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An overview of the papers, seminars and documents produced by the FCDO Historians and published online.
Ofsted has today published a subject report looking at how history is being taught in England’s schools.
In this section you can read short biographies of notable people and explore the history of government buildings. You can also search our online records and read articles and blog posts by historians.
Genealogists, historians and amateur family archivists will be better able to access historic wills under proposals published today (15 December 2023).
The Secretary of State has appointed Dr Helen Jacobsen and Dr Caroline Shenton, and reappointed Christopher Baker and Stuart Lochhead to The Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest.
The UKHMF Academic Advisory Board provides peer-review and a discussion forum for the Co-Chairs and professional team regarding the envisioned content of the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre.
This History Note attempts to document the history of race at the Foreign Office on how present-day approach towards non-white staff developed.
David Parker is the UK government’s official historian of privatisation and his previous roles include: Dean of the Faculty of Management, Cranfield University, 2007 to 2009; Co-director of the Centre for Research in Economics and Finance; and Member of the...
Julia Sutherland arrived in Kingston in October 2012.This is Julia’s first posting in the Caribbean. She joined the Diplomatic Service in 1995, and has previously worked at the British Embassy in Beijing and, most recently, the High Commission in Singapore....
A special event was held at Culham to remember UKAEA historian Lorna Arnold, who died earlier this year aged 98.
Dr Jo Saxton became the Chief Regulator of Ofqual on 18 September 2021. She brings a decade of experience in school leadership to the role. She has been a government advisor and was formerly an academic. Jo held senior roles...
To mark International Day of Women & Girls in Science & St Brigid, our Embassy in Ireland hosted an event in Co Kildare, where Brigid established her monastery
This publication, by Foreign and Commonwealth Office Historians, looks at the ban on diplomats being homosexual which was lifted in 1991.
The Home Secretary, on his visit to the USA, calls on the international community to unite to tackle the issue of migration.
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