This afternoon at #NEU2026 Zack Polanski, leader of The Green Party, spoke out about the cost of living crisis and its impact on schools. He also spoke of the incredible Together Alliance march and committed the Greens to reverse the real-terms cuts in school budgets. Read more 👇

Excited to be in Brighton for NEU conference 🥳

No extra money for education in the Chancellor's spring statement. Our schools are running on empty. We have to turn the tide. Vote now in our ballot of teachers and support staff in England. Together, we will #SaveEducation 🔗 NEUActivate.com

This week, my scheme of work should be renamed ‘Year 7 learn about @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social’ as we’ve got lessons on Isabella and Jadwiga 😂😍

Today we are launching the 2026 SHP Summer Conference, which will be taking place July 10-12 at Leeds Trinity. This year, due to the huge increase in proposals for workshops, we have extended our offer to 46 wonderful workshops for primary and secondary teachers of history (see below for a taster!

@1972shp.bsky.social's new webinar in our UNEARTHED series is a must for all teachers of the History of Medicine. Bring your students along to hear @teachmedwomen.bsky.social's Dr Natasha Hodgson discussing Medieval women, medicine & gardening ...

Got to see @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social this evening and she was epic 🥰

Enjoyed this yesterday! If you’ve paid for a ticket to watch back, please do - you can spot a visit from my cat Doris in my intro 😂

Nominate a teacher or please share with others and help us celebrate our local educators. bit.ly/4bf6UwE

In bed before 9pm. I am so excited

The final schedule for the SHP Developing Teachers' Conference is now live! www.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/devteach/ and we are excited to welcome you all on Jan 31. Tickets still available for one more week from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata.... Plus the final chance to enter our draw ...

Really hard to engage locally with the HA. So depressing.

@missrcarter89.bsky.social will draw on her extensive experience to help your students staying engaged and motivated in your lessons, especially as the exam season gets closer. Becky will have plenty of practical strategies to support.

Check out this banging schedule for the @1972shp.bsky.social Developing Teachers' Conference on January 31st! So much #historyteacher goodness. Tickets available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... and you can win a copy of #DTC25 keynote speaker, Shalina Patel's book The History Lessons

Lots of promising queer history books to look forward to in 2026. Here are just a few coming soon . . . 🌈📚🗃️ www.beacon.org/A-Black-Quee... www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-inh... www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu... manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/ utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Bodyclocked 😭

Here's the first in a series of posts looking in detail at the workshops for the Schools History Project's Developing Teachers' Conference, Sat Jan 31st '26. Kicking us off is the SHP legend, Dale Banham, who'll be helping you to motivate your secondary history students #DTC26

Word of the day, should you be feeling a little huffish, is ‘apanthropy’ (18th century): a love of solitude and the desire to be away from other people.

Watched Talamasca. Then discovered Interview with the Vampire series from last year. Really enjoyed both. Love a modern/supernatural crossover.

NEW Curriculum PATHS Blog: Rethinking teaching the British Empire with Year 8. Emma McKenna explores how she has been wrestling with her British Empire lessons for Year 8 using @britishlibrary.bsky.social resources. #historyteacher curriculumpaths.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/2025/12/09/p...

Too much to do, a million things to mark, completely exhausted, and ill for over a week now. I need a break 🤯🤯

My BHM assembly this year was about Claudette Colvin, and in previous years has been about the women of Montgomery and their tireless efforts. Movements take time and effort. A brilliant article.

New post - a write up of the key points from my recent @1972shp.bsky.social talk on historical writing at the Yorkshire History forum in November. petejackson32.substack.com/p/improving-... #historyteacher

Casually met some ferrets today. Childhood dream achieved

The irony of being too ill and too busy to attend a well-being event 😭

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...

1. Thread. Ed tech and the best lesson I taught this year. The best Ed tech in the world for my subject is a book. It is the ideal delivery method because the effort of concentrating on it helps people learn what's in it.

Apparently I’ve taken more photos of books I want to buy than ones I’ve actually read…but I read this one. And Picture Imperfect. And Stephen Fry’s Odyssey.

I clearly wasn’t paying attention when Busted reformed because there’s a whole set of re-releases that are even better than the originals.

Cannot get over how phenomenal Busted and McFly were last night. I’m so glad I went. I was worried about going alone but I needn’t have been.

The next of our free #New2RE subject knowledge webinars will be on Monday at 4pm. ECTs of RE and teachers with other specialisms - join @deborahweston.bsky.social to explore teaching about Humanist worldviews. Register here natre.org.uk/courses-and-... #TeamRE

Hosting a ‘cheese and comfy clothes’ evening tomorrow with some friends. Thoroughly enjoyed my cheese shop

Doris has been licking the site on her neck where bloods were taken. She’s licked it raw. £75 at vets for steroid and antibiotic injection. This cat never contributes any cash.

The Facebook algorithm is telling me I want to take a first class flight or a sleeper train. I don’t know where though.

Year 9 lessons absolutely kicked my bum today. But I held the first meeting for the new pride group and 15 kids turned up! 🏳️‍🌈

Riot Women is brilliant. You should all watch it.

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!

This is tomorrow for anyone interested. Recordings of the others also available.

Watching finale of Dexter season 8. It’s very sad 😢

👻 Teachers shouldn’t feel better off in other jobs. This is no ghost story. It’s the everyday reality of agency supply. #StopTheAgencyRipOff ✍️ Write to your MP today and demand change 👉 bit.ly/4777aKx

Hoping the rain continues and the teenagers won’t be out for trick or treating 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

Had quite a nice day initially. Haircut. Pancakes with a friend. Gone downhill since then with teenagers setting off fireworks behind my house, and Doris the cat’s spot where she had blood taken on Tuesday starting to randomly bleed 😩😩😩 looking for a 75% day tomorrow!

Huge thanks to Educate for this feature on our @endsexisminschools.bsky.social History report, alongside @katemossewriter.bsky.social ‘Change is needed’. 💪🏻

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other. It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

We have curated a record-breaking NINE workshops for secondary teachers, covering a huge range of topics. You won't be surprised that we have an awesome roster of presenters including @fredoxby.bsky.social @petejackson.bsky.social @missrcarter89.bsky.social @oblaize.bsky.social

Being a head of department can be one of the most rewarding yet draining jobs in school, writes @ensermark.bsky.social – here, he offers tips to protect your energy

📢Stop the Agency Rip Off! Supply teachers are being paid below national scales and denied access to their pensions, while agencies profit from the money schools provide. The government must act now to fix this. #StopTheAgencyRipOff

‘Work Wednesday’ was tolerable - mostly because I didn’t actually do much work - but I’ve sorted 1 year 7 scheme and now I’m reading ‘Human Rites’ ❤️

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