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Claire Holliss @claireholliss.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

What a fantastic opportunity for history teachers! It's great to see more examples of collaboration between people involved in history education at all levels.

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Rebecca Jennings @rebeccajennings.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Had so much fun working on this book with @justinbengry.bsky.social , Matt Cook and E-J Scott, all our amazing contributors and the fantastic team at MUP. Really excited to see it out and on the bookshelves!

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Claire Holliss @claireholliss.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I've heard there are some bookshops that still do this if you slide a few too many notes across the counter and ask for 'the good stuff'.

Mayhew took down the account of an old London bookseller who used to sell 'Tom Paine on the sly'.

If anybody bought a book and would pay...three times as much as was marked, he'd give the 'Age of Reason' in...His stall was quite a godly stall, and he wasn't often without a copy or two of the 'Anti-Jacobin Review'... though he had Tom Paine in a drawer.

Taken from E.P Thompson's 'The Making of the English Working Class.'

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

We're also marking the launch of Radical Rural, a gallery trail championing many more voices who champion and care for rural England today. From summoning the folk spirits of England's woods and tors, to meticulously mapping the data of who really owns England. merl.reading.ac.uk/whats-on/rad...

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Radical Rural gallery trail

Discover the artists, activists and movements championing rural England's people and places today.

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Claire Holliss @claireholliss.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

A great day at #soane26 with excellent workshops from @joshvallance.bsky.social @mrmountstevens.bsky.social and Rachel Foster. Many thanks to @michaeldoron.bsky.social and co for organising and running such a useful and accessible event for history teachers!

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

@1972shp.bsky.social's new webinar in our UNEARTHED series is a must for all teachers of the History of Medicine. Bring your students along to hear @teachmedwomen.bsky.social's Dr Natasha Hodgson discussing Medieval women, medicine & gardening ...

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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Happy abseiling lesbians day to all who celebrate!!!

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I am absolutely thrilled that the @1972shp.bsky.social Developing Teachers' Conference has signed up 95 teachers of history for Saturday, nearly doubling last year's attendance. BUT I really want to hit three figures so am offering 5 free places to the first 5 people who DM me asking for them!

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Loughborough University PR @lboropr.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Historian Prof Marcus Collins (@elhistorioso.bsky.social) is behind a new play, The BBC’s First Homosexual, the official production for LGBT+ History Month (@lgbthm.bsky.social). Here's some news coverage: 👇 Guardian: bit.ly/45trbLj BBC The World Tonight: bit.ly/49M29s4 (starts at 37:35)

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‘Naked homophobia’: play revisits BBC’s first programme on gay men in 1950s

Original script from 1954 referring to ‘troubles of this kind’ to be brought to life on stage for LGBT+ History Month

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 16/01/2026

"use the full length of the platform" is not an instruction you can personally put into practice, unless you are an anaconda, in which case you should not be on the piccadilly line for other reasons

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Rob Dale @robdale.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Fun to receive my copy of Teaching History no.201, which I have an article about Late Stalinism in. Thanks to @histassoc.bsky.social for the copies and the opportunity to write this.

The cover of Teaching History (the secondary education journal of the Historical Association)No.201 December 2025, which has an article by me in.

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Honoured to contribute to this Council of Europe series of history education lectures. You can listen to my talk, & to 7 others, on the OHTE’s site. www.coe.int/en/web/obser... @coe.int @ioe.bsky.social @1972shp.bsky.social @danlyndon.bsky.social @justice2history.bsky.social #historyeducation

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Elizabeth Carr @egcarr.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Teaching History 201 from @histassoc.bsky.social is online. Brilliant authors sharing their varied approaches to teaching about interpretations. Great CPD for history teachers and subject leads! @sehartsmith.bsky.social @historysuperfan.bsky.social @benarscott.bsky.social and others

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

christmas has gotten so far from its religious roots, wish we could celebrate our holidays like medieval christians (cross-dressing, being told by the bishop to stop cross-dressing, resolutely refusing to stop cross-dressing, threatening the bishop in defense of cross-dressing)

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UCL Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment @cpaucl.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Congratulations 2 CPA's own Robin Whitburn & Abdul Mohamud, 2 Kate Donnington & Nicholas Draper, & 2 our @uclpress.bsky.social colleagues, on the publication of this remarkable & important book - Teaching Slavery: New approaches to Britain’s colonial past. Open access uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Just one week to go before our UNEARTHED webinar (just email d.lyndon-cohen@leedstrinity.ac.uk to register for your FREE place). Thought we needed some male role models to publicise the event as currently I am the ONLY male who is attending!! So come on lads, environmental history is for everyone!

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Mike Hill @michaeldoron.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

🚨 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 👇

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Claire Holliss @claireholliss.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Lie through your teeth (idiom, informal) to tell the dental hygienist that you definitely will reduce your intake of tea and coffee.

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Maria J Pérez Cuervo @mjpcuervo.com · 22/10/2025

Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.

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Jim Carroll @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🚨New and free! 🚨 Excited to have an article in the 200th edition of @histassoc.bsky.social Teaching History, co-authored by @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social Amid calls to ‘storify’ history curricula, we detail our attempts to write and teach stories of the French Rev to A-Level students. 1/5

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 17/10/2025

📣 Call for participants 📣 Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice? We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ! Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.

Green and red poster with History Workshop Journal printed in the corner, black and white illustrations in the corner, and the title ‘Can you help us?’. The main text reads: This year our partner History Workshop Journal is celebrating the publication of its 100th issue. If you have ever used any HWJ articles in your teaching practice we would love to hear from you! Please let us know by emailing hwoeditors@historyworkshop.org.

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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues. 1/2 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

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Sasha Smith @sashasmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The History and wider team at @endsexisminschools.bsky.social are grateful for the support of @histassoc.bsky.social for making their articles and research into women in the curriculum open in their article on our report. Change is possible, thank you HA! www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

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Report on Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum

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End Sexism In Schools @endsexisminschools.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today. The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.

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Sexism in the History Curriculum - End Sexism in Schools

End Sexism In School’s second crowd research project is looking into the History curriculum taught at KS3 (years 7-9) in England and Wales.

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Claire Holliss @claireholliss.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Lovely to find the 200th edition of TH in my postbox today, including an article by me and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social. Hopefully it will contribute to the journal's tradition of starting conversations amongst history teachers! @histassoc.bsky.social

An image of the first two pages of our article in Teaching History

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Our first working-class prehistorian, Bill Varley, assisted socially during the Depression by recruiting unemployed men from Liverpool to his and Joan’s hillfort excavations in Cheshire, allowing them to work whilst still drawing their benefits.

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Jim Carroll @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

***NEW*** My new (free!) article in the History Education Research Journal exploring what ‘colligation’ is and how it might help teachers develop students’ causal arguments. Based on a case study with one of my Y13 classes. journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/article...

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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

"What can you do? What can you do, resourceless as you are, with freedom withering in a bone-stripping sirocco of stupid, wasteful fascist oppression?" buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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A Queer Shoulder to the Wheel

A version of this piece was originally published in Flaming Hydra, an art collective I'm proud to be a part of. Then I let David loose to edit as he does so...

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Claire Holliss @claireholliss.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

It really does pay to read the signs when you're in Bungay.

A sign reading 'beware of the dog' with a hellhound depicted below.

A puppet of a large black dog with glowing red eyes.

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Claire Holliss @claireholliss.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

We've reached the 'eerie East-Anglian road trip' stage of the summer holiday. Obviously that has to begin with a nose around a church, this time it's St Peter and St Paul, Lavenham.

Lavenham church - a large wool-church description can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter_and_St_Paul%27s_Church,_Lavenham

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Claire Holliss @claireholliss.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I don't want to romanticise the rural past, but every year I spend the months of August to October shaking down every hedgerow I can find and no-one ever gives me a badge! @themerl.bsky.social

Two circular Rose Hip Collectors Club badges, from 1964 and 1965. These badges were acquired for collecting a certain weight of rose hips.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.myatproto.social · 24/07/2025

„Immersive“ is exactly the opposite of what the field of history is trying to achieve.

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Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

📚 Does your curriculum include Gypsy, Roma or Traveller histories? We're fundraising for a GRT Teacher Fellowship in memory of Helen Snelson—champion of inclusive history. 💛 Support here: shorturl.at/c5DoK #GRTFellowship #InclusiveHistory #HelenSnelson

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Claire Holliss @claireholliss.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Goblin Band at @butserancientfarm.co.uk! A great gig, and probably one of the better ways I have started the summer holiday.

Four members of Goblin Band, one playing a violin, another an accordion and all singing. The venue is a reconstructed iron age roundhouse.

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

And even if you weren't able to join @alistairdickins.bsky.social you should still check out these resources, they are phenomenal. On a par with the work of @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social and that's saying something!

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