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  • Your Secondary CPD calendar Summer 2026

      News Item
    "CPD from the Historical Association is always high quality and provides expert guidance and support."  At the HA we know how essential subject-specific CPD is for your development. That’s why, we offer a year-round programme of training that supports history teachers at all stages of their career, from trainees to...
    Your Secondary CPD calendar Summer 2026

  • Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)

      Immersive online course for experienced history teachers
    Spring 2026 Cohort Start date: Wednesday 11 March, 5.15pm–6.30pm Book Now What is the Experienced Teacher Programme? This six-week online course is designed to energise your teaching and help you engage with the history education community. In this programme you will access rich, subject-specific professional development designed specifically for experienced teachers: an...
    Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)

  • Subject Leader Development Programme

      Summer 2026 cohort
    Welcome to the Historical Association's online course for developing subject leadership in history teaching. Led by a team of 6 experienced subject leaders, including Hugh Richards, Sharon Aninakwa, Ruth Lingard, David Hibbert, Elizabeth Carr and Catherine Priggs, this course will equip history leaders fully for the demands of the role and...
    Subject Leader Development Programme

  • History Teacher Development Programme

      Spring 2026 cohort
    The History Teacher Development Programme is an online course aimed at history teachers who want to re-focus their attention on teaching ambitious and rigorous history.  Are you a relatively new teacher coming to the end of your ECT years? Are you a more experienced teacher who wants to re-engage with...
    History Teacher Development Programme

  • Subject Leader Development Programme

      Spring 2026 cohort
    Welcome to the Historical Association's online course for developing subject leadership in history teaching. Led by a team of 6 experienced subject leaders, including Hugh Richards, Sharon Aninakwa, Ruth Lingard, David Hibbert, Elizabeth Carr and Catherine Priggs, this course will equip history leaders fully for the demands of the role and...
    Subject Leader Development Programme

  • Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework

      HA webinar series for secondary history teachers, history subject leaders and senior leaders overseeing curriculum
    What does this series cover? This three-part series explores how the new Ofsted framework shapes expectations for history teaching, curriculum design, and evidence of impact. It continues to re-emphasise inclusive approaches, ensuring they are genuinely meaningful for all pupils rather than performative compliance. Drawing on Ofsted’s Research Review (2021) and...
    Webinar series: Effective practice in the history classroom: responding to the new Ofsted framework

  • Recorded webinar: Holocaust Landscapes (Teach Environmental Histories Network)

      Teach Environmental Histories Network meeting, January 2026
    We all know that historical events take place somewhere, but how important is that somewhere - and especially its materiality - in enabling or hindering or shaping those events? That is a question that historian Tim Cole has been asking vis-a-vis the Holocaust.  In this meeting of the Teach Environmental...
    Recorded webinar: Holocaust Landscapes (Teach Environmental Histories Network)

  • Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)

      Spring 2026 cohort, starts 11 March
    This six-week online course is designed to energise your teaching and help you engage with the history education community. In this programme you will access rich, subject-specific professional development designed specifically for experienced teachers: an antidote to one-size-fits-all training. We will explore of some of the biggest questions, the thorniest...
    Experienced Teacher Programme (ETP)

  • Film series: Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland, 1714–2010

      New HA film series
    From royal courts to radical protests, from industrial revolutions to global empires – this compelling new film series traces the dramatic evolution of power, rights, and freedom across three centuries of British and Irish history. We will trace Britain and Ireland’s transformation from 1714 to 2010, unpacking power struggles, social revolutions, and...
    Film series: Power and Freedom in Britain and Ireland, 1714–2010

  • Multi Academy Trust History Leads Network

      Open to all MAT history leads
    Multi Academy Trust History Leads Network The HA has teamed up with a group of history leads across different Multi Academy Trusts to re-ignite a network group dedicated to those leading history across a trust. The network will meet 3 times per year, twice online and once in-person, and meetings will focus...
    Multi Academy Trust History Leads Network

  • On-demand webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4

      HA webinar series for history teachers, leaders and SENDCos
    What does this series cover and why should I attend? In recent years, the UK’s SEND system has been under the spotlight. As numbers of students with identified special educational needs increase, attention has been given to how to best embed inclusive practice, enabling teachers to support all students to...
    On-demand webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4

  • Film: Power and Protest in Ireland – 1714 to 1785

      Film Series: Power and freedom in Britain and Ireland: 1714-2010
    In Episode 12, Professor Michael Brown of the University of Aberdeen discusses who held power in Ireland in 1714 and how the protestant ascendancy developed following the fall of James II and the rise of the Hanoverian dynasty. This is a period increasingly defined by the exclusion of Ireland’s Catholic and...
    Film: Power and Protest in Ireland – 1714 to 1785

  • On-demand Secondary CPD calendar

      Information
    We know that it’s not easy for teachers to access CPD: workload is high, budgets are tight and it can be difficult to get out of school. We know how essential subject-specific professional development is to you and that is why we have worked to provide a wide range of...
    On-demand Secondary CPD calendar

  • Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2025 - Dr Christine Counsell

      Dr Christine Counsell
    The Historical Association's Medlicott Medal 2025 was awarded to Dr Christine Counsell. The award seeks to recognise individuals from a diversity of backgrounds in their service to history. Read more about Christine, her work and her award here. As is the custom, Dr Christine Counsell received her award and presented her...
    Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2025 - Dr Christine Counsell

  • Recorded webinar: Mapping uncertainty - Holocaust Memorial Day 2025

      Retracing the trajectories of young survivors in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust
    Recorded webinar: Mapping uncertainty - Holocaust Memorial Day 2025

  • Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2024 - Professor Catherine Hall

      Article
    Addressing issues of the legacies of racism created by the transatlantic slave trade and the narratives of its abolition  The Medlicott Medal is awarded annually for outstanding services and contributions to history. This year the Medal went to Professor Catherine Hall, who is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at...
    Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2024 - Professor Catherine Hall

  • Recorded webinar: Making the most out of Holocaust Memorial Day: challenges and opportunities

      In partnership with UCL Centre for Holocaust Education
    Since 2001 the UK has marked Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January, the date of the 'liberation' of Auschwitz Birkenau by Soviet soldiers in 1945. History teachers and their colleagues are often asked to 'mark' HMD in their schools. In this webinar we will explore themes of commemoration and education...
    Recorded webinar: Making the most out of Holocaust Memorial Day: challenges and opportunities

  • Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch

      Article
    The Medlicott Medal is awarded annually for outstanding services and contributions to history. This year the Medal went to renowned historian and author Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch who is currently Professor of the Church at Oxford. His 2008 book History of Christianity: the first three thousand years is the leading authority on the history...
    Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2023 - Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch

  • Recorded webinar: Ordinary people - Holocaust Memorial Day 2023

      Recorded webinar
    To choose to act, to have no choice to be who you are, to live an ordinary life in extraordinary times? These are all questions that the Holocaust raises. Millions of people became victims of the Nazis, millions more choose not to act to stop the events around them, felt...
    Recorded webinar: Ordinary people - Holocaust Memorial Day 2023

  • Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2022 by David Olusoga

      Article
    Professor David Olusoga is a revered TV historian, a writer and a practising academic at Manchester University. In 2022 he was the recipient of the Historical Association's annual Medlicott medal, awarded for outstanding contributions to history. The recipient of the medal provides the closing lecture of the HA's annual awards evening. Professor...
    Filmed Lecture: Medlicott Lecture 2022 by David Olusoga

  • Virtual Branch recording: A Life Revealed in Letters: Catalina Micaela

      Article
    What was life really like for a Spanish royal woman? Catalina Micaela, the younger daughter of Philip II of Spain, wrote extensively to her husband Carlo Emanrele I of Savoy giving fascinating insights into the events at court and the pressures on the families, providing a glimpse into sixteenth-century Spain and...
    Virtual Branch recording: A Life Revealed in Letters: Catalina Micaela

  • Recorded webinar: What is digital literacy – and why history sits at the centre of it

      Historical thinking in a digital world: how history builds digital and media literacy
    Session 1: What is digital literacy – and why history sits at the centre of it This opening session establishes a shared, research-informed definition of digital literacy and distinguishes related terms (media literacy, information literacy, critical digital literacy, data literacy). Drawing on frameworks including Eshet-Alkalai’s six-component model (photovisual, reproduction, information, branching,...
    Recorded webinar: What is digital literacy – and why history sits at the centre of it

  • On-demand webinar: Supporting the whole pupil: building confidence and inclusion in GCSE history

      Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
    Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4 Session 3: Supporting the whole pupil: building confidence and inclusion in GCSE history Presenter: Gemma Hargraves This session explores some of the hidden barriers faced by neurodivergent pupils in the history classroom, including anxiety and low self-confidence....
    On-demand webinar: Supporting the whole pupil: building confidence and inclusion in GCSE history

  • On-demand webinar: Making it stick: enhancing memory retention for pupils with SEND in GCSE history 

      Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
    Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4 Session 2: Making it stick: enhancing memory retention for pupils with SEND in GCSE history  Presenter: Dale Banham This session explores how to help SEND learners retain historical knowledge by applying research-informed strategies that reduce cognitive overload...
    On-demand webinar: Making it stick: enhancing memory retention for pupils with SEND in GCSE history 

  • On-demand webinar: Literacy for historical thinking: supporting reading and writing at GCSE history 

      Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4
    Webinar series: Making GCSE history accessible: supporting all learners at Key Stage 4 Session 1: Literacy for historical thinking: supporting reading and writing at GCSE history  Presenter: Catherine Priggs This session explores the essential literacy skills required to engage effectively with history at Key Stage 4. Participants will examine the unique...
    On-demand webinar: Literacy for historical thinking: supporting reading and writing at GCSE history