Heritage Education Trust

Dr Michael Maddison
Chair

Michael is an independent educational consultant with particular expertise in history and heritage education. He served as National Lead for history at Ofsted (2008 - 2015) and was the author of ‘History for All’, Ofsted’s highly regarded national report on history in schools. Before this, Michael taught history for over 25 years. As an inspector of schools and now as a consultant, Michael has extensive links with heritage education. He was, for example, the author of ‘Planning Outstanding Local History and Heritage Projects’, published by Historic England in May 2016 and updated in 2019. Michael is associate vice president and honorary fellow of the Historical Association (HA), a former Deputy President of the HA, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS), and a member of the RHS Education Policy Committee. Michael is also an assessor for the Sandford Award for Heritage Education.

Tracy Borman, OBE
Chief Executive

Tracy is Chief Executive of the Heritage Education Trust, Chief Historian at Historic Royal Palaces and Chancellor and Professor of Tudor History at Bishop Grosseteste University. She is also an author, historian and broadcaster, specialising in the Tudor period. Her books include Elizabeth’s Women, which was Book of the Week on Radio 4, Thomas Cromwell, a Sunday Times bestseller, The Private Lives of the Tudors and Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I. Her debut fiction trilogy, The King’s Witch, is set around the turbulent time of the Gunpowder Plot.

Tracy has presented a number of history programmes for Channel 5, Yesterday TV and the Smithsonian Channel, including The Princes in the Tower, The Fall of Anne Boleyn, Inside the Tower of London and Henry VIII and the King’s Men. She is a regular contributor to BBC History Magazine and gives talks on her books across the country and abroad.

Robin Clutterbuck
Trustee

Robin has been a Sandford Award assessor since 1998. A Cambridge History of Art graduate, he started his career as a teacher before moving into the heritage sector in 1984, taking up a post of Education Officer at Buckfast Abbey, a living Benedictine monastery built on the ruins of a medieval abbey. Since 1997 he has run a successful museum and heritage consultancy, specialising in audience development, with a particular interest in how the arts can be used to engage people with heritage on a personal and emotional level. Robin is based in Devon and works across the UK and further afield; he has particularly strong links with Turkey where he has trained university students, laid on international conferences and advised the Turkish museum sector. As a long-standing Sandford Award assessor, he has visited over 60 sites, bringing considerable experience to the process.

Christopher Green
Trustee

Christopher is Executive Director of GES World Ltd,, a company leading improvement projects internationally for government-affiliated agencies, regional groups and private companies involved in quality sustainability. Formerly he was the Education Adviser for Dubai government’s ‘Dubai Knowledge’.

Prior, he held top posts in English local authorities, namely London’s academically most highly achieving London Boroughof Bromley; and led the major privatization of services when he was statutory Chief Education Officer and Director of Education and Community Services in Walsall.

A frequently published writer, his main book, The Privatization of State Education is the authoritative practical appraisal of this‘ privatizing’ process. Innovative schooling remains close to his heart, as does his passion for environmental and heritage education where he continues his many years as a City of London guide-lecturer, a freeman of the livery Company of Educators, an assessor for HET and a trustee for advancing education in Tanzania.

Professor Andrew Jackson

Trustee

Andrew is a historian and geographer. He is currently Head of Research and Knowledge Exchange at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln. Andrew’s current research interests include regional and rural art and literature in twentieth-century Britain. He works regularly with the heritage sector and local history societies. His activities incorporate exploring and promoting collections, supporting collaborative projects, giving talks, arranging exhibitions, and publishing articles of new findings and fresh insights into the past.

Sarah Roller

Trustee

Sarah is Policy & Education Manager at Historic Houses, working on behalf of around 1,450 independent historic houses and gardens across the UK, to represent their interests to government and the wider heritage sector, as well as to support their learning, outreach and community programmes. Prior to joining Historic Houses in early 2022, she worked for History Hit, Trent Park House and Godinton House, in roles spanning communications, digital media and collections/curation work. She has a long-standing interest for all things relating to our everyday consumption of history and heritage, and has previously contributed to public history programmes at her alma maters, Trinity College Dublin and the University of Bristol.

Peter Williams

Trustee

Peter was Chief Executive of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) from 2002 until 2009. After graduating in English at Exeter University, his earlier career was in printing, university administration, and as Deputy Secretary to the British Academy. Between 2005 and 2008 he was President of the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education.

Following retirement in 2009, Peter undertook several international consultancies, had senior governance roles in two universities, held a number of other voluntary positions, and was a member of the Education Honours Committee. He was Master of the Worshipful Company of Educators in 2014-15.

Peter was appointed CBE in 2009. He holds four honorary doctorates and is Honorary President of the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education (BAC). He is also a Trustee of the Educators’ Trust, the Norfolk Archives and Heritage Development Foundation (of which he was Chair from 2017 to 2022), and is a churchwarden in Norfolk.

Jane Stone
Trustee

Jane has held the role of Bursar at Lincoln Minster School since September 2019 following 17 years in the RAF as a Commissioned Officer taking on roles in HR, Finance, Media and Estate Management, including the challenges of being custodian of heritage assets. Exposure to a broad and varied career has allowed her to develop leadership and strategic analysis skills vital to operational and project management. Prior to joining the RAF, she held a number of finance jobs in the private sector leading to becoming a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accounts and an MSc in Financial Leadership.

Lynne Minett

Trustee

Lynne is motivated to make culture accessible to all and she enjoys leading teams to drive social change, support civic placemaking and economic regeneration.

Lynne is currently Head of Learning at the National Railway Museum where she is responsible for public engagement including youth, health and wellbeing, schools, family and community programmes. This includes leading the learning programmes in the recently opened £6 million Wonderlab family interactive gallery. She is also a mentor for the Group for Education in Museums and Dementia Friends trainer.

Lynne has worked in education and heritage learning since 2000, starting her career teaching history before becoming Education Officer at the National Coal Mining Museum. She later joined English Heritage as Education Manager for the North of England before moving to the National Trust as Visitor Experience Manager at Nostell Priory. Lynne has been the Yorkshire regional convenor for the Group for Education in Museums and a co-opted school governor.

Lucy Hockley

Trustee

Lucy is a museum manager with over 15 years of expertise in lifelong learning and interpretation, as well as experience in volunteer management and collections management. She has worked in independent, local authority and University museum settings. Prior to working in Museums, Lucy worked with young people in schools and other educational settings. She has been involved in establishing and supporting in international networks focussing on understanding the historic environment, also serving as a judge for the EU Prize for Cultural heritage/Europa Nostra Awards. She enjoys the creativity of the sector, the enthusiasm often demonstrated by younger visitors in museums and the unique learning environments museums offer. Lucy is an Associate of the Museums Association, a museum trustee and sector mentor.