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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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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

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

We also have Rachel Bruce and Judy Clarke showing how they weave local stories into primary history teaching, helping students engage with the past and the familiar. @1972shp.bsky.social

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Next up at the @1972shp.bsky.social Yorkshire History Forum we have the inimitable @petejackson.bsky.social sharing some strategies for writing.

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

We also have Charlotte Sellars discussing how we should present chronology to our primary students. @1972shp.bsky.social

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

It's the @1972shp.bsky.social Yorkshire History Forum tonight and we are kicking off with a session from @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social on teaching transatlantic enslavement using local stories.

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Great analysis from Alex Ford on the Curriculim Review.

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Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

World Class or Bottom of the Class? A Deep Dive into the Curriculum and Assessment Review It's taken a while to digest but here are my initial thoughts on the Review and its implications for schools and school History #historyteacher #EduSky #CurriculumReview www.andallthat.co.uk/blog/world-c...

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I love it when students bring in artefacts and this one is one of the best...a 1735 edition of Dialogues of the Dead in great condition....buzzing

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

We've been having lots of fun threading environmental history through existing parts of our curriculum this year. The only big surprise was how few y7 know the story of Robin Hood!!

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

1. After @btrappy.bsky.social's wonderful @1972shp.bsky.social conf session where she used an extract from Amitav Ghosh's "Sea of Poppies" in her Lessons on the British Empire in KS5, I was inspired to do similar using Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" when talking about Britain and Africa.

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

This, 100 times this. "Embedding Affirmation, Critical Thinking, Community, and Democracy is not a wellbeing add-on. It is safeguarding in practice. It is how we make school the place where young people are hardest to exploit." www.class13.org/flags-dont-l...

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Flags don’t land on neutral ground - Class 13

A London flags debate in schools piece from Pimlico Academy to today. Student: “Why are there flags everywhere?” Teacher: “We are not getting into that.” If that question lands in your classroom tomo...

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

A mob of angry drunken men screaming abuse outside an asylum hotel have defended their actions, saying all they want is for women and girls to feel safe walking the streets. From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Dr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

When you say that flags on roundabouts isn't about racism, that may well be the case for you. But these are the people you're throwing in with... Every argument about immigration has racism at its core. Peel back even one layer, it's always underpinned by racism and white supremacy. Always.

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Great thread. AI planned lessons I've seen are at best very superficial and at worst just plain poor. When teachers deliver lessons without doing the thinking themselves, or understanding the thinking of the person who planned, or without adapting, learning and student thinking are the casualties.

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

@iandawson51.bsky.social we are planning on doing a version of the classic skeletons at Maiden Castle enquiry next year. Do you have digital versions of the clues/sources by any chance?

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rLR... I'm working really hard on trying to get my students to understand public feeling during of the Cold War. These brilliant street interviews during the Cuban Missile Crisis really help!

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1962: Cuban Missile Crisis: Street Interviews with Londoners

YouTube video by ITN Archive

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

1. As part of my research, I've been looking at the history of how secondary teachers have navigated colonialism, enslavement and diversity in the past. In doing so, I have been reading some of the first editions of teaching history. Fascinating stuff. www.history.org.uk/publications...

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Teaching History 17

About the journal, page 2The Editors, page 2Islam in history, page 3Resources - Islam in history, page 5African history in the classroom, page 7History in Central Africa, page 10Review article - recen...

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Peter Johnston @peterajohnston.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

IWM has recently launched our India's War collecting project, aiming to improve our representation of the Indian experience of the Second World War within the museum’s collections. More details here: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

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India's War: An IWM Collecting project

Find out more about how IWM is looking to increase the representation of the Indian experience of the Second World War within the museum’s collections.

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

I'm really looking forward to this. No doubt there will be some excellent workshops, keynotes and chances to discuss history teaching with a range of interesting and passionate people. There really is no better cpd!!

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I was really struck by the power of KS4 stories at the HA conf during @benbassett.bsky.social and @petejackson.bsky.social's session. I'm so greatful to be able to try out one of their stories in our curriculum. Thank you 🙌🙌🙌. So wonderful to be part of a collaborative history teaching community.

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Looking forward to reading this. So important that "global topics" like enslavement are also taught as local history. Congratulations @colinmccormick.bsky.social and @katieamery.bsky.social for all the work you did on this! Sheffield teachers can do similar with resources I've linked in comments.

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It's that time if year again....buzzing

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

www.justgiving.com/campaign/ha-... The history of Roma, Gyspy, and Traveler people is absent in most schools. Help us change that by donating towards an HA fellowship! In memory of Helen Snelson and in the name of revealing hidden history, developing subject knowledge and doing justice to the past.

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Support the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Teacher Fellowship Programme | In memory of Helen Snelson

The Historical Association is working to raise funds to establish a Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Teacher Fellowship Programme - a professional development initiative for teachers - in memory of Helen Sne...

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I'm going a bit meta with my new approach to the Cold War at GCSE. I am doing a whole lesson on what a superpower is to try and help students understand what I view as the key misconception still - what the cold wat actually was! Not a little relevant still of course. Let's see if it works!

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The Labour Party government is such a depressing reality. No political backbone, no vision, no plan to make life better for working people. They already seem to work for the people who will employ them after the lose the next elections.

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

#haconf25 was a blast. Great to connect with colleagues, friends and teachers and enjoy some insightful, inspiring and thought-provoking sessions. We are so lucky to have spaces where we can elevate history and history teaching and share research, resources and ideas.

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Excited to announce we are looking for a history teacher to join our team, contribute to our curriculum and teach across kS3,4 and 5. Deadline is teusday 6th June, so a slightly tight turnaround. I am happy to answer any question via dm or in linked email. www.waleshigh.com/jobs/teacher...

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Teacher of History – Wales High School

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

It's gona be so good! Last chance to get early birds...

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iniseoghain.bsky.social @iniseoghain.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC." And it's the mistake that the Labour Party is making. Trying to appease those who hate the Labour party and will never vote for it.

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

A misconception people seem to have about AI marking is that reading and feedback is just some chore which can be offloaded. Teachers learn as much about students from marking their work as the other way around. Understanding our students by reading their work is a big part of quality teaching.

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

This is scandalous. Cutting benefits and yet open to giving tax breaks to bilionaires.

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

When I became a history teacher, I remember reading from my HoDs huge collection of Teaching History. It feels surreal to now have contributed myself! My article is about teaching local, decolonial history. Wonderful experience, enhanced greatly by Katharine Burn's editorial insights. Happy Easter.

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

@histedresearch.bsky.social does anybody have digital copies of the 1991 and 2007 national curriculums for history (uk) they would be willing to share? I'd be very greatful if so!

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Observing our ITT teaching about the environmental impact of WWI. Exciting to begin developing our work on environmental history and also exciting when trainees bring such interesting planning ideas to the department. This lesson looks at impact on agriculture, humans, animals, water and woodland.

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

So many important points here...

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Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

NEW BLOG (don't die of shock): What is said and what is unsaid? The problems at the heart of the DfE's curriculum and assessment review. Part 1 of my reflection on the DfE's evolution not revolution approach to curriculum #historyteacher #ukedchat #edusky www.andallthat.co.uk/blog/what-is...

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What is said and what is unsaid? The problems at the heart of the DfE's curriculum and assessment review

On Tuesday morning I managed to set aside some time to read the DfE’s interim report of their curriculum and assessment review team . It has caused me to think a lot. Hell, it’s even made me find...

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Two books I believe every UK history teacher should read. There are more of course, but these two are a great start....

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

www.bbc.com/news/article... Oh no! Minister listens to unions. Unions represent the views of teachers, the people how who actually spend their time in classrooms teaching young people. listening to unions is not something to be ashamed of, nor is listening to teachers.

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Ex-Ofsted boss says education secretary wants 'to please unions'

The former head of Ofsted Amanda Spielman says the government should "think again" on its reform proposals.

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Matt Stibbe pushing against some of the mainstream curriculum assumptions about Germany and the end of WWI at the Yorkshire History Forum, @1972shp.bsky.social

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

@sarahdhistory.bsky.social talking us through her ingenious exploration of permacrisis and the work of historian Julie Gottlieb's work at the Yorkshire History Forum @1972shp.bsky.social

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Interesting how Mark Cottingham uses personal histories to help students understand and connect to Sheffield's industrial past @ the Yorkshire History Forum @1972shp.bsky.social

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Fred Oxby @fredoxby.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Just booked my sessions for my 1st ever HA conference and it's Yorkshire History Forum tomorrow. Exciting times (if you're a nerdy history teacher 😀).

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