Terminal Help - History!!!!! Please Help!!!!!!

Hello, I was just wondering if anyone here who knows a bit about Terminal could give me some advice. At the moment when I open terminal and click the up arrow it scrolls through the last commands I typed in (I'm guessing this is the History - Well thats what I'm going to call it!). So I was wondering if there is either a command or option to delete this history - So as when I next open terminal and I click the up-arrow it will just be blank!. Hope someone can help me with this.
Thanks in Advance
Adam Jeffreys

unset HISTFILE
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