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

This is a brilliant piece. I had the privilege of a pre-publication preview and have adopted Sarah and Jessie's analogies in my teaching with Year 10. Do read it!

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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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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

@htenuk.bsky.social have been busy this morning, so please check you inboxes. And don't forget to make sure our inperson conference is in your calendar for March (tickets will be available in January).

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Victoria Crooks @victoriacrooks.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

My @uonsoe.bsky.social #ITT #historyteacher s visited their new Teaching Practice schools today ahead of starting properly after the holiday. Enjoying hearing their reflections on moving placement & having a pupil perspective from my eldest who met one in their lesson today!

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A shape-sorter understanding: Why mentees find changing teaching placements so hard

We’re approaching that time in the ITE year when our students prepare to move to a new school setting for their second teaching practice. Having just settled into their placement school, havi…

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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Our next HTEN Time To Talk is on Wednesday 21st January 3:30pm. Why don't you join us for a cuppa in our virtual staff room?

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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Did you know HTEN has a website?

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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Yet again DfE have failed to respond to the need for a subsistence level bursary for all #ITT training teachers. Prospective applicants are facing financial barriers to entry to the profression. JOIN OUR CAMPAIGN www.history.org.uk/ha-news/news... @schoolsweek.bsky.social @tesmagazine.bsky.social

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Subject lottery for ITE bursaries: please write to your MP

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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Time to talk is an opportunity for @htenuk.bsky.social colleagues to meet more informally in our virtual staff room. Our first session of 25/26 will be hosted by @davidrawlings.bsky.social. It is also open to non-members #historyteacher #TeacherEducators. Please do get in touch for the link.

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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Our starter pack will connect you to some members of our HTEN community. We will add to this as colleagues join Bluesky. go.bsky.app/7CTVFdz #historyeducation #historyteacher #TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation

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Sam Day @samdayhistory.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Really enjoying this! Definitely worth a read for anyone in History education.

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Ann-Marie Foster @amfoster.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

History UK are recruiting disabled historians (and historians who work on disability history) to take part in focus groups to inform their fantastic Disability and History Project - do consider signing up! www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...

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History UK Disability and History Project

The History UK Disability and History Project was launched in November 2023 in response to the History UK EDI report which identified disability as an important aspect of EDI work worthy of further…

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Colin McCormick @colinmccormick.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Save the date! May 9th / 10th. HA Conference is round the corner. Looking forward to be talking alongside my friend @katieamery.bsky.social about teaching slavery @histassoc.bsky.social Grab your tickets fast!

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Join me on Tuesday 18 March to find out how the #OpeningWorlds humanities curriculum embeds and foregrounds stories of diverse women, weaving them into and complicating larger narratives at Key Stage 2.

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Mark Cottingham MSc FCCT @cottshead.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Thanks for organising a great day; diverse but connected workshops and affirming to be in the company of people committed to making history teaching relevant and inspiring #SHPYHF

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Matt Stibbe from @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social delivering the keynote lecture #SHPYHF challenging the well worn approach that there was a direct line between WW1 and the rise of the Nazis.

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Ian Martin now sharing the local site visits that Shire Oak primary students have been doing in Leeds looking at Victorian housing and daily life #SHPYHF

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Becca Nicholson taking us on the journey that her primary school has embarked on in reimagining the history curriculum #SHPYHF

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Schools History Project - SHP @1972shp.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Looking to refresh your Year 8/9 teaching? Have a look at this Curriculum PATHS Unit from @roos-miles.bsky.social Chris Jacques & @apf102.bsky.social , exploring the significance of the Dakota activist Zitkala-Sa padlet.com/apf102/y8-9-... #historyteacher #edusky #WeAreSHP

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Y8/9 - USA - C19-20: What story should we tell about Zitkala-Sa? (Alex Ford, Chris Jacques & Ross Miles)

An historical significance unit bringing Indigenous American histories to the centre of an enquiry

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Schools History Project - SHP @1972shp.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If you want to involve your students in some amazing oral history work, you really need to check out this Curriculum PATHS Unit on the Tape Letters from @danlyndon.bsky.social . padlet.com/dlyndoncohen... Check out all our units via curriculumpaths.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk #historyteacher

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Y8/9 - C20th - Migration & Empire - Tape Letters

An oral history project focusing on the experiences of the British-Pakistani community c1960s to the present

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Mark Cottingham from @sheffielduni.bsky.social presenting on Sheffield's connection to the Transatlantic Slave Trade and showcasing opposition in the region to enslavement #SHPYHF

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Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

This is going to be a brilliant event. If you have been teaching 5 years or less, grab your tickets (and competition entry) now

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Sam Gibbs @samgibbs.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

The two biggest problems with the system in stats from @tesmagazine.bsky.social. Ofsted cannot and will not self-reform and, until reform happens, no other meaningful change can. And we need to reduce our reliance on outsourced expertise and develop capacity within and across schools.

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Last chance for Early Bird Tickets for the @1972shp.bsky.social Developing Teachers' Conference. Prices change at midnight🕛 so don't miss out on a great bargain. 6 secondary, 3 primary workshops and a fab keynote from Shalina Patel (more book prizes being released next week!). Ticket link below

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Intrigued to find out more? Come and join us and the team from @teachmedwomen.bsky.social at the British Library Jan 18th. More details here www.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/shpu/ and register for tickets (and free entry to the exhibition!) with d.lyndon-cohen@leedstrinity.ac.uk

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