Our keynote speaker for #DTC26 is Dr Sarah Longair, from Lincoln Uni, who specialises in bringing material culture from the British Empire into the history classroom. Sarah has recently collaborated with SHP Yorkshire Regional Adviser @sashasmith.bsky.social on a range of brilliant resources.

And Nick Mackintosh will be helping primary history teachers to develop young peoples' emotional understanding of the past.

Also not to be missed our some of our other workshops for the conference: @lambhearttea.bsky.social will be helping secondary history teachers to scaffold for success!

Embodies the underlying weirdness of this government - the minister in question hasn't tweeted for *OVER A YEAR* because the site is a cesspit.

🧵Day 3 and we have a new meaning for "running Venezuela," courtesy of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, who is in charge of Venezuela as well as the National Archives. We're going to insist they do what's in the US national interest. Time for some principal-agent theory. 1/

Darren Jones saying repeatedly the Labour Government won't comment on a hypothetical. It's not hypothetical - Trump is saying very loudly repeatedly what he's done and boasting about it. And yet the UK Government won't even say it's a breach of international rules. Shameful.

The thing about being a "lifelong advocate of international law" is you have to have the courage to speak up when it’s broken

"A woman dressed as a pink Power Ranger hacked a dating site for far-right extremists. She deleted the entire site, but first she made users fall in love with AI bots she ran, thus obtaining information about them. Over 8,000 far-right profiles have now been mapped."

An unsettling morning for listeners anxiously waiting for Alistair and Rory to tell them what to think

It’s exhausting and boring, but because the wilful misunderstanders will be out in force some of us are going to have to spend a lot of time saying: No, we do not like or support Maduro. We like and support the rule of law.

This by @ecfr.eu’s Majda Ruge is a good guide to Trump’s calculus on Venezuela. Rival factions (primacists, prioritisers, restrainers) have been counseling different courses of action, but “the answers depend on what the president decides will bring him the biggest ‘win’.” ecfr.eu/article/maga...

Parker's piece nails why this matters. "Tech companies... would rather not answer for their products’ failures. Every headline that says “Grok apologizes” or “Grok admits” or “Grok says” creates a world where the chatbot takes the fall while Musk and his executives face no scrutiny whatsoever."

Grandmaster Flash is swimming in that bear costume again. He's like a Bungle sometimes, it makes me wonder how he keeps from going under.

Folks, she brought a whole plate of spaghetti to the broadcast center to do her headshot. She then houses that spaghetti. Mattia sips on an espresso during his. Truly the heroes we need during these times.

Hive mind... Going on a solo trip to Amsterdam for 2 nights a week on Monday. Both evenings and one day free. Any recommendations beyond the obvious?

Park running in arctic temps with these legends was a great way to start 2026. No lofty resolutions from me, would like a quiet uneventful one tbqfhwy. Love to all.

Anytime some yahoo says, “all serious historians agree…” I want to say: 1. What is a “serious” historian? 2. Have you ever actually been in a room with more than one historian? We can’t even agree with how long the 19th century was.

I just wrote this for a project I am working on and it basically sums up the last 4 years of my life working in school improvement

Treating myself to a slice of counterfactual history. Delicious. pca.st/episode/1e7d...

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Listened to this earlier. Not an easy listen as you'd expect but I really recommend it. An incredibly articulate, brilliant woman.

The tufted titmouse, official bird of the City of Windsor, Ontario Canada, stops to take a drink and reflect. #photography #birds #bird #photograph #photo #reflection

One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background. The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.

shit like this is the core of the damage the social internet has done to us we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same

Freezing cold Boxing Day football remains undefeated.

My five favourite films from 2925 boxd.it/QYQxA 1 Ballad of Wallis Island 2 Sorry, baby 3 Train Dreams 4 Weapons 5 Tornado

☠️MORTIFYING CHRISTMAS STORY TIME Ahead of the big day tomorrow, here’s the story of The Worst Thing That Ever Happened At Christmas. A few years ago, the two of us were invited to a communal Xmas dinner at a friend’s house, where all the guests were to bring different Xmas dinner components. 1/

Merry Christmas. Have a great day whatever you are up to 🎄

On Christmas Eve 1968, in Lunar orbit, the Apollo 8 crew took this photo: “Earthrise." I'll never forget how inspiring the Apollo missions were to my brother and me as kids. They showed us what our country and humanity can accomplish when we work together toward a common goal.

My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

The arrest of Greta Thunberg for peacefully opposing genocide and supporting those on hunger strike is wrongful and disturbing. This is yet another shocking example of the UK’s broad terrorism laws being used to target those exercising their right to freedom of expression and assembly rights.

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Boom. Fuck you pal. I AM Christmas.

And if it's not a tradition, well, it should be 🎁 📚 ☕️

"Far from the outdated stereotypes, today’s crack dens are lively community hubs, shared spaces where people come together to celebrate their favourite activity."

The big Christmas and festive season question... When you arrive at someone's house over the festive period how long is it traditional to wait before asking "What's the WiFi password mate?"

We said "there is no language moderate enough to avoid condemnation and sanction by a British establishment which is determined to support this atrocity for as long as the Americans want it to continue." Does the evidence say we're wrong, here?

I'm sorry for sounding like a broken record. Truly. It's just that it is going to take two generations, maybe more, to undo much of the utterly avoidable damage that the US administration is doing right now, and for hundreds of thousands of people killed by USAID cuts it is already far too late.

Anyone explicitly teach continuity explicitly? We do so as part of change but I’m interested in what continuity could look like for history teachers. Thank you so far to L (not on here), @egcarr.bsky.social and @alistairdickins.bsky.social

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

The idea that AI can “detoxify” people reframes emotional overwhelm as a software problem, and it treats loneliness and strain as things to route into a machine rather than conditions that require support, care, and structural repair. 1/*

I keep thinking about this. I was talking to a journalist friend about Project 2025, and he was saying how so much of it is being executed with frightening efficiency. And it is all the more frustrating because everyone with the power to stop it was so thoroughly and repeatedly warned.

Among his other numerous acts of philanthropy (google him), Michael Sheen sold his properties to fund the homeless World Cup. File him under ’not an arsehole’. bsky.app/profile/mgua...

About time the police picked up the @privateeyenews.bsky.social investigation into these houchenanigans.

The bit that gets missed in the scandal around Farage's schooldays is that his school made him a prefect - despite warnings from staff about his conduct. It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.

BBC live filming people arriving for a funeral. Listing off celebrities arriving with shaky camera footage. Ghoulish.

Freedom of speech, in the liberal ideal, was about limiting the power of the elites. Now, in this twisted form, it is about forcing us to listen to elites and silencing the masses.

Now this was an unexpected discovery!

A century of service from Oli. 👏🏼 🍤

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