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David Rawlings

@davidrawlings.bsky.social
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Bristolian | PGCE History Subject Lead - University of Bristol | Researcher in social justice, coloniality and history education

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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It is with pleasure we can announce ERIN JOSH, Northallerton School as the winner of the inaugral @htenuk.bsky.social Helen Snelson Mentoring Award. There is a beautiful serendipity in this as Erin is a mentor for @uoyeducation.bsky.social partnership. 1/ #historyteacher #TeacherMentoring
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Teach Environmental Histories @teach-envi-history.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Come join our webinar with Richard Hoffman at 4:30pm tomorrow to learn about how people interacted with nature in Medieval Europe, and how we might apply this to our History teaching. Follow the link in our profile to register!
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Teach Environmental Histories @teach-envi-history.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We are keen to hear from more teachers, so if you would like to share how you included environmental perspectives in the teaching of medieval history please get in touch with us, you can email one of us at: vdove@thecotswoldschool.co.uk b.trapani@harrismorden.org.uk parkinsonf@hamptonhigh.org.uk
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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 28/04/2026
#HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation #TeacherMentoring please share this with beginning teachers and colleagues who can nominate
HTEN Helen Snelson Mentoring Award 
Link or QR CODE to nominate 
Contact me here if these are not accessible to you and I will share your nomination
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Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
The first term of ITT is often when subject thinking begins to take shape. Having access to subject guidance, scholarship and a community of history educators can make that process easier. Learn more about HA membership: www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
@htenuk.bsky.social delegates for the HTEN 2026 In-person conference have just received an email containing all the details needed for the day. Please do check your inboxes for an Eventbrite email. #HistoryEducation #historyteacher #TeacherEducation
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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Booking for the HTEN conference closes tomorrow at 5pm. Don't miss our on your ticket. #HistoryEducation #historyteacher #TeacherEducation #PGCE #SCITT
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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Today we are launching the 2026 SHP Summer Conference, which will be taking place July 10-12 at Leeds Trinity. This year, due to the huge increase in proposals for workshops, we have extended our offer to 46 wonderful workshops for primary and secondary teachers of history (see below for a taster!
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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Not yet booked your ticket for the @htenuk.bsky.social Conference on 20th March? Don't miss out! @htenuk.bsky.social supports all those involved in #historyteacher #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation & Professional Development. Contact htenuk@outlook.com for more information.
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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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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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DTC26 promo
YouTube video by Schools History Project
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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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Rafael Mitchell @rafaelmitchell.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"Confronting the politics of race, ethnicity and nation in schooling: evidence from school practices around the world" Call for papers! #EduSky @edusky.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/cer...
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Comparative Education Review: Call for papers - Confronting the politics of race, ethnicity and nation in schooling
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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The Autumn HTEN conference takes place this Thursday. Looking forward to seeing our members as we explore this important aspect of our work. Members have just received an email with log in details. Please check your inboxes. If you're not yet a member - please DM for info.
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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
In febrile times, exploring how we prepare teachers to address SCIs feels all the more important. We're delighted Rob Kanter and @helenfcarr.bsky.social will be sharing their important work and experiences with us at the next @htenuk.bsky.social conference. Make sure it is in your diary. 🗓️
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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Had a brilliant chat with @corinnefowler.bsky.social this morning to plan our SHP Understanding: UNEARTHED event on November 10 (5-6pm) on the SHP YouTube channel. Corinne will be sharing her deep knowledge about the colonial countryside and the legacy of empire on our gardens ...
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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
It was so much fun chatting to @carmelbones.bsky.social about the history of the Schools History Project and how it can support the #historyeducation community today and in the future. I hope you enjoy the chat that we had with Mel @histassoc.bsky.social creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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RETEACH HISTORY SE03E04 - Making History Matter With Mel Jones and Dan Lyndon-Cohen by RETEACH
In this episode of Reteach History, our host Carmel speaks with two of the history‑teaching community’s most influential figures: Mel Jones (Education Manager, Historical Association) and Dan Lyndon-C...
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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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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Very excited to share the forthcoming SHP Understanding event from @1972shp.bsky.social: Unearthed (Nov 10 5-6pm). The first in a series of webinars looking at the transformative and radical power of gardening - from the Diggers to Mary Seacole to settler colonialism we've got it covered!
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Rich Kerridge @historyrichk.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Calling all Cambridge OCR GCSE History Spec B Teachers - you know who you are! Please can you spare 5 minutes to complete this survey and tell us what you think of the current spec. having you say now will only make what we do in the future better. forms.office.com/pages/respon...
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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
WE ALSO WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU ... If you want to present a workshop at #SHP26 (use this form forms.office.com/e/UHkC15w52G )
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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Or if you have some suggestions of what we should be offering in our Developing Teachers Conference #DTC26 (use this form forms.office.com/e/u1B14iYYhJ )
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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
📢 Calling all #ITT #iTE #PGCE #SCITT #TeacherEducation colleagues Please tell your new #historyteacher beginning teachers about a FREE @histassoc.bsky.social webinar on 1st October. They need to register. Pop it in welcome presentations now before you forget! www.history.org.uk/events/calen...
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HA Webinar: Survive and thrive in your initial teacher education
Calling all those beginning their initial teacher education! In this session you’ll hear from and be able to ask questions to both teacher educators and those who have just completed their initial tea...
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 11/07/2025
Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27. Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team. www.historyworkshop....
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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Last chance to win £25 from Rayburn Tours if you book a ticket for #SHP25 today! If you can't make the whole weekend come along on Saturday, we have a really packed, exciting programme lined up. Tickets here store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... and you can get all of this for just over £100
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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Tickets still available for the launch of our wonderful SHP SW Forum with a superb programme of speakers including Michael Riley, @paulalobo.bsky.social and @tomallenhistory.bsky.social. Tickets available for as little as a fiver from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... so grab 'em now!
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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
#primaryteacher s and #historyteacher s, if you would like to join us in calling for the reintroduction of a minimum bursary for ALL #ITT students, then you can find more information on writing to your MP here: www.history.org.uk/ha-news/news... @histassoc.bsky.social #HistoryEducation
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Subject lottery for ITE bursaries: please write to your MP
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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
#SHP25 Competition 💷Win £25 from Rayburn Tours, one of our many awesome exhibitors at this year's summer conference! Just grab a ticket here (1 day, 2 day and weekend options available) store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata.... We also have 40 wonderful workshops, 3 kicking keynotes and a fab fringe
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Ian Dawson @iandawson51.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
‪I can highly recommend Michael's talk - it's a captivating, wonderful and important discussion - with Bristolian adaptations to the original Liverpudlian focus @histassoc.bsky.social conference, I suspect! You will thoroughly enjoy it.
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Jenny Hall @jenhistorycw11.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
If any teachers out there have a set or even just a couple of these textbooks at the back of a cupboard and would be willing to sell, please let me know. We need a few more for September and have no budget so can't really afford new. Thanks! #historyteacher
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Arathi Sriprakash @arathings.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
I'm hosting a free online workshop series on Anti-Racism and Reparations in Education. Please join us! 10am UK time: June 11, June 18 and July 2. Details and registration: baice.ac.uk/baice-presid... Please help spread the word to academic/education folx! 🙌🏾
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BAICE Presidential Workshop Series
Anti-Racism and Reparations: perspectives from Comparative and International Education
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Colin McCormick @colinmccormick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Transatlantic slavery. 4 teachers on the Radio talking about our book. Start 1 hour 11 mins in. @richkhistory.bsky.social @historyrichk.bsky.social @carmelbones.bsky.social @oblaize.bsky.social @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social
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UK Black with Ngunan Adamu - 23/05/2025 - BBC Sounds
Music, good vibes and stories from our African and Caribbean communities.
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Ludivine Broch @lmebroch.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Come do a PhD with us at @wminhumanities.bsky.social on Black Caribbean men and women in 2WW UK - a project which combines archives, photographs and community engagement. @saradominici.bsky.social, Pippa Catterall and myself as supervisors. Click on link below deadline late May!
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David Rawlings @davidrawlings.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
This is going to be ace!!
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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Our competition to win 3 copies of the superb Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School closes at midnight tonight. Anyone who buys a ticket for the SHP Summer Conference gets entered in the draw store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...
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Adam Robbins @mrarobbins.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Hey History teachers! I've been working with @carousel-learning.bsky.social at expanding their offer of official question banks. If you teach GCSE History please take a minute to answer a few questions for us 🙏 forms.gle/NVLVHEdPbHCT...
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Carousel History research
PLEASE READ THE BELOW BEFORE ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS: We know that retrieval practice is critical for helping students grow and develop their knowledge, and we want to support history teachers with hi...
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Deptford Green School @deptfordgreen.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
We are excited to announce that DG Head of History, Zara Daswani, has written chapters on the #OttomanEmpire for #OxfordUniversityPress's new book on #AsianEmpires and the #SilkRoads. ..continued in comments
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Delighted to be giving the Gender & History lecture at Uni of Bristol on 15th May (and on Zoom). Join us for a discussion of trans history, colonial history, & non-human animal history. There will, of course, be merfolk. Link here: ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...
Image of old merperson with Bristol logo and details of event (in post)
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Colin McCormick @colinmccormick.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Want a free copy of our book? Retweet or like and we'll pick the winner on Friday
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David Rawlings @davidrawlings.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Great to finally get my hands on a copy of this at #haconf25 - brilliant book (I think), fascinating stories, amazing illustrations. Find out more at this webinar, 4pm 3rd June: tinyurl.com/5bk5dyhp
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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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Colin McCormick @colinmccormick.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Buy Now! @richkhistory.bsky.social the "sister book" to his one. One for schools and people interested in Empire/slavery. Email enquiries@cpmmmedia.com with the subject line "Book Order" or alternatively, order on Amazon. @sathnam.bsky.social @corinnefowler.bsky.social @alanlester.bsky.social
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Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Are you a beginning / trainee #historyteacher? Think history can help young people reflect on issues of truth and justice in a complex world? Want to share your ideas with others? Why not contribute to the @1972shp.bsky.social Curriculum PATHS Planning Lab. padlet.com/cpaths/shp-c...
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SHP Curriculum PATHS - ITE Planning Lab
On this page you can create and browse ethical history plans created by beginning teachers. We hope this is an opportunity for professional experimentation. Instructions on submitting your experimenta...
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Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Super that @sashasmith.bsky.social and @scl1979.bsky.social 's amazing unit: "How can material objects help us to understand Britain's role in the world?" is now live on @1972shp.bsky.social Curriculum PATHS. Look in the Y8/9 section on our Sharing Hub padlet.com/cpaths/hub #historyteacher
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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🎉Win a Copy of A Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School! 📚 Want to get your hands on this essential history teaching guide? 🗓 Buy a ticket for the SHP Summer Conference between 5–20 May 2025 and you’ll be entered into our prize draw! store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...
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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
You can find more details of the 3 yr project here blackculturalarchives.org/news/introdu... it is going to be a superb resource for history teachers who want to amplify historically marginalised groups, in their classrooms. It would be great to see the IH team at #SHP26!
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Introducing Inclusive Histories — Black Cultural Archives
Last month the Inclusive Histories project truly got off the starting block with two new members of the team starting their roles. Jess Brown joins us as our Project Officer, a key role in helping t...
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Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
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Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...
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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Last chance to get your @1972shp.bsky.social summer conference bargain! Grab your tickets from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... before it's too late!
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