On the morning of Thursday 9th May (2013) the Secretary of State for Education delivered a speech at Brighton College entitled "What does it mean to be an educated person?" In his speech Mr Gove criticises those who have opposed his department's proposals for the new National Curriculum suggesting those...

It has been suggested that I should start a series of occasional short pieces (rants even) on issues under discussion by our committee.  It seems fitting that I should start with our concerns for the state of the archive world over the past few years.  We are living in tough...

A collection of thousands of documents, ephemera and photographs accumulated over a period of nearly 60 years by a Kent historian and author who died 25 years ago has been donated to the Kent Archaeological Society for the benefit of future generations intent on studying the county's past. Born in...

We have published in full the draft Purpose, Aims, Attainment and Programme of Study for History Key Stage 1 to 3. Please scroll down the page to view. A number of you have already left comments on our website and have recorded your view on our poll. Please continue to...

The draft of the new Programme of Study for History has now been published.  We are preparing a full statement which will follow shortly.  Whilst there are some elements of the curriculum aims we support, overall we have some serious concerns and regret the way in which this national curriculum...

On the 8th November Princess Anne unveiled the bust of WWII heroine Noor Inayat Khan, a descendant of Tipu Sultan, who had served as a secret agent in the Second World War. Over four hundred distinguished guests including M.Ps, peers, Ambassadors and High Commissioners, war veterans, former SOE agents and the...

The Richard III Foundation, Inc. has welcomed the news that the current archaeological project at the Greyfriars church site in Leicester appears to have led to the recovery of the last mortal remains of King Richard III. Whilst DNA testing will be used to verify the identity of the body,...

York, 10-11 May 2013 Presidential Lecture: Professor Jackie Eales How glorious was Gloriana? Elizabeth I and her historians Saturday Lecture: Marc Morris - The Norman Conquest Marc presented the TV series Castle and wrote the accompanying book. Marc's talk will be based on his new book, The Norman Conquest, which...

Kent Archaeological Society The names of 14 people who may have lived in East Farleigh, Kent, nearly 2,000 years ago have been deciphered on a lead scroll found during Maidstone Area Archaeological Group's ‘dig' on the site of a Roman farmstead in a field off Lower Road.Measuring 60 mm by 100...

First prize to Louisa Bruton for her dissertation: 'Avoir ou a voir: assessing the accessibility of foreign-language records in the archival repositories of the UK and Ireland' (unpublished MA, University of Liverpool, 2011) The judges thought this was an outstanding and sophisticated thesis that raised important questions, showed excellent archival...