Resources & daily themes
A different historical theme each day, with classroom ideas and prompts designed to fit the lessons you already plan.
For Schools · History Week UK 2027
Bring history to life in your school.
A flexible week, built around the way you already teach.
History Week gives your school a simple, inspiring structure for a week of historical discovery — supported by classroom ideas, cultural partners, live virtual visits and local history prompts. Take part for one lesson, one day, the whole week, a venue visit, a live session, or the Family History Weekend.
Monday 26 April – Friday 30 April 2027
Family History Weekend: Saturday 1 May – Monday 3 May 2027
How it works
Four ways to take part.
History Week gives schools a simple, inspiring structure for a week of historical discovery. Each day focuses on a different window into the past, supported by classroom ideas, cultural partners, live virtual visits and local history prompts. Choose one route or weave several together.
Visit a place of history
Museums, castles, archives, galleries, theatres, libraries, civic buildings and local places of history — wherever the past is near you.
Live virtual sessions
Cultural venues and historians can connect virtually with classes that cannot physically visit — bringing the past straight into the room.
Family History Weekend
Invite families and communities to keep exploring together over the weekend that follows the school week.
The five-day structure
Five days through history.
Each day opens a different window into the past — a clear, ready-made shape for the week that you can follow as it stands or adapt to suit your class.
Monday
Deep Time and Ancient Worlds
Natural history, Stone Age life, early humans, ancient civilisations, archaeology, objects and evidence.
Tuesday
Romans, Kingdoms and Early Britain
Romans, Anglo-Saxons, early kingdoms, settlement, belief, power and everyday life.
Wednesday
Vikings, Normans and Medieval Worlds
Vikings, Normans, castles, towns, trade, faith, law, conflict and medieval imagination.
Thursday
Tudors, Reformation and Changing Power
Henry VIII, the Tudors, exploration, religion, monarchy, parliament, printing, change and conflict.
Friday
Modern Britain, Memory and Local History
Civil war and democracy, empire and migration, World War I, World War II, post-war Britain, local history, family stories and community memory.
Schools can follow the suggested daily themes or adapt the week to suit their curriculum, local context and pupils.
Flexible participation
As big or as small as you like.
There is no single right way to take part. A class can join in for one lesson, one day or the whole week — and a school can shape History Week around whatever suits its pupils and timetable.
A class can take part for one lesson, one day or the whole week.
A school can use History Week for assemblies, projects, visits, live calls, local history, creative writing, performances, exhibitions or family learning. You might run a single themed afternoon, dedicate the full week to a whole-school project, or pick the days that fit best around everything else you have on.
Use History Week classroom resources
Daily themes and classroom ideas designed to slot into the lessons you already plan.
Visit a place of history
Visit a local museum, castle, archive, gallery, theatre, library or heritage site.
Book a live virtual session
Connect a class with a cultural partner online when a visit in person isn't possible.
Invite families to share stories
Open the week out to families and communities during the Family History Weekend.
Live sessions & venue visits
Real places, real objects, real stories.
Not every school can travel to every place — so History Week is being designed to work both on location and online, helping classes meet people, objects and stories they might never otherwise reach.
On location
Visit a place of history
Schools can plan a visit to a local museum, castle, archive, gallery, theatre, library or heritage site — the kinds of places where the past becomes tangible. Venue visits are always optional, and the week works just as well from the classroom.
Live online
Bring a venue into the classroom
A live virtual session can bring a museum object, castle tower, archive document, author, actor, historian, parliament chamber, battlefield story or local memory directly into the classroom — wherever your school is.
Live connections are about access, not gimmicks — designed to reach the classes that could never make the journey.
Built for teachers
More from the time you already have.
History Week is designed to help schools do more with the time they already have. Resources, daily themes, venue ideas and live sessions give teachers simple ways to enrich history learning without having to build everything from scratch.
- Ready-made daily themes you can follow or adapt
- Classroom ideas and prompts that fit existing lessons
- Venue and live-session ideas to draw on when you want them
- Flexible, supportive and entirely optional — take part your way
- Designed to enrich history learning, not add to the workload
It's about making history easier, richer and more exciting to teach — not adding pressure.
Questions from schools
Your questions, answered.
A few of the things teachers and school leaders often ask. If your question isn't here, you're welcome to email us.
Not at all. History Week is designed to be flexible — a class can take part for one lesson, one day or the whole week. You might run a single themed afternoon, dedicate the full week to a project, or simply pick the days that fit best around everything else you have on.
No. History Week is being designed to work across primary, secondary and special schools. The five daily themes are broad enough to suit different ages and key stages, and schools can pitch the activities to their own pupils.
Yes. Secondary schools are warmly invited. The daily themes and live sessions can support subject teaching, assemblies, projects and trips, and secondary classes can take part in the parts of the week that work best for them.
Absolutely. The five daily themes are there as a helpful starting point, not a rule. Schools can follow the suggested daily themes or adapt the week to suit their curriculum, local context and pupils.
No — venue visits are completely optional. History Week works just as well from the classroom. If a visit isn't practical, a live virtual session can bring a venue, object or expert into the room instead.
History Week is being designed so that core classroom resources are free or low-cost for schools at launch. We'll confirm the details as the week takes shape — and registering your interest is the best way to be kept posted.
Yes — live online connections are a central part of History Week. The aim is to help cultural partners and historians reach classrooms that may never be able to travel to them, so a museum object, archive document, author or expert can join your class virtually.
History Week UK 2027 is launching as a UK schools week, but international schools and cultural partners may be invited to take part in selected live connections where relevant.
Register interest
Bring history to life in your school.
Register your interest now — we'll keep you posted as History Week 2027 takes shape, and there's no commitment in registering.