Sean Lang is Director of the Better History Forum and a former Honorary Secretary of the Historical Association.  He has acted in an advisory capacity both to labour and Conservative ministers. He has taught in secondary schools, run a secondary history PGCE course and was for ten years head of history at Hills Road Sixth Form College before becoming Senior Lecturer in History at Anglia Ruskin University.  He has written widely on history teaching, pioneering research into the assessment of narrative and calling for a comprehensive overhaul of GCSE and A level.  He was the author of the Historical Association’s 2005 report on History 14-19.  The Better History Forum’s proposals to the coalition government attracted praise in the Guardian and the fury of the Campaign for Real Education, so they must be getting something right!