Why attend?
We are delighted to be hosting the HA Annual Conference 2024 at the Eastside Rooms, Birmingham. The HA Annual Conference offers an extremely strong line of workshops and lectures, visits and fringe events, keynotes and social aspects, to meet your needs whether you are a teacher looking for CPD and support or someone who has a love of history and wants to expand your knowledge. The HA Annual Conference has something to offer and will inspire you whatever your needs.
Leading subject experts
As always, the HA Annual Conference attracts expert speakers from across the history community, including leading historians in their field. At the 2024 Conference, we are pleased to welcome William Dalrymple, the hugely acclaimed historian, writer, curator and broadcaster, as one of the keynote speakers. Penelope Harnett will deliver the Dawson Lecture and Alex Walsham, HA President and Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge, will open the Conference.
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The Conference programme is designed to meet the key issues affecting the history community. It includes a great line-up of speakers and sessions on a range of historical periods and themes, as well as visits and walking tours.
For those in schools, there are opportunities to develop your subject knowledge, curriculum thinking and pedagogy in a subject-specific way, with a strong emphasis in the programme on previously underrepresented histories and inclusive approaches.