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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

So incredibly proud of all of my Year 11 GCSE historians today. They gave their all and, no matter their grades, I’m proud of every single one of them #GCSE #ResultsDay

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Plagiarism is harmful - it is devastating and crushing if you’re a junior researcher who has had research stolen by more powerful people. However, no one should ever be trolled and destroyed. People make mistakes, the way forward is accountability, not a witch hunt that drives people to despair

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#myspace is coming back? I’ve always thought it was just sat somewhere on the internet still playing Seether in the background

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Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A good professional community doesn't just support where you are now – it supports where you're going next. How has being part of a subject association, network or community helped your career as a history teacher? #HistoryTeacher

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I love Belfast. 1) it has my lovely friend Emma there 2) awesome pub quizzes with fellow millennial tattooed people 3) I get to geeking out at the Belfast Summer School with the Classics Academy 4) an amazing rescue cat cafe which helps to foster and then find forever homes for cats

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Watching both David Blunkett and Neil Kinnock well up at Burnham’s speech makes me feel like something that the Labour Party lost, a true Labour spirit, has returned. Something for our a level Politics, and our Making of Modern Britain students to track, reflect on, and evaluate over the next year.

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Comrade on my A-level quest…or I’m being micromanaged

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Summer time = redesign the classroom and purge it from everything we don’t really need! Today, I actually picked a lock with a bobby pin and a paper clip! Fallout style! Take that missing C8 filing cabinet key!

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

When your Year 12 Historians see Metallica and bring you back merch! My students are awesome!!!

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Year 11 prom to AQA HQ this morning, Sports Day and Y13 prom tomorrow - this week is 🤩🥳

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This week at #LCSagora we explored the Thirty Tyrants and started reading Lysias’ Against Eratosthenes! I’m SO proud of these amazing students! Ranging from ages 11-16, today they read Attic Oratory that most undergraduates don’t even study! #TeamRhetoric #Oratory #speeches #teaching #UK #school

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My dear friend Emma is on her book tour! She’s awesome so if she’s at an event near you, go and hear about Servus, how slavery made the Roman Empire @emmasouthon.bsky.social #rome #ancienthistory #slavery #romanempire #book

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Session 1 @histassoc.bsky.social amazing paper on addressing gender bias in the history curriculum #haconf26

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It’s history paper 1 day! Hoping it’s a great paper for my Year 11s as they’ve all worked so hard preparing for today! #GCSE #History #AQA #Germany #ConflictandTension #Korea #Vietnam

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Classical Civilisation Shrewsbury College @classicsshrewsbury.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Emma Southon is on tour with her new book "Servus - How Slavery made the Roman Empire" ...

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

When your Year 11 historians surprise you for the last lesson before exams 🥹 and got cinnamon rolls for everyone 🥹

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

When you teach civil rights in A-level History & in Politics, and you’ve studied the movement and LBJ’s Voting Rights Act, but you now have another Supreme Court ruling to study (like the overturning of Roe) that diminishes the hard won protection of those rights youtu.be/KLb8UnuudFo?...

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'These people play fast and loose with our DEAD': RAGE at SCOTUS grows over HUGE voting rights blow

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Year 12 Politics are currently looking at the PM & Cabinet, and today we looked at PMs being ‘presidential’ and using Special Advisers (SpAds) instead of MPs and Civil Servants; as part of our research we looked up how much SpAds earn and collectively asked ‘how much?!’ www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Special adviser data releases: numbers and costs, July 2025 (HTML)

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Today at the LCS Agora club (with students in KS3 and KS5) we recapped parrhesia in democracy, & explored how Demosthenes uses the Athenian past to soften his parrhesia to the Assembly. We then analysed King Charles’ speech to Congress and how he expertly used the past to expertly deliver parrhesia

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Re the #WHCD let’s remember that there have been over 30 gunfire incidents on school grounds in 2026. It’s only April. The fear of the people in that room is what students and teachers face as part of school life. everytownresearch.org/maps/gunfire...

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The long, shameful list of gunfire on school grounds in America.

This list keeps growing. How many more before our leaders act?

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Amazing to see ancient democracy in the modern history classroom! I’m so chuffed that my talk was useful and that Year 8 are thinking about @utaustin.bsky.social Prof Michael Gagarin’s thoughts on democracy! #teachAncient #democracy #UKteaching #schools #Athens

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Realised today that students would like to read my paper on ancient and modern populism that I gave at the CA Conference last summer… I’ve not published my research since 2020, maybe now is the time to return to the world of submitting my work for peer-review! #research #populism #classics #oratory

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Had an absolutely brilliant day with Sian and her awesome Classical Civilisation students talking about Plato, Aristophanes, demagogues and decision making in the Assembly. #classics #Alevel #teaching #OCR #teachClassics #democracy #Athens

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

What if the words that shaped ancient civilisations could help someone rewrite their future? The ACE project wants to widen access to the study of classics for society’s most marginalised learners, those in prison. Pilot feedback has shown that it has been transformative for incarcerated learners.

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Help ‘Advocating Classics Education’ (ACE) Teach Classics And Philosophy In Prisons

The ACE project wants to widen access to the study of antiquity and philosophy for society’s most marginalised learners, those in prison. After a successful pilot in 2024-2025 the team want to scale u...

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

#TeamRhetoric It’s brilliant to launch our new Oratory and Rhetoric Club at Lichfield Cathedral School: AGORA The LCS Agora will be a space to explore rhetoric, oratory, and persuasion from the origins of democracy in Classical Athens to modernity! #democracy #oratory #rhetoric #teaching #debates

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 24/01/2026

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

He is a little boy. He was taken from school and used as bait to open the door of his home. He has been detained in Texas. He is a little child. Children are being taken. Parents are being taken. People are being taken.

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

POV History & Classics teachers in 2026: It’s frustrating seeing how ancient history, especially empires, is used to justify actions in the present. What’s inspiring as an Ancient Historian is knowing that I have the skills to address misconceptions and encourage critical thinking.

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MS NOW @ms.now · 27/12/2025

Monday, tune in for a special conversation between Rachel Maddow and guests of her most recent podcast “Burn Order” from a live community event in Los Angeles. Watch Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order Monday at 9pm ET on MS NOW.

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

In March 2026 I’ll be with the awesome @ttradioofficial.bsky.social talking about Ancient Democracy! #History #Teaching #CPD

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

First term as the new HoD of History and Politics at LCS ✅ #teaching

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

One of the best versions of Macbeth I’ve ever seen. Truly Scottish and what a brilliant setting for it #Macbeth #RSC #Shakespeare #TheOtherPlace

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Hope you don’t mind me sharing this again. I’m just so excited to share this brand new podcast series produced by @histfest.bsky.social for @historyextra.bsky.social Listen wherever you get your podcasts (here’s the Spotify link spotify.link/hxH97mL4PXb )

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Once Upon a Time in the North

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Well behind (HoD in a new school - autumn caught up with me!) but here’s my latest @classicstober.bsky.social for yesterday. Day 14 Cocytus, the river that flows to Acheron, of wailing and lamentation. οιμοι φεύ φεύ

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

An early start, but what a beautiful morning singing on BBC Radio 4 this morning for Sunday Worship with Lichfield Cathedral Chamber Choir

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