The Historical Association Write Your Own Historical Story Competition and the Joan Blyth Memorial Prize 2012. The competition this year has again been successful. With the change in categories there was a very slight reduction in entries but this was balanced by the number of schools entering students who had...

The Historical Association is pleased to announce that the winners of The Young Quills Awards for 2012 are Barbara Mitchelhill, for Run Rabbit Run, Andersen (2011), in the Primary age group category and in the secondary age group category Paul Dowswell, for Sektion 20, Bloomsbury (2011). Both of the books...

All in all, the last few months have been rough for exam boards: allegations of leaking content of future papers, heavy criticism of mechanistic and unfit GCSE exams and now news that a senior OCR examiner has been suspended for blowing the whistle on incorrect marking of examination papers. Hundreds...

In line with its total commitment to History for All, the HA has, with ASDAN, developed a history CoPE course that is accessible, yet challenging. This new course will be available to centres for teaching from September 2012. ASDAN style ‘challenges' fit closely with the HA's vision of history as...

Subject professional development materials: history - 27 January 2012. This resource has been put together to help teachers in primary and secondary schools improve teaching and learning by reflecting on the main messages from the report (History for all) published in March 2011. History for all - 13 March 2011. This report...

This initiative has been celebrating the achievements of young historians in schools for over twenty years. It is largely funded by the Historical Association and the Spirit of Normandy Trust. It has an annual award scheme and also funds some special events, such as the annual Young Historian Day at...

Mr Gove recently announced changes to A-Level examinations. The rationale was to make A-Level examinations more rigorous and difficult to pass and raise standards. The Historical Association supports a rigorous approach to A-Level study as the basis for further education and careers, whilst maintaining accessibility for all to the study...

This week, the government has announced news that steps will be taken to make A-Level examinations harder; this will include input from universities. Steps taken will make it more difficult to pass A-Level examinations and therefore result in a lowering of the numbers entering university. The government hopes that these...

A report by the Expert Panel for the National Curriculum review' In December the DfE published the ‘The Framework for the National Curriculum: A report by the Expert Panel for the National Curriculum review'.  The HA endorses the panel's recommendation that history should be part of the core curriculum for...

New Activity on the Thinking History Website: Decisions of a Kentish Villager, 1381Ian Dawson has had this activity sitting in his in-box for too long but other things, like editing 97 A level books got in the way, so he is delighted to finally get this activity onto the site.It was devised...