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  • The Norfolk and Norwich Branch History

      Branch History
    The Norfolk and Norwich Branch - a short historyThe branch was founded in 1920, at the instigation of two local teachers, W. J. Blake (the father the famous historian, Robert, Lord Blake) and Walter Stephenson, the father of our most long-serving (1941-1962) president, Andrew Stephenson, who was himself a distinguished...
    The Norfolk and Norwich Branch History

  • Young Quills shortlist for 2025

      The HA's annual awards for best historical fiction for young people
    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 2024 for this year’s selection. Our aim...
    Young Quills shortlist for 2025

  • Canterbury Branch History

      Branch History
    Although active between the wars, the Canterbury Branch had faded into oblivion by the 1960s.The arrival of the University of Kent at Canterbury brought about the Branch's revival in 1971-1972, led by Peter Roberts, Grayson Ditchfield and Donald Read, and a programme was arranged for 1972 -3.   Among those on...
    Canterbury Branch History

  • Teaching History 35

      Journal
    Teaching History, February 1983 Number 35 In this issue: Editorial, 2 History in Danger - Margaret Parker, 3 Watching the Detectives: A Critique of the Schools Council's Analogy between the Historian and the Detective - John Plowright, 6 Teaching History Competition, 9 Microcomputers and Local History Work in a Primary...
    Teaching History 35

  • The Medlicott Medal 2025

      30th April 2025
    The Historical Association is delighted to announce that the Medlicott Medal 2025 will be awarded to Dr Christine Counsell. The award seeks to recognise individuals from a diversity of backgrounds in their service to history. Christine will be known to many at the HA, as throughout her career she has...
    The Medlicott Medal 2025

  • Great Debate Final 2025

      14th April 2025
    Winner: Quinn Scott – Chesterton Community College, Cambridge  Runners up: Anya Bensouiah – Kendrick School, Reading Fred Bosley – The King’s School, Canterbury Aimee Nelson – Bablake School, Coventry  Finalists:  Emily Tweddle, Earlston High School, Scottish Borders  Hannah Brearton, Upton Hall, Oxford Rosie Thomson, The Maynard School, Exeter Isabella Passarelli, Torquay Girls Grammar School,...
    Great Debate Final 2025

  • More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach

      27th February 2025
    It’s been an especially grim start to 2025 for many in UK higher education. News in early January of cuts and job losses at the universities of Canterbury Christ Church, Northampton and Staffordshire has been followed by announcements from Cardiff, Durham, Newcastle, Reading and, once again, Kent. This, moreover, is...
    More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach

  • Primary History Survey 2024: the results

      The HA's biennial survey of history in primary schools
    Children love history – it is accessible, interesting, there is a growth in diversity of content and it is inclusive for different abilities, according to our survey. This is down to the hard work and dedication of their teaching and support staff. It is great news for our young people....
    Primary History Survey 2024: the results

  • Teach Climate History free event: climate action and history teaching in Aotearoa, New Zealand

      Thursday 27 February 4.30-5.30pm, online
    The climate crisis demands new approaches to education. One way teachers can respond is by making different choices about what and how we teach. In this talk, Michael Harcourt and Haimana Hirini present a project from Taitā College, a secondary school in Te Awakairangi, New Zealand, that integrated mātauranga (Indigenous...
    Teach Climate History free event: climate action and history teaching in Aotearoa, New Zealand

  • The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa

      Classic Pamphlet
    The dissolution of colonial empires since the Second World War is a major theme of contemporary history, and one which will challenge historians for many years to come. There are still sharp disagreements as to how this change should be described. European scholars tend to use the term ‘decolonization' (at...
    The End of Colonial Rule in West Africa

  • 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)

  • On-demand webinar series: History and literacy: better together

      On-demand webinar series for primary teachers and history subject leaders
    History is a highly literate discipline, but what should the relationship be between primary history and the general teaching of literacy and English? The answer is that primary history should be modelling what it is like to think, speak, read, write and listen in an historical way. However, the subject...
    On-demand webinar series: History and literacy: better together

  • King Charles I

      Classic Pamphlet
    The principles involved in the great religious and constitutional conflicts of the seventeenth century are so important to us today, that it seems desirable on the occasion of the present tercentenary to lay before the members of the Historical Association some means of examining and re-examining their views on the...
    King Charles I

  • Aristotle and Dudley: what can books tell us about their owners?

      Historian article
    Books as evidence The study of books as objects can reveal a great deal about their owners and the society in which they lived. By examining why the books were printed in the first place, and by whom; why they were acquired and for what purpose; how they were bound;...
    Aristotle and Dudley: what can books tell us about their owners?

  • New editorial team for the journal ‘History’

      26th November 2024
    The Historical Association is pleased to announce a new editorial team of the journal History. The Humanities Department of Northumbria University will be hosting an outstanding group of academics and scholars as the new commissioners and editors of the journal which was founded in 1912. Becky Sullivan, CEO of the...
    New editorial team for the journal ‘History’

  • Diagrams in History

      Historian article
    One of the gifts of the social sciences to history is the use of expository diagrams; but attention is rarely given to the history of diagrams. Maps - schematized representations of locations in spatial relation to one another - can be dated back to Babylonia in the late third millennium...
    Diagrams in History

  • Get involved in ‘The Historian’

      15th October 2024
    The Historian is a members’ magazine and we want to hear from you. We know that many of our readers are actively involved in history in some way and we would love you to share your stories with other members – who knows what you might inspire! The editorial board...
    Get involved in ‘The Historian’

  • Royal Holloway launches 'Inclusive Histories' project

      18th September 2024
    Royal Holloway, University of London has launched a £1.5 million project to support teachers with more inclusive UK political history resources. The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) backed project will also support the AQA GCSE History specification, ‘Britain: Power and the People c1170 to the present day’. This ‘Inclusive...
    Royal Holloway launches 'Inclusive Histories' project

  • Young Historian Awards 2024 – the winners

      16th September 2024
    Spirit of Normandy Trust Senior Vivaan Davda – The Cathedral and John Connon School, Mumbai Spirit of Normandy Trust Key Stage 3 Joshua Broadbent – Royal Grammar School, Guildford Spirit of Normandy Trust Primary Salisbury Cathedral School Best School History Magazine [sponsored by the Mid-Trent and Mercia Branch] St Alban’s School Stockport...
    Young Historian Awards 2024 – the winners

  • On-demand webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history

      On-demand webinar series for primary teachers and history subject leaders
    What does this series cover? This series of webinars will consider how disciplinary knowledge is slowly introduced into the primary curriculum, built upon and strengthened. We know that substantive knowledge in history is the substance ('the stuff') we teach: the facts which we are sure about and which all have...
    On-demand webinar series: Building and securing disciplinary thinking in primary history

  • Virtual Branch Recording: The East India Company and Empire

      21st March 2024
    What can the early history of the English East India Company tell us about the foundations of the British Empire, and where does that history sit within current debates about Britain’s imperial legacy?In this session Mark Williams offers a timely insight into the history of one of the most significant building...
    Virtual Branch Recording: The East India Company and Empire

  • 80th anniversary of D-Day

      Paula Kitching
    It is 80 years since D-Day, the Allied invasion of Western Europe – an invasion that was about liberation for many, not simply attack. To understand why that day, and just as importantly the days and weeks following it, are so important one needs to know just how terrible the...
    80th anniversary of D-Day

  • Volunteers’ Week 2024

      3-9 June 2024
    It is that time of year when we want to say a big thank-you to all our volunteers. Volunteers and volunteering are essential for making the HA work the way it does. From our governance to our output, we rely on the time, expertise and goodwill of individuals from across...
    Volunteers’ Week 2024

  • The Medlicott Medal 2024

      25th April 2024
    Catherine Hall is Emerita Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History at University College London. She has a long-established academic record in feminist history and empire and post-colonial history. She was a professor of history at UCL during a key development period and was the principal director of two key...
    The Medlicott Medal 2024

  • On-demand webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom

      On-demand webinar series for secondary history teachers and leaders
    What does this series cover? In this series of six webinars, Jonathan Grande will explore and exemplify a wide range of types and forms of assessment that can be used to provide precise, accurate and meaningful insights into pupils’ historical knowledge and understanding. The sessions will consider the purposes of...
    On-demand webinar series: Meaningful and useable assessment in the secondary history classroom