They claim they’re putting personal ambition aside and defecting to Reform to help fix the country. To stop that pisstaking farce, they should be made to hold by-elections in their constituencies and let the voters decide if that’s ok with them. Please sign. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Conversation with my 3 year old daughter this evening which added much needed perspective to a really quite rubbish day. 3yo “I was good today”. Me “that’s great, well done”. 3yo “yeah, I was kind today”. Me “that’s lovely, what did you do that was kind?” 3yo “I didn’t hit anyone” 😆

So delighted to have this arrive today. Such an important book for #historyteacher s wanting to do justice to teaching about Britain’s colonial past! Katie, Nicholas, @justice2history.bsky.social & @abdulmohamud.bsky.social do an amazing job of bringing research and pedagogy together.

Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past is now available as individual (free to download) chapters from JSTOR (no subscription needed). The first set of chapters deal with historical perspectives and the second set with pedagogical perspectives. 1/2

Why is this stuff not higher in uk news?! We cannot keep ignoring what is happening… nor the fact that a whole bunch of people want this for the UK too

If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.

If ReformUK get into government next time then we can kiss goodbye to: Paid holidays Sick pay Safer working conditions Human Rights Workers Rights Unions NHS & healthcare Social care Minimum wage Among many other things. Every person who knows a Reformer should have the conversation!.

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...

Why wouldn’t you want to know? What have you got to fear? Losing your precious Brexit? Being revealed as a traitor and a liar? Surely, anyone decent and honest who genuinely cares about our country and our democracy has nothing to lose from this. So, sign up. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Farage says leaving the ECHR is the “unfinished business" of Brexit and that the UK is "not sovereign” while we are in it. But Farage lies. And Brexit is a shitshow. So, “finishing” it should fill us all with dread. Sovereignty without rights is dictatorship. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Farage: epic grifter

Just hoping that one day soon, people will tire of targeting and terrifying asylum seekers and instead, they will turn on politicians who whip up hatred and division to grab at power for themselves… They are the ones who are failing us. Not these people. Prejudice can never make anyone’s life better

Do you know a great history teacher? Nominate them now for a new history teaching award! Maybe I'll see them at the Tower of London next year! Nominate someone here: bit.ly/42yhGZP #historyteachingawards

Thrilled to say I'm a judge for the first ever Inspiring History Teaching Awards, in association with Historic Royal Palaces. Do you know a great history teacher in the UK who deserves to go down in history? Nominate them here bit.ly/42yhGZP

www.instagram.com/reel/DPcAFoh... This short film features my mother, daughter of a Holocaust survivor, and now an activist against the war in Gaza. Please share widely

As part of the @BAMEedNetwork - @BameedWales have organised the following 3 events! For Free! Standing up to Antisemitism 8/10 Islamophobia Awarenss 11/11 And Gypsy and Traveller Awareness 8/1 Grab your Free Tickets here- www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gypsy-and-... Please share!

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.

This report is entirely valid, and I welcome it. However, glancing at the Key Stage 3 curriculum, I can see how it's happened -- there's little emphasis on social history or non-political biography www.theguardian.com/education/20...

If we ask should we teach history of Empire and race, including its controversies and complexities, then 73% of black respondents + two-thirds of white & Asian respondents think this matters 8% of white & minority respondents against There will be challenges to get that right, of course

Just finished this book with my 8 year old. I have never known him SO invested in the outcome of a story (I was pretty invested too!) and so engaged with the themes it raises. An absolutely brilliant book, really recommend!

Year 8/9 - 1920s - Why was there a TURNING POINT in Caribbean identity in the 1920s? Pam Canning and Jack Brown collaborate with Sweet Patootee Arts to explore changing identities in the Caribbean. padlet.com/pamcanning/y...