We’re thrilled that @profdanhicks.bsky.social will be a keynote speaker at the SHP Summer Conference this year (July 10-12, Leeds Trinity University). His books The Brutish Museums & Every Monument Will Fall challenge us to think critically about empire, museums, & the stories we choose to preserve.

Last chance for Early Bird Tickets for #SHP26 we move onto Tier 1 tickets on Friday. Don't miss out on a great deal for our fantastic conference - 46 wonderful workshops for primary and secondary history teachers, 2 superb keynotes from @marnieh-w.bsky.social and @profdanhicks.bsky.social +

Just booked mine, looking forward to it!

Just wrote up my interview with Trần Nam who was 6 years old in 1968 and saw his entire family killed at My Lai. Only those who were 10 or older at the time of the massacre are formally considered as survivors, since younger children are not presumed to remember much. But he remembers everything.

Every time I hear men talk about destroying this planet so they can travel to a dead one, I think about how miraculous the existence of Earth is, and how capitalists should never be permitted to make decisions about space exploration.

As if extortionate visa fees and in many cases outright rejections weren't enough, now they want a "tourist fee" for the descendants of the very people these museums plundered!

Current reading:the discussion about citizenship seems particularly relevant-'legal' categories like 'citizen', 'subject', 'refugee' are part of an imperial framework that still rely on imperial institutions to define terms of inclusion. Unlearning means dismantling the systems that produce them.

There isn’t a visa category for 'fleeing danger' so restricting legal routes just pushes people towards even more dangerous 'illegal' routes. But wait, I forgot the real purpose is fear-mongering, not actually providing solutions...

Eid Mubarak to all our friends, especially to those currently besieged by imperial wars and hatred.

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

I'm deeply confused by this take - even if the attack was legal, we should still condemn it. There was a time when slavery was legal and that does not affect how we view it. But (il)legality is too often conflated with (im)morality, which is also why the language of 'war crimes' is so unhelpful.

Teaching about the Salem Witch trials this week and found the name 'Increase' Mather weird, so naturally fell down a Puritan name rabbit hole... It got so much worse😭

Today we are launching the 2026 SHP Summer Conference, which will be taking place July 10-12 at Leeds Trinity. This year, due to the huge increase in proposals for workshops, we have extended our offer to 46 wonderful workshops for primary and secondary teachers of history (see below for a taster!

In that case, I'd like a £2000 refund and to undo the intellectual damage I suffered from the "citizenship test".

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

I bring a sort of "fuck the patriarchy" vibe to family gatherings that gets me cancelled all the time🤷🏽‍♀️

Finally! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 “The university and Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) have announced that 116 artefacts will be returned to their home country. The objects, known as the Benin Bronzes, were taken by British armed forces during the occupation of Benin City in 1897”

Wasted three and a half hours watching #Dhurandhar. It’s unfortunate that genuinely capable actors continue to waste their talent in films that serve as Hindutva propaganda - promoting bigotry and Islamophobia :/

Apologies for putting this man on your TL but I cannot stop laughing!! "I'm too smart to read"🤣🤣🤣 Probably the best advert for reading more!

I'm wondering whether the DfE has actually checked with schools and teachers about whether they want AI infesting teaching and learning because from everything I'm seeing most of them don't.

Not sure what possessed me to take 30 students in this miserable weather, on the Tube at 9am rush hour, but somehow we made it back alive - even managed to use medical documents from the Western Front to research treatments 👍🏽

What a great evening at the National Humanities Lecture at @soasuni.bsky.social Hearing one of my all-time favourite authors, Elif Shafak, speak about the importance of the humanities and the need to stay stubbornly optimistic 🙌🏽

British Museum personified. Empire or its remnants in our worlds - this Punjabi performer is from Canada.

I'm sure everything will be absolutely fine 🙄 A few people will make lots of money. The law will spend years trying to catch up and some very unfortunate people will get caught in the middle in totally devastating ways

An excellent session by @oblaize.bsky.social on why a diverse and decolonial curriculum matters and the value of connecting local to global histories. Loved the comment about teaching diverse stories not only in diverse settings but across the country because "it’s just good history!". #SHPDTC26

Babel > Katabasis

Shocking that people weren't so keen on a humanless, hyper-surveilled dystopia just to pick up a sandwich!

A new study on the Gaza genocide should shock you: www.owenjones.news/p/dont-forge...

If you seeking some #historyteacher Spring Term inspiration - or want to share a unit you have developed - do check out the new @1972shp.bsky.social #CurriculumPATHS Sharing Hub. A host of brilliant units all rooted in our community led Principles for History Teaching padlet.com/cpaths/shp-c...

As a newbie, this really puts things into perspective...

I am absolutely thrilled that the @1972shp.bsky.social Developing Teachers' Conference has signed up 95 teachers of history for Saturday, nearly doubling last year's attendance. BUT I really want to hit three figures so am offering 5 free places to the first 5 people who DM me asking for them!

Well you see there is some benefit to being chronically online - secured myself some free CPD!

FFS

There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree

"Want to Understand the 'Donroe Doctrine'? Look to Trump’s Gaza Plan" Trump has laid the groundwork for 'taking over' and 'owning' Gaza in a deal that will enrich his family and associates. Undoubtedly, similar plans are in the works now for Venezuela and beyond.

Subjecting someone to unsolicited pictures of interesting passages from a book is a love language, actually.

Really don't think the DfE have thought that one through. 'AI tutors' for disadvantaged kids because they don't deserve better than hallucinating slop? 😒

It's the final countdown, the last chance saloon, the end of the line!! Tickets are still available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... but the box office for the Schools History Project's Developing Teachers' Conference closes tomorrow at midnight!

And stories of how they were killed aje.news/io7ux6

About to embark on my annual viewing of Fleabag...

17,000 kids without parents. Jesus fucking Christ we all watched it and all our governments participated in it. Some point in the future history students will genuinely try and figure out why the fuck we allowed that.

The interview actually comes across as genuinely reflective on the racism his family experienced in the 60s and 70s However, this 'victim of racism' to 'champion of hardline anti-immigration' pipeline must be studied🤨

Not only across MATs, just all whole-school policies will be the death of me!

The people of Gaza deserve better than Trump’s gang of rogues. The Palestinian people — and only the Palestinian people — should determine their own future.

Trump is America’s Freudian slip.