We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today. The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.

Lovely to find the 200th edition of TH in my postbox today, including an article by me and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social. Hopefully it will contribute to the journal's tradition of starting conversations amongst history teachers! @histassoc.bsky.social

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

Does continuity in #history really mean "nothing happens"? Exploratory blog post makes case for a dynamic understanding of continuity as a disciplinary concept Thanks @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social for thoughts on earlier draft! istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/08/what... #historyteacher #EduSky 🧵

I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!

Our first working-class prehistorian, Bill Varley, assisted socially during the Depression by recruiting unemployed men from Liverpool to his and Joan’s hillfort excavations in Cheshire, allowing them to work whilst still drawing their benefits.

***NEW*** My new (free!) article in the History Education Research Journal exploring what ‘colligation’ is and how it might help teachers develop students’ causal arguments. Based on a case study with one of my Y13 classes. journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/article...

"What can you do? What can you do, resourceless as you are, with freedom withering in a bone-stripping sirocco of stupid, wasteful fascist oppression?" buttondown.com/theswordandt...

It really does pay to read the signs when you're in Bungay.

We've reached the 'eerie East-Anglian road trip' stage of the summer holiday. Obviously that has to begin with a nose around a church, this time it's St Peter and St Paul, Lavenham.

Declaration today by B'Tselem and PHRI that #genocide is being committed in #Gaza confirms growing consensus by human rights groups. Next year, we in #education must reflect this when teaching genocide since #Holocaust. This means we must also challenge prior policy of silence on matter by HMDT 🧵

I don't want to romanticise the rural past, but every year I spend the months of August to October shaking down every hedgerow I can find and no-one ever gives me a badge! @themerl.bsky.social

„Immersive“ is exactly the opposite of what the field of history is trying to achieve.

📚 Does your curriculum include Gypsy, Roma or Traveller histories? We're fundraising for a GRT Teacher Fellowship in memory of Helen Snelson—champion of inclusive history. 💛 Support here: shorturl.at/c5DoK #GRTFellowship #InclusiveHistory #HelenSnelson

Goblin Band at @butserancientfarm.co.uk! A great gig, and probably one of the better ways I have started the summer holiday.

Teachers of Russian and Soviet history! Join us in Manchester this November for unique @histassoc.bsky.social event with 3 world-leading scholars to discuss pedagogical approaches to teaching Russian and Soviet cultures, gender and sexualities www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

And even if you weren't able to join @alistairdickins.bsky.social you should still check out these resources, they are phenomenal. On a par with the work of @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social and that's saying something!

Huge thanks to @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social for a wonderful @1972shp.bsky.social workshop on storytelling at KS5! Following an earlier blog on @arthurjchapman.bsky.social workshop, here are some (incomplete) thoughts stimulated by Claire Holliss' session. istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

Settling down 2 hear the stellar @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social reflect on & explore the affordances & constraints of narrative @ A Level. Do stories bias towards the individual not the general? How can we tell stories about those who leaves few archival traces? Does story bias to the dramatic? #SHP25

#SHP25 opened with an absolutely brilliant session from @alistairdickins.bsky.social on the use of substantive concepts - a brilliant mixture of deep thought about what they are and what they do and examples of classroom practice.

It's the final countdown, the last chance saloon, the end of the line! Tomorrow night we close the #SHP25 box office so don't miss out on our magnificent conference on July 11-13 @leedstrinity.bsky.social: 40 wonderful workshops, 3 kicking Keynotes, fab fringe sessions & enthusiastic exhibitors ...

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

🚨Job alert! Due to an internal promotion we are hiring a part-time History teacher @HuntingtonYork Please share this with anyone you know looking for a job, as encourage them to contact me to talk it over! Any and all reposting very much appreciated... www.huntingtonschool.co.uk/page/?title=...

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

#SHP25 is fast approaching, the excitement is rising, the workshops are being finalised, the keynotes are being drafted, the exhibitions are being mounted & the bar is being stocked! Ticket sales end July 4th so not long left to grab 'em from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... Come and join us

Tomorrow is our Romany and Traveller Heritage Day! Join us from 11am to 4pm for a day of free family fun, celebrating the history of the UK's Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. Featuring blacksmithing, arts and crafts, music, talks, poetry, and more! merl.reading.ac.uk/event/romany...

A year ago, I found this 1940s photograph of a London vegetarian restaurant on eBay. The restaurant, known as the Vega, was a popular hang-out run by a German-Jewish couple and their refugee staff. It was also a front for a Europe-wide and today little known anti-Nazi resistance network 1/

And that was Nightjar Infanticide with their new single, 'Murder on #Springwatch'.

Looking forward to next year's #Springwatch when that final song thrush chick returns to pull an Inigo Montoya on Spud.

Check out our updated (final) schedule for #SHP25 www.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/summerconf/ book your ticket for the conference (1 Day, 2 Day or Weekend options and group discounts available) store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... AND enter our draw to win £25 from Rayburn Tours

Really excited about our upcoming interdisciplinary conference on the 'Legacies of Section 28' in contemporary history, education and activism, which will be held at UCL on 6th and 7th June. For more details and to register for this free event: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

@btrappy.bsky.social must have had her ears burning! No sooner than I posted about her awesome workshop at #SHP25 than this popped up in my inbox! Check out this fab promo to find out more & grab your ticket to see Barbara and the 25 other presenters from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...

all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea

Workshopping a new interpretations enquiry on why the Pembrokeshire cider company chose to designate Henry VII as 'medium dry'.

First 800+ lawyers, now 380 writers warn of genocide in Gaza. The mood had shifted. When will teaching profession catch up? We all teach about genocide but have seemed paralysed here. #HMDT policy of silence on mass killing in Israel, Gaza has fed culture of fear in schools and should be challenged.

As I am currently putting together my slides for the first session, I'm going to plug for this webinar series on A-level teaching that I will be running in June with @histassoc.bsky.social - the course can be booked via this link www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

1. I am absolutely thrilled to be able to announce the launch of the @1972shp.bsky.social South-West History Forum! The inaugural event will be taking place on June 18 in Bristol, with a stellar lineup: Michael Riley, @paulalobo.bsky.social and @tomallenhistory.bsky.social

Thank you @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social for an excellent session on LGBT history at A Level. I have followed Claire’s speaking and writing for a while and delighted to finally hear her live! So knowledgeable 🤩 #HAConf25

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

Everyone who shouted at me during my walk this morning. 🐦‍⬛

Ready to go at #haconf25! (Obviously I had to make sure I set all my resource sheets out a good 20mins ahead of the start of the workshop.)

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

Anyone coming to my workshop at the @histassoc.bsky.social conference will see a key legacy of my PGCE subject studies sessions in action.

Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...

STATEMENT FROM ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY

Just another reminder that our first ever TIHPS Conference is coming up on 28 June. Tickets are still available and we would love to see you there. #historyteacher

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Thinking about your teaching of the History A-level? I will be running a series of webinars with @histassoc.bsky.social between the 12th June and the 3rd July! Details are included in the link below, but feel free to ask me any questions about the course. www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

Experimental archaeology is a top tier weekend activity - especially when you get to make a Neolithic sewing kit.