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Schools History Project - SHP @1972shp.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We have nearly sold out our SHP Understanding event on Teaching History through an Emotional Lens, at the British Library on Saturday October 10th! But there are still some tickets left from www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shp-unders... come and join us for a really inspiring afternoon.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I cannot believe rich tea got the same % as fig rolls. Outrageous. What sort of sociopath would choose rich tea? Here's what teachers responded yesterday on teachertapp.co.uk

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Really looking forward to heading back to Leeds this year after missing 2025. Come too! The line up this year is so good.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Why did it have to take several nations to threaten to ban social media for under 16s for Meta to start doing teen insta accounts? If they'd been doing them from the start, we might not be talking at a ban now.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Went to a free exhibition of rarely-seen Elizabethan portraits today and I took this snap especially for you @helenpins.bsky.social

The reprehensible Robert Devereux, look at his suggestively placed belt, grim

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Russell Brand on being a sex pest: 'When I was 30, I was a very different person. I was a lot younger.' As explanations go, this one is poor.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

So offended by my fortune cookie. What does it mean 'soon achieve'?!

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Just reading that Drake died in his amour. It's given me the giggles. Particularly because he died of dysentery. #didyouforgetthatfirstR

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

As automated emails go, this one was a shocker. Made me panic my account had been hacked when it was nothing to do with the payment failing. I replied to say, 'This sounds like a you problem'. I await their response.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Quite pleased to work out that today's gym visit was my 52nd of the year. Also Weird Gym Man was there but did not approach me, so that was good.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

In pursuit of some kind of life outside of work and inspired by the summer hol list of @spbeale.bsky.social I've had some 'nice things' to do lists since Sept and they've worked well. Now trying to write one for the coming term. What's traditional for Jan/early Feb? Other than self-flagellation.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Shout out to everyone else doing the @steplab.bsky.social CCL course, chasing that 9am assignment deadline 🫣😂 I see you all on the proforma download! #solidarity

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Michelle Mone is a proper villain, isn't she. Sell the boat, Michelle! Reject that neo-lib programming and do something for someone else for a change.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

School tripping with Y13 to Greenwich today for some early empire input. 5.30am start 😩 but Harts has its dauphinoise danish on the counter for the season 🥳

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I did not expect to wake up this morning and find myself agreeing with some Marjorie Taylor Greene said. What an odd sensation.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research? Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

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Teaching Slavery

This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the c...

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Me: ugh, why have I taken on so much AGAIN, I'm so busy, I have no free time to do anything Also me: ooh, a 1000 piece glow in the dark advent puzzle? Tell me more. 🙄

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

If you're having an idle rainy Saturday it's definitely worth dipping into this, such good chats today! #TTRHums

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Absolutely loving this talk on metacognition from Thalina, she is unconsciously filling out a plan I've been making for tackling this topic in school 🎉 #TTHumanities

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Tell me how your week's going without telling me how your week's going. In other news: big welcome to the first cold of the academic year 🤧

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Today's puzzle: Why do I have 64 reusable shopping bags when I do almost all my grocery shopping online?

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The tenseness of a plane loading. I am in a window seat. Another single person is in the aisle seat. It's the hope that kills you.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Saw a sign in a shop today that said 'Your comfort zone will kill you' and felt moved to say that this kind of LinkedIn poison is absolute bollocks. Being comfortable is a life goal for many people. Choose hustle culture if you want, but don't try to impose it on me, please and thank you.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Thanks to everyone who recommended Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing when I posted this, it was my first summer read and I got completely lost in the stories. Highly recommended by me now too!

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I see the Telegraph has been picked to lead the charge against long school hols this year. I love how many people think children would cope with being in school 50 weeks pa. I wonder what the crossover is between those people and the ones who let their children have a day off after sports day.

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David Bisset @davidbisset.com · 24/07/2025

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Summer holidays, eh? Still in pyjamas. Home for the door to door salesmen selling double glazing. ...'sorry to ask but are you Mrs Thorne?' Oh hi, ex-student 🫣

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History Education Research Journal @histedresearch.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

How are women in the past represented in current history textbooks? With specific attention paid to three consecutive waves of feminism, this paper examines the representation of women in Hungarian and Flemish history textbooks: doi.org/10.14324/HER...

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Looking forward to heading north in September to talk about some exciting cross-curricular units we've been working on at school, inspired by both the @histassoc.bsky.social and the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social conferences #TeamHums

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Right, the summer is just round the corner and I am sick of reading academic articles about assessment for my Masters, so hit me with your good reads so I can stock up for my summer holidays. I like historical fiction but all recs gratefully received.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Enjoying all the headlines about Starmer disagreeing with 'punk duo Bob Vylan'. Surely the entire point of punk is for the PM to disagree with you. That is almost as punk as it gets.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Telegram spammers make me laugh. How needy is this one?! Imagine me, not showing much respect for their time. It's almost like this was...a totally unsolicited spam text.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Fave teaching moment of the week: y7 and food chains, producers and consumers. Having said that basically everything humans eat is a plant or an animal, they worked extremely hard to disprove this. I shut it down after a story about someone's primary school tchr who ate snail shells. Classic y7.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

A super speedy 4 mins 32 for my blood donation today, I might have beaten my own record #giveblood

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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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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

It's going to be a superb event! What a way to launch #SHPSW! Grab your ticket from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... it's an absolute bargain (£10/£5 concessions) and thanks again to @davidrawlings.bsky.social and @mrsthorne.bsky.social for organising!

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South West History Forum | Leeds Trinity University Online Store

South West History Form Standard  £10 ECT's/PGCE's   £5 Any questions please contact us here.  

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

An exciting day today, in which I rescued a crow that thought it was dying by trapping it in a box and carrying it away from the netting that was keeping it from flapping free. There's never a dull day at school. Crows are beautiful but they are much bigger than I realised.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

There is something weirdly exciting about being patronised in the gym by a man lifting about two thirds of what I'm lifting. Keep going, my man. Tell me how I will be a close second to you in 18 months. I'm all ears.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Last day ritual but make it Oxford

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

2. Massive thanks to @davidrawlings.bsky.social and @mrsthorne.bsky.social for curating the programme in super quick time, it's going to be a fantastic event. Tickets are super reasonable (to cover catering) and available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... so grab 'em quick!

store.leedstrinity.ac.uk

South West History Forum | Leeds Trinity University Online Store

South West History Form Standard  £10 ECT's/PGCE's   £5 Any questions please contact us here.  

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

When you have urgent reading to do so you go to the furthest corner of an obscure library, sit at the furthest table and realise these are on the shelf next to you 🤩 #notgettingthatreadingdoneamI

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Are there conversations you have every day at work that, if they don't happen, you just feel like the day hasn't started? Mine - Microsoft: Hang on a minute while we sign you out Me: I don't want you to sign me out MS: It's a good idea to close all windows Me: I just want to see my email Ahh.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Excited to say that Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools (TIHPS) now has an official website! www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/researc... UK history teachers, do join us at our launch conference on 28 June (only £10 inc catering, bursaries available)! www.sheffield.ac.uk/hpdh/researc...

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THIPS - Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools

This project offers support, resources and training to improve the teaching of Indigenous American histories and perspectives in UK classrooms.

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Sally Thorne @mrsthorne.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

There's a corner shop near where I stay for uni and it has a cassette tape for sale. It is that kind of shop that sells pretty much everything you might need but this is fascinating. I've been visiting it every time I come to Oxford to see if it is still there. Nobody has snapped it up yet.

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Emmy @msquinnhistory.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Absolutely loving @mrsthorne.bsky.social ‘s assessment workshop which is really making me think of all the different ways to assess and what the purpose is. #HAConf25

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