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Art History Link-Up, a registered charity, no. 1172792

Art History Link-Up is a registered charity. We offer free Art History A level + EPQ courses for state supported students.

This programme from Art History Link-Up aims to reach more state school students with a fast-track Art History A level and EPQ that offers all the benefits of the subject combined with first-hand experience of the art being studied.

28/05/2026

Applications are open for our free Art History A Level and EPQ courses 2026–27 🎨

Study art history at the Courtauld, Somerset House — one of the world’s great art institutions — or online, on term-time Saturdays from September 2026.

Our courses are free, accredited, and open to Year 12 and 13 students at state schools across the UK. No prior knowledge of art history needed — just curiosity and enthusiasm.

📅 26 September 2026 – 3 July 2027
🕙 Morning: 10am–12.30pm or Afternoon: 1.30–4pm
📩 Apply by 4 September 2026, 5pm

Link in bio to find out more and apply. Please share with any young people you know who might be interested.

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19/05/2026

Applications are now open for Art History For Everyone 2026–27, our free Art History A Level and EPQ courses for Y12 and Y13 state school students. 🎨

Classes take place on term-time Saturdays at the Courtauld Institute, Somerset House, with a morning session (10am–12.30pm) and an afternoon session (1.30–4pm), and online places are also available for students across the UK.

The deadline to apply is 5pm on Friday 4th September 2026. Link in bio for full details and to apply — and please do share with any young people, teachers or parents who might be interested, and visit our website to download a flyer.

ALevels EPQ Courtauld ArtHistoryLinkUp

14/05/2026

What does it feel like to be part of an AHLU class? If you ask former AHLU student Lily Owens, it feels like a genuine conversation where every voice matters equally. Lily studied on our ‘Art History for Everyone’ free Art History A Level EPQ course at the Courtauld from 2022 to 2024. Lily is in the final year of Art History at the University of Cambridge at Christ’s College and also founded the Christ’s College Art Collective, a youth-led programme bringing art and culture to the wider university. Writing about our Widening Access to Art History workshop at the Association for Art History Annual Conference in Cambridge, Lily reflects on the power of bringing academics, teachers and students into the same room, and why intergenerational dialogue matters so much for creating lasting change. Head to the link in bio to read their blog. 🎨

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03/05/2026

Week three of our free Sunday morning HPQ course at the Courtauld, Somerset House. This week students were exploring nature in art: looking at how artists across the centuries have observed, interpreted and reimagined the natural world, and exploring ideas for their own self-directed research projects.

It was a busy weekend. We also launched the first session of our free Sunday afternoon entirely online HPQ course this week - our first since the pandemic- with Y9 and Y10 students from across the UK exploring storytelling in art. Wonderful engagement and participation from everyone involved.

Y9 and Y10 students from state schools across London and the UK are working towards a free accredited HPQ award alongside expert teachers, whether in person at the Courtauld’s world-class collection at Somerset House or online from home.

We also offer free Art History A Level and EPQ courses for sixth form students, both online and in person at the Courtauld, Somerset House. Sign up to our newsletter at the link in bio to be the first to hear when applications open for 2026-7 later this month. 🌿

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01/05/2026

AHLU was delighted to attend a panel discussion on “Who Tells The Story” and book signing of Katy Hessel’s latest book with trustees, team, colleagues and alumni. Thank you and for an inspiring morning and for bringing together voices from publishing, education, artistic practice and institutions to discuss who gets to shape the story of art, who is included, and who gets to encounter it early enough. We were of course thrilled that AHLU was mentioned by several panellists: thank you for your support of our students and work, and our goal of Art History for Everyone!

Panellists: Barby Asante (), Artist, Curator and Educator
Sally Bacon OBE, Executive Co-Chair of the Cultural Learning Alliance (
Phoebe Boswell (.boswell), Artist
Katy Hessel (.hessel ), Author, Art Historian, Curator and Podcaster
Dr. Madeleine Haddon (), Senior Curator of

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20/04/2026

We have extended the application deadline for our FREE Online Introduction to Art History course, by popular request, to give schools and their students returning at the start of term a chance to apply. 🎨

The course runs on Sunday afternoons from 3 to 5.30pm, from 3 May to 12 July, and leads to a nationally recognised Higher Project Qualification, equivalent to up to half a GCSE. It is completely free of charge and open to state school students across the UK.

Apply by 10am on Monday 21 April. Link in bio.

15/04/2026

Happy World Art Day! 🎨 And what better way to mark it than by reminding you that there are just five days left to apply for our free online HPQ Introduction to Art History course - deadline 5pm Sunday 19 April.

This course is for Y9 and Y10 state school students across the UK, running on Sunday afternoons online from 3 May to 12 July. It’s completely free, including exam entry, and students gain a nationally accredited Pearson Project Qualification while developing real art historical knowledge and independent research skills — brilliant preparation for A levels and beyond.

As one of our students put it: “I’m quite a shy person… but I found that even though I wasn’t confident in what I was saying, I would still say it because I felt like it wouldn’t be judged.”
That’s what art history can do.

Link in bio to apply. 📚Takes 5 minutes online.

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11/04/2026

Blog: What makes an AHLU class feel different? Our Charity Administrator Hafsa Siddiqui went along to find out, and came away with a beautiful answer: generosity and play. "Through play, art becomes less distant and more alive — something we can interact with, question, endlessly reframe, and enjoy."

In Hafsa's words, the learning in our classrooms is communal. Ideas get passed around, reshaped, expanded. Students bring in memes, lived experiences, unexpected connections - and in doing so, they remind everyone that there's no single right way to look at a work of art. You don't need a particular background to belong here. You just need curiosity and a willingness to share.

Thank you Hafsa for this lovely blog - full piece on our website - link in bio. 🔗 📷 .alumni.official

07/04/2026

On Thursday 9 April we’ll be at the Association for Art History’s Annual Conference at the University of Cambridge, and we’d love you to join us.

Our workshop entitled ‘Widening Access to Art History: Connecting Schools and Higher Education’ runs from 3:30 to 5pm. Please join us for our collaborative session: part sharing what we’ve learned, part working through the big questions facing art history education together. AI and digital access, diversity in the curriculum, new career pathways, the gap between school and university: we much look forward to hearing from our colleagues!

Over 20 AHLU alumni have studied Art History at Cambridge since 2020. We’ll be sharing new research on what that means and how it happened. And on the outcomes from our accredited Art History GCSE level pilots .

Room MI.SCRecit. Churchill College. See you there. 🎓
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http://arthistorylinkup.org/

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