I think we found someone who has no sexual chemistry with Jonathan Bailey (she has with Ariana, though) #WickedForGood

History without women is like a body without a nervous system. #ALevel #ForeignPolicy (Today was Margaret - the most successful Tudor, dynastically?) #historyteacher

Started reading this one - it’s an interesting combination: part history, part biography, part travelogue. It’s also got some fictionalised parts (in that way it reminds me of the start of each chapter in Black Tudors) #historyteacher #currentlyreading

This image is part of a detailed account of King Edward VI’s procession in 1547 from the Tower of London to the Palace of Westminster on the day before his coronation. Unique to this scene is its recording of the City, especially Cheapside with its goldsmiths’ shops.

#historyteacher #Elizabethans #GCSE

Continuing the ‘women leading Tudor foreign policy’ policy #historyteacher #EarlyTudors

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

This is the draft of Elizabeth’s order to execute Mary Queen of Scots. It was written by Cecil. And I LOVE the fact that he forgot to include the English monarch’s bonkers claim to rule France. He had to add it in afterwards.

@hallierubenhold.bsky.social dismantles the Great Man model of history. Lovely stuff! #historyteacher I am fully here for the profoundly messy lives of social history. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

All you Tudors fans and Peterborough fans (there is a small crossover, I am one of them) this is Peterborough Museum’s new exhibition. I will probably be there every day. #historyteacher peterboroughmuseum.org.uk/events/queen...

And they say media is London-centric. Come on, BBC. You can do better than this. ‘Where is Cambridgeshire?’ FFS.

I always thought I was a royalist while the Queen was alive. Turns out I just like castles. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn... #historyteacher I’ll be interested to see the process involved in taking his prince title away; have just done control of nobles with Y12, so we love an Act of Attainder.

This book is great for setting the scenes for each section of Viking Expansion. It can be quite tricky for students to get into the Vikings, as it’s so different from everything else they’ve studied; I think this will help. #historyteacher #GCSE I haven’t got to kings yet, which is where we struggle

Public Health teachers: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #historyteacher #GCSEHistory

Booked! #historyteacher

New book ✅ Cake ✅ Half term ✅✅✅

Henry VII? Oh, wait. Never mind. #historyteacher www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Control the nobility, Charles (it’s about flipping time!)

Superb review of Lenny Henry & Marcus Ryder's reasoned explanation of reparations & Nigel Biggar's malevolent rebuttal. @bizk.bsky.social far quicker than my plodding pace but writing something along similar lines that delves more into the histories of slavery now. observer.co.uk/culture/book...

I can't decide whose head in early modern England would explode the most watching this video.

Me to Y13 today: The king has just prayed with the Pope!!! First English monarch to do so since 1534!!!!!! Y13: *non-plussed, confusion* Me: Do you remember that Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church in 1534? Y13: *collective shrug* Well, I thought it was important. #historyteacher

'He fought in the Napoleonic wars and is one of only nine Black soldiers known to have received the Waterloo Medal, the first British medal awarded to soldiers regardless of their rank. Yet the story of Pte Thomas James has been overlooked for centuries.'

#historyteacher www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Philip Pullman’s new (final) Book of Dust out on Thursday. Half term starts on Friday at 4.30 - I have detention duty on the last day of term *again* Shall I re-read the Secret Commonwealth again beforehand? I have only read it once; I have read all the others countless times. #currentlyreading

Anne of Brittany: badass. If only there were more women in our A Level specification. At least my Year 12s will get her whole awesome life story! #historyteacher Anywhere she asserts her power and independence will go down well with my crew tomorrow. #EarlyTudor

What an incredible series. I’m only halfway through it, but it is absolutely gripping (the bit when they get to Prague in 1938, and then the Gestapo move into the building next door to their apartment!) #historyteacher I went to Prague this summer and I can picture it www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

The best email ever 🥹 #historyteacher @histassoc.bsky.social

Was looking back at some of the work I’ve done as I desperately try to get my resource rationale ready for final deadline, and I came upon this excellent point which I have included in my resources for teachers! #historyteacher #HenryOnTour @endsexisminschools.bsky.social @histassoc.bsky.social

Paris? #Louvre

21st century Act of Attainder? #historyteacher www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv... He’s had to give up Order of the Garter too. This will be discussed with Y12 on Monday as they’re about to do a ‘control of the nobility’ essay.

As a Reformation nerd, this pleases me enormously. #historyteacher #EarlyTudors King to be first British monarch to pray with Pope in at least 500 years www.bbc.com/news/article...

This makes me want to swear at the top of my lungs #historyteacher (my ECT colleague was in Y13 in 2020, so she was in the TAG cohort and we talked about it today like a historical event!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Elizabethan history appeals to Zoya’s dark side #historyteacher

Henry VII monopoly by Y12 #historyteacher

Henry VII financial monopoly-ish tomorrow. I really hope it works (and if it doesn’t I’m going to bribe the kids with chocolate money - it’s what Henry would want) #historyteacher #EarlyTudors

#historyteacher About flipping time! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Henry VII financial policies and control of nobility tomorrow. Going to do my best to make it interesting. Do I have the energy? #historyteacher #EarlyTudors

First female Archbishop of Canterbury: I find myself oddly emotional about it. Poss am imagining how pissed off Henry VIII would be about it. Get stuffed, Henry! #historyteacher

I want it take Y7 to visit a medieval castle - but we are in a castle wasteland. Where should we go that’s within reasonable distance of Peterborough? (Alternatives to Lincoln, I mean) #historyteacher

I really should be marking Y10 exam answers but I appear to have left them at school, so I suppose I will just have to read my new book instead. Oh dear. #historyteacher I’ll pretend it’s research for Y13 and Y11.

TES article on our ESIS report after Natasha and I were interviewed, and featuring great examples of curricula change from history teachers across the country. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Spoke to actual @tracyborman.bsky.social today with my Y12s and Y13s - now off to buy her book for tomorrow as I saw Y13 ears prick up (it will help with their coursework) Thank you @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy for a great day. #historyteacher

I’m not using any other social media at the moment because of doom scrolling destroying my brain, but it does mean I’m missing out on the pre-excitement for Taylor Swift’s new album - I am so ready for this album, I feel like the world needs some good. #TheLifeOfAShowgirl #TaylorSwift

Does anyone actually enjoy setting and collecting homework? It’s the worst part of my job, and that includes marking. #historyteacher

I have been hugely enjoying @theresthistory.bsky.social episodes about Mary, Queen of Scots. The episode about Darnley’s murder is particularly good for A Level students as it gives an overview of historiography (including Jenny Wormald, who may have hated MQS like I hate Essex) #historyteacher

I very strongly believe that the worst day of the school year is the day after Open Evening. #historyteacher

Calling all Cambridge OCR GCSE History Spec B Teachers - you know who you are! Please can you spare 5 minutes to complete this survey and tell us what you think of the current spec. having you say now will only make what we do in the future better. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

We did jelly baby Operation Dynamo at open evening (most of the boats in the real Dunkirk evacuation were made from origami, didn’t you know?) #historyteacher And we also had Tudor coroner, and one of our Y8 students pretending to be Henry VIII and giving a tour of Tudor London (his idea!)

Open Evening tomorrow. I have been refreshing displays. We’re doing a cosy book corner to show the books we read on our KS3 curriculum using @historyrage.bsky.social’s quote from @gregjenner.bsky.social as inspiration ‘every historian starts by reading everything they can’ #historyteacher…

Publication day is here for our @endsexisminschools.bsky.social report: ‘The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum’ a nationwide research project into the representation and teaching of women in the KS3 history curriculum endsexisminschools.org.uk/campaign-pro...

A revamped and more detailed display for my new classroom. Ask and you shall receive, Y11 (they will regret it when I keep going on about it) #historyteacher #historyaroundus