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David Turner
@davidturner2000.bsky.social
History and Politics Teacher in North Yorkshire
Lover of Cricket🏏
A collection of 3 interesting stories for History teachers from Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann. A thread. #History
November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Inspired by @apf102.bsky.social article on causation I’ve enjoyed using living graphs to show A Level students the causes of the Korean War. It allowed pupils to be able to visualise the decision by the US to exclude Korea from the Defensive Perimeter and reactions from Stalin and Kim Il Sung.
November 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
A collection of interesting stories for History teachers from A Village in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd. A thread. #history
November 3, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Blogpost on some Half-Term thoughts on the purpose of history teaching: open.substack.com/pub/davidtur...
Reflections on Herodotus, Thucydides, and the Purpose of History Teaching
There is a well known adage that all modern philosophy is just footnotes to Plato and Aristotle.
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM