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Dave Voisey @davev-vickersmg.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

For the #historyreacher crew.Putting my money where my mouth is over teaching warfare. This year I to redid our FWW unit following a narrative format after looking at the work of @counsellc.bsky.social, @hughrichards.bsky.social, @michaeldoron.bsky.social, @paulalobo.bsky.social, /1

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Katie Finlayson @learnwhatyoulive.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Happy post from yesterday - Changing Histories Fragile Worlds, hot off the press 😍 Really looking forward to diving into this during our next year’s school time. I’ve flicked through and already found some fascinating and unusual stories to explore. @counsellc.bsky.social

Changing Histories KS3 Fragile Worlds textbook on a pile including The Phoenix, Oddsocks Romeo and Juliet programme and a Colin furze hat.

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Beth G-G @bethgg.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Excellent start to #rEDEastAnglia with a keynote form @counsellc.bsky.social that I can link to Art History (big up reception theory) and barrelled through my own session in time for break 💪

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ATT Institute @attinstitute.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

We're delighted to share that @counsellc.bsky.social will be joining us at #rEDEastAnglia as our new Keynote, bringing an incredible wealth of expertise to our fantastic line-up of speakers–it's NOT one to miss! 🤩✈️ 🎫 Book now: tinyurl.com/mryr325c #TransformingPD #TransformingLives #EduSky

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Will Goodfellow @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We’re nearly there with #changinghistoriesks3 Fragile Worlds and I couldn’t be prouder of how this project is coming together. Here are a few stunning spreads. You can see more at the @histassoc conference this week! Massive thanks to the author team led by @counsellc.bsky.social #HAConf26

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

If you're a history teacher, and you've never been to a history teacher conference, or if you're a primary teacher and you lead or love history, then you cannot miss @histassoc.bsky.social conference, 15 & 16 May, in Newcastle. Two days packed with workshops – inspiration & history-geekery galore.

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Well worth attending this. If you're new to history teaching especially then know that @1972shp.bsky.social has a long tradition of really outstanding subject-specific CPD. This is a great programme. Stimulating, varied, topical, rigorous. Check it out or ask @danlyndon.bsky.social for more info.

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benarscott.bsky.social @benarscott.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Thanks to @egcarr.bsky.social, @counsellc.bsky.social and all the other editors of Teaching History who put in so many hours to put together this amazing journal. For this edition, I really enjoyed writing up my thinking process for an enquiry on Toussaint L'Ouverture.

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

The Schools History Project is absolutely thrilled to be able to offer the opportunity to work with one of the leading experts in the world in the field of History, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes Warrington ...

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Have you got 49 seconds to spare? Check out our latest promo video for @1972shp.bsky.social's Developing Teachers' Conference, 31/01/26. Early Bird Tickets available from here store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... #skystorians #historyeducation #edusky www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4s6...

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

A joy to see this. Feedback from pupils and parents shows #ChangingHistoriesKS3 is changing the game for KS3 history Rich story, deep scholarly connections, rigorous enquiry questions and enquiry journeys all need to be embedded and integrated, not bolted on as extra texts.

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John Simkin @johnsimkin1945.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

You can read my article on using AI in the history classroom. www.history.org.uk/publications... @counsellc.bsky.social @andywalker1965.bsky.social @danlyndon.bsky.social‬ @richardjonesnerzic.bsky.social @edpodesta.bsky.social @apf102.bsky.social @hollyhiscox.bsky.social @historywo.bsky.social

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Teachers of American history, @johnsimkin1945.bsky.social has pulled together a rather nifty and very interesting history of US tariffs across the 20th century.

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Mark Goodrich @markgoodrich.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I am education podcasting my way around the gravel roads of #Hokkaido. First up, I enjoyed the final They Behave For Me of the year with @counsellc.bsky.social talking about her classic blog on genericism. I welcome these dips into the classic blogs of the past having missed them 1st time around.

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Madeleine F-B @mxfb.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

open.spotify.com/episode/4UZr... Really good episode with excellent food for thought for any senior leader trying to embed consistency in T&L across a sch alongside maintaining subject rigour and validity. @adamboxereducation.bsky.social @amymayforrester.bsky.social @counsellc.bsky.social 🍎🎓📚

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What is genericism, and why is it so important? With Christine Councsell

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Alex Weatherall @aweatherall.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Listening to this pca.st/episode/5203... It's very good breakdown of all sorts of aspects of education changes over the last 10 years and @counsellc.bsky.social has a great sense of what went well and what mutated to more of the same.

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What is genericism, and why is it so important? With Christine Councsell

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Adam Boxer @adamboxereducation.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Why did edu-legend @counsellc.bsky.social write Genericism's Children? Why is she worried about genericism, and why does she care so much about the dignity of individual subjects? All this and more, in a stonkingly good episode! open.spotify.com/episode/4UZr...

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

This short thread by Cat Priggs made me think: History planning is about tying things together into a shape, a flow – usually a story & often a parallel flow of the analytic direction created by the EQ. It isn't about breaking things up into propositions and it's rarely about teaching a procedure.

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

How does an enquiry question sustain interest, build momentum and give all pupils access to disciplinary thinking across a lesson sequence? How does the EQ help you to integrate compelling stories and rich, extended text? Register bit.ly/4nrA8Mv for Cat and Elizabeth's webinar on Tues 8 July 3.30pm

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

As I said in my lecture on Weds eve, receiving the Medlicott medal for services to history has been deeply special for me, not least because it allows me to celebrate and promote the importance of subject communities. We would be nowhere without @histassoc.bsky.social. Thank you HA. You're the best.

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Catherine Priggs @catherinepriggs.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Last night I was honoured to receive an Honorary Fellowship from the @histassoc.bsky.social It’s hard to put into words what this means. It is more than an association to me; it’s a community that has supported, sustained and nurtured me at so many points in my career.

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Will Goodfellow @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Brilliant to see Hachette Learning authors @catherinepriggs.bsky.social @davidjhibbert.bsky.social @michaeldoron.bsky.social and @lambhearttea.bsky.social receive their HA honorary fellowships. Huge congrats to #ChangingHistoriesKS3 series ed @counsellc.bsky.social on her Medlicott Medal too!

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Will Goodfellow @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Looking for FREE CPD that can make a real difference to your KS3 history teaching? Look no further. The heat wave of our awesome Changing Histories webinar series continues. First @counsellc.bsky.social, then @paulalobo.bsky.social followed by @hughrichards.bsky.social and now Cat and Elizabeth 🌡️ ☀️

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Katie Finlayson @learnwhatyoulive.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Genuinely been looking forward to this arriving - and just in time for planning next year. It looks just as fabulous as book 1! @counsellc.bsky.social #HomeEd #History

Front cover of the expanding worlds KS3 history textbook, sitting on top of a bound workbook and next to a yearly calendar and pencil.

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Paula Lobo (Worth) @paulalobo.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

And here it is. Finally. Surrounded by some of the scholarship that shaped it. It’s beautiful and such fun to teach - it has given my Year 8 class stories to live inside. A parent messaged me to say history has ‘never been so fun!’ - all I did was tell the class stories from this book.

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Jemma Sherwood @jemmaths.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

*Of course* school prepares children for their futures, but not by being a mini workplace. It’s by giving them a breadth of foundational knowledge and experience across the big, enduring disciplines and human pursuits. The kinds of things they won’t get chance to learn about or experience at work.

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Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Big HA congratulations to Dr Christine Counsell on her OBE for services to education! 👏 She’s also receiving our 2025 Medlicott Medal for outstanding service to history. A year of well-earned recognition! Got a fave Christine moment? Tell us! #OBE #MedlicottMedal #HistoryEd

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Elizabeth Carr @egcarr.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Delighted to see @counsellc.bsky.social recognised with an OBE. Where would we be without her wisdom on history, curriculum, assessment? She has profoundly shaped me as a history teacher and curriculum leader. schoolsweek.co.uk/kings-birthd...

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King's birthday honours: Top gongs for northern trust CEOs

70 people with links to England's school system recognised

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Summer Turner @summerturner.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Some amazing people honoured in education and I am particularly thrilled that it includes @counsellc.bsky.social. She’s brought so much wisdom and sharpness of thought to the sector. I’ve been so lucky to work with her and the impact she has had for me personally has been profound.

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Couldn't have hoped for better company than these guys to celebrate PUBLICATION DAY! of our Year 8 #ChangingHistoriesKS3 And mega thanks to YOU, Will. Only the finest publisher could understand what it takes to define a new gold standard in textbooks & to support my brilliant team for 4 long years 👏

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Catherine Priggs @catherinepriggs.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

An absolute pleasure. What a complete joy to work on this! Really enjoying supporting schools who are embracing Changing Histories and seeing a much richer, coherent, beautifully constructed curriculum as a result.

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Children can read a LOT, and devour text greedily. In #OpeningWorlds by Y6, pupils read c1000 words each lesson in history, geography & RE. How do we do this? Intentional sequencing: every single tricky word not in bold – scour, meandered, gesture... – has been taught thoroughly before in Y3, 4 or 5

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Knowledge Hub @knowledge-hub.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The ELP 2025-26 is now open for enrolment! Now in Year 6 and with our usual line up of amazing tutors like @counsellc.bsky.social & many more. For more information or to sign up..... knowledgehub.org.uk/elp

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Reading should be a pleasure in each subject. So build it in, don't bolt it on. Let the scholarship used to design the lessons ooze through, in its cadences, rhythms & latent questions. And climb in thro well-crafted text: don't introduce knowledge as tidy, generalised facts. Publication in June...

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Dan Morrow @moremorrow.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This is going to be incredible! Please do come along or share with your networks friends @edfinch.bsky.social @marymyatt.bsky.social @counsellc.bsky.social

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

A few years ago, I met the incredibly talented Dr Rebecca Struthers - the UK's only watchmaker with a PhD in horology. We immediately hit it off and became friends... and then wrote this book together. Out in August, available to preorder now! geni.us/AboutTimeDK

Cover of a book called "About Time": On the left, a drawing of a man in a purple shirt and blue trousers looking through a telescope. On the right, a drawing of a woman in a peach coloured shirt and grey trousers looking at a pocket watch, she is wearing a jewellers loupe over one eye. They are both standing on the face of a clock in the middle of which are the words "About Time". The "o" of about is the centre of the clock, where the hands are attached, telling the time 12:38

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Meanwhile, in the Dutch Republic... How to launch histories of trade and empire through stories of science & art, through sense of place, through specific people. An early chapter in forthcoming #ChangingHistoriesKS3 for Year 8 Beautiful writing about Vermeer, by Rachel Foster

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

If you want to know how to transform the hero of this powerful story www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m... into a brilliant sequence of lessons then come along to @1972shp.bsky.social summer conference and hear Andrew Wrenn share his inspiring work for KS2/3 store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...

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‘How can you not know?’ Black and Asian people went overboard for Britain, says WW2 veteran

Prince Albert Jacob feels disappointed in continued ignorance of role many non-whites played in war effort

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

If this arrives by my birthday (1 June) I will be happiest history person alive. And those of you trying to get reading into KS3, here's your Y8 answer. Stories, sources, scholarship all built in, not bolted on. Disciplinary journeys integrated by rich narrative. Magical planning by a fab team. ❤️

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

If you've been following @apf102.bsky.social's insightful reviews of A Practical Guide to Teaching History, then you'll know what a fantastic book it is. So win yourself a copy by getting your ticket for the @1972shp.bsky.social's summer conference from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Makes me v happy when peop are not only kind enough to share this labour of love of 4 yrs (thank you Katie ❤️) but brilliantly sum up what we strove for: tight disciplinary focus (no dud EQs), rich engaging stories. If you want extended reading integrated into KS3, check out #ChangingHistoriesKS3

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Katie Finlayson @learnwhatyoulive.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Finished this today. We’ve been reading and discussing as part of our morning time all year and it’s been brilliant - engaging, disciplinary, well structured storytelling. Book 2 is on order :) #HomeEd #History @counsellc.bsky.social

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Gemma H @gemmamh.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Session from @counsellc.bsky.social was predictably excellent - engaging and challenging us all to do better. Appreciated the reference to the research and evidence base to explain what makes an effective enquiry question #HAConf25

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