Iconic - love this city

Spectacular work from Mrs J making this from scratch with the kids! ❤️

Watched episode 1 this morning - absolutely superb. Great sound and fascinating history of one of the best bands there’s ever been.

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

New post - preparing students for the mock exams open.substack.com/pub/petejack...

New Northallerton PB this morning. 7th time this year I’ve gone sub 23 🏃‍♂️

Often looked like this in our lessons when you’re teaching ‘on’ Hadrians Wall! 🗡️ 📏 Delighted to be a judge for the North West region @lucyworsley.bsky.social @sathnam.bsky.social @gregjenner.bsky.social get your nominations in! @histassoc.bsky.social 🙌🏻

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

Great time at the snooker with my Dad and brother in York! Great fun

@petejackson.bsky.social in full flow delivering his workshop on Effective Historical Writing, which was packed full of practical tips for everyone in the room at the SHP Yorkshire History Forum

Super evening last night presenting @1972shp.bsky.social Yorkshire history forum. Great to catch up with fab people in the history community. @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social @historyrichk.bsky.social @robbalding.bsky.social @davidturner2000.bsky.social @joecox23.bsky.social @mr-s-tiffany.bsky.social

Had one of my best form times in years today. We watched 25 mins of The Ashes - Stokes on 🔥

So‼️behold, cover of my first solo book. I hope you like it?! After 33 years & over 20,000 lessons I’ve put pen to paper. So many people have suggested this, encouraged & helped me 💕I truly hope it is beneficial🙏to @katejonesteach.bsky.social for fab foreword. 📕 Publication Spring 2026 🙌🏻

Thanks @colinmccormick.bsky.social

It's been great to adapt our enquiry - How did the Transatlantic Slave Trade change the world - using the ideas from the Liverpool and the Transatlantic Slave Trade book. Huge thanks to @colinmccormick.bsky.social @katieamery.bsky.social and @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social for your fab work on this.

Would you like to use more historical stories in your GCSE teaching? Find out more and freely download loads of examples. Spread the word… #historyteacher open.substack.com/pub/petejack...

10 days to go until the SHP Yorkshire History Forum! Looking forward to sharing principles for teaching Transatlantic Slavery with a local history lens 🔎 @1972shp.bsky.social @danlyndon.bsky.social tickets still available 🎟

Reflections on our key stage 3 17th century enquiry #historyteacher open.substack.com/pub/petejack...

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...