On Wednesday evening (Feb 2011) Kingston University's new Centre for the Historical Record (CHR) hosted a series of thought provoking presentations and a lively panel discussion on the topic of Public History and the Historical Record.  The evening was the fourth in a series of events organized by Dr Nicola...

The History Subject Centre, in support of the Historical Association's Committee for Public History, has now published a collection of case studies on collaborations between UK higher education history departments and public history institutions, archives and historical sites. The ebooklet, available at here, provides examples of best practice, including information...

Sixty Years On Although the Historical Association was formed in 1906 sixteen years elapsed before a branch was established on the Isle of Wight.  From the HA's archives, stored   at Nottingham University, the annual reports indicate the Branch was formed in June 1922 and by the end of the first...

The Historical Association publishes a major survey into the state of history teaching in English secondary schools today and reports some very worrying trends. A significant number of teachers report serious concerns that history is disappearing in their schools, with senior managers assuming that the study of the past has...

Write Your Own Historical Story Competition 2010. As part of this competition the winners were invited to have their stories published on the Historical Association website. In the best stories pupils deliberately drew upon the historical fiction writer's devices to write well. They had clearly been explicitly taught how to...

Report to AGM of the Branches and Members Committee  14 May 2010   Meetings since AGM in Leicester, 9/5/09:1.Birmingham Midlands Institute, 6/6/09;2.London Institute for Hist.Research,19/9/09;3.London NCVO,Branch Officers' Meeting,7/11/094.London NCVO, 6/2/10.  Committee Members: Chairholder: Mr.Ian C.Mason, FHAHon.Sec of Cumbria Branch; Deputy Chairholder: Mr.John TillShropshire Branch Officer; Professor G.Batho; G.Bisson;T.Blunden; R.Burgess; J.Golding; R.Hill;...

Saturday 27th October 1962 marked the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. It was the day on which a Soviet SAM missile battery shot down an American U-2 spyplane over the Island. Declared American policy in such an event was to retaliate by launching an attack on an least one SAM...

StoryVault.Com goes live - a portal to the past for future generationsHow often have you heard a person speaking and said "someone should record this before it's too late?" Fascinating memories from ordinary people which should not be allowed to be forgotten....Now you can, thanks to the ‘public' launch (1st...

Records of thousands of people who lived in Chislehurst and district over a period of many centuries are now featured on the Kent Archaeological Society's website. The records, in the form of memorial inscriptions (‘MIs') on gravestones, tablets, tombs and monuments at St Nicholas, Chislehurst's 15th century parish church, were...

The full report "Embedding Shared Heritage" (2009) from the Heritage Diversity Taskforce has some useful thoughts about diversifying and democratising archives including developing a variety of different models of custody and shared ownership with communities and their archive collections. The Mayor's Commission on African and Asian Heritage (MCAAH) launched its report,...