Thursday 20 June 2019Royal Geographical Society, London Now into the second year of examinations for the new GCSE specifications, we’ve learned some lessons from the first cohort. Results have shown that some less able students are finding the exams inaccessible, and teachers have expressed concerns about covering the content in...

Wednesday 27 March 2019Leeds Trinity University Join us at the Yorkshire History Forum for an immersive evening of professional development around the theme of Widening Perspectives. As the current National Curriculum for history states, one purpose of the history curriculum is to “help pupils to understand the complexity of people’s...

Thursday 25 April 2019UCL Institute of Education Book your place now for this term's London History Forum at the UCL Institute of Education for an immersive evening of professional development around the theme of Widening Perspectives. As the current National Curriculum for history states, one purpose of the history curriculum...

More breaking news: the event is free for teachers! On 23 March 2019 we are providing a fascinating event to refresh and develop teaching of the Tudor period and some of its main characters in the historic city of York. Our keynote speaker Tracy Borman is the well-known historian for...

You told us in our member surveys that you wanted more webinars and we listened! We know that it's not easy for teachers to get out of school or have budgets to afford a plentiful supply of CPD. We also know how hard it is to find good subject-specific CPD...

Start Date: All Year Round. Who is this course for? Heads and aspiring heads of history, primary history coordinators, secondary and primary history Quality Mark schools and subject leaders. This course will help you to provide positive development to the history provision in your school. Whether you're looking for inspiration...

This talk will explore some of the currents in recent research on the Stalin period, exploring how possibilities for archival research since the collapse of Soviet power, along with new historiographical approaches, have re-shaped the historical literature on Stalinism. It will explain how our knowledge of who Stalin's victims were...

Dr David Brydan is a Lecturer in the History of Modern International Relations at King's College London. His research revolves around the history of international cooperation and exchange in the twentieth century, focusing on the history of modern Spain and the Franco era. In this webinar he will examine Spanish...

In this webinar, Tara Morton will share her research for the database of 3,000 suffrage campaigners on www.suffrageresources.org.uk. She will share her journey into the archives, reaching back to the symbolic beginnings of the organised women’s suffrage movement in 1866, when almost 1,500 women signed a petition for female suffrage,...

Steven Gunn is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Oxford, where his research interests lie in the political, social, cultural and military history of England and its continental neighbours from the mid-fifteenth to the later sixteenth century. In this webinar he will scrutinise the kingship of Henry...

Teaching precolonial African history for the first time can be daunting in spite of a suite of new online resources. This webinar will introduce teachers to some key background in preparation to teach African history c.1400-c.1800. It will cover language, contexts, and methodologies which are all vital for getting to...

This webinar will focus on ways to improve and develop your teaching of the campaign for women's suffrage. It will look at using the database of campaigners and other resources on www.suffrageresources.org.uk to look at different approaches to 'votes for women', such as local history, interpretations and telling a more...

Historical interpretations have been in the KS3 curriculum for years and the latest GCSE reforms brought them into KS4. But what are they? What do they mean in the history classroom? How do they help to build our students' historical knowledge? What do we need to be teaching from Year...

This webinar will juxtapose insights by an older body of scholarship on interwar diplomacy with a number of more recent approaches. Newer works have begun to shed new light on issues such as the roles played by the new international organisations created after 1919; attempts to tackle refugee movements and...