Education

Anna Whitelock looks back on some key moments that made the historical headlines in 2021

The state of history in 2021

A panel of experts discuss the big issues facing history education in 2021

Decolonisation to Covid-19: history education today

Students study mathematics in Lahore in 1933

Revising the Raj

(Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare. Portrait of Christian Cole: ©The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, G. A. Oxon 4° 417, fol. 980)

Christian Frederick Cole: England’s first black barrister

If you’re interested in learning about history at home, there are plenty of short courses available online on a variety of topics. (Photo by Getty Images)

How to become a history student at home

Hiring more black academics “to teach all sorts of histories” is key to instigating real change in university history education, lecturer Charlotte Lydia Riley argues. (Photo by Shutterstock)

How can we improve diversity within history education?

History graduate Steve Humphries' 1998 film exploring the stories of women who worked in Magdalene laundries

How my history degree led to my dream job

Postcards from the past competition

Postcards from the past: Aged between 6–13? Enter our exciting lockdown competition

Children play as air raid wardens during the Blitz in London

Second World War

Q&A How did WW2 affect schools in London?

When Panorama cameras recorded a fly-on-the-wall documentary entitled 'The Best Days?' that followed life at Faraday High, a large comprehensive in East Acton, west London. It proved to be hugely controversial. (Photo by William Gottlieb/ CORBIS/ Corbis via Getty Images)

Lessons from the past: journalist Shabnam Grewal revisits her 1970s schooldays

A student party, c1824: Oxford undergraduates drinking together. drinking escapade.

The Georgian guide to university life

A young girl in an ancient Roman fresco

Q&A Were girls educated in ancient Rome?

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Top tips for studying history at university

An 1824 cartoon depicting the drinking escapades of Oxford students. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The history of student life: 7 things you didn’t know

Passengers reading a newspaper while waiting to disembark from the 'Empire Windrush' at Tilbury, having sailed from Jamaica, taken by an unknown photographer for the Daily Herald newspaper, 21 June 1948.

Do we need to decolonise history? And if so, how?