The report featured in the Guardian today on the inclusion of women in hustory lessons is really important - lets make women’s voices heard and their actions remembered. www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

Our report in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/education/20...

In this photo are my two babies....and Rupert and Henry 😂 We're thrilled to announce that Changing Histories: Expanding Worlds c1600-c1870 is now out! Thank you to all the incredible people involved in this project and to everyone who's already ordered a copy/class set! You have impeccable taste. X

It's that time of year when we evaluate our curriculum. I would really appreciate it if anyone could have a look over ours. What are we missing? What needs changing? Does it flow properly? Does it prepare students from KS4 & 5? Any Feedback much appreciated. #historyteacher

No shade on James, who is just playing the game along with the rest of us, but the fact students need to know all *this* as well as the *history* remains bonkers. They have to spend time doing this sort of nonsense in so many subjects - surely we can examine better?

Look what’s arrived @colinmccormick.bsky.social @katieamery.bsky.social Looking forward to getting stuck in

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In 1665 a recipe for a tea caudle created by Sir Kenelm Digby was published. All you need is to mix together two yolks, sugar, and brewed tea. Suggested for days when ‘you have not the conveniency to eat presently a competent meal’. Stuart Huel? Would that I was brave enough to try it.

#HAConf25 was a blast. Thanks to @jacobolivey.bsky.social @mrsthorne.bsky.social @catherinepriggs.bsky.social @egcarr.bsky.social @davidjhibbert.bsky.social @e-nicholson.bsky.social and @michaeldoron.bsky.social for terrific workshops - and to the @histassoc.bsky.social team for organising!

Evidence-based, ‘balanced’ history like this is conducive to national cohesion in modern Britain. Far right denialism & justification of colonialism is not.

Teaching historical concepts quite literally means teaching a language. Why is this and how do we do it? The first of a three-post blog on substantive concepts and the language of history. istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/05/lang... #historyteacher #history #EduSky

@sathnam.bsky.social thanks for the inspiration. Sums up our aims. Book for schools out next week

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...

Interested in a direct approach to history teaching? 'Lean lessons' with booklets, whole-class reading, explanation, and lots of questions? @jacobolivey.bsky.social and I are leading a webinar series for @histassoc.bsky.social in June – and it's cheap! Just £50 for all six webinars. Link below! 👇

A British right wing culture war magazine, The Critic, has published an attack on me for the objections I make to historical misinformation. Here’s my response: alanlester.co.uk/blog/a-lesse...

Funnily enough, I've been working on historic 'Buy British' campaigns recently. Some thoughts in the monster (!) thread 👇 Tl;dr: BB is a moralised demand on consumers that currently loses out to rivals - but only because of geopolitics. I.e. this is not destiny. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Women's and gender history is thriving in HE, but very little of this new work appears in schools history. Mid-way through the gov't's curriculum review, Natasha Hodgson considers the barriers to the take up of new work in schools, and how she seeks to overcome these bit.ly/4lf0Xm4 1/2 #Skystorians

A lovely start to the weekend to receive the latest Teaching History in the post. I'm grateful to @histassoc.bsky.social for the opportunity to share my assessment journey in an article in this edition.

Today I will be playing the role of Cassandra. I've posted my responses to the Ofsted consultation on my blog in case they're helpful to others. Feel free to make use of them or ignore as you see fit, but make sure you respond. occamshairdryer.wordpress.com/2025/03/08/m...

Yup. My advice is DON'T. DON'T make a progression model for history's second-order concepts. Instead, build a strong disciplinary curriculum: have pupils tackle a growing variety of types of historical Q in each area, and let each inform the next, but...

Planning some A-Level lessons on court faction in the 1540s and, I know I know this isn't actually right, but it's hard not to conceptualise it as the jocks (the conservatives) vs. the nerds (reformers) The ur-jock, Nicholas Carew:

Just four places left on the 2025 Experienced Teacher Programme starting this Wednesday, 26th February: CPD pitched at the level of expertise, designed to refresh and reenergise great history teaching. Bag your spot here: www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

www.tes.com/jobs/vacancy... Come and work with me!! Teach in a dept with an ace HOD (*not* me!), representative history, fab pupils, in a welcoming community & stunning location. Please RT NW folks @carmelbones.bsky.social @mrbajkowski.bsky.social @histassoc.bsky.social @1972shp.bsky.social

A very exciting opportunity to come and join the History team at Sawston Village College. We have recently been awarded Gold Quality Mark status by the Historical Association and our GCSE results are top 1% value added (+1.6)... ce0976li.webitrent.com/ce0976li_web...

Retirement of Thomas, the last of the 2012 generation of British riders to still be doing it at a high level - coming on the heels of Discovery hiking the price to watch cycling in the UK to £370 pa and ITV cutting back tour coverage - probably signals the end of the UK cycling thing ☹️

I've been thinking a lot about AI the past year or so and I am growing increasingly firm in my belief that I basically hate it. I do not want to read an AI-written email newsletter or use an AI-generated summary. Education is a human domain and there is something so inhuman about generative AI.

People, places and a pinch of discipline. Here's my slides from #soane25 if that floats your boat. The script is below each slide. drive.google.com/file/d/18CWg...

Well #Soane25 did not disappoint! Huge thanks to @michaeldoron.bsky.social @jacobolivey.bsky.social and the team at Ark Soane for a wonderful day.

It's quite something when Eamon Duffy is only one highlight of a conference! Terrific day at #Soane25. Brilliant work from the history team there once again.

@michaeldoron.bsky.social doing @michaeldoron.bsky.social things #soane25

We go again! #Soane25

We're gonna need a Bigger Listen.

New siege engine assaulting Chepstow Castle this morning

Still time to apply. teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/jobs/teacher...

If you're interested in using 'takeaways' for planning the original article is here. We developed the idea to create coherence across KS3 - what did we want students to take away and use again later in KS3, both content and conceptual understandings? thinkinghistory.co.uk/Issues/Curri...

Looking forward to the AI revolution in schools 👍

With just 2 days left before the box office for the SHP Developing Teachers' Conference closes, there is just enough time to give you a wonderful free sample of our previous conferences: @iandawson51.bsky.social on developing students' chronological understanding www.youtube.com/live/r1jwfnU... ...

Kids now need what kids have always needed: a strong grounding in the knowledge and skills of humanities, sciences and creative arts. Anyone selling ‘jobs of the future’ is a charlatan.

*** NEW POST *** When talking about education, do we just jump to the end? @greeborunner.bsky.social asks that we give the full picture... wp.me/p7mhqT-OC

Almost finished this and cannot recommend it enough. Orme manages to turn what could be a dry survey into a treasure trove of detail and life. As a non-Medievalist, I wish I'd read it at the start of my career before teaching Medieval religion and the Reformation very badly.

I think this is the best funniest thing I've ever read on a brass plaque in a church. Behind the altar at St Marys in Yate, a memorial to a 17th century minister: "Here lieth he who while he lived served at (but now being dead lyeth under) the table." It's good stuff.

Can't believe it's taken me this long in my career to take advantage of the school trip to church. Super easy: walked there, vicar was delighted to help, finished in a double lesson.

Had one of those enjoyably bonkers days that you sometimes get as a teacher today: 8.30 Year 8 tutor - reading Goldfish Boy 9.00 Y12- fall of Wolsey 10.00 taking Y12s to the local church 12.00 Y11- Hindenburg dies 14.00 observing Y11 Science 15.00 planning CPD briefing 16.00 trust CPD for ECTs

We have a job going. If you would like to join our lovely team and school. teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/jobs/teacher...

Um. What the fuck?

Am reading the chapter in Marshall’s ‘Heretics and Believers’ about laypeople’s reaction to Henry’s Oath of Supremacy, and it’s delicious. The insults about him are so good, and I am sure Y12 will enjoy them enormously. I should use this book more in classroom #historyteacher #EarlyTudors

🚨 Jobs! 🚨 Some exciting opportunities at my brilliant school in South Gloucestershire. Most of these are connected to our new sixth form opening in September 2025 - a chance to be in at the ground floor 👀 www.yateacademy.co.uk #jobs #edujobs #edusky #UKedusky #historyteacher

Some great sounding talks here ⬇️

History teachers! The part-time MSc in Learning and Teaching at the University of Oxford offers history-specific strands. Applications are now open for 2025. Scholarships available; apply before March to be eligible. Find out more at bit.ly/OxfordMLT or let me know if you have any questions.