See the full conference programme Book your place now Can you hear the music or see the birds (Liver ones of course)? Then we must be in Liverpool – or at least we will be in May 2025 for the HA conference. We have brought together lots of specialist CPD...

In the summer of 2024, the Historical Association (HA) in partnership with HTEN carried out a survey of ITE provision for history across the primary and secondary sectors. The bursary for secondary teachers to train in history was removed in 2021, meaning that trainee history teachers receive no financial support...

Book Now (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window. Please read the HA CPD terms and conditions before registering) We are pleased to be hosting a Doing History at University event for students and teachers in partnership with the University of Sheffield. The aim of the event is to...

It is an ever-changing world and while some are celebrating the rainbow of LGBTQ+ others are simultaneously trying to wash it away. Here at the HA we are happy to be a champion of LGBTQ+ history. We are committed to a broad and inclusive understanding of history and are pleased...

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...

Book Now (Registration is via Cademy which opens in a new window. Please read the course terms and conditions before registering) What does the course cover? 2025 is the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War – a conflict that defined the twentieth century and still has...

January 2025 is the 760-year anniversary of Simon de Montfort calling the first parliament in 1265. Simon de Montfort can be a divisive figure, both disliked and admired in equal measure for different aspects of his recorded character and his actions. Undoubtedly a violent man, he was also responsible for...

It’s a new year and there’s lots to look forward to – new hopes and fortunes! Of course, we also like to look back (history being our business) and so we’re excited to see that 2025 is another year packed full of anniversaries. We will be commemorating several of these...

Each year on 27 January the UK observes Holocaust Memorial Day. Every year since its introduction communities, individuals, organisations and institutions have been encouraged to mark the day and remember it. The history of what is remembered is straightforward: on 27 January 1945 the Soviet Army entered into a Nazi...