NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5). An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸 (🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

1. I fear that I & other analysts might have been mistaken interpreting social survey results as a sign that Britons’ increasing, broad progressivism would make them unlikely to support the far right. www.theguardian.com/society/arti...

It's almost as if, before the Gaza famine was officially recognised, it was a story, as media organisations could generate controversy by hosting Israeli government spokespeople and our own rightwing blowhards, insisting it was all a fabrication. Now that it can no longer be denied ... no story.

This actually makes me feel sick. The UK is broken and those in power have sold out to billionaires.

As a historian, writing about the past - no matter how violent or horrific - increasingly feels like escapism...

'Corrugated Cardboard Seahorse' Some materials lend themselves perfectly to a subject. www.darrellwakelam.com #edusky

Privatisation isolated small towns and villages. Economic decline follows. Despite subsidies can't get a direct bus/train from a town like Ludlow to Birmingham. It is all about profits and shareholders, not needs or community building. Yet major parties still obsessed with privatisation.

No immigrant caused hikes in the price of energy, water, food, banking, insurance, internet; decline of manufacturing, lack of social housing; PFI; potholed roads; climate change; lack of skilled labour; crisis at universities. Neoliberalism did that Why is Labour not countering Reform narratives?

Education is the enemy of fascism.

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

'I have made every effort to understand you. Now, I need you to understand me.'

Action against the slave trade from 1807 enabled British colonisation, but Jane Lydon shows here how achieving the abolition of slavery in 1833 and expanding territory through conquest were also interrelated, not separate, processes. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

'I asked her why she was there and she looked incredulous. Wasn’t it obvious? “Because Keir Starmer’s a wanker.” Why? “He’s taking our speech away.” Even though you’re allowed to sit outside his house and call him a wanker?' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Interesting online course Cambridge Continuing Education @histassoc.bsky.social www.pace.cam.ac.uk/courses/medi...

We have been found and continue to be found wanting. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sewage pours into rivers of English & Welsh national parks at twice rate elsewhere. 254,808 hours of sewage dumped, underinvestment & mismanagement. More than half of the rivers in national parks failed to meet the good ecological status required by law. Regulators do little.

3 project reports now available for our Leverhulme-funded Rural Racism project. A film below reflecs just 3 of our 135 in-depth interviews. These supplement statistics, gaining insights into the human experience of racism in the countryside, where only 4% of the population is from a minoritised gp

Want to know how U.S. social studies teachers are reacting to censorship laws? Check out this new article from Kaylene Stevens, Erin Fife, and I in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CBE4Z...

How did ancient civilisations contend with #ClimateChange? The 4.2kya event was an abrupt arid phase that lasted a few centuries from ~2150BC. In the Indus Valley, reliance on wheat and barley monocultures led to the decline of urban centres. 🏺 #Archaeology 1/2

Where can the dove of peace land? Brilliant production & performance - last chance to see it in Edinburgh is Sunday 24th.

Afternoon in Bristol and my first visit to M Shed Museum in about 4 years. The People of Bristol exhibition is particularly brilliant, good to see Colston with some context instead of on a plinth.

#OnThisDay in AD 1405, Chinese fleet commander Zheng He (鄭和) set sail on his first major expedition, to the Spice Islands. His seven voyages across the Indian Ocean projected Ming Chinese power as far as Java, Sri Lanka and the East African coast 1/2 📷 Wubei Zhi 武備志🏺

If you want to have a look at one of Claire’s brilliant units - have a little look in the Curriculum PATHS Hub under Y12/13 for Civil Rights and Social Change 1884-2013. padlet.com/cpaths/shp-c... If you have a unit you want to share, please dive in. It’s open to everyone @1972shp.bsky.social

Funny what people reserve their outrage for. A. Children getting blown to bits in cold blood? B. Scootering into an RAF base to spray some paint on a plane? Decisions, decisions ....

Delighted to see Kevin Morgan's 'Serving the public' on @foodtank.bsky.social's list of 20 must-read books on food, culture, and climate for summer reading: foodtank.com/news/2025/06... Out now! #LondonClimateActionWeek #food #culture #climate #summerreading #booksky

Was suppressing COVID-19 such a crazy idea? Anthony Costello says no. 🧪 #episky www.bmj.com/content/389/...

according to these school discipline policies, children who use these language patterns are ‘misbehaving’. open access article exploring this in depth: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Such a wonderful talk from @gillianobrien.bsky.social on Ireland’s places of famine, death and rebellion. The mirror is a fascinating and moving artefact #HAConf25

Medlicott winner 2023 Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch is our Saturday morning keynote speaking on Unsettling many settled facts: pleasures and responsibilities for the historian of Christian views on sex. #HAconf25

Professor MacCulloch outlines how small challenges to conservative male positions of historic privilege have led to strange ideological alliances between MAGA, Putin’s Russia and extreme views from Afghanistan to the UK. “a fundamentalist is an evangelical who is angry about something” #haconf25

Two outstanding Hachette Learning authors and remarkable individuals, sorely missed by all. A touching tribute to Helen Snelson and Nicolas Kinloch to kick off #haconf25

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

For the conference, we've created a flyer on 'What's the Value of History?' You can download a copy here: bit.ly/3F69cjS It's aimed at A-Level students (and their parents / teachers), who're interested in history at university but concerned it's not a sensible career choice #Skystorians #HAconf25

Fascinating talk on British Empire teaching at #haconf25 @histassoc.bsky.social @facinghistoryuk.bsky.social

Excited to drag my soapbox out in Liverpool for @histassoc.bsky.social conference. Do come along if you want to hear a small, animated Irish woman talk about the importance of Irish history and how to embed it into your curriculum. #HAConf25

It was brilliant to catch up with @benbassett.bsky.social after school yesterday to run through our HA talk and chat all things history teaching. One of the main reflections is the importance of working collaboratively. Can’t wait to share our work at conference @histassoc.bsky.social #HAConf25

Prof Walsham talks if the importance of books, in particular Bibles and Books of Hours as family heirlooms and carries of family history #HAConf25

Conduits of the sacred, primers became personal items of value, envied with personal and family record. #HAconf25

Archives of prayer- primers cemented the ties between family and friends. The primers are gifted to family members down the generations, with different status and values. Presidential lecture at #HAconf25

@histassoc.bsky.social #HAConf25 begins with Alex Walsham presenting a fascinating range of religious texts which, as family heirlooms, acted as vehicles of intergenerational transmission of Christian culture and doctrine.

The family bible becomes a record of family history - loss and devotion. And also if the black sheep in a family, all are remembered. They become family shrines and places of keeping family records for safe keeping. #HAConf25

Libraries and archives are not neutral spaces but political players of what is collected for social memory- Professor Walsham #HAConf25 @britishlibrary.bsky.social

Professor Matt Cook giving the last keynote of the day. #HAconf25

I am super-excited to give this paper on Saturday at this year's @histassoc.bsky.social conference in #Liverpool. If you happen to be around, come along! If you follow online, tune in at 3pm! #haconf25

Are you a beginning / trainee #historyteacher? Think history can help young people reflect on issues of truth and justice in a complex world? Want to share your ideas with others? Why not contribute to the @1972shp.bsky.social Curriculum PATHS Planning Lab. padlet.com/cpaths/shp-c...

BREAKING: Israeli ministers have approved a plan to capture all of Gaza and remain there, officials have said. More to follow