Dr Paul Hamilton
@drpham.bsky.social
Teaching Fellow (History Education) | Moray House | Difficult & Uncomfortable Histories | Remembrance & Commemoration | With a Dash of Cycling
First day for the new PGDE Secondary (25/26) cohort at @morayhouse.bsky.social! Welcome Week is always a brilliant time on-campus ☺️ Kicking the pedagogical pondering off this morning with an ‘Introduction to Scottish Education’ lecture. Here’s to another fantastic year ahead! 😎
August 18, 2025 at 6:39 AM
First day for the new PGDE Secondary (25/26) cohort at @morayhouse.bsky.social! Welcome Week is always a brilliant time on-campus ☺️ Kicking the pedagogical pondering off this morning with an ‘Introduction to Scottish Education’ lecture. Here’s to another fantastic year ahead! 😎
A brilliant first day of filming for an exciting new project at the Scottish National War Memorial, in partnership with @morayhouse.bsky.social. Time spent in the memorial and the archive. A huge thank you to everyone involved (inc. Lochgelly High School) for their support.
July 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A brilliant first day of filming for an exciting new project at the Scottish National War Memorial, in partnership with @morayhouse.bsky.social. Time spent in the memorial and the archive. A huge thank you to everyone involved (inc. Lochgelly High School) for their support.
Please, if you can, donate at the link below and help support the Glasgow Children’s Hospital:
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July 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Please, if you can, donate at the link below and help support the Glasgow Children’s Hospital:
www.justgiving.com/page/dads-an...
www.justgiving.com/page/dads-an...
Middle-aged man doing middle-aged man things.
July 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Middle-aged man doing middle-aged man things.
PTSD Law Grads. If you know, you know!
July 6, 2025 at 4:03 PM
PTSD Law Grads. If you know, you know!
An MEd study on ‘factors impacting the formation of identity for secondary school probationer teachers in Scotland’.
Please, if applicable to you, complete the survey at the link below and share in your networks.
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Please, if applicable to you, complete the survey at the link below and share in your networks.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Influences on Identity - Scottish Secondary Probationer Teachers
This questionnaire forms part of my data collection for my Extended Work-based Project dissertation at the University of Edinburgh, titled "Miss, who are you? An investigation of the systemic factors ...
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July 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM
An MEd study on ‘factors impacting the formation of identity for secondary school probationer teachers in Scotland’.
Please, if applicable to you, complete the survey at the link below and share in your networks.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please, if applicable to you, complete the survey at the link below and share in your networks.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Started work with colleagues on a project looking at 'protest' through an interdisciplinary lens. Art, History, Literature, and Music. Feels timely!
June 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Started work with colleagues on a project looking at 'protest' through an interdisciplinary lens. Art, History, Literature, and Music. Feels timely!
Has Senior Phase History in Scotland lost its spark? A few rambling thoughts of mine. Available to read on SubStack at the link below.
open.substack.com/pub/phamil/p...
open.substack.com/pub/phamil/p...
History and Creativity
Has Senior Phase History lost its spark?
open.substack.com
June 20, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Has Senior Phase History in Scotland lost its spark? A few rambling thoughts of mine. Available to read on SubStack at the link below.
open.substack.com/pub/phamil/p...
open.substack.com/pub/phamil/p...
End of term (24/25) - the last supper!
June 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
End of term (24/25) - the last supper!
Something in the pipeline, working in collaboration with the Scottish National War Memorial. Watch this space!
June 19, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Something in the pipeline, working in collaboration with the Scottish National War Memorial. Watch this space!
The view while riding the closed-road Glasgow city centre route after the Tour of Britain. A real treat to have the streets to yourself! #ToBW
June 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The view while riding the closed-road Glasgow city centre route after the Tour of Britain. A real treat to have the streets to yourself! #ToBW
Tremendous day at Tour of Britain (stage four) ladies race yesterday. A great atmosphere at Glasgow Green and opening the course up to the public afterwards was a marvellous thing to do👌🏻 #ToBW
June 9, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Tremendous day at Tour of Britain (stage four) ladies race yesterday. A great atmosphere at Glasgow Green and opening the course up to the public afterwards was a marvellous thing to do👌🏻 #ToBW
PGDE Ceilidh for the @morayhouse.bsky.social Class of 25. The future of the past!
June 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
PGDE Ceilidh for the @morayhouse.bsky.social Class of 25. The future of the past!
Attended a Social Studies collaboration event this week (as part of the Curriculum Improvement Cycle). Sometimes, my default mode is to approach review and reform with trepidation and cynicism - but this was a genuinely good day with inspired thinking from passionate teachers.
May 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Attended a Social Studies collaboration event this week (as part of the Curriculum Improvement Cycle). Sometimes, my default mode is to approach review and reform with trepidation and cynicism - but this was a genuinely good day with inspired thinking from passionate teachers.
Great being back at Uddingston Grammar School this week. A brilliant social subjects faculty who have welcomed two @morayhouse.bsky.social PGDE Historians this year 📚
May 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Great being back at Uddingston Grammar School this week. A brilliant social subjects faculty who have welcomed two @morayhouse.bsky.social PGDE Historians this year 📚
Visit to Dalry Cemetery recently. Nature doing its thing but headstones in good order - I quite like it!
May 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Visit to Dalry Cemetery recently. Nature doing its thing but headstones in good order - I quite like it!
I had a great visit to Castle Douglas High School this morning. Observed an excellent lesson on the Declaration of Arbroath taught by a @morayhouse.bsky.social PGDE Historian 📚
A huge thank you to Ms Connelly and the team for the warm welcome and the fantastic mentoring!
A huge thank you to Ms Connelly and the team for the warm welcome and the fantastic mentoring!
May 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I had a great visit to Castle Douglas High School this morning. Observed an excellent lesson on the Declaration of Arbroath taught by a @morayhouse.bsky.social PGDE Historian 📚
A huge thank you to Ms Connelly and the team for the warm welcome and the fantastic mentoring!
A huge thank you to Ms Connelly and the team for the warm welcome and the fantastic mentoring!
Kicked-off placement three visits today at Tynecastle High School. Always a pleasure to visit the Social Subjects faculty - a huge thank you to Ms Buchan and the team for their excellent mentoring of a @morayhouse.bsky.social PGDE Historian.
May 13, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Kicked-off placement three visits today at Tynecastle High School. Always a pleasure to visit the Social Subjects faculty - a huge thank you to Ms Buchan and the team for their excellent mentoring of a @morayhouse.bsky.social PGDE Historian.
A familiar theme with a new perspective. Looking forward to speaking later this week at Manchester Metropolitan’s War and Pilgrimage network on Battlefield Tours as Modern Pilgrimage.
May 7, 2025 at 8:17 AM
A familiar theme with a new perspective. Looking forward to speaking later this week at Manchester Metropolitan’s War and Pilgrimage network on Battlefield Tours as Modern Pilgrimage.
Delighted to have written a blog for the Imperial War Museum sharing some reflections - my own and those of young people - on visiting former First World War battlefields.
Drawing on pieces of my work at @morayhouse.bsky.social, available to read at the link below…
www.iwm.org.uk/blog/partner...
Drawing on pieces of my work at @morayhouse.bsky.social, available to read at the link below…
www.iwm.org.uk/blog/partner...
Walking in Their Footsteps: Young People, Commemoration, and the Battlefield ExperienceWalking in Their Footsteps: Young People, Commemoration, and the Battlefield Experience
www.iwm.org.uk
April 30, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Delighted to have written a blog for the Imperial War Museum sharing some reflections - my own and those of young people - on visiting former First World War battlefields.
Drawing on pieces of my work at @morayhouse.bsky.social, available to read at the link below…
www.iwm.org.uk/blog/partner...
Drawing on pieces of my work at @morayhouse.bsky.social, available to read at the link below…
www.iwm.org.uk/blog/partner...
The Great War: I Was There (Part 21).
April 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The Great War: I Was There (Part 21).
Available to read now, on SubStack, at the link below - a few thoughts after attending the recent @cwgc.bsky.social event hosted by @rusi.bsky.social on the subject of commemoration and diplomacy.
phamil.substack.com/p/who-owns-r...
phamil.substack.com/p/who-owns-r...
April 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Available to read now, on SubStack, at the link below - a few thoughts after attending the recent @cwgc.bsky.social event hosted by @rusi.bsky.social on the subject of commemoration and diplomacy.
phamil.substack.com/p/who-owns-r...
phamil.substack.com/p/who-owns-r...
Watching the Wyndford flats come down did hit hard. As someone who grew up in a multi-storey in Glasgow, it’s more than bricks and concrete - it’s memories, community, and identity. A piece of the city gone.
March 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Watching the Wyndford flats come down did hit hard. As someone who grew up in a multi-storey in Glasgow, it’s more than bricks and concrete - it’s memories, community, and identity. A piece of the city gone.
End of an era for Maryhill!
March 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
End of an era for Maryhill!