Teachers of History in Kent and Medway schools are invited to apply for the 2024-25 Ian Coulson Bursary for Local History/Archaeology in Schools. A grant of up to £1000 is available to help teachers develop new teaching resources for local history and/or archaeology in both primary and secondary schools. The...

The climate emergency has come to the fore particularly in recent years. Teaching about the environment and climate is a feature of subjects like science and geography, but it is, and should be, the responsibility of every curriculum subject. History has a particular role to play in helping us understand...

Thank you for being a member of the Historical Association. Your membership is what enables the HA to continue supporting the teaching, learning and enjoyment of history at all levels, for generations to come. As part of our membership community you are important in shaping the development of the association,...

Welcome to this packed spring edition of HA News. Take a look at the programme for our Annual Conference in May, including the first keynote by our new President Professor Alexandra Walsham and this year’s Dawson Lecture recipient Dr Penelope Harnett, who is featured in these pages. We are also pleased to announce that this year's Medlicott Medal will be awarded to the...

Haiti has been famous over the centuries for a number of reasons: most importantly for a slave rebellion that led to it winning independence from France in 1804. To this day the majority of the people in this Caribbean country are descended from those formally enslaved people. Sadly, in recent...

20th-century Chinese history is both terrifying and fascinating; it is often overlooked by many or simply seen through an East-West Cold War prism. This has sometimes led to people in the West viewing the Chinese people as unfathomable communist groups and without individuality. Therefore, when serious acts of rebellion against...

Each year, the Historical Association runs ‘Young Quills’, a competition for published historical fiction for children and young adults (14+). The Young Quills books for each year must be published for the first time in English in the year preceding the competition – so 2023 for this year’s selection.  Our...

If you lived during the early 1980s in the UK, it was frequently marked by news images of men on picket lines and others in dole queues. The Britain that had ‘never had it so good’ of the 1960s was in industrial decline only 20 years later. A central point...

Next month the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – NATO – will be 75 years old, and at the end of February 2024 Sweden was given the full green light to join it.  NATO is a collective security organisation created shortly after the Second World War as one of the methods...