Entries to this year's awards are now closed. The 2026 competition will open later in the year.

We want young people to get the bug for writing about history in an interesting and critical way. Each year the Historical Association in collaboration with the Spirit of Normandy Trust and Classics for All offers a series of awards to Primary school children for outstanding history scholarship. Children are asked to investigate, think and write about history. The subject categories cover local history, the ancient world and British involvement in the Second World War. The categories have been created to support learning and writing in the classroom so that all young people can have an opportunity to enter, rather than it being only a homework option.

For the Secondary competition see here

Young Historian Primary Prizes 

• Spirit of Normandy Trust Prize for Primary Schools: for individual or group work on any aspect of British involvement in the Second World War

• Primary Local History Prize: for individual or group work on any Local History theme

• Classics for All Primary Ancient Civilisation Prize: for individual or group work relating to an Ancient Civilisation

• Mid-Trent Historical Association Prize for the Best Primary School History Magazine

The purpose of these Prizes is to encourage classroom History and we wish to celebrate the quality of what is produced in your classrooms and not to create the need for extra work!

Contact us

Enquiries about these Prizes are most welcome and further particulars can be obtained from enquiries@history.org.uk.