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The HA’s ethos on diversity and inclusion is clear - we will not tolerate those who promote ideologies which seek to exclude or denigrate specific groups of people. We have therefore decided to withdraw the honour of the Medlicott Medal given to Dr David Starkey 20 yrs ago

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Asking different questions about Empire

Empire blogpost 1: asking different questions about Empire

This blogpost is the first in a series written by Richard Kennett. He is a member of HA Secondary Committee, assistant headteacher in Bristol and co-author of the new MShed published book: “B…

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The return to formal assessment at KS3

Richard Kennett (@richkbristol), of Gatehouse Green Trust in Bristol, shares recent rethinking of KS3 assessment in his school in response to recent discussions on history edutwitter. This may be i…

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This weekend should have been HA annual conference - but its been postponed. Instead we will have 4 days of highlights from the last few years available to watch for all members regardless of membership type. Speakers include @DrJaninaRamirez @TracyBorman

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How can we foster students’ understanding of the Industrial Revolution, the British Empire and the Transatlantic Slave Trade as interconnected?

How can we foster students’ understanding of the Industrial Revolution, the British Empire and the...

Thanks to Sian Ayling (@MsAylingHist), history teacher at Blackfen School for Girls in Sidcup for this blogpost. Sian has wrestled with the need to enable students to see the inter-connection betwe…

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The HA and the editors of our journal - Teaching History would like to make an unreserved apology for the error in judgement that has been made concerning a feature in Teaching History 185. We will issue a full apology Monday am.

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Tackling Racism: Teaching West African History pre-1700 – Benin - a department's work to improve curriculum diversity

Tackling Racism: Teaching West African History pre-1700 – Benin

Alex Fairlamb (@lamb_heart_tea), member of HA Secondary Committee reflects here on how her department has taken action over the last year to address the problem of lack of ethnic diversity in the h…

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Developing substantive thinking: a project to create connections through a KS3 curriculum

Thank you to Sarah Jackson, Head of History at Sawston Village College in Cambridgeshire, for this blogpost sharing some more of the work of the department… As a department we have often talk…

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Decolonisation in the history classroom: wider perspectives and more critical questions

Thank you to Sarah Jackson, Head of Department at Sawston Village College in Cambridgeshire for this blogpost. Sarah has been imbibing the wealth of CPD on offer to history teachers. Here she expla…

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If you have any free time this weekend then check out our virtual branch and the programme of events. #staysafe #StayHome

Your HA Virtual Branch

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Bridging from Y6 to Y7 – transitional history

Thanks to Andrew Sweet, Head of Humanities at Millfield School, for this blogpost in which he shares practical ideas for Year 6 to Year 7 transition and reminds us that we can set high expectations…

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Effective remote history teaching

In this blogpost HA Secondary Committee members Richard Kennett & Hugh Richards offer their thoughts about effective remote history teaching. Although updates from the DfE are coming to s…

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Welcoming Peter Mandler as the new Historical Association President

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Curricular implementation at Key Stage 4: Anatomy of a GCSE History Unit.

Thanks to Hugh Richards, Head of History at Huntington School and course leader of the HA’s Subject Leader Development Programme, for this blogpost. In it Hugh walks us through the process of…

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Studying history should not be only for the elite, say academics | Universities | The Guardian

Studying history should not be only for the elite, say academics

As two UK universities cut their courses, historians fear others could follow

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Congratulations to Hugh Richards who is now an HA Fellow @HughJRichards

Honorary Fellows 2022

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There was a serious error of judgement in the recent edition of TH 185 which was brought to our attention over the weekend. Our full unreserved apology is here:

Apology: Move Me On, TH185

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The HA is calling for participants for a pilot CPD on Subject Leader Development programme

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Looking Ahead to September: some initial thoughts for History Subject Leaders from @HughJRichards via @histassoc #OBHD

Looking Ahead to September: some initial thoughts for History Subject Leaders

An experienced subject leader shares his thinking about the year ahead in history subject leadership.

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Announcing HA Conference 2021 this May - a virtual event lasting a week with lots to offer for teachers, educators and general history lovers everywhere with keynote lectures, recorded workshops and interactive sessions #HAconf2021

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Why should we teach medieval women?

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The findings of our Secondary Survey on the how diversity is currently taught within the history curriculum in English and Scottish schools: Conclusion - getting better, but room for improvement

Historical Association Secondary Survey 2021

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Well that has been one of the toughest, weirdest, never to be repeated weeks ever. And there is more strangeness to come, but don't worry we will be with you through all this. We are collating resources for teachers, students and the general public:

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Questions to help you review your KS3 curriculum - a new Ofsted preparation blogpost from @histassoc #OBHD

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Many of our resources are digital. There are lots of things to use without leaving home. We are also collating resources ready for home learning. Historical Association – the UK national charity for history

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Congratulations to all those who have been awarded an HA Honorary Fellowship this year. These fellowships are given to recognise and celebrate outstanding services to history and to the HA @MiriERubin @Mr_S_Tiffany @HistoryPrimary @JHSEngland

HA Honorary Fellows 2023

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Ok everyone not great news but as always we are here for you. Whether you are a teacher in primary or secondary ed, a confused parent, or a lover of history wondering what to do at home we have teaching resources, podcasts and live lectures plus lots more

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We are delighted to announce the winners of the HA Young Quills for Historical Fiction 2022. The winner for the 10-13 yrs category is @hilary_mckay Hilary McKay for The Swallows' Flight. A fascinating tale of war , told from two sides. @MacmillanKidsUK

Young Quills winners 2022

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All the articles in our journals are written by volunteers. All the editorial boards are volunteers - they are all expert teachers, educationalists, historians and writers - but they volunteer their time for the HA - if you use them credit them! #respect

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This year’s winner for the #YoungQuills19 6-9 age group category is the historian and now children’s author @DrJaninaRamirez for the brilliant Riddle of the Runes.

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In light of recent discussions we are selecting a few enquiry ideas and articles from our excellent Teaching History journal to be available free for a short time over the next few weeks. Keep an eye on our website. #teachers #history

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If you hadn’t guessed it, we are in Bristol for the first in person HA Conference since 2019. Seeing everyone just makes us feel like we are Being Human. #HAConf22

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Our new journal all about Medieval history has been sent to all Secondary schools and is available here @BritishMedieval @agin600 @AnneAgincourt

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‘Lighting fires’: Sparking conversations around the curriculum

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Thank you to Michael Wood @mayavision for his illuminating talk this evening that drew the rich history of Europe, the Middle East and Africa together to forge the Making of Early England. The talk will be available in August to HA members on our website.

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Interpretations - the essential 'how to' for history teachers! - it's a tricky concept and this post offers a masterclass to help you get to grips with it.

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for his scholarship on Tudor history. He will no longer by able to use that award to promote himself or his suitability to speak to groups or educators of any kind.

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Is anyone about to teach about the history of Ukraine? If so let us know.

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Announcing the 2021 Young Quills shortlist for Historical Fiction @tbradman @tompalmerauthor @Crr1Randall @AndersenPress

HA Young Quills 2021 shortlist

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At our awards evening this week we were able to give Honorary Fellowships to some amazing people - how many can you spot? ⁦ @PaulaLoboWorth ⁩ ⁦ @JJtodd1966 ⁩ ⁦ @wallyberry ⁩

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Announcing that Alex Wheatle ⁦ @brixtonbard ⁩ is the winner of the 2021 Young Quills for the 14+ age category with Cane Warriors an outstanding book of Historical Fiction – the winners Historical Association

Young Quills 2021 – the winners

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Thank you to everyone who has taken part in the HA virtual conference. Do remember that the presentations will continue to be available until 11 December. Do join us next time for the next conference. #HAConf20

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Congratulations to ⁦⁦ @MiriERubin ⁩ on receiving her Honorary Fellowship from the HA ⁦ @JHSEngland ⁩

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Want to know more about Black British history and how it can be taught? - sign up for our latest webinar with Professor Hakim Adi

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Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the history classroom. Thoughts and perspectives from the HA secondary committee.

Dealing with the issues from lockdown in the history classroom. Thoughts and perspectives from the...

This post accompanies the webinar that took place on Friday 5th March 2021. Members of the HA’s Secondary Committee addressed issues from lockdown in the history classroom. This post summaris…

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A packed room for our first big room education event on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Teachers, academics, exam boards and consultants exploring history education in England.

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Congratulations to ⁦⁦ @UoNSoEHistory ⁩ Victoria Crooks who is a new Honorary Fellow

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Thank you to all those who took part in Conference this year. Looking forward to seeing many of you next year in Bristol. We are even thinking of incorporating some ‘blended’ elements. #HAConf21

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Reading list with reviews! - NEW resource for busy history teachers from Historical Association #OBHD

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A packed room for the inaugural Dawson Lecture, delivered by Dr Katharine Burn. It is a lecture awarded to a person ‘for a distinct contribution to a specific aspect of history over a signif time period’, named in admiration of the esteemed Ian Dawson ⁦ @BearWithOneEar ⁩

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As we go through our messages and feedback on conference we just wanted to say Thank you to everyone who attended, presented and supported us. Next year we will be in Birmingham, with another spectacular line up!

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Nurturing history teachers and teaching in a time of Covid - reflections on the first month of academic year 2020-21.

Nurturing history teachers and teaching in a time of Covid

Reflecting on the story so far… nurturing history teachers and teaching in the academic year 2020-21.

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Next week we are starting the HA Twitter book club

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Congratulations to all those who have been awarded an HA Honorary Fellowship this year. These fellowships are given to recognise and celebrate outstanding services to history and to the HA @dale_banham @UoNSoEHistory @Waterloo200org @MigrationUK @danlyndon

HA Honorary Fellows 2023

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Good luck to anyone taking a GCSE History exam today- don't panic, read the questions carefully, use your knowledge to answer the question.

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Here they are! All of the finalists in Westminster Hall. What a great job they have all done! #greatdebate18

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NEW! Support for beginning history teachers - take a look at the HA website for exciting resources for teachers and teacher educators!

NEW! Support for beginning history teachers

The HA has launched resources to support beginning teachers and those who work with them. Are you thinking of becoming a history teacher? About to train as a history teacher? In your training year?…

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End of the week news - we have extended the time that you can watch the conference sessions until 4 January.

HA Virtual Conference Round-up 2020

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Why this? Why now?

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FREE - Historical Fiction list from the HA - lovely ideas for inspiring students with good books!

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Redressing the balance: trying to make Post-16 history a bit more representative

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Support for History SLs as results days approach.

Some thoughts on responding to results: a guide for new (or nervous!) Subject Leaders of History

In this blogpost Hugh Richards shares his experience of results’ days. Hugh is Head of History at Huntington School in York and the leader of the team of SLs who work on the HA’s Subjec…

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We have lots of webinar CPD events coming up covering subject knowledge and skills development for teachers

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Here are a few thoughts and resources at the start of Black History Month #blackhistorymonthuk Please join us in making it More than a Month #BlackHistoryMonth2020

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Historians: short film clips

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Congratulations to ⁦ @danlyndon ⁩ on becoming an HA Honorary Fellow.

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Better history by working together!

Thanks to Martyn Bajowski and Hugh Richards for this blogpost. In it they share the process they went through to create resources … and share them! This story starts with Martyn Recently I po…

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We will be releasing some VE Day commemoration resources for schools tomorrow- make sure you look out for them. #VEDay

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⁦ @wmarybeard ⁩ addresses HA Conference with her thoughts on ‘Was it tough at the top? How to study a Roman Emperor.’ #haconf23

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This is what happens when a small child Gate crashes a zoom meeting on Tuesday and says “if you have another meeting on Friday you need to all be in historical dress up - it’s dress up Friday”. Happy weekend #staysafe

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Decolonising the curriculum one step at a time: lessons on race in the early British Empire - help and resources

Decolonising the curriculum one step at a time: lessons on race in the early British Empire

In this blogpost, Jen Thornton (@jen_a_thornton), Head of History at Loreto Grammar School, shares her recent work to improve the history curriculum. Jen started by listening to students, she has g…

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Lessons learned from lockdown. The perspective of a history teacher.

Thanks to Richard Kennett (@kenradical) member of Secondary Committee and SHP fellow for this blogpost… Lockdown is a funny old beast. Some of us have hated it. Others of us have loved it. It…

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Right now the HA team should be on a train getting into Bristol - but as we are not going to be there until November we bring you the HA conference virtual weekend! #HAconf20https ://www.history.org.uk/secondary/news/3833/enjoy-a-weekend-of-history-at-home

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Empire blogpost 2: visualising Empire a bit differently

Thanks to Richard Kennett, Assistant Headteacher at Gatehouse Green Trust in Bristol, HA Fellow and member of Secondary Committee, for this second post in his series about Empire. In my last blog I…

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The British Empire is undoubtedly this country’s (GB) largest contribution to global history and yet it is still woefully small on the history curriculum and it is still often the white elephant in the world ⁦ @DalrympleWill ⁩ #haconf24

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Corners of foreign fields: ideas for making meaning and memory on a Battlefields Trips

Thanks to Hugh Richards, Head of History at Huntington School in York and leader of the HA’s Subject Leader Development Programme, for this blogpost. Hugh is a leading thinker about how to ma…

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Support for beginning history teachers from the HA

Hello colleagues in training and recently qualified, this is for you and your mentors!

We are starting the new academic year with a blogpost for beginning teachers. The HA defines ‘beginning teachers’ as colleagues in their training year and up to four years post qualific…

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We have a brand new Teacher Fellowship for this spring on: Broadcasting and Social Change in Sixties Britain. Applications open today and close 1st March

Teacher Fellowship Programme: Broadcasting and Social Change in Sixties Britain

This Teacher Fellowship Programme focused on developing the teaching of the history of equality and diversity in postwar Britain using video and audio sources. It was help in partnership with the...

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Sarajevo street corner that sparked WWI

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We have a new Teacher Fellowship open for applications - The People of 1381 - the Peasants Revolt

Teacher Fellowship Programme: The People of 1381

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News flash - the keynote speakers for our Friday night session 'Doing History in Public' are historian Dr Hannah Greig - TV Advisor including on Bridgerton, and the acclaimed journalist Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland @Sathnam @Hannah_Greig

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It is #worldbookday - so here is the long list for the Young Quills 2024. Is your favourite current author of children’s historical fiction on it? ⁦ @theLucyStrange @scattyscribbler @DanSmithAuthor @sufiyaahmed @EagleJudith @WelshDragonParr

Young Quills 2024 – the longlist

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The wait is over - HA conference is open for bookings - get your place now! #HAconf21 #Teachers #History

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Teachers - in between setting home learning tasks, marking (looking after your own children, relatives, etc.) and worrying like the rest of us here is some intellectual relief. The latest edition of Teaching History is out

Teaching History 178: Constructing Accounts

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V. excited for the Young Quills shortlist 2022. For 10-13 yrs: The Swallows' Flight @hilary_mckay ; Torn Apart @SwapnaHaddow ; When the Sky Falls @philearle ; The Week at World's End @emmac2603 ; Arctic Star @tompalmerauthor ; Our Beautiful Game @LouKuenzler

The Young Quills Shortlist 2022

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Have you heard that @wmarybeard is a keynote speaker at our annual conference this May? Booking is currently open

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The #suffragettes bombing campaign was bigger than the IRA -why do not know this history? I was determined to get this history into the public domain not just caught up in academic debates. This is uncomfortable history but it reminds us that our heroes can be flawed @FernRiddell

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These amazing books are the shortlist for the @WolfsonHistory that the lovely @wolfsonfdn have sent us. We will be setting up some events with the authors. But who will take the prize?

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With @Counsell_C @PaulaLoboWorth @hannahcusworth and @ArthurJChapman as some of the speakers of our Virtual Conference in November it would be foolish to miss it book your place now. #HAconf20

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May is local History Month - now that some of us can get out more lets report back some local history for those still stuck indoors! #LocalHistoryMonth

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Our exciting new publication for some of our members has started to drop through letterboxes - have you got yours yet? #HA20thchistory

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The HA Conference is going virtual for 2020 - we have over 40 speakers and recorded and interactive live sessions. As always it is for history lovers everywhere #HAconf20 #History

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Teachers’ perspectives on teaching Black History

Thanks to Simon Beale, Associate Assistant Headteacher and Subject Leader of History & Politics, and co-founder of the History Teacher Book Club, for sharing the key findings of some teacher to…

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Something to look forward to- we have the new date for our postponed annual conference in Bristol. We'll be there 13-14 November 2020 so we hope you all will be. #staysafe

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The Government has launched a consultation on Initial Teacher Training - the outcomes could have long term impacts on schools - to have your say or to find out more click through here

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Teaching History for beginners... Disciplinary Concepts - listen to the film and join a Q&A on Sept 29th at 4pm!

Teaching History for beginners… Disciplinary Concepts

Helen Snelson, Chair of HA Secondary Committee and PGCE History Tutor at the University of York, writes about the HA’s upcoming webinar for beginning teachers and support to teach the disicip…

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The Historical Association is a charity - we rely on membership, volunteers and people that love history for what it does. We try and make membership as economical as possible and we have offers for general lovers of history and for teachers at all levels

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Every year we carry out a survey to understand what is happening in schools, particularly with history teaching. The results from this year are out now. Annual Survey into History in English Secondary Schools / Secondary / Historical Association