struggle to engage your lower attaining or EAL pupils in their history lessons? Are you finding it difficult to ensure and demonstrate progression in history with these pupils? According to Department for Education statistics, in 2020 there were 1.4 million pupils across the UK with identified special educational...
    Course: Supporting SEND pupils in your primary history lessons

  • Webinar series: Making substantive and disciplinary knowledge work together in the secondary history curriculum

      HA on-demand webinar series for secondary history teachers
    The last few years have, rightly, seen a lot of discussion about 'what' we include in the history curriculum. This has meant that many schools now teach a wider-ranging and more inclusive form of history. As this work has an impact, it is important to continue to think about how...
    Webinar series: Making substantive and disciplinary knowledge work together in the secondary history curriculum

  • ‘Its ultimate pattern was greater than its parts’

      Teaching History journal article
    Identifying the challenges his students faced both with recall and analysis of the content they had learned for their GCSE course, Ed Durbin devised a solution which focused not on exam skills and revision lessons, but on using Key Stage 3 to build the ‘hinterland’ of contextual knowledge and causal...
    ‘Its ultimate pattern was greater than its parts’

  • The devil is the detail

      Teaching History journal article
    Like many history departments, Hugh Richards' department at Huntington School uses enquiry questions to structure their medium-term planning. Yet Richards noticed that his efforts to build knowledge across an enquiry by teaching macro-narratives as an unfolding story seemed to make it harder for some pupils to see and retain the...
    The devil is the detail

  • From flight paths to spiders’ webs: developing a progression model for Key Stage 3

      Teaching History journal article
    The disapplication of level descriptions in the 2014 National Curriculum has spurred many history departments to rethink their approach not only to assessment but to their models of progression. In this article Rachael Cook builds on the recent work of history teachers such as Ford (TH157), Hawkey et al (TH161),...
    From flight paths to spiders’ webs: developing a progression model for Key Stage 3

  • Couching counterfactuals in knowledge when explaining the Salem witch trials with Year 13

      Teaching History journal article
    Puzzled by the shrugs and unimaginative responses of his students when asked certain counterfactual questions, James Edward Carroll set out to explore what types of counterfactual questions would elicit sophisticated causal explanations. During his pursuit of the ‘gold standard’ of counterfactual reasoning, Carroll drew upon theories of academic history in...
    Couching counterfactuals in knowledge when explaining the Salem witch trials with Year 13

  • Short course: New Perspectives on the First Crusade – live talks and workshops

      Information
    New Perspectives on the First Crusade: Impact and Legacies between Medieval and Modern Live talks and workshops Thank you for registering to take part in our short course New Perspectives on the First Crusade: Impact and Legacies between Medieval and Modern. (If you have not already registered you can do so via...
    Short course: New Perspectives on the First Crusade – live talks and workshops

  • Webinar series: Creating curriculum pathways through primary history at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2

      HA on-demand webinar series for primary teachers
    This series of webinars explores the teaching of substantive concepts in primary history. The National Curriculum for history requires pupils to gain understanding about abstract concepts of substantive knowledge across periods, while the Ofsted framework expects to see teaching in greater depth than before. This practical series of webinars with...
    Webinar series: Creating curriculum pathways through primary history at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2

  • History 352

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    Clerical admonitio, Letters of Advice to Kings and Episcopal Self-Fashioning,c.1000–c.1200 (pages 557–575) Björn Weiler Oceanic Barriers: The British–American Divide among Revolutionary Black Atlantic Writers (pages 576–596) Kyle T. Bulthuis 'Of Paramount Importance to Our Race': H. O. Arnold-Forster and South African Soldier-Settlement (pages 597–616) Christian K. Melby Demystified: Mergers and...
    History 352

  • Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month

      2nd June 2023
    It is Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month in June. This group of communities are probably some of the least understood across Europe, yet they have some of the longest histories of any European ethnic minorities, stretching back over 1000 years. Many people feel uncomfortable with the idea of a...
    Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History Month

  • Volunteers’ Week, 1-7 June

      1st June 2023
    It is Volunteers’ Week and so we want to take this opportunity to say thank you to all our volunteers. The HA is a membership body and while we have professional staff based at our Kennington HQ, we can only produce the huge amount of work and activities that we...
    Volunteers’ Week, 1-7 June

  • Refugee Week 2023

      19th May 2023
    People become refugees all over the world for many different reasons, and they come from many different backgrounds. Refugees have been a continuous feature of human societies for thousands of years. How long people remain as a refugee can be days, weeks or a lifetime – what unites them is that they...
    Refugee Week 2023

  • HA Annual Conference round-up 2023

      Majestic Hotel, Harrogate, 12-13 May 2023
    If you're interested in presenting in 2024, find details below.  HA Annual Conference 2023, Harrogate We hope everyone who was able to attend Annual Conference 2023 in-person or online has now managed to catch breath – because it really was quite a whirlwind of talks, workshops, creativity, famous names and...
    HA Annual Conference round-up 2023

  • Scheme of Work: The Blitz: all we need to know about World War II?

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (resourced)
    This unit provides children with the opportunity to look at the Second World War as an aspect of British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066. This 8-part enquiry is useable in full or to use sections of as stand alone shorter enquiries. Pupils will be encouraged to examine different...
    Scheme of Work: The Blitz: all we need to know about World War II?

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

      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

  • The Coronation of King Charles III

      2nd May 2023
    Saturday 6 May 2023 will see the first coronation of a British monarch for 70 years. Only those now in their 70s or above will remember the last one. The coronation ceremony has its roots in traditions over a thousand years old.  Whether you are a Royalist or a Republican or...
    The Coronation of King Charles III

  • Primary History 33

      Journal
    An excellent focus for history studies in the primary school, Revolting subjects, Breadth and balance within the history curriculum, Event framing and counterfactuals at Key Stage 2, Teaching the Indus Valley civilisation, Idntifying the potential of history in teaching Citizenship at Key Stage 1 and 2 and much more... Click...
    Primary History 33