Calling teachers of the American West GCSE Unit!
I am doing some research into the metanarratvies pupils develop abouut Indignous peoples and C19th US expansion.
If you can help out by filling in this survey I'd be hugely grateful. It should take about 15 mins.
york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
This is exactly the kind of policy that should be left to headteachers, who know what will work best for their own school (and almost all have strict curbs on phones anyway). But the government wants the headline.
Maybe he’s looking for owls?
Resonates 😬
Lovely to see you Dan and talk about the importance of history teaching for all students
Had a brilliant time this morning at the Practical Histories Conference @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy with @sashasmith.bsky.social and @katiehall.bsky.social. It was an honour to share the history of the Schools History Project, and how to make History meaningful for our students #phconf26
Heading to the SHP Summer Conference this year?
If you’re interested in practical classroom ideas for teaching history, come and join us! We’ll be sharing resources, lesson ideas, & talking about what actually works in history classrooms.
Which workshop are you most excited about this year? #SHP26
he's counting on people not knowing what a doctor looks like because they don't have healthcare
Will you be starting a new role as a subject leader in September? It’s not too late to book onto the summer cohort of our ever popular Subject Leader Development Programme! @hughrichards.bsky.social @catherinepriggs.bsky.social @egcarr.bsky.social
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
Mr Gorbachev, I’m building my own wall.
Basically the geopolitical equivalent of “actually I dumped him first”
Wow 🤩
Might just post this every day
There is a female arm wearing a Victorian style sleeve in the top left hand corner and a hand in the bottom right hand corner wearing a surgical glove. Each hand is holding a white square with black text on it which reads "New Temporary Exhibition A Fair Field and No Favour: The History of Women in Surgery opens Saturday the 5th of April 2025". The background is dark blue.
There is just one week left to view our current temporary exhibition 'A Fair Field and No Favour: The History of Women in Surgery'.
If you can't see it in person, the exhibition is available on our free digital guide: guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/...
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!
What a treat 😉🤓
And relentless 🙃 but I bet you’re doing a better job than you think you are ☺️
Front page of Royal Historical Society blog post with image of the Berlin Holocaust Memorial, photograph by Rudolph Simon, 2013, Wilkimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0. Text reads: "On Holocaust Memorial Day we need more history, not just more memory' and abstract: In this post, Andy Pearce – Director of the Centre for Holocaust Education at UCL – considers the current levels of knowledge of the Holocaust among UK secondary school students. UCL studies, in 2016 and 2026, reveal a troubling and enduring divergence between popular understandings of the persecution and murder of Jews in Europe, in the 1930s and 1940s, and the findings of scholarly historical research. 27 January 2026 marks the 25th anniversary of Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain. As Andy argues, prevalent and popular misperceptions risk being sustained if the Holocaust becomes a subject for remembrance and memory, rather than of history and historical scholarship. It is only though ‘more history’, shared widely and publicly, that we may seek to redress error, distortion and denial."
"On Holocaust Memorial Day we need more history, not just more memory" bit.ly/4t6wPx6
Dr Andy Pearce, Director of @uclholocaust.bsky.social, writes today on the RHS blog.
#Skystorians
#ICYMI we've been doing some work on Stoke-on-Trent & surrounds!
#Staffordshire #LocalHistory #RailwayHistory
Part of New Vic Borderlines 'Tracks through Time' project, we've researched some railway staff life stories - read them here:
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/stoke-on-tre...
You know who”stayed a little back” in VIetnam? DJT.
Key point from Fiona Hill at @instituteforgovernment.org.uk event this evening about the Trump presidency, both domestic and foreign: “This is not a normal time and we should not rationalise and analyse this into normalcy”
Reform have recruited which means they don’t get to murder tonight
Phew
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.
Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
In case you need a final bit of #Railway200 listening in 2025, why not check our Railway Work, Life & Death project contribution to the Great Rail Tales podcast?
Hear co-lead Mike discuss the project & staff safety on the railway in the past:
We've always had these dead-eyed socipaths around. It's just a few years ago they were ignored and now they're "senior fellow" at places funded by evil millionaires + going on podcasts with a brain-rotted ex-PM.
Perfect precision! 🤓
Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?
