HA Webinar: History + English for digital and media literacy: complementary disciplinary lenses

Description

Historical Association webinar series: Historical thinking in a digital world: how history builds digital and media literacy

Presenters: Historical Association and English Association

A conversation-style session bringing History and English into productive alignment. We’ll compare how each subject approaches credibility, rhetoric, argument, narrative, and interpretation — then plan how departments can complement rather than duplicate each other. The goal is a coherent whole-school approach: history strengthens evidence, provenance, causation and contextual reasoning; English strengthens language, rhetoric, genre, and discourse awareness.

The session will explore how English and History together can help students navigate misinformation, understand media bias and propaganda (both historical and contemporary), analyse the construction of digital narratives, and develop sophisticated critical thinking about online content. This partnership approach aligns with Professor Francis’s vision of embedding essential skills across the curriculum rather than creating isolated ‘digital literacy’ lessons.

Participants will leave with a simple ‘division of labour’ model, examples of aligned tasks across KS3, strategies for cross-curricular collaboration, and shared resources and assessment approaches. The session draws on international examples of successful humanities collaboration from Scotland, Wales, and education systems in Scandinavia and New Zealand.

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