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An overview of the papers, seminars and documents produced by the FCDO Historians and published online.
The Secretary of State has today announced plans for an independent Public History project relating to the Troubles in Northern Ireland
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.
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 History Note attempts to document the history of race at the Foreign Office on how present-day approach towards non-white staff developed.
Ofsted has published its latest research review looking at history education in schools.
The Secretary of State has reappointed Professor Michael Wood OBE as a Trustee of Historic Royal Palaces for a second term of three years, from 11 March 2022 until 10 March 2025.
Historian and broadcaster to address world leaders and the public ahead of and at COP26 in November
A special event was held at Culham to remember UKAEA historian Lorna Arnold, who died earlier this year aged 98.
New booklet provides insight into the history of BAME staff working in UK diplomacy over the last 70 years.
Andrew Salmon MBE has been recognised for his outstanding contribution as a historian of the Korean War
Dr Anthony Seldon leads on a series of articles written by prominent historians for the Number 10 website
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
The Queen has approved that Professor Lyndal Roper PhD, FAHA, Fellow and Tutor in History at Balliol College, Oxford, be appointed Regius Professor of History (previously Modern History) in the University of Oxford in succession to Professor Robert John Weston...
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