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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

An honour to finally be able to stand up and launch The Practical Guide to Teaching History to the history teaching community at #SHP25! Thank you to @joshpreyegarry.bsky.social and @mrmayhew.bsky.social Thank you to Matt Stanford and @corinnegoullee.bsky.social for getting us to this place

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The even better news is the book is ready to fly off the shelves, and here is an offer to save 20% from Routledge. We hope it is a useful guide for teachers who are new to the profession, as well as more experienced colleagues. www.routledge.com/A-Practical-...

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Who else but Norfolk's own @mrmayhew.bsky.social to show us all how to teach local history through distinct enquiries or sprinkling those links through our existing curricula.

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Another area that would not have featured as prominently in the original edition of the book is historical scholarship. @victoriacrooks.bsky.social outlines a variety of powerful ways in which the works of historians can be brought to life in the classroom.

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

@jcarrollhistory.bsky.social says "historical writing is hard!" Well he makes it look easy as he draws on his years of experience in this area of history teaching to provide a tour-de-force of how to teach extended writing in history.

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

@victoriabarnett.bsky.social really gets to grips with what progress and assessment look like in history. Influenced by the work of @daisychristo.bsky.social she shows how we can bring that understanding into the history classroom.

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The best people to write about decolonising the curriculum were @danlyndon.bsky.social and @joshpreyegarry.bsky.social Their chapter is part practical guide, and part call to arms, in a curricular landscape that is constantly demanding we renew the struggle to include all voices.

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

The masterful @apf102.bsky.social summarises the best thinking, and provides essential insights, into how sources and evidence can be used in rigorous new ways. He asserts that it is these "historical tracks" which can help young people to understand that all knowledge in history is provisional.

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Helen Snelson was one of the first authors to be on board to write a chapter, and was always available to offer advice as the project progressed. Here she shows how that most misunderstood concepts of historical significance can be brought to life for children. She will be missed.

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

@jacobolivey.bsky.social lays out how similarity and difference can be understood and used in conjunction with historical perspective. Understanding how, what has been called cultural history, can be used as part of history teacher planning. A fantastic chapter.

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

In Chapter 6 the brilliant @lauralondo1017.bsky.social of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social shows us how the historical concept of causation can be applied in our classrooms in new and relevant ways.

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Obviously the great @michaelfordham.bsky.social is then giving us a masterclass in substantive and disciplinary knowledge. Not a chapter that would have been considered crucial in the original edition of 2006!

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Who better than @paulalobo.bsky.social to write about historical enquiries in history teaching? A process she describes as "intellectually stimulating and rewarding." Just like reading this chapter!

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

One of the best to write about curriculum design @willbaileywatson.bsky.social talks about the gardener, the wrestler, the architect and the explorer. An informative romp through the last 25 years of curricular thinking in history teaching.

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Today is publication day for a Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School. 19 years after the first edition, this is a complete re-write by so many wonderful experts in the history teaching community. Thanks to @terryhaydn.bsky.social for offering the opportunity 5 years ago!

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