A little later than usual (thank you Covid) but just as excitedly we would like to announce the winners of the Young Quills Awards for Historical Fiction for Children for 2021. It has been another exceptionally high quality year with the judges holding deep discussions right up until the end...

The government has published a response to the ITT Market Review consultation carried out in the summer of 2021. The consultation proposed radical changes to the ITT landscape. The HA responded to the consultation due to the possible unintended consequences that the proposals may have for quality and supply of history...

The National Portrait Gallery is looking for teachers – secondary art, secondary history, primary school and teachers working in specialist settings – to help develop their schools offer. The Gallery is currently undergoing a massive transformation that will include a complete rehang of all their galleries, a new state-of-the-art learning centre, and...

For the past 11 years we have been doing an annual survey into history teaching in secondary schools. This year our main focus was on the content of the history curriculum, examined with a particular focus on diversity. It looks particularly at diversity understood in terms of race and ethnicity,...

The National Army Museum is a leading authority on the British Army, exploring its role from the British Civil Wars to the present day. Through its collections, the Museum preserves and shares stories of ordinary people with extraordinary responsibilities. The Museum’s Learning team is committed to providing engaging and curriculum-driven...

Dear teachers, my name is Lindsay Janssen and I am an instructor at Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands) and researcher part of ‘Heritages of Hunger,’ a research project funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) which investigates the role and meaning of European periods of hunger in the education and heritage...

Finally it happened – the HA annual (usually) awards evening, known to many as ‘the Medlicott evening’. Normally held in summer, the event is an opportunity to recognise some of the incredible contributions that people make to the continuation of history for all in this country, as historians, writers, educators...

This writing competition seeks to encourage young people to express their creative sides alongside a strong understanding of a historical period, event or theme. This year despite restrictions, further lockdowns and uncertainty the number and quality of entries remained high, as well as being imaginative, exciting, well researched and a...