Inspired by the story of Angel Meadow in Manchester for teaching Industrial living conditions for OCR B, I've done something similar for the East End of London in the 20th century using the amazing The Abyss of London by the aptly named Jack London. This story really helps build the East End world

Is there any better way to spend a Monday evening - hosting a workshop AND handling Viking artefacts!

The Alpine war is fascinating

Great post here from @davidturner2000.bsky.social #historyteacher

One of my all time favourite running routes! Beautiful

Delighted to hit a sub 48 minute 10k #running

New blog - World Turned Upside Down - creating a knowledge-rich 17th century enquiry. Thanks to @kat-oc-kearey.bsky.social whose ideas at last year's HA Conference helped inspire me to look again at this one. #historyteacher open.substack.com/pub/petejack...

Battlefields 2025 - a fantastic school trip!

🚨 History teachers, we’re back! 🚨 Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25. Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today. Presenters & link below 👇

Delighted to share this new blog on teaching People’s Health Industrial using the fabulous work of @manchesterhistory.uk and the story of Angel Meadow. I’ve loved working on this. Thanks Dean for your incredible book. #historyteacher open.substack.com/pub/petejack...

On Nov 24 we will be hosting our 3rd Yorkshire History Forum with 2 workshops for primary and 2 for secondary history teachers, led by wonderful teachers like @petejackson.bsky.social and @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social. Tickets are now available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...

Strongly agree. So many 17th century enquiries miss out King James I. He’s not just fascinating but his reign is crucial foundational knowledge to understand what comes next. Here’s a story we use to kick off our enquiry.

Paris piano cover

New blog so that the GCSE historical stories that myself and @benbassett.bsky.social have worked on can be shared with the wider history teaching community. Enjoy. open.substack.com/pub/petejack... #historyteacher

Absolutely transfixed by the story of Abel Heywood and Angel Meadow in #changinghistories - this is an incredible story for People’s Health OCR B and got an idea on how to use it to teach pretty much this whole enquiry. Fab world building @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social

So excited to be presenting at the next @1972shp.bsky.social Yorkshire History Forum! Can't wait to continue the conversation about teaching Transatlantic Slavery in different lenses

So many of my students came up to me this week excited to tell me that David Olusoga is on Celebrity Traitors and I just couldn’t be prouder that they already knew who this fantastic and inspiring historian was thanks to our curriculum. #historyteacher

It's a dream team of secondary workshops at #YHF York!

Delighted to be presenting at this fantastic event organised with @1972shp.bsky.social and alongside the wonderful @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social Spread the word! #historyteacher

Looking forward to this in November

Revised story of Frederick Douglass to work as a full lesson to really support students to see the big picture of the Civil War and Reconstruction. My students find this enquiry hard and the idea is to see the era through the eyes of Frederick Douglass but focus them on the key takeaways.

Manchester running!

Shout out to those involved in Connected Worlds. I adapted some ideas on Samuel Pepys and this landed so well in teaching the Restoration. The story made abstract concepts so concrete enabling my students to think deeply about change in the 17th century. You could hear a pin drop during the story.

Or if you have some suggestions of what we should be offering in our Developing Teachers Conference #DTC26 (use this form forms.office.com/e/u1B14iYYhJ )

Whole class feedback. Took in sample of 8 books - deliberately selected below target students and those who wanted feedback. Share key learning from the sample with rest of class for whole class feedback. Took just 30 mins but great way of checking understanding and useful whole class feedback

New post - KS3 curriculum thoughts #historyteacher open.substack.com/pub/petejack...

I’m looking forward to reading this

🚨 ⏰ Prepare for 2026 💪🏽10 spaces left now for October! #HistoryTeacher AQA Historic Environment The Globe @TracyBorman 🍂 🎭 #scholarship

York parkrun - new all time Parkrun PB of 22:13

A vitally important report and essential reading for all history teachers

Could not agree more

Following on from our HA talk in May, @petejackson.bsky.social and I have written a blog post on writing and using well-researched stories for GCSE History. Please do check it out! open.substack.com/pub/benbasse...

New blog post in collaboration with @benbassett.bsky.social #historyteacher open.substack.com/pub/petejack...

Hey #historyteacher and #skystorians I hope the term has started well for you. Read my latest Director's blog about the thinking I've been doing over the summer and the exciting year ahead for the Schools History Project! director.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/2025/09/19/d...

New Y8 assessment linked to our revised enquiry - 'In what ways was the world turned upside down in the 17th century' #historyteacher

Humber Bridge Parkrun - 24:35

Right class you have 6-7 minutes to do this task! #ifyouknowyouknow

September evenings! Love it

Sharing this post again on building a culture of 100% participation. Been really enjoying this focus since the start of the academic year substack.com/@petejackson...

A glowing recommendation of LITTLE KINGDOMS by esteemed archaeologist and expert of the early medieval Yorkshire Dales, David Johnson: 'Alex Harvey has taken on the challenge and produced a book, in my opinion, like no other, and furthermore a book that is easy to read and digest.'

Fort Laramie story original from 2024 New revised version in 2025 Love taking on board new ideas and reflecting on how things have gone to make further adaptations to resources Newer version is simpler, clearer takeaways and crucially has line numbers @benbassett.bsky.social #historyteacher

This year I've been working on expanding the scope of our 17th century enquiry to begin with James I and end with Glorious Revolution & Act of Union - it really gives much more of a sense of the nature of political and social change and helps to really put the Civil War into context. #historyteacher

So proud of my amazing wife for smashing her first week on her music therapy course in Manchester, new teaching job and being an all round inspiration! ❤️ ❤️

Thanks Ben!

Some nice revisions to our medieval public health lesson focusing on monasteries. Really like the world-building using artistic interpretations and physical site evidence around Fountains Abbey. #historyteacher

New Blog… open.substack.com/pub/petejack...

Brilliant evening. The audience were enthralled - Alex is a natural storyteller and his knowledge and passion for all things Vikings shines through

Great North Run 2025 - loved every minute!

#GreatNorthRun #ready

Welcome to the #historyteacher community Alex!