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  • The Last Duke of Lorraine

      Article
    The Place Stanislas in Nancy has a high reputation. But expectations are far surpassed as one surveys the beautifully proportioned square, with its imposing buildings such as the Hôtel de Ville and the Governor's Palace, its Arc de Triomphe and its magnificent iron work. It is a reminder of how...
    The Last Duke of Lorraine

  • The Queen's Platinum Jubilee

      How the HA is marking our patron Queen Elizabeth II's long reign
    This summer our patron, Queen Elizabeth II, has her Platinum Jubilee. It is the longest reign of any British monarch. For many of us in the UK and abroad, she is the only head of state that we have ever known. In those 70 years that she has been queen,...
    The Queen's Platinum Jubilee

  • Worlds in collision: university tutor and student perspectives on the transition to degree level history

      Article
    What does it mean to be good at history? At certain times during their formal education students seem to be required to adjust their understanding of what studying history entails. Alan Booth writes from the viewpoint of a university tutor. He has collated ‘student voice’ on the experience of studying...
    Worlds in collision: university tutor and student perspectives on the transition to degree level history

  • Help the National Portrait Gallery develop their schools offer

      1st December 2021
    The National Portrait Gallery is looking for teachers – secondary art, secondary history, primary school and teachers working in specialist settings – to help develop their schools offer. The Gallery is currently undergoing a massive transformation that will include a complete rehang of all their galleries, a new state-of-the-art learning centre, and...
    Help the National Portrait Gallery develop their schools offer

  • It's like they've gone up a year!' Gauging the impact of a history transition unit on teachers of primary and secondary

      Article
    Year 7 history teachers frequently bemoan the lack of historical learning in the primary sector. Pupils may be well versed in suffixes and similes, but their study of history can be limited. This group of history teachers decided that things could be different. Not only did they bring enquiry methods...
    It's like they've gone up a year!' Gauging the impact of a history transition unit on teachers of primary and secondary

  • Thinking of teaching?

      Multipage Article
    Routes into teaching Although there are now hundreds of training providers and different courses from which to choose, an awareness of some basic distinctions can help enormously in deciding what type of programme you want to follow, and clarifying your options. One essential distinction is between fee-paying programmes, on which...
    Thinking of teaching?

  • Teaching History 81

      Journal
    2 Editorial 3 News 7 Fiction, Empathy and Teaching History Victoria Mills 10 History and Language Sara Alston 11 Teaching Children About Time Terry Haydn 13 Art History as an Historical Discipline C.H. Kauffmann 14 Battling On: family history in the primary classroom Elizabeth M. Corrigan 19 A Tudor Feast...
    Teaching History 81

  • History GCSE Specification Comparison Tool

      GCSE Resource
    This short guidance is designed to help you compare the 9-1 GCSE specifications. The first examinations of these new linear GCSEs was in the summer of 2018.
    History GCSE Specification Comparison Tool

  • The New History of the Spanish Inquisition

      Article
    Helen Rawlings reviews the recent literature which has prompted a fundamental reappraisal of the Spanish Inquisition. The Spanish Inquisition — first established in 1478 in Castile under Queen Isabella I and suppressed in 1834 by Queen Isabella II — has left its indelible mark on the whole course of Spain’s...
    The New History of the Spanish Inquisition

  • 1851 by Asa Briggs

      Classic Pamphlet
    This classic pamphlet is being re-published in digital form to coincide with the special edition of The Historian devoted to the memory of Asa Briggs. He was one of the most illustrious members of the Historical Association and a devotedly loyal member all his life. One Historian has said that...
    1851 by Asa Briggs

  • Stalin, Propaganda, and Soviet Society during the Great Terror

      Article
    Sarah Davies explores the evidence that even in the most repressive phases of Stalin’s rule, there existed a flourishing ‘shadow culture’, a lively and efficient unofficial network of information and ideas. 'Today a man only talks freely with his wife — at night, with the blankets pulled over his head.’...
    Stalin, Propaganda, and Soviet Society during the Great Terror

  • Secondary Membership Sample Resources

      Digital Resource Samples
    Secondary membership gives access to a range of digital resources to support planning and delivery in the classroom as well as your own professional development.  Why not take a look at some of our sample resources?   Teaching History, Issue 171: KnowledgeTeaching History, Issue 157: AssessmentTeaching History, Issue 153: The Holocaust and other genocides Secondary...
    Secondary Membership Sample Resources

  • Primary Membership Sample Resources

      Digital Resource Samples
    Primary membership gives access to a range of digital resources to support planning and delivery in the classroom as well as your own professional development.  Why not take a look at some of our free sample resources?  Primary History Magazine Issue 66Primary History Magazine Issue 78Members receive print copies of the journal and also...
    Primary Membership Sample Resources

  • Historical Association Secondary Survey 2021

      Annual Survey Report on History in Secondary Schools
    For the past 11 years we have been doing an annual survey into history teaching in secondary schools. This year our main focus was on the content of the history curriculum, examined with a particular focus on diversity. It looks particularly at diversity understood in terms of race and ethnicity,...
    Historical Association Secondary Survey 2021

  • Scheme of Work: Walter Tull

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 1 History (unresourced)
    Pupils will look at the childhood and football career of Walter Tull, what happened to him when he fought in World War I and why he was different from most people of his time. They will compare his experiences to issues and people still relevant today including the double Olympian...
    Scheme of Work: Walter Tull

  • Find out more about Corporate Primary Membership

      Supporting high quality history
    Watch the film above for an overview of corporate membership benefits. Corporate membership supports quality history provision across your school. .It's the ideal option if you'd like multiple staff to benefit from resources and CPD, while enjoying enhanced benefits such as subject leader guides and selected free webinar recordings for just £81 inluding VAT. Enjoy all the benefits of...
    Find out more about Corporate Primary Membership

  • HA awards evening 2021 round-up

      1st October 2021
    Finally it happened – the HA annual (usually) awards evening, known to many as ‘the Medlicott evening’. Normally held in summer, the event is an opportunity to recognise some of the incredible contributions that people make to the continuation of history for all in this country, as historians, writers, educators...
    HA awards evening 2021 round-up

  • Young Historian Awards 2021 – Winners

      Annual competition, HA and The Spirit of Normandy Trust
    Each year the Historical Association partners with The Spirit of Normandy Trust to award 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 2021 – Winners

  • Jerome K Jerome and other travellers in the Thames Valley

      Article
    Travellers and visitors have streamed to, and through Oxford, for centuries. Its name conveys its very functional origin as a fording point on the River Thames. Obviously these travellers and visitors came from a variety of directions, and by a variety of routes, using land and water transport. On this...
    Jerome K Jerome and other travellers in the Thames Valley

  • GCSE topics mapped against our resources

      HA Resources and GCSE History
    At the HA, we know it’s hard enough trying to grapple with new GCSE units of study, assessment and content without also having to research where you can find interesting or supportive resources, either for your own, or your students subject knowledge. Our secondary committee have pooled resources and helped...
    GCSE topics mapped against our resources

  • Scheme of Work: Ancient Sumer

      Primary Scheme of Work, Key Stage 2 History (unresourced)
    Ancient Sumer is often called 'the Cradle of Civilisation'. The Ancient Greeks called it Mesopotamia - the land between two rivers. It is where cities first developed, agriculture began and writing first appeared. One eminent historian records 39 'firsts' for Sumer! Most of this was lost until the 20th century,...
    Scheme of Work: Ancient Sumer

  • 20th anniversary of 9/11 – a personal reflection

      1st September 2021
    I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing as the news began to reach me about there being a terrorist attack in the United States. It didn’t seem real and if I hadn’t been working in Westminster where these things are taken very seriously, I might not...
    20th anniversary of 9/11 – a personal reflection

  • Film: London’s Dreaded Visitation – Epidemic disease in Restoration London

      Presidential Lecture - HA Annual Conference 2016
    This lecture explored the epidemiology of disease in metropolitan London, exploring by reconstructions of local impact in the various parishes north, south east and west of the City from Bills of Mortality, burial registers and the Churchwardens’ accounts which often allow a day by day if not hour by hour...
    Film: London’s Dreaded Visitation – Epidemic disease in Restoration London

  • Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar

      Article
    Connecting Classrooms: bringing together Bradford and Peshawar, primary and secondary schools, history and English In this article, Dianne Excell shares her experience of a crossphase, collaborative project funded by the British Council that brought together teachers and pupils from three schools in Bradford and five schools in Peshawar, Pakistan. Although...
    Bringing together students from Bradford and Peshawar

  • History 348

      The Journal of the Historical Association
    Articles Magna Carta in its European Context (pages 659–670) Susan Reynolds The Mediterranean Metaphor in Early Geopolitical Writings (pages 671–691) Rolf Petri Waging War for the Righteous: William Eaton on Enlightenment, Empire, and Coup d'état in the First Barbary War, 1801–1805 (pages 692–709) C. B. Bow The Rhinoceros and the...
    History 348