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Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

This survey is specifically for teachers who have taught a GCSE American West unit in the recent past. I have tested it out and I think it should take 14-16 minutes or so. I am also looking for schools willing to get their pupils to do similar online surveys. Please do get in touch.

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Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Hi lovely people. I am hoping to get some teachers of GCSE American West units to complete a short survey. It will help with my PhD research into pupil metanarratives about Indigenous peoples and C19th US expansion. You can access the survey here: york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #historyteacher

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Victoria Crooks @victoriacrooks.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Really useful to hear from @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social & Katharine Burn @htenuk.bsky.social about their research providing interesting test data to back up what so many of us see in our contexts around #ITT beginning teachers' opportunities to plan. #TeacherEducation #HistoryEducation #HTEN2026

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History Education Research Journal @histedresearch.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

On the HERJ blog today, author Jason Todd explores the themes in his research article and why he chose to publish in HERJ. This is a fascinating, personal blog. Stories We Inherit, Stories We Make: History, Culture and Belonging doi.org/10.14324/HER...

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Jim Carroll @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🚨New and free! 🚨 Excited to have an article in the 200th edition of @histassoc.bsky.social Teaching History, co-authored by @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social Amid calls to ‘storify’ history curricula, we detail our attempts to write and teach stories of the French Rev to A-Level students. 1/5

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Jonathan Mountstevens @mrmountstevens.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Cracking article from @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social in latest Teaching History. Couldn’t be more timely for me as I’ve been consciously writing and using stories much more with my A Level students. Plenty here both to encourage and to challenge me.

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Claire Holliss @claireholliss.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Lovely to find the 200th edition of TH in my postbox today, including an article by me and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social. Hopefully it will contribute to the journal's tradition of starting conversations amongst history teachers! @histassoc.bsky.social

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History Education Research Journal @histedresearch.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

In this paper a study was conducted to identify curricular goals for colligation in students’ causal arguments. The study finds that students were capable constructing their own causal colligation, appreciating the disciplinary framework that underpinned those constructions: doi.org/10.14324/HER...

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Characterising curricular goals for colligations in students’ causal arguments

In the ‘historical thinking’ tradition of curriculum design, the philosopher of history W.H. Walsh’s concept of colligation has mostly been adopted to enable students to construct coherent, powerful a...

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Velda Elliott @veldaelliott.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

New open access article! Racist epithets in the classroom: Unpacking attitudes to the N-word in teaching English TLDR: White students and teachers should not say/ read the n-word aloud (But please do click on the link anyway!) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Racist epithets in the classroom: Unpacking attitudes to the N‐word in teaching English

Since 2020, there has been a growing discussion around the representation of Black lives in the curriculum, and their representation in the classroom. There is a need to examine the ways in which tex...

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Jim Carroll @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

***NEW*** My new (free!) article in the History Education Research Journal exploring what ‘colligation’ is and how it might help teachers develop students’ causal arguments. Based on a case study with one of my Y13 classes. journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/article...

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Paula Lobo (Worth) @paulalobo.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Really honoured to be a part of this. Well done editorial team!

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corinnegoullee.bsky.social @corinnegoullee.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

It was such a privilege to help edit this book- I learnt something from each chapter about what it means to teach history and do it well.

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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 Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

And even if you weren't able to join @alistairdickins.bsky.social you should still check out these resources, they are phenomenal. On a par with the work of @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social and that's saying something!

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Colin McCormick @colinmccormick.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Tom Allen masterpiece. Watch his @histassoc.bsky.social session before it expires if you can

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Claire Hollis reflecting on the effectiveness of story telling with her A Level students: the answer, much deeper planning on how to get a viable and sustained response

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Settling down 2 hear the stellar @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social reflect on & explore the affordances & constraints of narrative @ A Level. Do stories bias towards the individual not the general? How can we tell stories about those who leaves few archival traces? Does story bias to the dramatic? #SHP25

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Jess Angell @jessangell.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

🚨Teacher of History Job Vacancy🚨 at Maiden Erlegh School in Reading. Lovely team & supportive HOD at this school which is part of ⁦the Maiden Erlegh Trust! Brilliant work being done here 👏 #History #Historyteacher #TeachingJobs mynewterm.com/jobs/141886/...

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Teacher of History - Maiden Erlegh School In Reading, Reading, Berkshire

Closing date: Midnight, Sun 15th Jun, 2025. View full details and apply online at MyNewTerm.

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

Thank you @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social for an excellent session on LGBT history at A Level. I have followed Claire’s speaking and writing for a while and delighted to finally hear her live! So knowledgeable 🤩 #HAConf25

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Claire Holliss @claireholliss.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Thinking about your teaching of the History A-level? I will be running a series of webinars with @histassoc.bsky.social between the 12th June and the 3rd July! Details are included in the link below, but feel free to ask me any questions about the course. www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

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Webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level

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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 23/04/2025

Dr Katharine Burn and Professor Trevor Mutton have been awarded the @beranews.bsky.social Research Intelligence Article of the Year Award 2024, for their article, "Understanding research & research approaches appropriate for teacher education settings". Congratulations! 🎉 Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4jOImvB

Dr Katharine Burn and Professor Trevor Mutton next to an issue of BERA's Research Intelligence journal

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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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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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Jim Carroll @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

V. excited for the new edition of ‘A Practical Guide to Teaching History in Secondary Schools’. Thanks to the amazing editors @dankeates.bsky.social, Matt Stanford and Corrine Goullee for inviting me to contribute. So many fantastic authors and it includes a beautiful tribute to Helen Snelson. 1/3

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Very, very highly recommend this book. Really superb chapters, steeped in a deep grasp of the debates and advances of history teachers in recent decades. Well written and beautifully edited.

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Dan Keates @dankeates.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Thrilled to be receivin first copies a real team effort by so many great history teachers and educators @victoriacrooks.bsky.social @lauralondo1017.bsky.social @paulalobo.bsky.social @danlyndon.bsky.social @mrmayhew.bsky.social @michaelfordham.bsky.social Dedicated to the great Helen Snelson

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Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Exciting day! It’s arrived and with a beautiful dedication to the inimitable and deeply missed Helen Snelson. What an impact she continues to have. Here’s to being more like Helen. Well done @dankeates.bsky.social Matt Stanford and Corinne Goullée on getting this into the world.

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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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Alex Benger @monsieurbenger.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I'm sure we've all had pupils ask us 'What's the point?' My article in TH198 starts from this question and reflects on how as well as teaching/assessing mastery of historical knowledge, it's important (and fun) to engage in the messier realm of what meanings pupils have made of it. I had a go ...

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Jess Angell @jessangell.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Happening TODAY @4pm #Free & open to all- no need to register! We can't wait to welcome you all & learn more about Ancient History …& pets!🐶🐱 #TeamMET #Rdguk #community #history #lecture #historyteacher

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Department of Education, University of Oxford @education.ox.ac.uk · 06/03/2025

We're Hiring: Departmental Lecturer, Modern Language (Mandarin) Education The post-holder will teach the PGCE Modern Language programme, the MSc in Learning and Teaching programme and the PGDip in Learning and Teaching in Mandarin. If you're interested, apply now! 🔗 bit.ly/43qWzK6

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Rich Kerridge @historyrichk.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Calling OCR A Level teachers with ten minutes to spare, here is a link to our annual 'History Experience' survey. Thank you very much if you have the time to complete it. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

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Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

My daughter, her friend and I will be swimming 1.5km on 30 March to raise money for Marie Curie and Cancer Research UK. Please do help us reach our sponsorship goal by sharing this page. www.givengain.com/project/alex... #swimathon

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We are swimming for Cancer Research UK, Marie Curie

So this March, my daughter (8), her friend (8) and I (don’t ask) are taking part in Swimathon 2025 to raise money for Cancer Research UK, Marie Curie & Swimathon Foundation. We will be jointly swimmin...

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Jim Carroll @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If you’re a teacher thinking of applying for the MSc in Learning and Teaching at the University of Oxford, this video shows you what our students (including three history teachers 😁) think of the course. Apply by March to be eligible for scholarships. vimeo.com/1053810575

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MSc in Learning and Teaching | What do our students think?

The MSc Learning and Teaching is a part-time programme aimed at qualified teachers who are interested in developing their knowledge, understanding and practice. See…

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History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

@htenuk.bsky.social recently wrote to SoS at DfE requesting reinstatement of bursaries for beginning #ITT #historyteacher & #primaryteacher s to remove barriers to access & relieve hardship in training. Join us in raising this issue with your MP - support can be found on our website www.hten.org.uk

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MSc in Learning and Teaching | What do our students think?

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Otis Blaize @oblaize.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Had the pleasure of speaking at Ark Soane on Saturday about Black British activism in Brixton. Thanks to @michaeldoron.bsky.social and the team for organising! #Soane25

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Pete Jackson @petejackson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Really interesting session from @jacobolivey.bsky.social on Stalin and the Soviet Union. Love the use of powerful images and posters within the enquiry! #Soane25

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Elizabeth Carr @egcarr.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Very inspired by @michaeldoron.bsky.social 's use of the story of Hannah Mitchell to build the world of early 20th century socialism and suffrage. Clever storytelling makes her perspective so obvious, as though pupils are looking over her shoulder. #Soane25

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Rich @richkhistory.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Back in Bristol after a brilliant day at #Soane25. Chapeau to @michaeldoron.bsky.social for organising another cracking conference. Delivering that speech at the end with Eamonn Duffy sitting in front row was one of the more marginally terrifying things I've ever done.

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

History teachers in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here. Spoke to new young teachers pretty much saying the day had changed their life. And no one wanted to leave! Colossal thank you to @michaeldoron.bsky.social @jacobolivey.bsky.social and all the #Soane25 team.

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Well no surprise that this did not disappoint. @paulalobo.bsky.social walked us through scholarship relevant to the big freeze of 1962-3 and showed us how to craft stories that enchant her Y9 pupils with the silent, frozen world and the sizzling, shocking sixties that emerged from it #Soane25

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Hugh Richards @hughrichards.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This was an INCREDIBLE format for a keynote/plenary. @michaeldoron.bsky.social more of this please- a signature feature of Soane conferences?

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