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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.

19/08/2026

Good luck to every student collecting their GCSE results this Thursday! 🎓

Whatever your results, there’s still time to find your next step. Our free Art History A Level and EPQ programme is open to Year 12 and Year 13 state school students, no prior experience needed, and no Art GCSE required.

Learn online or in person at the Courtauld, Somerset House, on term time Saturdays. Our Art History Level students achieve on average B grades and above, and go on to study Art History at Russell Group universities including Oxford, Cambridge, the Courtauld, Durham, Edinburgh, Leeds, UCL and Warwick, and others, and to pursue careers in the creative sector.

📅 Deadline to apply: 4th September 2026, 5pm
📍 More information and apply via link in bio

Share this with any young person you know who might be interested!

Courtauld Courtauld Research Forum 📷 .alumni.official

11/08/2026

Wishing all Art History A Level students luck this results day, and especially our AHLU exam candidates. We are so proud of you for studying fast track with us on term-time Saturdays at the Courtauld and online, and of your determination, commitment, progress joy in Art History.

It’s such an achievement to make it to the exam room, and we are proud of you whatever your results. Please remember to tell us how you do and what your plans are.

Thank you James Allen’s Girls’ School as ever for your much-appreciated support with our exams entry, and to Pearson and Act On It for supporting our project qualification entries. And to all at the Courtauld for so generously hosting our Art History for Everyone courses.

And Y11/12 students, this could be you in two years’ time! Find out more and apply for our free Art History A Level and EPQ courses, at the Courtauld and online, link in bio.

JAGS School ActOnIt Pearson Courtauld Courtauld Research Forum 📷 .alumni.official

31/07/2026

“Close looking is not so different from close reading.”

Wiann Wilson joined us this summer as an intern supported by the Laidlaw Foundation, bringing her training as a Literary Studies scholar at Columbia University to a very different discipline: art history resource development.

Sitting in on our “Gallery Time” sessions at the Courtauld and online, Wiann noticed the overlap immediately. Both close looking and close reading demand patience, curiosity, and a willingness to question what seems obvious. Both ask us to notice what’s been overlooked.

Rather than asking what should be removed from the curriculum, Wiann asked what new questions could be brought to it, developing two new resource databases: one for our HPQ students, and one for A Level and EPQ, both weaving in decolonial practice and Global Majority perspectives while staying grounded in the specifications our students are examined on. Her reflection ends with a question: whose stories have we been taught to see, and whose are we only just beginning to notice?

Read Wiann’s full reflection on our website. Link in bio.

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24/07/2026

Ten years ago this summer, we were recruiting students for AHLU’s very first course. Fifteen students signed up for free Art History A Level Saturday classes at the Wallace Collection, and none of us quite knew where it would lead.

A decade on, over 600 young people from more than 250 state schools across the UK have studied with us. We’ve worked with students in over 4% of all UK state secondary schools, and over 16% of London’s. Fewer than 1% of state schools offer Art History A Level, so every one of those students matters enormously to us.

Our founder Rose Aidin MBE has written a look back at the whole journey, from that first course through the qualification’s withdrawal and reinstatement, the pandemic pivot online, and our newer courses for younger students. Link in bio to read the full story.

Thank you to every student, teacher, volunteer, trustee, partner and funder who has been part of this. Art History really is for everyone.

📷 Quentin Newark The Wallace Collection .alumni.official

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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.

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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. 🎨

.alumni.official 📷 Clare Parker

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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