This article aims to explore the possible effects of the new National history curriculum on the writings of history textbooks. It contains four parts. The first part gives an overview of the characteristics and difficulties of history textbooks in recent decades. The second part investigates some developments of history textbooks writing in Germany and U. K. The third part analyzes main features of newly published history curriculum that related to the formation of history textbooks. At the final part, this article concludes that the predicaments of history textbooks might be staying the same, due to the wide coverage and large amount of contents in the new national curriculum.