Jim Carroll
@jcarrollhistory.bsky.social
Departmental Lecturer in History Education University of Oxford | Honorary Fellow Historical Association | PhD IOE UCL
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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...
istorikteach.blogspot.com
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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🚨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.
1/5
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.
1/5
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.
1/5
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.
1/5
🚨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.
1/5
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.
1/5
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.
1/5
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.
1/5
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Cracking article from @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social in latest Teaching History. Couldn’t be more timely for me as I’ve been consciously writing and using stories much more with my A Level students. Plenty here both to encourage and to challenge me.
September 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Cracking article from @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social in latest Teaching History. Couldn’t be more timely for me as I’ve been consciously writing and using stories much more with my A Level students. Plenty here both to encourage and to challenge me.
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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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Really excited to read this from @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social! A really important question being asked - what can the role of storytelling be in #history teaching?
September 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Really excited to read this from @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social! A really important question being asked - what can the role of storytelling be in #history teaching?
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In this paper a study was conducted to identify curricular goals for colligation in students’ causal arguments. The study finds that students were capable constructing their own causal colligation, appreciating the disciplinary framework that underpinned those constructions:
doi.org/10.14324/HER...
doi.org/10.14324/HER...
Characterising curricular goals for colligations in students’ causal arguments
In the ‘historical thinking’ tradition of curriculum design, the philosopher of history W.H. Walsh’s concept of colligation has mostly been adopted to enable students to construct coherent, powerful a...
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September 16, 2025 at 10:59 AM
In this paper a study was conducted to identify curricular goals for colligation in students’ causal arguments. The study finds that students were capable constructing their own causal colligation, appreciating the disciplinary framework that underpinned those constructions:
doi.org/10.14324/HER...
doi.org/10.14324/HER...
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New open access article! Racist epithets in the classroom: Unpacking attitudes to the N-word in teaching English
TLDR: White students and teachers should not say/ read the n-word aloud
(But please do click on the link anyway!)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
TLDR: White students and teachers should not say/ read the n-word aloud
(But please do click on the link anyway!)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Racist epithets in the classroom: Unpacking attitudes to the N‐word in teaching English
Since 2020, there has been a growing discussion around the representation of Black lives in the curriculum, and their representation in the classroom. There is a need to examine the ways in which tex...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
New open access article! Racist epithets in the classroom: Unpacking attitudes to the N-word in teaching English
TLDR: White students and teachers should not say/ read the n-word aloud
(But please do click on the link anyway!)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
TLDR: White students and teachers should not say/ read the n-word aloud
(But please do click on the link anyway!)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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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...
***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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Really honoured to be a part of this. Well done editorial team!
An honour to finally be able to stand up and launch The Practical Guide to Teaching History to the history teaching community at #SHP25! Thank you to @joshpreyegarry.bsky.social and @mrmayhew.bsky.social Thank you to Matt Stanford and @corinnegoullee.bsky.social for getting us to this place
July 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Really honoured to be a part of this. Well done editorial team!
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It was such a privilege to help edit this book- I learnt something from each chapter about what it means to teach history and do it well.
An honour to finally be able to stand up and launch The Practical Guide to Teaching History to the history teaching community at #SHP25! Thank you to @joshpreyegarry.bsky.social and @mrmayhew.bsky.social Thank you to Matt Stanford and @corinnegoullee.bsky.social for getting us to this place
July 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
It was such a privilege to help edit this book- I learnt something from each chapter about what it means to teach history and do it well.
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An honour to finally be able to stand up and launch The Practical Guide to Teaching History to the history teaching community at #SHP25! Thank you to @joshpreyegarry.bsky.social and @mrmayhew.bsky.social Thank you to Matt Stanford and @corinnegoullee.bsky.social for getting us to this place
July 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
An honour to finally be able to stand up and launch The Practical Guide to Teaching History to the history teaching community at #SHP25! Thank you to @joshpreyegarry.bsky.social and @mrmayhew.bsky.social Thank you to Matt Stanford and @corinnegoullee.bsky.social for getting us to this place
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And even if you weren't able to join @alistairdickins.bsky.social you should still check out these resources, they are phenomenal. On a par with the work of @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social and that's saying something!
Thanks to everyone who joined our workshop at @1972shp.bsky.social Conference 2025!
If you'd like to find resources, here are the PPT and documents for our presentation: docs.google.com/presentation...
Special thanks to @danlyndon.bsky.social and @apf102.bsky.social for having us on the programme!
If you'd like to find resources, here are the PPT and documents for our presentation: docs.google.com/presentation...
Special thanks to @danlyndon.bsky.social and @apf102.bsky.social for having us on the programme!
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July 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
And even if you weren't able to join @alistairdickins.bsky.social you should still check out these resources, they are phenomenal. On a par with the work of @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social and that's saying something!
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Huge thanks to @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social for a wonderful @1972shp.bsky.social workshop on storytelling at KS5!
Following an earlier blog on @arthurjchapman.bsky.social workshop, here are some (incomplete) thoughts stimulated by Claire Holliss' session.
istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
Following an earlier blog on @arthurjchapman.bsky.social workshop, here are some (incomplete) thoughts stimulated by Claire Holliss' session.
istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
Responding to SHP 2025: Part 2, Claire Holliss on Stories at A-Level
The 2025 Schools History Project (SHP) conference was, as ever, a highlight of the teaching year and a stimulus for all sorts of thoughts. ...
istorikteach.blogspot.com
July 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Huge thanks to @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social for a wonderful @1972shp.bsky.social workshop on storytelling at KS5!
Following an earlier blog on @arthurjchapman.bsky.social workshop, here are some (incomplete) thoughts stimulated by Claire Holliss' session.
istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
Following an earlier blog on @arthurjchapman.bsky.social workshop, here are some (incomplete) thoughts stimulated by Claire Holliss' session.
istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
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Tom Allen masterpiece. Watch his @histassoc.bsky.social session before it expires if you can
July 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Tom Allen masterpiece. Watch his @histassoc.bsky.social session before it expires if you can
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Claire Hollis reflecting on the effectiveness of story telling with her A Level students: the answer, much deeper planning on how to get a viable and sustained response
July 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Claire Hollis reflecting on the effectiveness of story telling with her A Level students: the answer, much deeper planning on how to get a viable and sustained response
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Settling down 2 hear the stellar @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social reflect on & explore the affordances & constraints of narrative @ A Level. Do stories bias towards the individual not the general? How can we tell stories about those who leaves few archival traces? Does story bias to the dramatic? #SHP25
July 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Settling down 2 hear the stellar @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social reflect on & explore the affordances & constraints of narrative @ A Level. Do stories bias towards the individual not the general? How can we tell stories about those who leaves few archival traces? Does story bias to the dramatic? #SHP25
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I've spent years encouraging students to use causal verbs alongside conjunctions. But this can lead to confused language/mixed metaphors.
Inspired by @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social, I'm planning to explicitly integrate metaphors into KS5 using targeted vocab
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#historyteacher #historyeducation
Inspired by @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social, I'm planning to explicitly integrate metaphors into KS5 using targeted vocab
🧵
#historyteacher #historyeducation
June 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I've spent years encouraging students to use causal verbs alongside conjunctions. But this can lead to confused language/mixed metaphors.
Inspired by @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social, I'm planning to explicitly integrate metaphors into KS5 using targeted vocab
🧵
#historyteacher #historyeducation
Inspired by @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social, I'm planning to explicitly integrate metaphors into KS5 using targeted vocab
🧵
#historyteacher #historyeducation
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🚨Teacher of History Job Vacancy🚨 at Maiden Erlegh School in Reading. Lovely team & supportive HOD at this school which is part of the Maiden Erlegh Trust!
Brilliant work being done here 👏
#History #Historyteacher #TeachingJobs
mynewterm.com/jobs/141886/...
Brilliant work being done here 👏
#History #Historyteacher #TeachingJobs
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Teacher of History - Maiden Erlegh School In Reading, Reading, Berkshire
Closing date: Midnight, Sun 15th Jun, 2025. View full details and apply online at MyNewTerm.
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May 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
🚨Teacher of History Job Vacancy🚨 at Maiden Erlegh School in Reading. Lovely team & supportive HOD at this school which is part of the Maiden Erlegh Trust!
Brilliant work being done here 👏
#History #Historyteacher #TeachingJobs
mynewterm.com/jobs/141886/...
Brilliant work being done here 👏
#History #Historyteacher #TeachingJobs
mynewterm.com/jobs/141886/...
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Thank you @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social for an excellent session on LGBT history at A Level. I have followed Claire’s speaking and writing for a while and delighted to finally hear her live! So knowledgeable 🤩
#HAConf25
#HAConf25
May 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Thank you @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social for an excellent session on LGBT history at A Level. I have followed Claire’s speaking and writing for a while and delighted to finally hear her live! So knowledgeable 🤩
#HAConf25
#HAConf25
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Thinking about your teaching of the History A-level? I will be running a series of webinars with @histassoc.bsky.social between the 12th June and the 3rd July! Details are included in the link below, but feel free to ask me any questions about the course.
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
Webinar series: Developing students’ historical thinking at A-level
www.history.org.uk
April 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Thinking about your teaching of the History A-level? I will be running a series of webinars with @histassoc.bsky.social between the 12th June and the 3rd July! Details are included in the link below, but feel free to ask me any questions about the course.
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
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Dr Katharine Burn and Professor Trevor Mutton have been awarded the @beranews.bsky.social Research Intelligence Article of the Year Award 2024, for their article, "Understanding research & research approaches appropriate for teacher education settings". Congratulations! 🎉
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4jOImvB
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4jOImvB
April 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Dr Katharine Burn and Professor Trevor Mutton have been awarded the @beranews.bsky.social Research Intelligence Article of the Year Award 2024, for their article, "Understanding research & research approaches appropriate for teacher education settings". Congratulations! 🎉
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4jOImvB
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/4jOImvB
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Today is publication day for a Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School. 19 years after the first edition, this is a complete re-write by so many wonderful experts in the history teaching community. Thanks to @terryhaydn.bsky.social for offering the opportunity 5 years ago!
April 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Today is publication day for a Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School. 19 years after the first edition, this is a complete re-write by so many wonderful experts in the history teaching community. Thanks to @terryhaydn.bsky.social for offering the opportunity 5 years ago!
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@jcarrollhistory.bsky.social says "historical writing is hard!" Well he makes it look easy as he draws on his years of experience in this area of history teaching to provide a tour-de-force of how to teach extended writing in history.
April 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
@jcarrollhistory.bsky.social says "historical writing is hard!" Well he makes it look easy as he draws on his years of experience in this area of history teaching to provide a tour-de-force of how to teach extended writing in history.