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The Great Debate 2025: Speeches
Multipage Article
The final was held at the Vicar’s Hall at Windsor Castle on 29 March 2025, and attended by 20 finalists from across the UK. This year, each finalist needed to have taken part in a regional competition and one of three semi-final stages.
The competition question for this year was: How...
The Great Debate 2025: Speeches
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The Medlicott Medal 2025
30th April 2025
The Historical Association is delighted to announce that the Medlicott Medal 2025 will be awarded to Dr Christine Counsell.
The award seeks to recognise individuals from a diversity of backgrounds in their service to history.
Christine will be known to many at the HA, as throughout her career she has...
The Medlicott Medal 2025
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Annual General Meeting 2025
Online, Wednesday 4 June, 6.30–7.30pm
Thank you for being a member of the Historical Association. Your membership is what enables the HA to continue supporting the teaching, learning and enjoyment of history at all levels, for generations to come.
As part of our membership community you are important in shaping the development of the association,...
Annual General Meeting 2025
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Great Debate Final 2025
14th April 2025
Winner:
Quinn Scott – Chesterton Community College, Cambridge
Runners up:
Anya Bensouiah – Kendrick School, Reading
Fred Bosley – The King’s School, Canterbury
Aimee Nelson – Bablake School, Coventry
Finalists:
Emily Tweddle, Earlston High School, Scottish Borders
Hannah Brearton, Upton Hall, Oxford
Rosie Thomson, The Maynard School, Exeter
Isabella Passarelli, Torquay Girls Grammar School,...
Great Debate Final 2025
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Young Quills 2025
16th April 2025
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 2024 for this year’s selection.
Our...
Young Quills 2025
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Young Quills shortlist for 2025
The HA's annual awards for best historical fiction for young people
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 2024 for this year’s selection.
Our aim...
Young Quills shortlist for 2025
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HA News, Spring 2025
Welcome to the spring 2025 edition of HA News magazine
Have your say about HA News
We'd love to get your feedback on your membership magazine.
Please fill out our survey here (takes about 5 minutes)
Welcome to this packed spring edition of HA News.
Take a look at the programme for our Annual Conference in May, including the top 10 things to do at the HA Conference,...
HA News, Spring 2025
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Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
19th December 2024
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...
Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
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Doing History at University 2025
Thinking of studying history at university?
Booking closed
(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...
Doing History at University 2025
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Primary History summer resource 2025: Women with power
Primary member resource
For this year’s Primary History summer resource, we have selected a focus on the lives of women at a particular period – that of the Anglo-Saxon or the early medieval period. This period covers a substantial period of time – around 600 years. It was a time of catalyst and...
Primary History summer resource 2025: Women with power
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Your Primary CPD calendar Summer 2025
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We know that it's not easy for teachers to get out of school or have budgets to afford a plentiful supply of CPD. We know how essential your CPD is to you and that is why we have worked to provide a wide range of face to face, online learning...
Your Primary CPD calendar Summer 2025
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Write Your Own Historical Fiction Competition 2025
The Historical Association Historical Fiction Prize
Entries for this year's competition are now closed. The winners will be posted on this website in September/October. Next year's competition will open at the end of 2025.
Each year we are so impressed by the ever increasing number and standard of entries we receive around such a wide range of...
Write Your Own Historical Fiction Competition 2025
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Recorded webinar: Mapping uncertainty - Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
Retracing the trajectories of young survivors in the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust
Recorded webinar: Mapping uncertainty - Holocaust Memorial Day 2025
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Young Historian Awards 2025 – take part (Primary prizes)
History competition for primary schools
We want young people to get the bug for writing about history in an interesting and critical way. Each year the Historical Association in collaboration with the Spirit of Normandy Trust and Classics for All offers a series of awards to Primary school children for outstanding history scholarship. Children are asked to investigate, think...
Young Historian Awards 2025 – take part (Primary prizes)
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Young Historian Awards 2025 – take part (Secondary prizes)
History competition for students
Researching, writing and presenting ideas about a historical theme or period is one of the best parts about studying history. We want young school and college aged students to get the bug for writing about history in an incisive, interesting and critical way.
That is why each year the Historical...
Young Historian Awards 2025 – take part (Secondary prizes)
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Edinburgh & the East of Scotland Branch Programme
Branch programmes
Branch contact: All enquiries to branch secretary Katie Hunter katie_hunter@outlook.com
Edinburgh and the East of Scotland Branch Programme 2025
Monday 27 January 2025, 6pmFootball’s Scots: The Hidden History of an Entire Footballing Nation Ged O’Brien, teacher, museum curator and sports historian.Venue: Edinburgh University, Old Medical School quadrangle on Teviot Place (known...
Edinburgh & the East of Scotland Branch Programme
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Bristol Branch Programme
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Please contact Mary Feerick Secretary maryfeerick58@gmail.com or 0117 9442898 for further details or use our website https://bristolha.wordpress.com
Annual branch membership is £15. All lectures are free to National HA members as well as University of Bristol staff & all students. Guests pay £3 on the door for a single lecture. ...
Bristol Branch Programme
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Leicester Branch Programme
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Leicester & Northampton Branches Joint Programme of Online Talks & Activities 2024-25
Leicester Chair: Annabelle Larsen leicesterha@gmail.com
Northampton Chair: David Waller david@davidwaller.org.uk
Most talks will be on the second Tuesday of the month, 18.00-19.30.
** POSTPONED UNTIL JUNE 2025** David Waller, University of Northampton. ‘The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election in Historical Perspective’....
Leicester Branch Programme
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Pull-out posters: Primary History 98
Talking History competition
The HA's Primary Oracy Competition: To register interest for 2025, contact Olivia Dent on: olivia.dent@history.org.uk
Find out more here
Pull-out posters: Primary History 98
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Conwy Borough Branch Programme
Branch programmes
Branch Contact: Gemma Campbell conwyboroughha@gmail.com
Meetings are held on the third Monday of the month at Sheldons, 8 Penrhyn Rd, Colwyn Bay LL29 8LG unless otherwise stated.
Refreshments will be available to purchase (payment not included with the talk).
Doors open at 6.30 for refreshments and networking, talks begin at...
Conwy Borough Branch Programme
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Lincoln Branch Programme
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Branch contact: enquiries to Prof. Jamie Wood jwood@lincoln.ac.uk
Venue: All talks start at 6.15pm and take place at the Brayford Pool Campus of the University of Lincoln. Specific details of locations of the talks can be found on the booking page, accessible here: https://cityoflincolnbranchha.wordpress.com/lecture-programme-and-booking/.
Cost: talks are free to national...
Lincoln Branch Programme
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The Great Debate 2026 – host a regional heat
The HA's public speaking competition open to school years 10–13
We are now looking for schools and venues across the country to host a regional heat in November, December 2025 or January 2026. If you are interested in hosting a heat, please fill out the form below.
The form will close on Sunday 15 June 2025. Successful applicants will be...
The Great Debate 2026 – host a regional heat
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Recorded webinar: Devising and using rigorous historical enquiry questions to lead learning in primary history
Webinar series: History and literacy: better together
This webinar will guide teachers on how to devise rigorous historical enquiry questions, how to spot and weed out weak ones, and how to sequence them in an effective way across medium-term plans. It will show how disciplinary concepts can be revisited and pupils supported in the careful accumulation of...
Recorded webinar: Devising and using rigorous historical enquiry questions to lead learning in primary history
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Swansea Branch Programme
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Branch Contact: Liz McSloy, Secretary historyliz1565@yahoo.com
Venue: National Waterfront Museum, Oystermouth Rd, Maritime Quarter, Swansea SA1 3RD
All talks take place on the third Saturday of each month (unless otherwise stated) and start at 11am
Associate membership: £10 per year, Concessionary (part time workers, retired, unwaged) and Student membership: £5...
Swansea Branch Programme
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Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme
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Branch contact: Mrs A Wagstaff 020 8777 7742 aj60@dial.pipex.com
Cost: Entry to meetings is free for HA members and £2 for visitors.
Associate membership of the branch is £12 for 2024/25 or £19.50 with our monthly news bulletin, The Beckenham Historian.
Venue: All meetings take place at 7.45 pm in...
Beckenham & Bromley Branch Programme
