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Mike Hill @michaeldoron.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

🚨 History teachers, we’re back! 🚨 Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25. Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today. Presenters & link below 👇

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mjburnage.bsky.social @mjburnage.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

We are BACK. 7th February 2026. You are not going to want to miss this #Soane26 www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-...

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Mike Hill @michaeldoron.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Thank you to everyone who came to our second Ark Soane History conference yesterday. It was such a joy to see so many history teacher colleagues together. As always, I’m proudest of our pupils who were so keen to help and talk about history. What a lovely day. #Soane25

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

Superb session from Jimmy Colenutt on ‘Building Becket’s world’. A brilliant presentation with boundless enthusiasm and energy from Jimmy. Loved it #Soane25

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mjburnage.bsky.social @mjburnage.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Hearing Professor Eamon Duffy talking about his book on Morebath is Early Modernist heaven. #Soane25

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Adam Smith @mrsmithnorwich.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

It’s always such a pleasure to be in London for the Ark Soane History conference. To my mind, it’s one of the best subject conferences out there. #Soane25

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mjburnage.bsky.social @mjburnage.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Getting a brief History lesson on D-Day from @mrmountstevens.bsky.social and am suddenly quite envious of his students. #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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Pete Jackson @petejackson.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Love the thinking that @jacobolivey.bsky.social has put into the enquiry in terms of the meaning of the word ‘transform’. Great analogy about a blue chair to explain this. Great stuff #Soane25

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Cat Batch @catbatch.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Excellent start to #Soane25 with @sam-jones.bsky.social talking about the power of building pupil comprehension through worlds. As a Viking geek, I loved it. From an ITT and CPD perspective, lots of nuggets to take away and share across our @teachfirst.bsky.social training.

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Mike Hill @michaeldoron.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We go again! #Soane25

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mjburnage.bsky.social @mjburnage.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I don’t see how this would lead to anything useful for anyone. Practically, I suspect the time taken to proof read and sense-check and would cancel out any gains.

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Mike Hill @michaeldoron.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

HISTORY TEACHER ROLE! Our pupils love History at Ark Soane – from Year 7 all the way up to our first Year 10 cohort, 80% of whom do History GCSE. We’re expanding and looking for another History teacher to join us next September. Could this be you? Details below! 🙂

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mjburnage.bsky.social @mjburnage.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I hated modular exams *as a student*. The cycle of retaking exams to get marginal improvements in marks (especially at A Level) was horrendous.

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Jonathan Mountstevens @mrmountstevens.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

#Soane25 is going to be another conference like last year when you need Hermione's time-turner so you can get to all the sessions you want to attend. Really looking forward to it!

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mjburnage.bsky.social @mjburnage.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

There aren’t many tickets left for our History conference this year - and they’re selling fast! Get them now - we’ll see you there! www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-...

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

#Soane25 will be a cracker. Just look at the keynotes. @richkhistory.bsky.social is inspirational in his ambition & scholarship – a must listen. Then Eamon Duffy talking with Steve Mastin who famously used Duffy's research to recreate Morebath in his classroom! #Historyteachers do not miss this.

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Rich @richkhistory.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

So honoured and excited to be invited to Ark Soane in February. Better get planning.

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Mike Hill @michaeldoron.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

🚨 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨 I'm very excited to announce the keynote speakers for our #Soane25 history teacher conference on Saturday, 8 February 2025. 👇 Read more below 👇 🎟️ Get tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-... (1/3)

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mjburnage.bsky.social @mjburnage.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

REMINDER: Tickets for the Ark Soane History Conference are LIVE. It’s only £25. Yes - you read that right. There’s even lunch. #Soane25

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mjburnage.bsky.social @mjburnage.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

REMINDER: Tickets for the Ark Soane History Conference are LIVE. It’s only £25. Yes - you read that right. There’s even lunch. #Soane25

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Hugh Richards @hughrichards.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This is going to be so exciting. If you like the idea that the pastis an imagined world to your students, come and think/discuss to how other people do it! Last year was bloody brilliant, absolute source of joy.

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Hoorah! Can't wait for #Soane25! 'Building worlds' is a terrific theme for the second year of this beautiful conference and the history geeks of Ark Soane are perfect hosts. History teachers everywhere, come for a day of total sanity and joy. Not one spot of dodgy 'sourcework' in sight.

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Rosie Culkin-Smith @misscs-teach.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Tickets booked! Absolutely cannot wait for this, what a line up. #Soane25 > Glasto

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Pete Jackson @petejackson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I didn’t get Oasis tickets for 2025 but securing a ticket for this has more than made up for it! Really looking forward to #Soane25 - this feels like the Glastonbury of history teaching!

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Claire Holliss @claireholliss.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This was absolutely great last year, and the line-up for 2025 looks amazing!

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Will Goodfellow @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Wowsers! What a line up!! This is going to be epic. See you at #Soane25

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Elizabeth Carr @egcarr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This is going to be amazing. I'm in such a dilemma as it clashes with my little one's 6th birthday! Don't miss it for anything less! #historyteacher #soane25

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Jacob Olivey @jacobolivey.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Cannot wait for #Soane25 Saturday 8th February!

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Adam Smith @mrsmithnorwich.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Ticket booked! This was my favourite conference of last year and I am really excited to be going again.

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mjburnage.bsky.social @mjburnage.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

#Soane25 is live! Come and join us on Saturday 8th February for a day with a *phenomenal* line up of speakers. Tickets are ONLY £25 (including lunch!) Don’t miss it! www.eventbrite.com/e/ark-soane-...

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Amelie Thompson @amelie-thompson.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Such a thought-provoking blog. Highly recommend a read (and re-read). ‘Teachers are not simply ‘deliverers’ of a curriculum; they are themselves curricular thinkers. In their planning before a lesson, but also during a lesson, good teachers make hundreds of micro-curricular decisions ...’

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mjburnage.bsky.social @mjburnage.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The other trap is that pedagogy appears to offer a quick fix through a tangible concrete action, whereas a curricular solution is likely to be less immediate.

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mjburnage.bsky.social @mjburnage.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

100% agree with this. I’ve long thought that the way we train teachers is the wrong way round in this respect.

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Kristian Shanks @historykss.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This was really good. I think it’s just superficially easier to parse people’s pedagogy than the curriculum esp for non-specialist senior leaders and that’s why you get the phenomena described here.

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Michael Fordham @michaelfordham.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

One thing the 2019 Ofsted framework got right was to argue that purpose, process and product need to be considered together in education - you can’t separate why, what and how. They used the terms “intent”, “implementation” and “impact” but it amounts to same thing. Of course schools started doing…

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Rich @richkhistory.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This blog is excellent. A genuinely thought provoking read.

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Dan Hudson @danhudson84.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Having given up on Twitter a few months ago, it’s been a while since I’ve read a blog as good as this.

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Joel Kenyon @joel120193.substack.com · 30/11/2024

This is such a thought provoking article. Especially in improving schools, the focus often is on the T&L and the curriculum is often overlooked. I've got some thinking to do about my own department...

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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

You know those people who argue about teaching? Ignore them and read this. You don't have to agree or disagree. It's just intelligent, important stuff you have to think about.

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Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This blog beautifully explains why generic t&l is v limited (beyond strong routines, behaviour management etc, but they're not teaching). We can't meaningfully judge, analyse improve, train or support teaching without being steeped in subject-specific, curricular shaping of the thing being taught.

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mjburnage.bsky.social @mjburnage.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Obviously they should say ‘I’m *not* really sure’!

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mjburnage.bsky.social @mjburnage.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Honestly I’m really sure. Perhaps: 1) ask for help from a smart HoD somewhere else 2) make sure your school is a place that a good HoD would want to work, i.e. create the conditions for them to focus on the curriculum

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Tom Pattison @tpattison.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

This is a really well thought through and explained article. Especially appreciated the guidance on the place of pedagogy within a curricular focused solution.

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