July 2025 History subject update
This update contains useful information, news and advice for Edexcel History teachers including Summer 2025 insight events and our Summer 2025 general teacher survey. There’s also important information to help you get ready for Results day.
Key Dates
Release of Summer 2025 materials on website
Summer 2025 GCSE question papers are now available to download from our website.
- GCSE mark schemes will be released on 22 July 2025.
- GCSE examiners reports will be made available on our website from 26 August 2025.
- A level question papers will be released on 1 July 2025.
- A level mark schemes will be released on 15 July 2025.
- A level examiner reports will be available on our website from 19 August 2025.
- You will also be able to download GCSE and A level examiner reports from results day via ResultsPlus.
Summer 2025 results will be issued on the following dates:
| Qualification | Results to centres | Results to students |
| AS / A level | 13 August 2025 | 14 August 2025 |
| GCSE / International GCSE | 20 August 2025 | 21 August 2025 |
Training for History teachers
The Summer 2025 exam insights events for GCSE and A level History are now available to book via our training page.
- GCSE History: Exam Insights Summer 2025 07 October 2025 at 16:00 - 17:30 GMT
- A Level History: Exam Insights Summer 2025 22 October 2025 at 16:00 - 17:30 GMT
We have the following pre-recorded training events for teachers who are new to teaching our History specifications or are considering switching:
Resources and support materials
Getting Ready for Results Day Summer 2025
Access key information and guidance for the Summer 2025 results period for GCSE, International GCSE and A level History, including key dates, details of post-results services and grade boundaries:
General qualifications and assessment teacher feedback
To enable us to improve the experience of teachers using our qualifications and students sitting our exams, we gather feedback after each exam series. If you're a teacher, and your students have taken any of our exams in the May/June 2025 series, we are eager to hear your thoughts.
We are also keen to hear from Edexcel History students about their experiences of studying our qualifications and sitting exams this summer. We’ve created two surveys and we’d be grateful if you could encourage your students to complete them before the end of term to help give us more insight into our qualifications and assessments. In the past we used similar surveys with students and got some fantastic feedback which helped feed into our GCSE History assessment changes.
The Historical Association Secondary History Survey
For the last 15 years the Historical Association has carried out an annual or biennial survey of history teaching in Secondary Schools. The survey data provides an up-to-date insight into the successes, pressures and concerns in schools affecting history and how those factors have developed, changed or remained static over time. The HA have recently released the results of their most recent 2024 survey:
Free workshop to support teaching of 'Migrants to Britain, c800-present'
Newly launched! A free, interactive workshop: ‘Jewish migration to Britain: 1066-2025’. Ideal for those studying the Migrants to Britain topic, this workshop is rich in primary sources, historical context and designed around what your Year 10 and 11 students need to know. A fantastic overview of the experiences, impact and legacies of nearly 1,000 years of Jewish migration.
National Portrait Gallery student workshops: Migration to Britain 1500s to present day
The National Portrait Gallery in London are running workshops on Migration to Britain 1500-present, targeting KS3-KS4 students. Each session explores migration stories, from the 1500s to the present day with a focus on the British Empire. Students analyse portraits to discover what these historical sources, and how they have been displayed, can reveal about the experiences of people who have moved to Britain from around the world, and the impacts they have had on British history and society.
History in Action: Democracy and Dictatorship in Germany – 18 November 2025, London
Education in Action are running a paid for study day for year 11, 12 and 13 students on 18 November 2025 in London. Two invaluable exam sessions, one for A-level students and the other for GCSE students, will complete a packed day of inspiration and insights. Each student will also receive a special A5 booklet containing additional notes, talk overviews and suggested further reading carefully selected by each of our eminent historians.
Take a deep dive into the period 1918 - 1945 with this exciting and interactive programme for year 11,12 and 13 History students, Democracy and Dictatorship in Germany. This unique event will feature five leading historians who will explore and discuss some of the pivotal historical moments during Germany’s interwar period. Students will come away with a greater understanding of the complex issues and key interpretations relating to the Weimar Republic, Hitler’s rise to power, propaganda and control in Nazi Germany and Nazi racial policies.
The impressive line-up of expert speakers will include one of the world’s leading historians of this period Sir Richard J Evans, together with award-winning author, historian and outstanding communicator Professor Alexander Watson and, for the first time to this programme, noted expert in Nazi Germany Dr Lisa Pine. Students will also have the chance to hear from UCL’s Professor Heather Jones, an internationally-renowned expert on the history of Weimar Germany and Professor Neil Gregor from the University of Southampton.
Book your place via the Education in Action website
Teaching Medieval Women Project
The Teaching Medieval Women project is a collaboration between teachers and academics to bring the experiences of medieval women into the teaching of medieval history at school. This project was borne out of a shared realisation that women are still substantially under-represented in many of the medieval history classes taught at school in the UK, at KS3, KS4 and A-Level.
The group aims to bring together teachers and academics to exchange respective knowledge and expertise, to learn about the challenges involved in driving change forward, and to develop solutions, as well as producing a variety of co-created materials that are attractive, innovative, engaging, and based on recent historical scholarship and educational pedagogy. They are happy to deliver in person and online outreach talks at schools and CPD for schools and trusts, you can contact them to arrange an event.
Their website, teachingmedievalwomen.org includes a free online repository of resources on medieval women for teachers and students. Dr Natasha Hodgson was a consultant for the recent Medieval Women: In Their Own Words exhibition, and many of the recently uploaded resources were developed around objects in the exhibition, developed in collaboration with teachers.
The Resources page allows users to sift through materials by person, place, topic and stage (KS3, GCSE, A-Level). All resources are freely available and downloadable once you register your email with the site, and you are free to adapt them to your purposes, though they do ask that you cite the project under their creative commons license when doing so. The website also includes information about upcoming events that the Teaching Medieval Women group are organising and updates about new resources uploaded on a monthly basis.
Subject advisor
Mark Battye
History
