Teacher Fellowships

The Teacher Fellowship programme (HATF) is a CPD scheme focused on providing sustained, knowledge-based professional development for teachers over two terms or more. The Historical Association has worked with experienced teacher educators and academic experts to offer fully-funded courses which address specific curriculum needs. Read more

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  • Agincourt 600

    Article

    Course lead: Ian DawsonAcademic support: Prof Anne Curry, Prof Michael Hicks, Dr Dan Spencer The inaugural Teacher Fellowship Programme was launched through funding provided by Agincourt 600 with the aim of providing rigorous, subject knowledge-focused professional development for teachers. It was led by Ian Dawson with a focus on the fifteenth...

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  • Immersive funded CPD: Sickness and social reform in the Victorian and Edwardian period

    Multipage Article

    This special funded CPD programme is running in partnership with the Wellcome Trust Collaborative Research project, Addressing Health: Morbidity and Mortality in the Victorian and Edwardian Post Office. The project explores the relationships between work and health in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through the lens of thousands of Post...

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  • Interpreting Agincourt: KS3 Scheme of Work

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    2015 was a year of anniversaries. As part of our funded commemoration projects surrounding the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, we commissioned this scheme of work looking at interpretations of the battle and period, particularly aimed at pupils in Key Stage 3. It comes with a complete resource...

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  • Mini Teacher Fellowship: Medieval Perceptions of Conquest

    Multipage Article

    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...

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  • Podcasts: Britain and Transatlantic Slavery

    Multipage Article

    Transatlantic slavery remains one of the most widely taught topics in secondary schools' history curricula and poses challenges of principle and practice that require considerable reflection and critical rigour. The 2019 Teacher Fellowship Programme on Britain and Transatlantic Slavery has explored the teaching of Britain's complex entanglement in transatlantic slavery...

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  • Teacher Fellowship Programme: Britain and Transatlantic Slavery

    Multipage Article

    Transatlantic slavery remains one of the most widely taught topics in secondary schools' history curricula and poses challenges of principle and practice that require considerable reflection and critical rigour. This Teacher Fellowship Programme explored the teaching of Britain's complex entanglement in transatlantic slavery and abolition, and of the legacies of that...

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  • Teacher Fellowship Programme: Broadcasting and Social Change in Sixties Britain

    Multipage Article

    This Teacher Fellowship Programme focused on developing the teaching of the history of equality and diversity in postwar Britain using video and audio sources. The programme was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council BBC History 100 Fellowship. The programme has sought to refresh the teaching of modern British history in schools by diversifying its content,...

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  • Teacher Fellowship Programme: Conflict, Art and Remembrance

    Multipage Article

    Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red was a commemorative art installation of 888,246 handmade ceramic poppies at the Tower of London in 2014, by artists Paul Cummins and Tom Piper. It has been described as “the most popular art installation as well as arguably the most effective expression of commemoration...

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  • Teacher Fellowship Programme: Local history

    Multipage Article

    At the heart of this Teacher Fellowship programme in partnership with the British Association for Local History was the concept of integrating local history into the classroom through the stories of the people and places which make the history of your school's community exciting and unique. Through the lens of local history...

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  • Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions

    Multipage Article

    The 2018 Teacher Fellowship Programme looked at developing teaching of the Age of Revolutions (1755-1848) and was fully funded by the Age of Revolution education legacy project. It focused on embedding the teaching of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century history in UK schools through the development of teacher subject knowledge and subject...

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  • Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Korean War and its legacy

    Multipage Article

    Why Korea? Why Now? 70 years after the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, its impact still reverberates in the Korean peninsula and around the world. Tensions in the region continue to feature prominently in the news: with the Armistice ending the Korean War still in place but peace...

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  • Teacher Fellowship Programme: The Cold War in the Classroom

    Multipage Article

    Course lead: Ben Walsh Academic lead: 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. The course provided opportunities to make sense...

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  • Teacher Fellowship Programme: The People of 1381

    Multipage Article

    This Teacher Fellowship programme focused on developing the teaching of medieval history and the history of revolt, popular protest, power and the people, in partnership with The People of 1381 project. The project is focused on revealing new insights into the diverse range of people who played a part in...

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  • Teacher Fellowship programme: Henry on Tour: Teaching the royal progresses of Henry VIII

    Multipage Article

    With an emphasis on sustained professional development, the HA Teacher Fellowship programme aims to bring teachers up to date with the latest historical research and how to apply this in their teaching. We are delighted to announce our next funded Teacher Fellowship programme in partnership with the AHRC-funded Henry on...

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  • Teacher Fellowship programme: Teaching the economic history of colonialism in Africa and Asia

    Multipage Article

    This funded Teacher Fellowship programme is running in partnership with the Department of Economic History at LSE, exploring the economic history of colonialism and empire in South and South-East Asia, Africa and the Middle East in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This rigorous programme seeks to develop participants’ awareness of...

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  • The later Middle Ages: Teacher Fellowship programme outcomes

    Multipage Article

    These resources were developed as part of the Historical Association’s inaugural Teacher Fellowship Programme funded by Agincourt 600. The programme was led by Ian Dawson and focused on developing teachers’ knowledge of late medieval history and translating this to the classroom. Featuring academic input from Professor Anne Curry, Professor Michael...

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