The judges met on 27th June 2013 to discuss the entries they had all previously read. These entries were all very good and came from a range of periods - Tudor and Stuart England, the sixteenth, eighteenth and twentieth centuries and covered such diverse topics as smuggling, the Reformation, revolution...

The Vice-President of the Bolton Branch of the Historical Association has received a national award for services to history. Dr Glyn Redworth has been made an Honorary Fellow of the Historical Association and was presented with his award by Association President, Professor Jackie Eales, at a ceremony in London. Fellowships are awarded...

On the evening of 18 June 2013 Professor Cannadine received the Medlicott medal an annual award given by the Historical Association to individuals for outstanding services and current contributions to history. Professor Cannadine is a well-known and influential historian, currently based in the UK and The USA. The Medlicott medal...

On June 18 2013 David Cannadine will formally receive the Historical Association's Medlicott Medal for Services to History. In anticipation of the evening awards event that will culminate in a lecture by Professor Cannadine, we met with the great man to reflect on his award and his career. During the...

The Historical Association is again proud to support the work of Archives and Archivists by presenting its award for Best Dissertation 2012. The winner is Ronan Deazley: 'The Yeti in the Archive: Copyright, Risk and Reform,' from the University of Glasgow. The judges said ' This is a hot topic that...

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...