WELCOME TO LOCAL HISTORY HUB
Teacher-led, grassroots, and rooted in belonging.
Local History Hub connects teachers, schools, heritage organisations and communities to make high-quality local history easier to teach, more connected and more sustainable.
We build teacher-led local networks where educators and heritage partners can share expertise, develop relationships and create meaningful opportunities for children to understand the history of the places in which they live.
WHY LOCAL HISTORY HUB?
Local history belongs in every classroom.
Teachers value local history. Museums, archives, historic sites and community organisations hold extraordinary local knowledge.
But connecting the two isn't always easy.
Local History Hub creates the infrastructure that helps those relationships happen.
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Connect with other educators, heritage organisations and local expertise. Share practice, develop your curriculum and make meaningful local history easier to deliver.
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Build sustainable relationships with schools and teachers, understand classroom needs and help local collections, places and stories reach young people.
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Help children understand the people, places and stories that have shaped where they live - strengthening knowledge of place, identity and belonging.
HOW IT WORKS
Each Local History Hub is a teacher-led local working party, typically bringing together 10–20 schools alongside heritage and community partners. Hubs usually meet three times each academic year.
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Teachers and heritage partners meet as a collaborative working party to identify priorities, opportunities and challenges.
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Schools connect directly with museums, archives, historic sites, local societies and other sources of expertise.
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Members share sources, ideas and practice and develop locally relevant curriculum opportunities.
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Local hubs form part of a wider UK network, sharing learning and taking part in opportunities such as Local History Day and free CPD.
WHY BELONGING?
Local history isn't simply about learning what happened nearby.
It can help children understand how their community developed, how different people contributed to it and how their own lives connect with the continuing story of a place.
LOCAL HISTORY
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KNOWLEDGE & CONNECTION TO PLACE
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BELONGING
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ENGAGEMENT
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EDUCATIONAL BENEFIT
During 2026–28, we're working with teachers and partners to test and refine this developing Theory of Change, including how locally rooted learning can support pupils experiencing socio-economic disadvantage.
OUR HUBS
Our growing UK-wide network connects teachers, schools, heritage organisations and communities around local history, place and belonging.
Explore the map to find your nearest established or developing Hub.
Map key:
🟠 Amber pins – Live Hubs
🟣 Purple pins – Developing areas
WHAT WE DO
More than a network.
Local History Hub provides a growing range of ways for teachers, schools and heritage organisations to work together.
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Teacher-led local working parties connecting schools, heritage organisations and communities.
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Our annual nationwide celebration giving schools a shared opportunity to explore and celebrate their local history.
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Practical professional development shaped by teacher demand and delivered with heritage and specialist partners.
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Our developing curriculum strand exploring home, neighbourhood, migration, identity, community and belonging.
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We work with national, regional and local organisations to connect heritage expertise with teachers and classrooms.
GET INVOLVED
There's a place for you in Local History Hub.
Whether you're a teacher, school leader, heritage professional, academy trust or local authority, you can help strengthen local history in your area.
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Join an existing Hub, help lead one or connect with other educators developing local history in your area.
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Connect your expertise, collections, places and stories with teachers and schools in your area.
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Explore how Local History Hub can connect schools across your trust with local heritage and place-based curriculum opportunities.
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Work with Local History Hub to strengthen connections between schools, heritage organisations and communities.
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Partner with us, share expertise or support the development of teacher-led local history.
NEWS & UPDATES
Local history starts with place.
Help us connect the people who bring it to life.
Join a local Hub, work with us as a heritage partner, attend free CPD or simply keep in touch with the growing network.