Research & Guidance
The Historical Association plays a key role at all levels of history education- including research guidance. The HA feeds into government and Ofsted consultations as well as other reports on our members’ behalf. We also carry out our own research through partnership projects and our primary survey. It is through research that the HA is able to influence, lobby and campaign to help shape history education at all levels. In this section you will find key areas of research and guidance concerning national policies, HA Surveys, and the National Curriculum.
National Policies
- Primary history and British values
- HA response to the DFE consultation on CPD
- Using 'Development Matters' in the Foundation stage
- Assessment and Progression without levels
- The National Curriculum for History from September 2014: the view from Ofsted
- Diogenes: Creativity and the Primary Curriculum
Ofsted
- Film: Unpicking the Ofsted subject report for history
- Research review series: History – July 2021
- Ofsted research report into history 2021
- Film: Primary History and the Ofsted Inspection Framework
- Ofsted and primary history
- Extending the curriculum: why should we consider ‘value added’?
Survey Results
- Is primary history thriving?
- Primary History Survey Report 2022
- Primary History Survey Report 2019
- History in schools 2017
- Report: National Primary History Survey 2015
- Primary History Survey Report 2012
Quality Mark
Previous NCs
- Thematic or topic based whole school curriculum planning
- Museums, schools and creativity: How learning can be enhanced
- Primary history in the 21st century: Back to the past?
- Powerful Pedagogy
- British National Curricula For History 1989-2011
- Principles for a history curriculum