I did not expect to wake up this morning and find myself agreeing with some Marjorie Taylor Greene said. What an odd sensation.

Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research? Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

Here endeth the term 🥳

Me: ugh, why have I taken on so much AGAIN, I'm so busy, I have no free time to do anything Also me: ooh, a 1000 piece glow in the dark advent puzzle? Tell me more. 🙄

Ok folks, who's getting fired? @teachertapp.bsky.social

If you're having an idle rainy Saturday it's definitely worth dipping into this, such good chats today! #TTRHums

Absolutely loving this talk on metacognition from Thalina, she is unconsciously filling out a plan I've been making for tackling this topic in school 🎉 #TTHumanities

#HistoryEducation @mrsthorne.bsky.social make time for this one!

Tell me how your week's going without telling me how your week's going. In other news: big welcome to the first cold of the academic year 🤧

Today's puzzle: Why do I have 64 reusable shopping bags when I do almost all my grocery shopping online?

The tenseness of a plane loading. I am in a window seat. Another single person is in the aisle seat. It's the hope that kills you.

Saw a sign in a shop today that said 'Your comfort zone will kill you' and felt moved to say that this kind of LinkedIn poison is absolute bollocks. Being comfortable is a life goal for many people. Choose hustle culture if you want, but don't try to impose it on me, please and thank you.

Thanks to everyone who recommended Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing when I posted this, it was my first summer read and I got completely lost in the stories. Highly recommended by me now too!

I see the Telegraph has been picked to lead the charge against long school hols this year. I love how many people think children would cope with being in school 50 weeks pa. I wonder what the crossover is between those people and the ones who let their children have a day off after sports day.

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Summer holidays, eh? Still in pyjamas. Home for the door to door salesmen selling double glazing. ...'sorry to ask but are you Mrs Thorne?' Oh hi, ex-student 🫣

How are women in the past represented in current history textbooks? With specific attention paid to three consecutive waves of feminism, this paper examines the representation of women in Hungarian and Flemish history textbooks: doi.org/10.14324/HER...

Looking forward to heading north in September to talk about some exciting cross-curricular units we've been working on at school, inspired by both the @histassoc.bsky.social and the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social conferences #TeamHums

Made it 😴

Right, the summer is just round the corner and I am sick of reading academic articles about assessment for my Masters, so hit me with your good reads so I can stock up for my summer holidays. I like historical fiction but all recs gratefully received.

Enjoying all the headlines about Starmer disagreeing with 'punk duo Bob Vylan'. Surely the entire point of punk is for the PM to disagree with you. That is almost as punk as it gets.

Telegram spammers make me laugh. How needy is this one?! Imagine me, not showing much respect for their time. It's almost like this was...a totally unsolicited spam text.

Fave teaching moment of the week: y7 and food chains, producers and consumers. Having said that basically everything humans eat is a plant or an animal, they worked extremely hard to disprove this. I shut it down after a story about someone's primary school tchr who ate snail shells. Classic y7.

A super speedy 4 mins 32 for my blood donation today, I might have beaten my own record #giveblood

Tickets still available for the launch of our wonderful SHP SW Forum with a superb programme of speakers including Michael Riley, @paulalobo.bsky.social and @tomallenhistory.bsky.social. Tickets available for as little as a fiver from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... so grab 'em now!

It's going to be a superb event! What a way to launch #SHPSW! Grab your ticket from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... it's an absolute bargain (£10/£5 concessions) and thanks again to @davidrawlings.bsky.social and @mrsthorne.bsky.social for organising!

An exciting day today, in which I rescued a crow that thought it was dying by trapping it in a box and carrying it away from the netting that was keeping it from flapping free. There's never a dull day at school. Crows are beautiful but they are much bigger than I realised.

There is something weirdly exciting about being patronised in the gym by a man lifting about two thirds of what I'm lifting. Keep going, my man. Tell me how I will be a close second to you in 18 months. I'm all ears.

Last day ritual but make it Oxford

2. Massive thanks to @davidrawlings.bsky.social and @mrsthorne.bsky.social for curating the programme in super quick time, it's going to be a fantastic event. Tickets are super reasonable (to cover catering) and available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... so grab 'em quick!

When you have urgent reading to do so you go to the furthest corner of an obscure library, sit at the furthest table and realise these are on the shelf next to you 🤩 #notgettingthatreadingdoneamI

Are there conversations you have every day at work that, if they don't happen, you just feel like the day hasn't started? Mine - Microsoft: Hang on a minute while we sign you out Me: I don't want you to sign me out MS: It's a good idea to close all windows Me: I just want to see my email Ahh.

Excited to say that Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools (TIHPS) now has an official website! www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/researc... UK history teachers, do join us at our launch conference on 28 June (only £10 inc catering, bursaries available)! www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/researc...

There's a corner shop near where I stay for uni and it has a cassette tape for sale. It is that kind of shop that sells pretty much everything you might need but this is fascinating. I've been visiting it every time I come to Oxford to see if it is still there. Nobody has snapped it up yet.

Come and join us for @1972shp.bsky.social #SHP25 on 11-13 July up in Leeds. This is just one of a host of brilliant workshops which seek to broaden and enrich the history curriculum for young people #historyteacher www.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/summerconf/

Absolutely loving @mrsthorne.bsky.social ‘s assessment workshop which is really making me think of all the different ways to assess and what the purpose is. #HAConf25

Y13 have been busy with the tribute pictures that are all over the school for their leavers' day. I'm honoured, obvs, but mildly concerned about my association with this book. At least they used a decent picture. Also I might like my own court tbf.

Me, adding the 37th slide to my 55 min presentation: but I still might run out of things to say though 😨 #HAConf25

Only to be expected from a man who paid tribute to the former Pope alongside a giant Easter bunny.

First lesson on the Tudors with y7 today. Predictably managed under half the content because they asked so many Tudor Qs and I had much to say. At the end... St: we've literally talked about the Tudors for the whole lesson Me: I know. Sorry. St: best lesson ever. Ten out of ten, would recommend. 😂

Interesting list of potential papal successors. I'm curious to see if they stick with a progressive or swing back the other way. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

A new friend just told me that she has Sickle Cell Disease, so I revisited a blog I wrote about it. Wish I had heard her story earlier, but this was as good as I could do back then: www.joannabourke.com/post/sickle-... @england.nhs.uk @nhsproviders.bsky.social

I'm not a Catholic but I had a lot of time for Pope Francis. Rest in peace.

Overheard on the school trip. C: I feel like I've swallowed a GREAT BIG BALL OF WOOL and it's stuck in my THROAT and I can't BREATHE and my breath is WOOLLEN Her friend: it's ok C, you'll get better. Phew, was almost worried for a minute then.

#StokesCroft, stokescrofting along as usual #Bristol

Wonder how many of Trump's friends have been shorting today 🙄

It's astonishing to me that some people are peddling this theory that women retain DNA from men they sleep with. This bollocks was wheeled out in the 19th century by racists to protest interracial relationships. You'd think that, now we actually know stuff about DNA, it would have been debunked.

Paul Lashmar’s ‘Drax of Drax Hall’ isn’t just a look into the dark sources of one family’s fortune; it’s an indictment of a nation’s refusal to reckon with its past. Review by @alexpreston.bsky.social @paullashmar.bsky.social

A shout out for Mr Thorne, who rarely gets a mention from me, but who is currently picking through five days' worth of salad meal prep to remove 600g of edamame beans I stupidly mixed through without cooking first. What a hero. Also I think he is excited for metal-detecting season to start.

This chart is saying something helpful for the report I'm currently writing for uni, but the scale on the X axis is making me deeply uncomfortable.