We’re heading to the Historical Association Conference 2026 in Gateshead on 15-16 May 🎉
We'd love to see you there - book your place now! www.history.org.uk/aboutus/news/4495/histor...
#historyteacher #Alevelhistory #GCSEhistory #HAConf26
All this is to say that if you’re interested in Tudor history, you should buy this magazine because it’s always a really good read. Also, this is a great example of how to centre women in the historical story, OCR (I mean, everyone 👀) #historyteacher
Her kids followed in her footsteps: daughter Anne became a nun in Louvain; her son, Henry, studied at the English Colleges in Rheims and Rome. One stepson was imprisoned for recusancy and dying in Hull prison in 1604; the other became a seminary priest in 1608. #historyteacher
She was killed in one of the busiest thoroughfares of the city as a stark warning to other recusants. Her body was recovered 6 weeks later by her confessor and buried with Catholic rituals; he later published the account of her life. Her husband remarried. #historyteacher
Margaret is believed to have been pregnant at the time of her peine forte et dure sentence. Relatives and advisors told her to reveal this to the authorities; she refused. She wanted to protect her family from having to testify against her. Also protecting other Catholics. #historyteacher
She was said to often walk to the site of the gallows barefoot, as if it were a place of pilgrimage, and kneel praying in the blood. She knew some of the priests personally and two of them had visited her house. #historyteacher
She fasted 4 days a week; her husband did not approve (he was a butcher) and she created spaces in her house for priests to hide and she used to sneak out of the house to pray for priests executed during the 1580s. #historyteacher
Margaret taught herself to read English while she was in prison, including a New Testament. When she was released, she became even more passionate about her faith. #historyteacher
‘Only those Catholics considered the most dangerous and influential were imprisoned in the Castle complex, with a dedicated wing in the shadow of Clifford’s Tower.’ Clitherow shared a cell with several women (Janet Geldad was separate as she succeeded in converting her husband) #historyteacher
Fascinating article in @tudorplaces.bsky.social this issue about Margaret Clitherow and other women convicted of recusancy: Clitherow was imprisoned Oct 1580-April 1581 & spring 1583-winter 1584. Her husband, a Protestant, was fined several times for her refusal to attend church #historyteacher
Have you ever heard of this cool lady? Check out this story! #history #historyteacher #wwii #poland #womanwiththehandbag
On this day in 1906, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake struck San Francisco at 5:12 a.m. The quake and the fires it ignited killed over 3,000 people, destroyed 80% of the city, and left 225,000 homeless .
#OTD #CaliforniaHistory #SanFrancisco #Earthquake1906 #HistoryTeacher
On this day in 1775, Paul Revere set out on his midnight ride from Boston to Lexington to warn colonial militias that British troops were on the march. His act of courage helped spark the opening of the American Revolution.
#OTD #ThisDayInHistory #PaulRevere #AmericanRevolution #HistoryTeacher
On this day in 1987, the last 22 wild California Condors were captured for an emergency breeding program. The effort worked — condors now fly wild again in CA, AZ, and Baja California, with 500+ birds alive today.
#OTD #CaliforniaHistory #Condor #HistoryTeacher
On this day in 1961, the CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba failed completely. The botched operation became one of the Cold War's greatest embarrassments for the Kennedy administration and deepened U.S.-Soviet tensions.
#OTD #BayOfPigs #ColdWar #HistoryTeacher
Well, this doesn’t remind me of anything at all #historyteacher
Yes, I suppose it is designed by Albert Speer. Trump's victory arch design for US capital moves forward www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
On this day in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned for anti-segregation protests in Alabama. Written on scraps of paper, it became a defining document of the Civil Rights Movement.
#OTD #MLK #CivilRights #HistoryTeacher
Join us on 7 May for the first session of the Historical Association webinar series Historical Thinking in a Digital World. This first session will cover what digital literacy is and why history is at the heart of it and the best thing is that this session is free for HA members! #historyteacher
Join us on 7 May for the first session of the Historical Association webinar series Historical Thinking in a Digital World, covering what digital literacy is and why history is at the heart of it. The best thing is this session is free for HA members! #historyteacher
Hi lovely people. I am hoping to get some teachers of GCSE American West units to complete a short survey. It will help with my PhD research into pupil metanarratives about Indigenous peoples and C19th US expansion.
You can access the survey here: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#historyteacher
On this day in 1850, San Francisco was officially incorporated. Transformed almost overnight by the Gold Rush, it exploded from a tiny settlement into a booming city — becoming the West Coast's gateway to the world.
#OTD #CaliforniaHistory #SanFrancisco #HistoryTeacher
On this day in 1947, Jackie Robinson took the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers — becoming the first African American in modern Major League Baseball. His courage helped break barriers far beyond the ballpark.
#OTD #JackieRobinson #CivilRights #HistoryTeacher
An extract from this book has infuriated my Year 13s (it’s not the book - it’s the person it mentions. He winds them up so much, and they thought they were rid of him in 1497, yet here he is mentioned again in 1556!) #historyteacher
‘Oh God, not Warbeck *again*’
This is the Dudley Conspiracy.
On this day in 1939, John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath. The novel follows Dust Bowl migrants seeking a better life in California — it won the Pulitzer Prize & helped expose the plight of migrant farmworkers.
#OTD #CaliforniaHistory #Steinbeck #HistoryTeacher
Me, discussing an image showing the queues outside the first McDonalds opened in Shentzen, China.
Y13 student: so kinda like when B&M opened in town and everyone turned up on the first day.
😂😂🤦🏻♀️ I mean, he's not wrong...
#historyteacher
Suffolk deciding to weigh in with Wyatt’s Rebellion is unforgivable, imo. He must have known it would mean his daughter would die. #historyteacher Tomorrow’s revision session is only sources about Henry Grey’s poor judgement.
I made a judgement today about Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk to Y13 ‘one of the worst dads in the whole A Level’ (which I stand by) and it got me thinking: I do this game a lot. The worst husband is Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, btw. #historyteacher #EarlyTudoes
On this day in 1865, President Lincoln was shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. He died the next morning — just days after the Civil War effectively ended.
#OTD #ThisDayInHistory #Lincoln #CivilWar #HistoryTeacher
This is a fantastic resource for high school and college educators. #historyteacher #sschat
