Finally, in the new academic year we will be launching a free CPD course introducing enquiry in history education - coordinated by Dr Tom Haward and a host of influential @ioe.bsky.social history educators - this will be the first of a suite of courses to be developed over time. 5/5

The NHS was founded 78 years ago today. It was built after the devastation of the Second World War when the country was bankrupt - but when the people demanded a society built on fairness and dignity for all. Today, we must defend the right to healthcare and rebuild our social security system.

Listening to Neil Young’s “As Time Explodes” again on the 250th anniversary of #4July both as a fantastic live album but also a powerful critique of what America has been and is now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F8P... Thread on the tracks: bsky.app/profile/apf1... #america250 #neilyoung

SHP CALL-OUT: Alongside my ESIS workshop, I’ll be running a fringe session next Saturday where we will explore your curriculum challenges and use ESIS resources, research and collective expertise to identify meaningful ways to include women’s stories in YOUR curriculum.

“MARRIAGES ASSISTED BY THEM ARE INVALID” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Medievalists just saw our version of the Bat Signal in the sky

BREAKING: The Vatican excommunicates bishops from a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics that consecrated them without Pope Leo's consent.

Some really useful stories on ICT today for anyone teaching American history youtu.be/3Epcoe1BPe4?...

adamipsmith.com/2026/06/25/1... A great read from @aipsmith.bsky.social

Trying to condense my local history tour for Friday. Seems that CoPilot has adopted a very British view to how we simplify an historical narrative!! Just stop talking about empire!!

No Glastonbury this year? Come to the History Teachers' Glastonbury of the Mind (c) @arthurjchapman.bsky.social instead. Last day for ticket sales store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... and concession tickets store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...

Trying to condense my local history tour for Friday. Seems that CoPilot has adopted a very British view to how we simplify an historical narrative!! Just stop talking about empire!!

6-3 though!!

The Supreme Court has upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens.

Another stupid Mahmood idea - getting “trained” members of the public to decide asylum cases - is ripped to shreds here by someone who knows what they’re talking about… Politicians have truly lost their minds on immigration. It’s making us a very wretched and angry place.

Shamelessly persuaded my random trainmate to promote the TIHPS project to her history-teacher son. Anyone else want to join? Come and talk to me @1972shp.bsky.social conference! sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/researc...

Well given that half of them will have collapsed by the time we get to the newest GE, I don’t think unis can be the central plank

If adulthood has taught me one thing it’s that my stress reaction / coping mechanism is to tidy manically. If anyone ever needs their bookshelf alphabetising, or all their tax documents filing, just invite me over and create a manufacture a high stress situation…. I blame my mother

Thank you @peterfrankopan.bsky.social for this essential piece

Cartoon by @jamesdfmellor.bsky.social

These people are genuinely unhinged

Extraordinary detail in the new book on Trump's second term administration

Oh, so in Farage’s book, you can break the law to protest the loss of income of your crypto mates but protesting climate change, or against a genocide in unBritish - got it

Thought I’d let you know how much my two are enjoying Snap! @barbarableiman.bsky.social . Got a dramatic reading of the dancing poem when making breakfast

For years, ITE providers have been saying the teacher retention crisis could be reduced if training was better funded, mentors were recompensed, there was more time and space for new teachers to learn, and if subject and phase expertise were central. Successive govts have done the exact opposite

There is a triple impact here: 1. Now bursaries are almost gone TF tends to pull trainees away from other routes as they are funded. The trade off is much higher timetables, less subject specific input, and ultimately less robust ITE however you cut it. 2. The concept of “high potential” trainees

And just when you think the ITE madness has ended…. schoolsweek.co.uk/new-chapter-...

Says it all really. As another busy ITE year draws towards its close, just an enormous thank you to the generosity of all those amazing mentors who do such a vital job. Spot on from @victoriacrooks.bsky.social uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/06/26/m...

You can watch the full Panthéon ceremony here. It's really spectacular. www.youtube.com/live/4V-XVGi...

Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella were excluded from the Panthéon ceremony at the request of Marc Bloch’s family, who cited his “deeply anti-nationalist” views.

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

Be the rain youtu.be/_F8PgUxvX-M?...

One week left to book your ticket for the SHP Conference! 40 wonderful workshops, 2 kicking keynotes, 1 raucous roundtable, fabulous fringe sessions, beautiful bildung sessions, and an exhilarating exhibition! If you can't make the whole weekend, then why not join us just for the Saturday!

Never thought I’d be praising Julia HB for journalistic integrity!

After using $1 billion to brutalize immigrants, the concentration camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz" has been emptied. Its victims still need justice. truthout.org/articles/flo...

“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...

A great video for teachers of American West as ICT Newscast reflect back on the 150th anniversary of the defeat of the United States at the Greasy Grass (Little Bighorn). Lots of recent voices and reflections on contemporary relevance youtu.be/-WirH2qLrhE?... #historyteacher

If you have a moment to help @alistairdickins.bsky.social out with this research, that would be brilliant. #historyteacher

Do you teach Russian/Soviet history? I'm researching curricular diversity and representation, and would love to hear from you! If you have 5 minutes spare, your response* would be incredibly helpful. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... *All responses anonymous. #EduSky #HistoryTeacher #KS4 #KS4

Neil Young’s “As Time Explodes” is such an album for our times. It begins in wistful nostalgia which becomes ever more a sense of loss, and eventually a final cry for us to wake up to the history repeating itself over and over. 🧵 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

This thread is fantastic

Who would like a Horace Nicholls photo? A member of the Women's Forestry Corps uses an axe to mark felled tree trunks for sawing c1917-18. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Interestingly (same article) this is exactly the book I was having my footnote / endnote rant about the other day. I really wanted to keep checking the sourcing and it was hard to do - not because it wasn't there but just the move to endnotes instead of footnotes.

This article on the recent historiography of American expansion is really interesting, not least because of the way it pulls together all the shade the various authors have been throwing at one another...and I am 100% here for it go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AO...

I bloody love old hiking photos. Here are my grandparents in 1948, hacking up the 3200m Mt Titlis in what appear to be brogues, and taking with them a tiny canvas backpack, a walking cane and a pack of cigs 😂

Our Fringe sessions this year include all the major exam boards including @historyrichk.bsky.social & @katiehall.bsky.social; Ending Sexism in Schools (@sashasmith.bsky.social & @teachmedwomen.bsky.social), Empire Migration & Belonging, Inclusive Histories and the UCL MA team

For the third by-election in a row Reform UK offered voters the politics of rage and for the third time in a row they have been roundly rejected as a result. How Andy Burnham's massive victory in Makerfield shows the wheels are now coming off of the Nigel Farage project

The SHP Summer conference is always a highlight of my year. Come and join us for a weekend of #historyteacher inspiration with the friendliest crowd of people you’ll meet!

Have you got your ticket for the @1972shp.bsky.social Summer Conference yet? It's the hottest ticket in town so snap it up while you can: box office closes July 1st, tickets are available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... Concession tickets from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...

Full details of the workshops, keynotes, fringe and bildung sessions as well as our live poetry from Natalie Davies are available on our website here: www.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/summerconf/