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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 28/09/2026

Sound by Paul Biagi of Wild Blue. Caller Seth Tepfer, tune Bus Stop Reel by Anita Anderson. Well, that's how it started ... #contradancing in Paris by @laurtuck.bsky.social

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 28/09/2026

#contradancing potluck supper, fabulous crowd of people from Paris, the US, Germany, UK ...

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 28/09/2026

#contradancing with live traditional music, youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Dancing in long lines. Caller explains everything.

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 21/09/2026

This weekend, #contradancing in Paris with Seth Tepfer and Box of Frogs. sites.google.com/site/america...

Box of Frogs Linda Game fiddle and Ali Messer accordion in photo by Louise Siddons

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 25/08/2026

At Whitby Folk Week listening to a talk about John Clare @arthurjchapman.bsky.social ! Presented by Dave Townsend and musical illustration from Pete Cooper.

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 09/07/2026

@themerl.bsky.social saw this absolute unit and thought of you. At Sheppy's cider farm museum

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 09/07/2026

@themerl.bsky.social saw this absolute unit and thought of you. At Sheppy's cider farm museum

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 26/06/2026

Callers for contra and English include @daisyeblack.bsky.social of this parish! Tickets here: sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/tickets/

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 26/06/2026

Fabulous Euro and bal at @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social this summer with youtu.be/x-ra05SysWY?... and youtu.be/E9RY05SOF7c?...

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 26/06/2026

sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/tickets/ contra callers

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 16/06/2026

Gary Mills argues that working with museum education can support new teachers in developing their curricular imagination. He concludes with a reading from MacFarlane to challenge our imaginations. #HistoryEducation We need to move on from what we have always done.

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 16/06/2026

Do we need to work in more interdisciplinary ways in school? Do museums show us a way forward? #HistoryEducation 🗺️ How should #TeacherEducation respond?

Pupils show an understanding of deep time.
Heading climate justice

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 16/06/2026

The ideas of Kate Hawkey raise further ethical questions and challenges for ITE. How can those designing ITE maintain coherence whilst broadening understandings of new teachers? Can collaborations with museum education help? #HistoryEducation @htenuk.bsky.social

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 16/06/2026

Claire Ball-Smith talking about 'our Helen' and the first winner of the Helen Snelson mentor award Erin Josh. #HistoryEducation @htenuk.bsky.social congratulations Erin!

Helen Snelson Mentoring award given to Erin Josh Northallerton School

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 20/05/2026

7pm 2nd June St Matthias Church Richmond upon Thames a concert by Jacqueline Schwab featuring traditional, vintage and global music. Admission On the door, pay what you can, around £15 Jacqueline has played for Ken Burns films and documentaries; concerts and country dancing. #piano

Jacqueline Schwab Be the light
Photo of Jacqueline and piano

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 11/05/2026

Typo #dancingyoucando more photos of artists leading dance and dance music @lsiddons.bsky.social Link to Early Bird tickets @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/tickets/

Linda Game Ali Messer Box of Frogs
Photo by Louise Siddons

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 11/05/2026

Last chance today to get Early Bird tickets for @sidmouthfolkfest.bsky.social With so much #dancingyiucando follow the link today! sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/tickets/

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 06/05/2026

Buy your tickets now while they're cheaper!

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 30/04/2026

Diane Silver and Contra Sutra are in the UK. Go #contradancing! Find them at May Hey Days, Alcester, London Barndance, Ashford Contra, Halsway Manor and Bristol Contra.

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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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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 13/04/2026

#contradancing @cecilsharphouse.bsky.social Next event May 9th with Diane Silver and Contra Sutra from the US

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 11/04/2026

@cecilsharphouse.bsky.social for London Barndance tonight! Andrew Swaine calling with Contrasaurus #contradancing

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 02/04/2026

www.ashfordfolkdancers.org.uk/contra_dances next #contradancing April 12th Andrew Swaine calling with Fiddlechicks #fiddles #livemusic

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 31/03/2026

intheoryandinpractice.wordpress.com Is music for English Country Dance (ECD) in the US the same as in England? How can we inspire movement through dance music in ECD? Find out with American pianist Jacqueline Schwab. Read my latest blog post to find out how to join us at Halsway Manor in Somerset

Jacqueline Schwab sitting at a grand piano

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 30/03/2026

I can't see the presentation. This is my favourite time traveller historian. By Tom Gauld.

She's just a history professor from the future. She says to carry on as if she's not here. Tom Gauld

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 21/03/2026

From Poems on the Underground www.readkong.com/page/london-... For a short walk.

Everything changes by Cicely Herbert

Everything changes. We plant trees for those born later but what’s happened has happened,and poisons poured into the seas cannot be drained out again.

What’s happened has happened.Poisons poured into the seas cannot be drained out again, but everything changes. We plant trees for those born later.

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 21/03/2026

store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...

Artificial historians using AI
With Marnie-Hughes Warrington

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 20/03/2026

So what can we do proactively or how do we respond?

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 20/03/2026

Are conspiracy theories always counter cultural?

Definitions including the very contested definition of conspiracy theory.

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 20/03/2026

Gives examples in changing attitudes to gender quality. Perhaps the knowledge-turn doesn't help with making decisions about truth. Need an epistemic-turn to deal with digital environment

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 20/03/2026

Argues a significant change in media environment has an impact we need to consider in schooling

Contrasting images of the media environment in the past and now

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 20/03/2026

Jeremy Hayward presenting on challenges of conspiracy theories, disinformation and dangerous ideas @htenuk.bsky.social conference at Middlesex University

Jeremy Hayward presenting on challenges of conspiracy theories, disinformation and dangerous ideas at HTEN conference at Middlesex University

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 20/03/2026

@jcarrollhistory.bsky.social asks if there were regional variations in responses: and yes! Something to explore further. Tom Pike asks questions about 'white' and Irish, Jewish etc

References some mentioned in thread above

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 20/03/2026

Turns out substantive historical knowledge does matter despite lack of mention in generic approaches and even some subject specific disciplinary approaches

David Rawlings shares findings see post text

History teachers spend their own money developing SK

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 20/03/2026

Kay exploring her understandings of mentoring in History

Kay Lane from Wolverhampton on what we need to be effective History mentor

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 20/03/2026

Research question How is the process of lesson planning understood and enacted by history teachers, with what implications for the professional preparation of teachers?

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 20/03/2026

Student teachers recognise they need to learn to plan. Part of understanding lesson purpose

Slide from Katharine Burn about student views

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 20/03/2026

@htenuk.bsky.social presentation by Jim Carroll and Katharine Burn about the planning of lessons by beginning teachers

Jim Carroll introduces presentation on concerns about planning

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 20/03/2026

Tremaine welcomes @htenuk.bsky.social members to conference

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 14/03/2026

Alice Thomas developing the theme of worldviews in RE via focus on writing

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 14/03/2026

Sean Reece arguing that the Balkans and the Baltics have significance in the past and in our present. Perspective is everything as we think about the past. @ttradioofficial.bsky.social

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Ali Messer @freereed59.net · 14/03/2026

Natasha Raistrick @ttradioofficial.bsky.social in a school where power is the golden thread in the curriculum, maps can show changes. Also keen to enable pupils to understand maps are not neutral, they interpret the world

Natasha Raistrick talking about pupil misconceptions about maps in History

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