Secondary news

  • RHS bursary-funded Quality Mark impact report

    5th October 2020

    In 2018, the Royal Historical Society (RHS) kindly agreed to sponsor a group of 7 secondary schools to undertake the Quality Mark Process as part of their 150th anniversary celebrations. These schools completed the assessment in 2019. As part of the evaluation of the sponsorship, research into the impact of undertaking...

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  • Write Your Own Historical Fiction 2020 – Winners Announced

    10th September 2020

    This has been one of our best years for entries ever!  With children stuck at home needing a little extra something to do we decided to extend the competition to accommodate home learning, as well as a new age category for pupils in years 10-13. We received well over a...

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  • Film: Reimagining the Blitz Spirit

    24th August 2020

    Dr Jo Fox continued our virtual branch lecture series this July on the subject 'Reimagining the Blitz Spirit: the mobilisation of World War II propaganda in our own times'. Jo Fox is the Director of the Institute of Historical Research and a well-known historian specialising in the history of propaganda, rumour and truth telling.  This...

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  • GCSE results day 2020

    20th August 2020

    We know that this results day is not the one you may have envisioned some months ago. Nonetheless, it is results day and we want to congratulate you, students and teachers on reaching this day in the strangest of circumstances.  Students – if you are happy with your grades well done;...

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  • Citizens: 800 years in the making

    19th August 2020

    Royal Holloway, University of London, has produced hundreds of videos exploring the history of the struggle for rights and representation from Magna Carta to the Suffragettes and beyond. These videos, which are being used by over 60 schools and colleges across the UK to support KS3-5 teaching, are available via...

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  • Teaching History 179: Out now

    3rd July 2020

    Read Teaching History 179 Editorial: Culture in Conversation At our January editorial meeting, we cheerfully read all the proposals and articles that had been sent in, and, as usual, worked out ways to cluster them into themes that could shape each edition. Sitting in the HA’s London offices, watching the...

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  • Windrush Day

    22nd June 2020

    To help you find out more about Black British history during this period we have released the following resources from our archive:

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  • Tackling racism: a continuing dialogue

    10th June 2020

    Recent events in the UK and the USA have once more raised the issue of racism to the top of the news agenda, providing us all with an opportunity to reflect on the type of society we want to live in and that we want to create. Racism has deep...

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  • Welcoming Peter Mandler as the new Historical Association President

    30th April 2020

    We are delighted to announce that Professor Peter Mandler has accepted the position of President of the HA. Professor Mandler will be taking over the position from Professor Tony Badger who will step down this later this year. Peter Mandler was born in the USA in 1958, educated at Oxford and...

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  • HA Secondary History Survey 2019

    21st April 2020

    Each year the HA carries out a survey into secondary schools to collect data on how history is taught and to uncover overall issues and concerns in education and teaching. The data is then analysed by teaching academics who are able to use the data from each survey to track...

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