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Director’s Blog September 2024

It’s hard to believe that it was only a year ago that I sat down to write my first Director’s blog. Last year was so exhilarating that it feels like we packed in a lifetime’s worth of fun in those 12 months. Time really does fly when you are having a good time! It was a genuine privilege to meet so many wonderful, inspiring people who are actively engaged in making history more m...

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Director’s Blog – SHP Summer Conference 2024

Wow. That pretty much sums up this year’s SHP summer conference. On paper it looked like an exciting programme, but the reality was so, so much better than I could even have imagined. Although the conference didn’t officially start until Saturday morning, I arrived at Leeds Trinity University early on Friday to do a walkthrough of the conference venues and host a Fellows meeting with some of...

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SHP Appoints Dan-Lyndon Cohen as New Director

The Schools History Project is delighted to announce that Dan Lyndon-Cohen will become its new Director in July 2023. Dan has spent nearly 30 years in the History classroom and is currently the Lead Practitioner for Humanities at Park View School, a diverse 11-16 maintained comprehensive in Tottenham.  Dan brings extensive experience to his role as Director. As well as leading a history department...

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Plenary from SHP Summer Conference 2021

In anticipation of this year’s summer conference we wanted to share the absolutely fantastic plenary from last year’s virtual event by the brilliant Jason Todd: “Silences, Traces and Voices: Conversations and Journeys Through Race”. In the film Jason makes the case, drawing on the work of the Jamaican-born intellectual Stuart Hall and Haitian academic Michel Rolph Trouillot...

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Plenary Sessions at the SHP Summer Conference

While there are still places available for the SHP Summer Conference (8-10 July, Leeds), we are pleased to share more information about the plenary sessions that will be open to all delegates.   Partition of British India, 75th anniversary: KS3 Online Assembly 2022 sees the 75th anniversary of the Partition of British India. This monumental event led to an untold number of deaths, the largest...

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SHP New Teachers’ Conference

We are delighted to announce the second SHP New Teachers’ Conference on 29th January 2022 supported by OCR and Hodder Education. This day-long online conference will provide first-class CPD for teachers at the beginning of their careers. If you are an Early Careers Teacher, a trainee teacher or just someone looking for practical ideas to improve your practice, why not find out more by going ...

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Statement from Professor Stuart Foster from the Centre for Holocaust Education

This statement below, praising Dale Banham and Ian Luff’s SHP History Year 9, the approach they took to writing the book and the material it contains on the Holocaust was issued by Professor Stuart Foster, Executive Director of the Centre for Holocaust Education at UCL. You may be aware of a recent online CPD from the University College London (UCL) Centre of Holocaust Education which focuse...

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