It was such a privilege to help edit this book- I learnt something from each chapter about what it means to teach history and do it well.

Really honoured to be a part of this. Well done editorial team!

There's just one more day to sign up to our free Changing Histories webinar. Join @catherinepriggs.bsky.social & @egcarr.bsky.social on planning and teaching lesson sequences. Register here: bit.ly/4nrA8Mv

It will be really good. @catherinepriggs.bsky.social and @egcarr.bsky.social are brilliant at explaining how to integrate rich extended story with critical disciplinary thinking. They explain the #ChangingHistoriesKS3 series really well, giving great practical tips.

The use of a puzzling, intriguing, scholarship-driven enquiry question is so central to my teaching. This masterclass will be brilliant!

How does an enquiry question sustain interest, build momentum and give all pupils access to disciplinary thinking across a lesson sequence? How does the EQ help you to integrate compelling stories and rich, extended text? Register bit.ly/4nrA8Mv for Cat and Elizabeth's webinar on Tues 8 July 3.30pm

This will be excellent. @catherinepriggs.bsky.social and @egcarr.bsky.social together will be unmissable! Turn up the heat I say. 💥 ☀️ 💥

I have a new blog, building on the work of @michaeldoron.bsky.social . If you love Star Wars, Andor, Grogu and the Mandalorian, then don't read it. The blog is not about any of that: lobworth.com/2025/06/27/s...

@jamesboycebooks.bsky.social Hi James, great to see you on BlueSky! @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social and I were hoping to ask you (yet another) question about mud and fens and big East Anglian skies, can you email me please or ping me a message here? Thanks so much!

And here it is. Finally. Surrounded by some of the scholarship that shaped it. It’s beautiful and such fun to teach - it has given my Year 8 class stories to live inside. A parent messaged me to say history has ‘never been so fun!’ - all I did was tell the class stories from this book.

🚨Job alert! Due to an internal promotion we are hiring a part-time History teacher @HuntingtonYork Please share this with anyone you know looking for a job, as encourage them to contact me to talk it over! Any and all reposting very much appreciated... www.huntingtonschool.co.uk/page/?title=...

So happy that the scholarship of Ruby Lal, Emma Griffin, James Boyce, Vincent Brown and others will shine in this textbook - it was such a pleasure and privilege to work with historians, & the integration of images and text is spellbinding. Bravo @counsellc.bsky.social @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social

This is very very exciting!

Superb work from @colinmccormick.bsky.social and @katieamery.bsky.social - genuinely inspiring and can’t wait to read the book about Liverpool and the Transatlantic Slave Trade #haconf25

@colinmccormick.bsky.social @katieamery.bsky.social thank you so much for talking me down during ricecakegate on the Friday - super kind of you - see you in Newcastle for a nervous wee next year and congratulations on the book!

MASSIVE thanks from me and Katie to all the brilliant teachers who wrote... @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social Eoin Gallagher, Sorcha O'Callaghan, Dan Procter, Sherlon Atkins, @johnhough.bsky.social, Rebecca Chadwick. Out early May @katieamery.bsky.social pls rt

Love listening to @salwilson11.bsky.social taking about environment in the curriculum. #haconf25

Thinking about your teaching of the History A-level? I will be running a series of webinars with @histassoc.bsky.social between the 12th June and the 3rd July! Details are included in the link below, but feel free to ask me any questions about the course. www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

Interested in a direct approach to history teaching? 'Lean lessons' with booklets, whole-class reading, explanation, and lots of questions? @jacobolivey.bsky.social and I are leading a webinar series for @histassoc.bsky.social in June – and it's cheap! Just £50 for all six webinars. Link below! 👇

The even better news is the book is ready to fly off the shelves, and here is an offer to save 20% from Routledge. We hope it is a useful guide for teachers who are new to the profession, as well as more experienced colleagues. www.routledge.com/A-Practical-...

#Historyteacher HoDs - a we get to the ‘use it or lose it’ stage of the department budget, I’ve just spent the spare bit I have on these- mainly pre-ordering book 2, which is very exciting Money where my mouth is. More info and free sample here: www.hachettelearning.com/history/chan...

I’m telling more stories than ever in my classroom. My webinar with @counsellc.bsky.social l on how I go about this is here: youtu.be/_rsR3I8BwPI?...

I loved presenting at Ark Soane '25 this weekend! I discussed the use of academic historical scholarship at Key Stage 4 and its potential for planning and delivering GCSE History.

Thank you to everyone who came to our second Ark Soane History conference yesterday. It was such a joy to see so many history teacher colleagues together. As always, I’m proudest of our pupils who were so keen to help and talk about history. What a lovely day. #Soane25

This story of mahogany is one of the most thought-provoking and illuminating approaches to teaching the transatlantic slave trade I've ever come across. @hannahcusworth.bsky.social has blended her original research into a mesmerising story for Y8, evoking contrasting but connected worlds #Soane25

The power of a brilliant curriculum for teachers: I was so ready to meet Eamon Duffy today at #Arksoane25 after teaching the magic of Morebath for over a decade. Huge thanks to @michaeldoron.bsky.social for such a special opportunity

@catherinepriggs.bsky.social i can only apologise for the Italian accent, so good to catch up!

@counsellc.bsky.social I’m full of joy! I wrote my Master’s in Education thesis on pupils’ reading of historical sources and it’s a huge passion of mine. Can’t wait for 4pm today. A big thanks to everyone who has signed up, see you there!

You're so right @victoriacrooks.bsky.social it's a really superb day, it would be wonderful to get as many people taking part as possible, and it's a real bargain!

#Soane25 is live! Come and join us on Saturday 8th February for a day with a *phenomenal* line up of speakers. Tickets are ONLY £25 (including lunch!) Don’t miss it! www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-...

Vitally important thread for history teachers about using sources in the classroom and why and how we all need to do it better. In a nutshell, sign up for Hodder's webinar on this from @paulalobo.bsky.social taking place on Monday!

If you’d like to join those teachers who already defy a decades-old trend of reducing history's riches to ‘sourcework’, join Paula this Monday, 4pm for the 2nd in our series of webinars using #ChangingHistoriesKS3, all about great history teaching. Do register & listen later ow.ly/A01g50U5cVb 🧵End!

I'm so excited about Monday! I can't wait to share all my work on sources and how I collaborated with historian Helen Castor and anthropologist Sabine Hyland to create two unique enquiries that get my pupils really excited about studying a variety of sources in purposeful, constructive enquiries.

RIP

Great way to close #BlackHistoryMonthUK24 come and delve into origins of Black British Racial Equality movement's inspirations from Martin and Malcolm. @histassoc @1972SHP Check out "Why we can't wait: Martin and Malcolm in England in 1964" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/why-we-can...

@victoriacrooks.bsky.social clearing out some old photos and found this from several years ago!! Made me think of you. I need to add ‘no bursary’ and some traffic cones around it…!

Today is contents reveal day for Book 2 (Year 8) of my #ChangingHistoriesKS3 series - Expanding Worlds. Excited and proud to have worked with such a dedicated and inspiring team of authors. If you want to see how the sequel to Connected Worlds will look, here you go: ow.ly/ctbe50TyXvz

Thanks Vic. We are still processing the riots and this will really help. Look forward to reading it.

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