We know that it's not easy for teachers to get out of school or have budgets to afford a plentiful supply of CPD. We know how essential your CPD is to you and that is why we have worked to provide a wide range of online learning and webinar-based CPD...

The Subject Leader Development Programme is an online course for developing subject leadership in secondary history teaching. Led by a team of 6 experienced subject leaders, including Hugh Richards, Sharon Aninakwa, Ruth Lingard, David Hibbert, Elizabeth Carr and Catherine Priggs, this course will equip history leaders fully for the demands...

Calling all history teachers! We are pleased to announce a brand new CPD programme which will not only support early career teachers in moving beyond the Early Career Framework, but will also re-focus attention into better, more ambitious and rigorous history teaching.  Who is this programme for? Are you a...

This series of webinars will consider how disciplinary thinking has perhaps become something of an afterthought in curriculum planning, for a range of valid reasons, and start to explore ways to build it back in. It will encourage colleagues to hold up a mirror to how they approach what is...

Medieval history is often a story of kings and their dates, primarily of England or, at best, western Europe. This funded webinar series aimed at secondary history teachers will introduce teachers to educational approaches to the Middle Ages that go beyond both kings and this narrow geographical range. It takes...

At the HA, we understand the importance of creating the next generation of history students who can not only write about history, but who can also effectively communicate their thinking through oracy. Current academic research highlights the importance of oracy for learning and the close relationship between being able to...

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...

When we say 'Russia', who do we really mean? Both Tsarist Russia and the USSR were multiethnic states and empires, made up of many diverse peoples from Russians to Tatars, Roma to Jews, Ukrainians to Ingush. This one-day session, delivered jointly by the Historical Association and Study Group of the...

Led by Jonathan Durrant, Laura Kounine, Jan Machielsen, Lisa Tallis, Juliette Wood   Book Now (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window. Please read the course terms and conditions before registering) What does the course cover? This Historical Association short course is an introduction to European witchcraft...

Lots of schools have been busy reviewing and improving their Key Stage 3 History curriculum. However, we should apply the same scrutiny and rigour to our GCSE curriculum. We do not have to be constrained in our curriculum thinking by the specification, in fact, going beyond the specification is the...

Writing history is hard, and motivating students to read long texts can be difficult. In this series of four webinars, Dan Warner-Meanwell and Paula Lobo-Worth will demonstrate how they have helped their students to meet the challenges in reading and writing history. They haven’t done this by bolting-on generic activities or...

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...

At the Historical Association, we offer a wide range of subject-specific CPD opportunities at a range of prices to suit every budget. However, if you require history CPD that is tailored directly to your needs in school or you are looking for consultancy, we also offer bespoke training and consultancy...

Have you thought about offering Ancient History at Key Stage 3, GCSE or A-level? This webinar series, offered in collaboration with the Classical Association, explores how ancient history can be embedded across the key stages at secondary level. Across this series, we will show you how teaching ancient history is...

Book now As a Senior Leader, there may be barriers to supporting line managing a subject as a non-specialist. This new short course is aimed primarily at non-specialist senior leaders and is designed to address these issues by blending practical and theory-based CPD to support non-subject specialist line managers of...

The HA Virtual Branch is a great way to keep your history up-to-date, whether you are working or relaxing, all from the comfort of your home. The Virtual Branch is free and open to everybody, and recordings of the talks are made available online after the event for HA members....