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ArthurJChapman
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Prof History Ed & Head of Department Curriculum Pedagogy & Assessment @ UCL’s Institute of Education. Editor HistEd Research Journal & International Rev of HistEd. Vice-Chair OHTE SAC. FRHistS. FHA. Member HEIRNET Board. Blog: thecamelsback.org. Own views.
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Honoured to be elected Vice-Chair of the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe’s Scientific Advisory Committee today. Looking forward to our work together! #OHTE @ioe.bsky.social #HistoryEducarion www.coe.int/en/web/obser...
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Just 4 more days to buy your ticket for the @1972shp.bsky.social Developing Teachers' Conference from Developing Teachers Conference 2026 | Leeds Trinity University Online Store share.google/JAAxEYjGRpkk.... Enjoy this little video teaser and come and join us!
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DTC26
YouTube video by Schools History Project
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January 25, 2026 at 12:46 PM
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Tres años de duro trabajo dan sus frutos.
Una obra coral con una dirección de orquesta magistral 😉
Muy pronto se convertirá en un manual imprescindible para las clases de #historia.

Ya tenemos la versión en español. Muy pronto el resto de idiomas.

📘 t.um.es/lethemanual 📘

@sepiegob.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Tickets are available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... and for as little as £35 you can get access to 9 workshops for secondary history teachers and 3 primary workshops. It's an absolute steal! Your ticket also gives you access to ALL of the recordings of the workshops and the keynote.
Developing Teachers Conference 2026 | Leeds Trinity University Online Store
Developing Teachers Conference 2026 January 31st 2026 standard ticket  £50 Trainee/ECT/Primary  £40 Any questions please contact us her
store.leedstrinity.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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@missrcarter89.bsky.social will draw on her extensive experience to help your students staying engaged and motivated in your lessons, especially as the exam season gets closer. Becky will have plenty of practical strategies to support.
January 12, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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Check out this banging schedule for the @1972shp.bsky.social Developing Teachers' Conference on January 31st! So much #historyteacher goodness. Tickets available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... and you can win a copy of #DTC25 keynote speaker, Shalina Patel's book The History Lessons
January 9, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Exciting 2B contributing 2 this imporant conference @ the end of January! An honour 2 do so 25 years after @ioe.bsky.social researcher's contributed to the 1st one! Gr8 2b doing so with OHTE & @heirnet.bsky.social colleagues also! @mariliagago.bsky.social @coe.int xxvjornadaseducaca.wixsite.com/2026
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Happy New Year! And what a better way 2 start 2026 than a competition 2 win copies of #DTC25 keynote speaker Shalina Patel's The History Lessons (www.iconbooks.com/ib-title/the...) 2 enter the draw you just need 2 buy a ticket for this years' conference from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...
The History Lessons – Icon Books
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January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
“This is not a commercial American thriller, this is a marvellous metaphor about the corruption of capitalism.”

Fidel Castro (quoted around 39:04).

Enjoying watching Jaws @ 50.

@thedailyjaws.bsky.social
December 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Honoured to contribute to this Council of Europe series of history education lectures. You can listen to my talk, & to 7 others, on the OHTE’s site.

www.coe.int/en/web/obser...

@coe.int @ioe.bsky.social @1972shp.bsky.social @danlyndon.bsky.social @justice2history.bsky.social

#historyeducation
December 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Sorry to bring bad news, but…

The Irish Chartist James Bronterre O’Brien, ‘the schoolteacher of Chartism’, died #OnThisDay, 23 December 1864, aged 59. He is buried at Abney Park Cemetery. His is one of dozens of stories told in Chartist Lives 📚
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y
December 23, 2025 at 7:31 AM
On the uses and limitations of living graph graphic organisers. A proposal to use Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Shape of Stories’ to enhance history education. open access (at pp.150167). www.wochenschau-verlag.de/media/07/0f/...
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 AM
How Kurt Vonnegut’s Shapes of Stories can be put 2 work in #histed (pp.150-67). #edusky #historyteacher
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December 21, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Diversifying and decolonising A-Level Russian/Soviet #history

Free and fully funded #historyteacher CPD event - 24th January 2026, University of Birmingham!

Sign up here: shorturl.at/DmNVO

#EduSky
December 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
How #KurtVonnegut ‘Shapes of Stories’ idea can be put to work in history education (pp.150-67). www.wochenschau-verlag.de/media/07/0f/...
December 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
How Kurt Vonnegut’s ‘Shapes of Stories’ can be put to work in #historyeducation (pp.150-67). 1
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December 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Congratulations 2 CPA's own Robin Whitburn & Abdul Mohamud, 2 Kate Donnington & Nicholas Draper, & 2 our @uclpress.bsky.social colleagues, on the publication of this remarkable & important book - Teaching Slavery: New approaches to Britain’s colonial past. Open access uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...
November 29, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A fascinating #historyeducation paper, by @cpaucl.bsky.social doctoral student Kay Wallace, pushing boundaries & bringing it into dialogue with questions & concepts it hasn’t engaged with much in the past.

journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/article...

Powerful 2 have assumptions tested in this way!
December 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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The Centre for Poetry and Poetics presents The Paradise Collective, with readings from Kym Martindale, Emma Bolland, Adam Piette, Harriet Tarlo, Geraldine Monk, Terry O’Connor, Ágnes Lehóczky.

Monday 15 December, Mappin Hall, University of Sheffield, S1 3JD. 6pm start, all welcome, admission free.
December 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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'A universal system of human rights was built, strategically built, to make sure that we could never end up in that nightmare scenario again,” O’Flaherty added.' www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...
‘Who’s it going to be next time?’: ECHR rethink is ‘moral retreat’, say rights experts
As 27 European countries urge changes to laws forged after second world war, human rights chief says politicians are playing into hands of populists
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Carey's views are, I think, less controversial now than they were when The Intellectuals and the Masses was published, yet the idea that modernist writers must be, or at least ought to be, on the side of social progress was held for many decades.
John Carey and The Intellectuals and the Masses
The death of John Carey, the critic and former Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford, has been reported today. I discovered him t...
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December 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Congratulations @uclholocaust.bsky.social! Really looking forward to reading this! The previous 2016 study was such an interesting read and so methodologically innovative.

Can't wait to explore this new and updated set of findings!

@cpaucl.bsky.social

#historyeducation
December 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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We are pleased to announce the first publication from the latest research conducted by the @uclholocaust.bsky.social
It can be downloaded for free from: holocausteducation.org.uk/research/80-years/

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Teaching and learning about the Holocaust 80 years on: A study of student knowledge and understanding in England – Centre for Holocaust Education
holocausteducation.org.uk
December 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
'These expressions are amphibians that have moved from the sea to exist on land...'
December 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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The Schools History Project is absolutely thrilled to be able to offer the opportunity to work with one of the leading experts in the world in the field of History, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence, Distinguished Professor Marnie Hughes Warrington ...
December 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM