HTANI Report to Charity Commission 1/10/22 to 30/9/23
HTANI’s stated objectives are to enhance the professional development of history teachers through the organisation of events and the production and dissemination of educational resources. It also seeks to provide opportunities for its members to network on a cross-community basis locally, across the Irish border and internationally.
Between October 2022 and September 2023, in addition to regular committee meetings, HTANI committee members either presented at, or participated in, a number of events, locally and internationally, including the Brian Ruane Memorial lecture at DCU, an Irish Civil War seminar in Strasbourg marking Ireland’s Presidency of the Council of Europe, Eamonn Phoenix’s memorial event in Belfast and an online OSCE seminar on teaching difficult history which brought together local representatives with history teachers in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Dr McCully continued to represent the NI teaching experience at OHTE meetings in Strasbourg and Paris and the Histolab conference for young people in Brussels. Denver Charles facilitated a visit by students from the University of Wisconsin. In addition, HTANI fostered educational links with the Ulster Museum’ s work on an oral history exhibition of the Troubles (alongside Professor Chris Reynolds of Nottingham Trent University) and with the BBC through their Once upon a Time series.