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

Hmmm…#SHP workshop? 🤔 Would people want to hear about my nerdy adventures through Tudor progresses? (I’d prob focus on A Level - bringing the women into the story…) #historyteacher @1972shp.bsky.social

I love a forgotten preorder (I ordered this last year when I was teaching Y9 geography and had no idea what I was doing!) #historyteacher who sometimes is a #geographyteacher

The Waiting Game by Nicola Clark is only £3 on Amazon at the moment, which is a total bargain because it’s amazing. Buy it and get women onto the A Level spec! #historyteacher #EarlyTudors #OCR And we can all talk about how awesome it is and that it’s Zoya-approved.

I’ve been teaching the Tudors at A Level for 15 years. This book means I understand two fifteenths and tenths for the first time. Everyone just assumes you know what this tax is, and no one knows who to ask! Also, there’s a good contextual overview of England v France since 1066 #historyteacher

@enortonhistory.bsky.social’s new book is so easy to read. I can definitely see how it will be used in my department (next week Y7 start learning about the Tang Dynasty so I should have just enough time to seamlessly put Norton’s story of Wu into lessons) #historyteacher

Please be prepared for this to become my entire personality (yes, it always has been, but now I will have stats to back up my tenacity) #historyteacher #EndSexismInSchools #women observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Lambert Simnel and the Battle of Stoke tomorrow (for my second Y12 group). My first group didn’t get the best lesson because I can’t read and type fast enough. Petition to rename it to the Earl of Lincoln’s rebellion, btw. Stop blaming the kid. #Historyteacher #ALevel #CurrentlyReading

We ❤️ this book, it has Zoya’s ringing endorsement, and mine too #historyteacher #EarlyTudors

Lent a book to a Y12 who wanted something to read in his study period (Tudor England by Lucy Wooding) He came to return it, with a tone of surprise: ‘It’s really good!’ Yeah, I know what I am doing! They need to remember that I am a huge nerd about the Tudors. #historyteacher

This weekend is all about finishing my @histassoc.bsky.social teacher fellowship resources (and to an extent, remembering what I did for my first draft) I’m going to add Katherine Willoughby, mostly because I have visited her house, and so did Henry VIII.

Oooh, look who’s snuck away from Bosworth! Currently being all stealthy in Colchester, AKA the cupboard in my classroom #historyteacher

Can anyone recommend a good story about the causes of WWI, like which historian has written the ‘most engaging for Year 9’ version? #historyteacher

Battle commences. I was the most dramatic, every time a Jelly Baby was cut down I screamed, which just made the kids giggle even more. They prepped it really well and now know who the surviving nobles/Jelly Babies were, and who they originally supported. #historyteacher

This is totally normal…I maintain this is how Polydore Vergil wanted his work to be interpreted. Some Jelly Babies, cocktail sticks, sticky notes, and a battlefield plan. He didn’t say he *didn’t* want it done this way, so… #historyteacher #EarlyTudors #Bosworth

Battle of Bosworth with Y12 tomorrow. I have a crown…do I take in some shrubbery to properly stage it in my classroom? I have a cupboard where the Stanley contingent can watch and choose sides. #historyteacher

Please do read this! Lots of overlaps between English and History and some potential ways forward to address some of the challenges we face. It's good to kick down those silos! ##historyeducation #historyteacher @arthurjchapman.bsky.social @fredoxby.bsky.social @petejackson.bsky.social

I am listening to Tracy Borman’s new book, The Stolen Crown, and it starts with Camden rewriting history to be more favourable to James I. I love it already (and then Chapter 1 starts with the Treaty of Perpetual Peace, we all know and love it) #historyteacher

I have rewritten my lessons on Henry VII with more focus on his accession to the throne and the wobbly grip he had on power. It seems to have worked well so far. Women in the wars of the roses for Year 7 = now I finally understand the conflict, Year 12 can learn it properly! #historyteacher #ALevel

Who do you think would be a good replacement presenter for Bragg on In Our Time? #historyteacher #Radio4 #nerd

There’s a section comparing Empress Wu and Elizabeth I, which means I can do a metaphorical cage match between Year 7 (Wu) and Year 10 (Elizabeth) #historyteacher @enortonhistory.bsky.social I am so looking forward to reading this!

Margaret Beaufort was brilliant, wasn’t she? Just a powerhouse. I have been catching up on @nathenamin.bsky.social and @nicolatallis.bsky.social’s course today. I’m teaching Y12 all about her next week! #historyteacher I hope their reaction is better than Y7’s horrified howls (A baby at 13!)

Teachers of Russian and Soviet #History! Russian-language words got you flummoxed? Our spoken dictionary and pronounciation guide might come in handy. 200+ terms with audio recordings, free to use and access 👇 istorikteach.blogspot.com/p/spoken-dic... #historyteacher #EduSky #historyeducation

The History of the Gun Myth in America #historyteacher podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/j... (this is a very interesting series, well worth a listen to the whole thing!)

I think for half term one we will focus on Super Sentences (we so often ask students to ‘write in full sentences’ but do they know what that means in a disciplinary context?) Is this patronising or just back to basics? #historyteacher

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #historyteacher The Holocaust should be taught by trained subject specialists, so that students are not misinformed by AI slop (and if they find it, they can discount it)

Helen Castor’s She-Wolves is such a great read (I have not read much this summer and I should have read more, but 🤷‍♀️) I also read Stephen Alford’s All His Spies and Nathen Amin’s Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders. All very good. #historyteacher

Woooo!!! Peterborough!!! #historyteacher

Imagine his ghost’s horror when he discovered his son abolished intercessionary prayer 😬 #historyteacher #earlyTudors

Crime and punishment teachers: check out this World in Action clip from 1967, it’s crazy. #historyteacher #GCSE youtu.be/W_tqQYmgMQg?...

Recently rediscovered novel is book of the week on Radio 4. Written in the early 1930s, it recounts the rise of Nazism in Germany. #historyteacher www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

We need a unit for Year 8 about the Industrial Revolution and we have no ideas at all. What EQs do you all do for IR that can inspire me (and inspire Y8)? #KS3 #historyteacher #curriculum

First lesson with Y12, anyone? #historyteacher (got to bring the drama!)

How many times do you think you’ll hear the words ‘attainment 8’ over the next few days? #historyteacher #GCSE

Reading this one to prep for two Year 12 classes 🤞🏻 and the abduction and execution of Ankarette Twynyho is horrific. George Duke of Clarence deserved to drown in wine for being a pig person. #historyteacher #currentlyreading #EarlyTudors

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a... #historyteacher