A one-day conference for teachers, students, examiners and everyone interested in the future development and shape of history in schools

Date: 28 January 2012
Time: 9.30 - 16.00
Venue: Lord Ashcroft Building, Anglia Ruskin University, East Road, Cambridge

Delegate fees:
Standard booking: £30
Early Bird (if booked by 16th December): £25
Anglia Ruskin staff and students: £20
Students (afternoon only): £5

Bookings can be made via the Anglia Ruskin Online Store.

Chair: Professor Mike Thorne, Vice Chancellor of Anglia Ruskin University

Is school history in decline or is it healthy and robust, as Ofsted claims? Is it too obsessed with skills and unconcerned about children's knowledge? Whose history should our children learn? What sort of British history do our children need to know, and how 'British' should it be? Whose history curriculum is it anyway?

The Better History Forum has emerged as one of the most important and influential groups producing ideas about the history curriculum. Writing in the Guardian in January 2011 Mike Baker, the distinguished education commentator and correspondent, described the BHF's proposals as 'invaluable'. The BHF offers a radical new reading of the role and purpose of history in schools, which has already attracted keen interest in government. This is your chance to look in more detail at the Better History forum's proposals and to debate their implications.

The panel will include: Claire Fox, Director of the Institute of Ideas, Paul Lay, Editor of History Today; Sarah Gadd, Head of History, Comberton Village College.

For more information about the Better History Forum please contact Dr Sean Lang. For more information about the conference arrangements please contact Karen Sturt.

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