Third evening in a row with no running water here. Thankfully I got all my watercolour painting done before lunch.

Always lovely to get these echoes of my former life in the midst of a busy week of Y4 teaching. This time a Chinese translation of my Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction. 😊

Always lovely to get these echoes of my former life in the midst of a busy week of Y4 teaching. This time a Chinese translation of my Science and Religion: A Very Short Introduction. 😊

#Sunset between Åsgårdstrand and Horten, Norway ❄️🇳🇴

Tyneside morning, 1950, photo by Harry Morrison.

Great to be back at Elmley NNR.

Good morning all! First dawn visit to nature reserve in a while.

Oh wow - this is nice to see on a Saturday morning after my first, exhausting week as a Y4 teacher! My VSI in Japanese with an awesome cover, featuring my favourite (17th-C) image for teaching the difference between passions and emotions! www.hakusuisha.co.jp/book/b665575...

Oh wow - this is nice to see on a Saturday morning after my first, exhausting week as a Y4 teacher! My VSI in Japanese with an awesome cover, featuring my favourite (17th-C) image for teaching the difference between passions and emotions! www.hakusuisha.co.jp/book/b665575...

A few more terns fishing at Rye Harbour this afternoon. Might go back with snacks and drinks for a few hours tomorrow!

A few more photos of swallows and martins dipping in our pool on Spanish holiday last week.

Tern about to dive for a fish, at Rye Harbour today.

A few more photos of swallows and martins dipping in our pool on Spanish holiday last week.

A few more terns fishing at Rye Harbour this afternoon. Might go back with snacks and drinks for a few hours tomorrow!

Tern about to dive for a fish, at Rye Harbour today.

The emotional historiography of the French Revolution 🇫🇷 - esp. Carlyle vs Michelet - ⚔️ was one of my favourite topics to teach in my old job…. so it’s nice to find myself staying here. 😎

The emotional historiography of the French Revolution 🇫🇷 - esp. Carlyle vs Michelet - ⚔️ was one of my favourite topics to teach in my old job…. so it’s nice to find myself staying here. 😎

Some bird shots from earlier in the year.

On holiday in Spain. Every evening swallows dip into the pool for a cooling drink. Trying to get photos is hard as they are very fast! Will post better shots if I get some. 😁

Delighted to see that my book Joining Up is published today, a mere 11 years after I started writing it. You can read it for free here: doi.org/10.7765/9781... @manchesterup.bsky.social

Just completed my first year as a teacher. Year 6… so dominated by SATs. I knew it would be hard work - and emotionally challenging- and it was! Topped off by planning and running the leavers’ service. 😭😊. Am in day 3 of recovery plan. Sofa. Cups of tea. Cricket on TV. In September - Year 4! 😎

Just thinking about that famous Eliot quote from Middlemarch: ""If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence." [1/2]

Just completed my first year as a teacher. Year 6… so dominated by SATs. I knew it would be hard work - and emotionally challenging- and it was! Topped off by planning and running the leavers’ service. 😭😊. Am in day 3 of recovery plan. Sofa. Cups of tea. Cricket on TV. In September - Year 4! 😎

WHOA! Open access publication of a lot of the drawings from Johan Huizinga! Some beautiful historical imagination as well as this "It's best when the reader sees the workings of the brain but not the face" (as the owner of a very expressive face: yup) books.ugp.rug.nl/ugp/catalog/... #HoeraHuizing!

A kid gave me a card this year that said I'd made them like history. Made my week. Honestly if you want to make a teacher happy just do a nice card. Don't buy me anything.

I adored this kind of making when I was a child. My kids adored this kind of making when they were young. Hours and hours of fun. 😊 bsky.app/profile/darr...

when Italian PM Vittorio Orlando burst into tears during a meeting at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 his fellow statesmen were apparently rather embarrassed and discombobulated. Is there no specific diplomatic protocol for tears, I wonder?

I expect you're wondering whether other leading politicians have shed tears in the House of Commons before - and more generally about the history of crying in British culture, and what it means. Good news - there is a book all about it! bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very proud of this - created for Year 6 this week - as part of our focus on Magritte in Art this term. It's an automatic Magritte-style painting generator. At the touch of a button it gives you 3 motifs and a suggested title!

Very proud of this - created for Year 6 this week - as part of our focus on Magritte in Art this term. It's an automatic Magritte-style painting generator. At the touch of a button it gives you 3 motifs and a suggested title!

📢 Check out the programme of the Second Conference of the Society for the Study of Medieval Emotions, which will take place in St Andrews on 26-27 June 2025. 👇

Guess what!? My biography of Henri Bergson will be available in paperback NEXT WEEK (June 19th)! John Banville called it "the most intellectually stimulating book I read this year" and the NYT called it "lively and deft". Get your copy here (or don't I'm not a cop): linktr.ee/eherring

Distractions consume more learning time than we tend to think. Here's the lowdown: ↓

Sketch of a crow Pastel and acrylic 5x7 #art #birds #nature #illustration

Mind-clearing pre-SATs-week morning walk.

Good morning all

NEW: The SATS reasoning paper is now live for everyone! Massive thanks to my members that made it possible. It simply wouldn't exist without you. mathsbot.com/primary/reas...

Good morning all! Things getting intense in Year 6 as SATs hurtle towards us. 4 more teaching days to go. Morning walk in bluebell woods is a great antidote. 😇

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A cultural history of weeping - my first foray into radio, in 2013 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Is Love an Emotion? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...

Is Love an Emotion? | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-...

Beautiful walk to Godrevy Lighthouse today.

Rainy day in Cornwall- perfect time to organise beautiful polychromos pencils !

oh yay! The fabulous @mirierubin.bsky.social ( @qmul.ac.uk) teaming up with the equally fabulous @harryspillane.bsky.social!! #Reformazing #BookHistory

Just arrived in Kent from Shanghai (tariffs all paid) - Chinese translation of “Weeping Britannia”. 🤩

Just arrived in Kent from Shanghai (tariffs all paid) - Chinese translation of “Weeping Britannia”. 🤩

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Amazing news just breaking in time for tomorrow. What a relief.

In the run-up to SATs in May, I am trying to keep a balance between revision/ testing and other things in my Y6 class. Tomorrow morning, we're going to be voting on names for our class chickens. (Feel free to express your preference!)