Sorry to bring bad news, but… The Irish Chartist James Bronterre O’Brien, ‘the schoolteacher of Chartism’, died #OnThisDay, 23 December 1864, aged 59. He is buried at Abney Park Cemetery. His is one of dozens of stories told in Chartist Lives 📚 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y

On the uses and limitations of living graph graphic organisers. A proposal to use Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Shape of Stories’ to enhance history education. open access (at pp.150167). www.wochenschau-verlag.de/media/07/0f/...

How Kurt Vonnegut’s Shapes of Stories can be put 2 work in #histed (pp.150-67). #edusky #historyteacher www.wochenschau-verlag.de/media/07/0f/...

Diversifying and decolonising A-Level Russian/Soviet #history Free and fully funded #historyteacher CPD event - 24th January 2026, University of Birmingham! Sign up here: shorturl.at/DmNVO #EduSky

How #KurtVonnegut ‘Shapes of Stories’ idea can be put to work in history education (pp.150-67). www.wochenschau-verlag.de/media/07/0f/...

How Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Shapes of Stories’ can be put to work in #historyeducation (pp.150-67). 1 www.wochenschau-verlag.de/media/07/0f/...

Congratulations 2 CPA's own Robin Whitburn & Abdul Mohamud, 2 Kate Donnington & Nicholas Draper, & 2 our @uclpress.bsky.social colleagues, on the publication of this remarkable & important book - Teaching Slavery: New approaches to Britain’s colonial past. Open access uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

A fascinating #historyeducation paper, by @cpaucl.bsky.social doctoral student Kay Wallace, pushing boundaries & bringing it into dialogue with questions & concepts it hasn’t engaged with much in the past. journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/article... Powerful 2 have assumptions tested in this way!

The Centre for Poetry and Poetics presents The Paradise Collective, with readings from Kym Martindale, Emma Bolland, Adam Piette, Harriet Tarlo, Geraldine Monk, Terry O’Connor, Ágnes Lehóczky. Monday 15 December, Mappin Hall, University of Sheffield, S1 3JD. 6pm start, all welcome, admission free.

'A universal system of human rights was built, strategically built, to make sure that we could never end up in that nightmare scenario again,” O’Flaherty added.' www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

Carey's views are, I think, less controversial now than they were when The Intellectuals and the Masses was published, yet the idea that modernist writers must be, or at least ought to be, on the side of social progress was held for many decades.

Congratulations @uclholocaust.bsky.social! Really looking forward to reading this! The previous 2016 study was such an interesting read and so methodologically innovative. Can't wait to explore this new and updated set of findings! @cpaucl.bsky.social #historyeducation

We are pleased to announce the first publication from the latest research conducted by the @uclholocaust.bsky.social It can be downloaded for free from: holocausteducation.org.uk/research/80-years/ @andypearce.bsky.social @arthurjchapman.bsky.social @eddorrell.bsky.social

'These expressions are amphibians that have moved from the sea to exist on land...'

The Schools History Project is absolutely thrilled to be able to offer the opportunity to work with one of the leading experts in the world in the field of History, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes Warrington ...

@arthurjchapman.bsky.social one for you causal reasoning in the wild - a Sierra Leonian chief reflecting on the 1898 House Tax War and using metaphor to communicate complex causation! www.jstor.org/stable/30210...

Important questions here for all those who take antisemitism and racism seriously. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Reminded, recently, of a couple of COVID CPD sessions that I put together 4 Sam Jones at BeBold History on teaching historical interpretations back in May and June 2020. If you're interested in teaching about differing perspectives on the past, the recordings might be 4 U. #historyeducation 1/3

“What they want is money. It makes everything dissolve.” (Pullman, 2025: 611). Books talking to books (as Umberto Eco used to say)….

Have you got 49 seconds to spare? Check out our latest promo video for @1972shp.bsky.social's Developing Teachers' Conference, 31/01/26. Early Bird Tickets available from here store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... #skystorians #historyeducation #edusky www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4s6...

Powerful historical and history-pedagogic knowledge on a vital topic from leading figures in both fields, open access fom UCL Press. #historyeducation @heirnet.bsky.social @coe.int @royalhistsoc.org @ihr.bsky.social

@justice2history.bsky.social have a new book coming out in collaboration with Katie Donnington and Nick Draper. It is now available for free download: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10... #HistoryEducation #historyteacher #TeacherEducation

The magical history tour… www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n... #historyeducation

Thank you @marnieh-w.bsky.social for sending through a copy of this remarkable book exploring history-making and GenAI. Looking forward to re-reading it! Open access at this link: www.routledge.com/Artificial-H... #historyeducation

This article should be read by every teacher of history. A powerful analysis of the why and the how of teaching about the Holocaust in an age of misinformation and conspiracy theory. Brilliant writing from @andypearce.bsky.social

🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉 universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/ (All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.) Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

Exciting to join @miriched.bsky.social & @cpaucl.bsky.social assessment colleagues, & the great Professor Gordon Stobart, to inaugurate the annual Gordon Stobart Lecture in Educational Assessment. Great to see so many colleagues celebrating Gordon’s work & supporting the event in the room & online.

'It is time to rethink how we teach the Holocaust’, op ed piece by Centre's @andypearce.bsky.social, via www.schoolmanagementplus.com/teaching-lea... @eddorrell.bsky.social @arthurjchapman.bsky.social

“I believe that it’s stories, more than anything, that really change our lives.” Inspiring 2 hear @whatsfsaid.bsky.social talk bout Tyger & his career with a New Theatre full of primary school students @ an inspiring Chidrens’ Book Show event this morning. thechildrensbookshow.com/performances...

Revivalism and historicity… www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @demantowsky.bsky.social @kennethnordgren.bsky.social

Who supports Reform and why? The charts that show who favours Farage’s party

How do Lenny Henry’s arguments for reparations for trans-Atlantic slavery stand up to Lord Biggar’s arguments against them? Head-to-head review here:

The @1972shp.bsky.social SHPUnderstanding:UNEARTHED webinar launched this afternoon and it was spectacular! Massive thanks to @btrappy.bsky.social for kicking us off with some brilliant sources about the Wardian cases that transformed the exchange of plants around the globe ...

So much @1972shp.bsky.social stuff going on right now! Last call to register for SHP UNEARTHED (Nov 10 5-6pm), our groundbreaking (ha ha!) webinar on Empire and Gardening - email [email protected] to sign up.

This is going to be a must-read. Great that it's open access! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Loving this paper title - 'nonumentality' is a concept who's time has come! The typology proposed looks great to think with also. @alexvont.bsky.social @demantowsky.bsky.social @1972shp.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

My talk ‘From Liberalism to Illiberalism' will highlight four turning points. Moral phil translated into politics (1810s), 'socialism in disguise' (late-C19), primacy of economics (1940s), perversion of founding emphasis on indiv. protections (recent) @historicalculture.bsky.social 12.30-13.30EOJ376

What a great opportunity here from @1972shp.bsky.social!

I edited my final Teaching History in September (the 1st was in 2006 & I’ve given it 10 years in 2007/13 and again in 2022-25 so I reckon I’ve paid my dues). Delighted to finish with this grear piece based on a 2023 @1972shp.bsky.social conference workshop. www.history.org.uk/publications... 1/2

Cannot recommend this book highly enough: it takes history education seriously and is a history of ideas about it - it’s also a powerful philosophical enquiry. #historyeducation

Empathy and History @berghahnbooks.bsky.social—the principal arguments: 1) Empathy designates the attempt to grasp the 'context' in which people’s actions made sense 2) The methodological question raised by empathy concerns the way in which this 'context' enters a historical explanation 1/2

Just one week to go before our UNEARTHED webinar (just email [email protected] to register for your FREE place). Thought we needed some male role models to publicise the event as currently I am the ONLY male who is attending!! So come on lads, environmental history is for everyone!

The Department of History at Queen’s University seeks a postdoctoral fellow to start July 1, 2026. Applications are due on January 15, 2026 for the Marjorie McLean Oliver Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The full position description can be found here: www.queensu.ca/history/abou...

Just in time for half term @1972shp.bsky.social is delighted to be able to announce that the tickets for our VIRTUAL Developing Teachers' Conference (Jan 31 2026) are now available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... for inflation busting prices!

“It was a careful formula,” blaming not in Brexit itself, but “the manner of its implementation; blaming the politicians who did it, not the ordinary people who willed it…” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 1/3

Numerology… www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Hauntology… www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... #historyeducation

PhD coursework? Come to Stavanger to study my hermeneutics course (5 ECTS). It's about developing a methodological language to communicate your aims as a humanistic researcher. www.uis.no/en/course/DU...

The series grows, and I love Maria's phrase 'iconoclastic activism'.