The Schools History Project recently wrote to the Historical Association and the Department for Education to share our thoughts on the composition of the drafting team for the History curriculum. A copy of the email is at the end of this document. Last week, Alex Ford and I met with Amerjit Basi, the Team Leader for Humanities at the Department for Education to discuss the issues that we raised. O...
Read More »The Schools History Project recently wrote to the Historical Association and the Department for Education to share our thoughts on the composition of the drafting team for the History curriculum. A copy of the email is at the end of this document. Last week, Alex Ford and I met with Amerjit Basi, the Team Leader for Humanities at the Department for Education to discuss the issues that we raised. O...
Read More »Please read the information below before using this form to submit your proposal https://forms.office.com/e/UHkC15w52G The Schools History Project’s Summer Conference will be taking place at Leeds Trinity University on July 10-12, 2026. Our workshops run for 90 minutes, providing an in-depth opportunity to share and explore your chosen topic(s) with the conference delegates. This year we are going...
Read More »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...
Read More »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...
Read More »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...
Read More »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...
Read More »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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