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  • Pride: 50 years

    1st July 2022

    1 July is the 50th anniversary of the first Pride March in the UK, in 1972. Pride was chosen to be the Saturday closest to the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots of 1969. Starting life as a small event, Pride is now an annual part of the London calendar and...

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  • Pride: 50 years

    1st July 2022

    1 July is the 50th anniversary of the first Pride March in the UK. Pride was chosen to be the Saturday closest to the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots of 1969. Starting life as a small event, Pride is now an annual part of the London calendar and there are...

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  • Professional photographs for your school

    14th June 2022

    Would your school benefit from high-quality photos that can be used across your website and promotional literature? We are seeking primary and secondary schools who would be interested in working with the HA to carry out a joint photo shoot on site. All the photographic expenses would be met by...

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  • HA Conference round-up 2022

    31st May 2022

    It really happened! In May 2019 as we departed from Chester, the HA team said 'we’ll see you in Bristol'. Then Covid hit and we didn’t see you in Bristol in 2020 or 2021, but in 2022 we did! We were finally back in person having a conference and it...

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  • Volunteers' Week 2022

    31st May 2022

    The Historical Association is now 116 years old – quite an achievement really. We have only been able to keep going this long due to the commitment and dedication of our volunteers. While we are fortunate to have a number of paid staff, we are only able to do the...

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  • The Medlicott Medal 2022  

    1st April 2022

    We are pleased to announce that Professor David Olusoga is to be awarded the Medlicott Medal for Service to History.   The award seeks to recognise individuals from a diversity of backgrounds in their service to history. Past recipients of the Medal are all distinguished and outstanding individuals in their fields, whether through scholarship in the sense...

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  • The Falklands War anniversary

    1st April 2022

    This month (April 2022) is the 40th anniversary of the start of the Falklands Conflict. On 2 April 1982 an Argentinian Force of 3,000 men invaded the Falkland Islands taking the Islanders and the 80 Royal Marines stationed there by surprise. Despite pressure from the United Nations to withdraw the Argentinians attempted...

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  • The events in Ukraine

    1st April 2022

    What is happening the Ukraine right now has shocked and moved many of us. For others it has been a reminder of the horrors of war and conflicts they have experienced. In the last 30 years it was easy for those of us in Europe to believe that physical war...

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  • The Sir Martin Gilbert History Prize 2022

    16th March 2022

    The Sir Martin Gilbert Learning Centre is delighted to announce the 2022 Sir Martin Gilbert History Prize. The essay question for this year is:   "Debates about war are important, but not more important than the human story of those who fought in them." – Sir Martin Gilbert  Discuss with reference to a...

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  • The Young Quills longlist 2022

    11th February 2022

    The Young Quills longlist for 2022 is now in schools. If you are looking for something to excite students this term with reading then take a look at our latest Young Quills books. The books listed below have all been dispatched to HA member schools up and down the country...

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  • Apology: Move Me On, TH185 

    17th January 2022

    The Historical Association would like to offer an unreserved apology for serious errors of judgement in relation to the Move Me On problem presented within Teaching History 185.   We recognise that the content of this feature has caused offence, that it contained negative stereotypical biases which we failed to recognise and act...

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  • HA News, Spring 2022

    17th January 2022

    In the spring 2022 edition of HA News Jason Todd looks at what diversity means to the HA while Deputy President Alison Kitson shares ‘What got me into history’. We also ask for your involvement in an exciting new project to commemorate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, detail the winners of our 2021 Young Quills award for historical fiction and announce our...

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  • Holocaust Memorial Day 2022

    4th January 2022

    The events of the Holocaust and the other genocides of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries can seem overwhelming and too much to take on board. That is one of the reasons why each year’s Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) has a specific theme. For 2022 the theme is ‘One Day’, a...

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  • The Queen's Platinum Jubilee

    4th January 2022

    This summer our patron, Queen Elizabeth II, has her Platinum Jubilee. It is the longest reign of any British monarch. For many of us in the UK and abroad, she is the only head of state that we have ever known. In those 70 years that she has been queen,...

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  • Government response to the ITT Market Review consultation

    2nd December 2021

    The government has published a response to the ITT Market Review consultation carried out in the summer of 2021. The consultation proposed radical changes to the ITT landscape. The HA responded to the consultation due to the possible unintended consequences that the proposals may have for quality and supply of history...

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  • Help the National Portrait Gallery develop their schools offer

    1st December 2021

    The National Portrait Gallery is looking for teachers – secondary art, secondary history, primary school and teachers working in specialist settings – to help develop their schools offer. The Gallery is currently undergoing a massive transformation that will include a complete rehang of all their galleries, a new state-of-the-art learning centre, and...

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  • HA awards evening 2021 round-up

    1st October 2021

    Finally it happened – the HA annual (usually) awards evening, known to many as ‘the Medlicott evening’. Normally held in summer, the event is an opportunity to recognise some of the incredible contributions that people make to the continuation of history for all in this country, as historians, writers, educators...

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  • October is Black History Month

    1st October 2021

    An awareness of diversity, multi-ethnicity, race and diverse cultural narratives should be ever-present in our historical narratives. In schools and other educational environments this should be even more important. That is why we want to use Black History Month to celebrate the breadth and depth of Black culture and history....

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  • HA News, Autumn 2021

    8th September 2021

    In the autumn 2021 edition of HA News we have a number of articles looking at aspects of membership, including a history of HA membership (it's all gone a bit meta!), but we also have some stories that will appeal to all. There's a short history of Berlin to tie in...

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  • 20th anniversary of 9/11 – a personal reflection

    1st September 2021

    I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing as the news began to reach me about there being a terrorist attack in the United States. It didn’t seem real and if I hadn’t been working in Westminster where these things are taken very seriously, I might not...

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