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  • Teaching History 194: Out now

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  • A portrait of the teaching of the British Empire, migration and belonging in English secondary schools

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    If you work – or have recently worked – in an English secondary education setting, the research team at A portrait of the teaching of the British Empire, migration and belonging in English secondary schools wants to hear from you. They are conducting a national survey, the first of its...

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  • The Great Debate Final 2024

    25th March 2024

    Winner:  Emma Crow of Broxburn Academy, Broxburn, Scotland  Runners up:  Abigail Powers of The Ladies’ College, Guernsey  Erica Wright of William Farr School, Lincolnshire  Rachel McGarry of Shavington Academy, Crewe, Cheshire  Finalists Sofia Ntege, North Oxfordshire Academy, Banbury Harry Gray, Exeter School, Exeter Rhea Cherrington, Bablake School, Coventry Molly Grimshaw,...

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  • Young Quills 2024 – the longlist

    6th March 2024

    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 2023 for this year’s selection.  Our...

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  • The Miners’ strike – 40 years on

    5th March 2024

    If you lived during the early 1980s in the UK, it was frequently marked by news images of men on picket lines and others in dole queues. The Britain that had ‘never had it so good’ of the 1960s was in industrial decline only 20 years later. A central point...

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  • NATO and its newest member

    5th March 2024

    Next month the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – NATO – will be 75 years old, and at the end of February 2024 Sweden was given the full green light to join it.  NATO is a collective security organisation created shortly after the Second World War as one of the methods...

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  • Women's History Month 2024

    20th February 2024

    Women historically have been sidelined, marginalised, discriminated against and overlooked both in their daily lives, in the historical record and for their contributions across society. Women’s History Month is a way to highlight these historical failings and reevaluate how the past has been presented, to encourage the stories of women...

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  • Immersive funded CPD: Sickness and social reform in the Victorian and Edwardian period

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  • British Science Week 2024

    1st February 2024

    Next month we have British Science Week (8-17 March). This year's theme is ‘Time’ – so we thought we would give you some time to see why it is important. An awful lot of human history is the development of science and technology; it could also be argued that a...

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  • Historical Association Annual Conference 2024 in Birmingham

    26th January 2024

    Historical Association Annual Conference 2024 Birmingham, The Eastside Rooms10-11 May 2024  Book your place now at Early Bird rates (Early Bird closes 10 April) Birmingham – it has been the greenest city in Britain, the industrial heart of a nation, the fastest growing city in the 19th century and a home of...

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