Claire Holliss
@citoyenneclaire.bsky.social
Lecturer in History Education at UCL's Institute of Education/History teacher/PhD student researching the representation of LGBTQ+ history in the KS5 curriculum. She/Her
claireholliss.wordpress.com
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Just one week to go before our UNEARTHED webinar (just email d.lyndon-cohen@leedstrinity.ac.uk to register for your FREE place). Thought we needed some male role models to publicise the event as currently I am the ONLY male who is attending!! So come on lads, environmental history is for everyone!
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Just one week to go before our UNEARTHED webinar (just email d.lyndon-cohen@leedstrinity.ac.uk to register for your FREE place). Thought we needed some male role models to publicise the event as currently I am the ONLY male who is attending!! So come on lads, environmental history is for everyone!
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How and with what effect can stories be used to introduce enquiry questions in #history?
Following @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social's excellent @histassoc.bsky.social Teaching History article on telling stories at KS5
istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/10/tell...
#EduSky
Following @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social's excellent @histassoc.bsky.social Teaching History article on telling stories at KS5
istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/10/tell...
#EduSky
Telling Stories at A-Level: Chekhov, the Cholera, and the Contempt
Stories, it seems, are in vogue in the History classroom. And for good reason. Telling a gripping tale, as Christine Counsell has recently...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
How and with what effect can stories be used to introduce enquiry questions in #history?
Following @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social's excellent @histassoc.bsky.social Teaching History article on telling stories at KS5
istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/10/tell...
#EduSky
Following @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social's excellent @histassoc.bsky.social Teaching History article on telling stories at KS5
istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/10/tell...
#EduSky
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🚨 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 👇
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 👇
October 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🚨 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 👇
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 👇
Lie through your teeth (idiom, informal)
to tell the dental hygienist that you definitely will reduce your intake of tea and coffee.
to tell the dental hygienist that you definitely will reduce your intake of tea and coffee.
October 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Lie through your teeth (idiom, informal)
to tell the dental hygienist that you definitely will reduce your intake of tea and coffee.
to tell the dental hygienist that you definitely will reduce your intake of tea and coffee.
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
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🚨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.
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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.
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October 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
🚨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.
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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.
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📣 Call for participants 📣
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
October 17, 2025 at 4:21 PM
📣 Call for participants 📣
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
Have you ever used any History Workshop Journal articles in your teaching practice?
We’d love to hear from you for the 100th issue of HWJ!
Please let us know by sending an email or feel free to DM.
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New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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October 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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My letter to HMDT: drive.google.com/file/d/12HFT...
Template letter for anyone wishing to write also: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Template letter for anyone wishing to write also: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
HMDT Letter 09.25.pdf
drive.google.com
September 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
My letter to HMDT: drive.google.com/file/d/12HFT...
Template letter for anyone wishing to write also: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Template letter for anyone wishing to write also: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Last year #HMDT refused to recognise mass killing in #Gaza, #Israel in commemorating genocide since 1945 for #HolocaustMemorialDay.
This contravenes mission of HMDT. It must not happen again.
I have written to #HMDT and urge educators do same. Letter and template follow 👇
#historyteacher #EduSky
This contravenes mission of HMDT. It must not happen again.
I have written to #HMDT and urge educators do same. Letter and template follow 👇
#historyteacher #EduSky
September 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Last year #HMDT refused to recognise mass killing in #Gaza, #Israel in commemorating genocide since 1945 for #HolocaustMemorialDay.
This contravenes mission of HMDT. It must not happen again.
I have written to #HMDT and urge educators do same. Letter and template follow 👇
#historyteacher #EduSky
This contravenes mission of HMDT. It must not happen again.
I have written to #HMDT and urge educators do same. Letter and template follow 👇
#historyteacher #EduSky
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The History and wider team at @endsexisminschools.bsky.social are grateful for the support of @histassoc.bsky.social for making their articles and research into women in the curriculum open in their article on our report. Change is possible, thank you HA!
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
Report on Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum
www.history.org.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
The History and wider team at @endsexisminschools.bsky.social are grateful for the support of @histassoc.bsky.social for making their articles and research into women in the curriculum open in their article on our report. Change is possible, thank you HA!
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
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We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today.
The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.
The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.
Sexism in the History Curriculum - End Sexism in Schools
End Sexism In School’s second crowd research project is looking into the History curriculum taught at KS3 (years 7-9) in England and Wales.
endsexisminschools.org.uk
September 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today.
The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.
The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.
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
September 20, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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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Teachers of Russian and Soviet #History! Russian-language words got you flummoxed? Our spoken dictionary and pronounciation guide might come in handy.
200+ terms with audio recordings, free to use and access 👇
istorikteach.blogspot.com/p/spoken-dic...
#historyteacher #EduSky #historyeducation
200+ terms with audio recordings, free to use and access 👇
istorikteach.blogspot.com/p/spoken-dic...
#historyteacher #EduSky #historyeducation
Spoken Dictionary and Pronunciation Guide
“Saying it right” is a particular challenge for teachers of Russian and Soviet History. However familiar we are with the content and conce...
istorikteach.blogspot.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Teachers of Russian and Soviet #History! Russian-language words got you flummoxed? Our spoken dictionary and pronounciation guide might come in handy.
200+ terms with audio recordings, free to use and access 👇
istorikteach.blogspot.com/p/spoken-dic...
#historyteacher #EduSky #historyeducation
200+ terms with audio recordings, free to use and access 👇
istorikteach.blogspot.com/p/spoken-dic...
#historyteacher #EduSky #historyeducation
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Does continuity in #history really mean "nothing happens"?
Exploratory blog post makes case for a dynamic understanding of continuity as a disciplinary concept
Thanks @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social for thoughts on earlier draft!
istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/08/what...
#historyteacher #EduSky
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Exploratory blog post makes case for a dynamic understanding of continuity as a disciplinary concept
Thanks @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social for thoughts on earlier draft!
istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/08/what...
#historyteacher #EduSky
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What happens when “nothing happens”? Rethinking continuity as a dynamic process
Claire Holliss was kind enough to offer her thoughts and critique on an earlier draft of this and the subsequent post, which were signific...
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August 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Does continuity in #history really mean "nothing happens"?
Exploratory blog post makes case for a dynamic understanding of continuity as a disciplinary concept
Thanks @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social for thoughts on earlier draft!
istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/08/what...
#historyteacher #EduSky
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Exploratory blog post makes case for a dynamic understanding of continuity as a disciplinary concept
Thanks @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social for thoughts on earlier draft!
istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/08/what...
#historyteacher #EduSky
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I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!
Updated my grad syllabus for the new year! The latest version of the weekly schedule and readings is now on the Teaching page of my website: samuelrutherford.com/teaching/
August 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!
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Our first working-class prehistorian, Bill Varley, assisted socially during the Depression by recruiting unemployed men from Liverpool to his and Joan’s hillfort excavations in Cheshire, allowing them to work whilst still drawing their benefits.
August 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Our first working-class prehistorian, Bill Varley, assisted socially during the Depression by recruiting unemployed men from Liverpool to his and Joan’s hillfort excavations in Cheshire, allowing them to work whilst still drawing their benefits.
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***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...
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...
journals.uclpress.co.uk
August 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
***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...
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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"What can you do? What can you do, resourceless as you are, with freedom withering in a bone-stripping sirocco of stupid, wasteful fascist oppression?" buttondown.com/theswordandt...
A Queer Shoulder to the Wheel
A version of this piece was originally published in Flaming Hydra, an art collective I'm proud to be a part of. Then I let David loose to edit as he does so...
buttondown.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"What can you do? What can you do, resourceless as you are, with freedom withering in a bone-stripping sirocco of stupid, wasteful fascist oppression?" buttondown.com/theswordandt...
It really does pay to read the signs when you're in Bungay.
August 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It really does pay to read the signs when you're in Bungay.
We've reached the 'eerie East-Anglian road trip' stage of the summer holiday. Obviously that has to begin with a nose around a church, this time it's St Peter and St Paul, Lavenham.
August 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
We've reached the 'eerie East-Anglian road trip' stage of the summer holiday. Obviously that has to begin with a nose around a church, this time it's St Peter and St Paul, Lavenham.
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Declaration today by B'Tselem and PHRI that #genocide is being committed in #Gaza confirms growing consensus by human rights groups. Next year, we in #education must reflect this when teaching genocide since #Holocaust. This means we must also challenge prior policy of silence on matter by HMDT
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July 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Declaration today by B'Tselem and PHRI that #genocide is being committed in #Gaza confirms growing consensus by human rights groups. Next year, we in #education must reflect this when teaching genocide since #Holocaust. This means we must also challenge prior policy of silence on matter by HMDT
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I don't want to romanticise the rural past, but every year I spend the months of August to October shaking down every hedgerow I can find and no-one ever gives me a badge!
@themerl.bsky.social
@themerl.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I don't want to romanticise the rural past, but every year I spend the months of August to October shaking down every hedgerow I can find and no-one ever gives me a badge!
@themerl.bsky.social
@themerl.bsky.social
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„Immersive“ is exactly the opposite of what the field of history is trying to achieve.
My optimistic view is that we end up with better AIs that are able to assist Historians, based on authoritative datasets from institutions that is able to offer contextual nuance. We could provide a more immersive experience of history in the future with the assistance of different AIs.
This incredibly worrying study suggests Historians are the 2nd most likely occupation to be supplanted by AI.
That’s despite the fact that current AI history output is wildly unreliable, unsourced, hallucinates fale events, sources, and previous historians!!
Yay 😬😩🤪
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935
That’s despite the fact that current AI history output is wildly unreliable, unsourced, hallucinates fale events, sources, and previous historians!!
Yay 😬😩🤪
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935
July 24, 2025 at 11:48 AM
„Immersive“ is exactly the opposite of what the field of history is trying to achieve.
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📚 Does your curriculum include Gypsy, Roma or Traveller histories?
We're fundraising for a GRT Teacher Fellowship in memory of Helen Snelson—champion of inclusive history.
💛 Support here: shorturl.at/c5DoK
#GRTFellowship #InclusiveHistory #HelenSnelson
We're fundraising for a GRT Teacher Fellowship in memory of Helen Snelson—champion of inclusive history.
💛 Support here: shorturl.at/c5DoK
#GRTFellowship #InclusiveHistory #HelenSnelson
July 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
📚 Does your curriculum include Gypsy, Roma or Traveller histories?
We're fundraising for a GRT Teacher Fellowship in memory of Helen Snelson—champion of inclusive history.
💛 Support here: shorturl.at/c5DoK
#GRTFellowship #InclusiveHistory #HelenSnelson
We're fundraising for a GRT Teacher Fellowship in memory of Helen Snelson—champion of inclusive history.
💛 Support here: shorturl.at/c5DoK
#GRTFellowship #InclusiveHistory #HelenSnelson