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Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions
Teacher Fellowship Programme 2018
The 2018 Teacher Fellowship Programme looked at developing teaching of the Age of Revolutions (1755-1848) and was fully funded by the Age of Revolution education legacy project. It focused on embedding the teaching of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century history in UK schools through the development of teacher subject knowledge and subject...
Teacher Fellowship Programme: Teaching the Age of Revolutions
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Teacher Fellowship Programmes
Information
The Historical Association's Teacher Fellowship Programme is a fully funded, rigorous, in-depth CPD programme which normally runs over 8 weeks starting with a intensive residential weekend and followed up by 8 online sessions. We bring our academic partners together with an experienced teacher educator to design a programme that brings your research...
Teacher Fellowship Programmes
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Teacher Fellowship Programme: Broadcasting and Social Change in Sixties Britain
Teacher Fellowship Programme 2022
This Teacher Fellowship Programme focused on developing the teaching of the history of equality and diversity in postwar Britain using video and audio sources. The programme was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council BBC History 100 Fellowship. The programme has sought to refresh the teaching of modern British history in schools by diversifying its content,...
Teacher Fellowship Programme: Broadcasting and Social Change in Sixties Britain
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Higher Education Committee biographies
HA Committees
Read the Higher Education Committee's remit
Find out more about the HA's committees
Katharine Burn
Katharine Burn is Associate Professor of Education at the University of Oxford, where she teaches on the PGCE History programme and on a range of part-time Masters courses for practising teachers. She is co-editor of the HA’s professional...
Higher Education Committee biographies
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Studying History at university: Student's guide to applications
University Application Guide
So you've decided to apply to study history at university. This guide is intended to help you through the process so that your application is as good as it can be. It is not intended to replace the help and advice you can get from the people who know you...
Studying History at university: Student's guide to applications
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Collaborations between Higher Education Institutions and Schools
Recorded interviews
The following series of recorded interviews and a webinar are focused on the variety of ways in which HEI historians, working at a diverse range of institutions, have collaborated with local school history teachers and their pupils. The diverse range of approaches discussed in the interviews highlight that there is...
Collaborations between Higher Education Institutions and Schools
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Key national History Subject Associations and institutes in the UK and their remits
Multipage Article
Three Subject Associations and a key national institute keep a watching brief as part of much wider remits on issues pertaining to the relationship of history as it is taught and researched in British universities and history as it is taught and learned in schools. Their interests inevitably overlap, but...
Key national History Subject Associations and institutes in the UK and their remits
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Careers with History
Multipage Article
A history degree equips you with many skills that are attractive to employers.
History is actually very practical, because it involves:
Learning about people – how they interact, the motives and emotions that can tear people apart into rival factions or help them to work together for a common cause (useful...
Careers with History
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Teacher Fellowship Programme: The Cold War in the Classroom
Teacher Fellowship Programme 2017
Course Leader: Ben Walsh Academic Leader: Dr Jessica Reinisch (Birkbeck)
The 2017 Teacher Fellowship Programme focused on the history and historiography of the Cold War. The course was taught by historians at Birkbeck College London in collaboration with the Historical Association. The programme was fully funded, including travel and accommodation costs.
The...
Teacher Fellowship Programme: The Cold War in the Classroom
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Contribute an Article to The Historian
Contribute
The Historian is the journal of the Historical Association that is for all our general members and for teacher members who want a little bit of extra subject knowledge.
Containing a mixture of themed articles, regular features and general interest, the journal comes out four times a year. Articles are...
Contribute an Article to The Historian
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What to expect when you choose to study History at University
A student's guide from personal experience to challenges you may have to face
Challenges you may have to face include:
No comprehensive text
This resource is free to everyone. For access to a wealth of other online resources from podcasts to articles and publications, plus support and advice though our “How To”, examination and transition to university guides and careers resources, join the...
What to expect when you choose to study History at University
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Recorded webinar: Applying to Study History at University
Tips from an Admissions Tutor
Doing a degree in history is a decision few people regret, but the first steps – choosing a degree, finding the right university and putting together a UCAS application – can be daunting.
In this webinar, Rob Priest, admissions tutor for History at Royal Holloway, takes a look at some...
Recorded webinar: Applying to Study History at University
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The Making of a State-Sponsored Heroine: Angela Davis, African Americans, and the Promise of the Soviet Union
History blog
Want to learn more about the connections between African Americans and the Soviet Union? Read this blog post by Andrew Jacobs introducing his recent article ‘The Making of a State-Sponsored Heroine: Angela Davis, African Americans and the Promise of the Soviet Union’.
Angela Davis has been in the spotlight for...
The Making of a State-Sponsored Heroine: Angela Davis, African Americans, and the Promise of the Soviet Union
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History Journal Film: The Letters, Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell
Article
The History journal team are delighted to launch their first in a series of films interviewing the authors at the cutting edge of historical research.
Today, we are thrilled to welcome John Morrill, professor emeritus of the University of Cambridge and emeritus fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and Dr Joel...
History Journal Film: The Letters, Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell
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Blog off! Refreshing the public history blog
Article
Image: Social media sites have provided a platform for fierce debates about the statues of slave traders such as Edward Colston.
Even if we think the so-called ‘culture war’ is an overinflated red herring, there’s no denying that some of the fiercest debates about history are occurring online. Contests over...
Blog off! Refreshing the public history blog
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School History FAQs
Article
These FAQs are designed to provide a starting point for people who are interested in what is taught in school history in England. Please note that education policy is devolved in the UK and so the situation differs in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. These FAQs focus on state secondary...
School History FAQs
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History Journal Mid-Career Research Award
16th April 2024
History: Journal of the Historical Association Mid-Career Research Award
Eligibility: persons of any nationality who have a PhD or equivalent publishing record and who wish to engage in research into any aspect of social, political, cultural, economic and ecclesiastical history in any period of history or geographical region.
A Mid-Career...
History Journal Mid-Career Research Award
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History Journal Early-Career Research Award
16th April 2024
History: Journal of the Historical Association Early-Career Research Award
Eligibility: persons of any nationality who have a PhD or equivalent publishing record and who wish to engage in research into any aspect of social, political, cultural, economic and ecclesiastical history in any period of history or geographical region.
An Early-Career...
History Journal Early-Career Research Award
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Call for Papers: Ideas of Europe and Images of Russia
XV Annual Conference of the Research Network on the History of Idea of Europe
XV Annual Conference of the Research Network on the History of Idea of Europe University of East Anglia, School of History – Norwich 19-21 June 2024
The geo-cultural relationship between Europe and Russia has been a source of intrigue for scholars, historians, philosophers, novelists, and politicians since at least the late seventeenth...
Call for Papers: Ideas of Europe and Images of Russia
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Editorial opportunity with ‘History’, the journal of the Historical Association
23rd February 2024
The Historical Association are seeking to appoint a new editorial team for our internationally acclaimed journal History. The journal has had an excellent relationship with the School of History at the University of East Anglia for the past fourteen years and now the time has come for the journal to...
Editorial opportunity with ‘History’, the journal of the Historical Association
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Establishing a University-based HA Branch
Article
The following case study is based on my own experience of establishing the City of Lincoln HA branch, which is based at Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln, where I am a Senior Lecturer in History. The branch launched at the university on Wednesday 19th February 2014.
Members of the BGU...
Establishing a University-based HA Branch
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History UK Pedagogy Forum 2023
Upcoming events
January 2023 marked the launch of History UK’s new ‘Pedagogy Forum’ – a series of online events designed to motivate discussions about the teaching of History in British universities. The hope is that the Forum will offer opportunities for critical reflection on the ways we teach, and that it can function as an accessible space...
History UK Pedagogy Forum 2023
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Talking to an HA Branch
Information
The inevitable answer is of course that branches differ in their audiences, with some having a smattering of academics, some with teachers and others largely made up with people with an interest in the subject but not professionally involved in history. That means some people will be relying on what...
Talking to an HA Branch
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Free webinar: Higher Education and Schools Collaboration project
8 November, 6.30–7.30pm
Promoting, supporting and sharing examples of collaboration between historians and schools.
Free webinar: 8 November, 6.30–7.30pm
Open to anyone: register here
In recent years a number of academics and academic institutions have worked with schools to develop relationships on knowledge and expertise that both parties benefit from. To promote and share the...
Free webinar: Higher Education and Schools Collaboration project
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Historical Association Secondary Survey 2021
Annual Survey Report on History in Secondary Schools
For the past 11 years we have been doing an annual survey into history teaching in secondary schools. This year our main focus was on the content of the history curriculum, examined with a particular focus on diversity.
It looks particularly at diversity understood in terms of race and ethnicity,...
Historical Association Secondary Survey 2021
