Sally Thorne
mrsthorne.bsky.social
Sally Thorne
@mrsthorne.bsky.social
History teacher, AHT, author, examiner.
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Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research?

Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...
Teaching Slavery
This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the c...
uclpress.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Here endeth the term 🥳
October 24, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Me: ugh, why have I taken on so much AGAIN, I'm so busy, I have no free time to do anything
Also me: ooh, a 1000 piece glow in the dark advent puzzle? Tell me more.

🙄
October 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Ok folks, who's getting fired?
@teachertapp.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
If you're having an idle rainy Saturday it's definitely worth dipping into this, such good chats today! #TTRHums
September 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Absolutely loving this talk on metacognition from Thalina, she is unconsciously filling out a plan I've been making for tackling this topic in school 🎉 #TTHumanities
🎤 Speaker spotlight: Thalina Chowdhury

“Metacognition in Humanities: Strategies, Implementation and Benefits” 🧠

A practical session to strengthen teaching across subjects.

#EduCommunity #TTROnAir

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Teachers Talk Humanities
Free event for teachers of the Humanities by Teachers Talk Radio
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September 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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🎙️ Meet Sally Thorne – Teachmeet 1 with Inspiring each other: cross-curricular ideas for KS3.

Join us to explore how Humanities can drive creativity across the curriculum.

#TeachersTalkHumanities

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September 17, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Tell me how your week's going without telling me how your week's going.
In other news: big welcome to the first cold of the academic year 🤧
September 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Today's puzzle:
Why do I have 64 reusable shopping bags when I do almost all my grocery shopping online?
August 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The tenseness of a plane loading. I am in a window seat. Another single person is in the aisle seat.
It's the hope that kills you.
August 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Saw a sign in a shop today that said 'Your comfort zone will kill you' and felt moved to say that this kind of LinkedIn poison is absolute bollocks. Being comfortable is a life goal for many people. Choose hustle culture if you want, but don't try to impose it on me, please and thank you.
August 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Thanks to everyone who recommended Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing when I posted this, it was my first summer read and I got completely lost in the stories. Highly recommended by me now too!
Right, the summer is just round the corner and I am sick of reading academic articles about assessment for my Masters, so hit me with your good reads so I can stock up for my summer holidays.
I like historical fiction but all recs gratefully received.
August 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
I see the Telegraph has been picked to lead the charge against long school hols this year. I love how many people think children would cope with being in school 50 weeks pa. I wonder what the crossover is between those people and the ones who let their children have a day off after sports day.
July 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Why I 🧡 the web.

drawafish.com

Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟
July 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Summer holidays, eh? Still in pyjamas. Home for the door to door salesmen selling double glazing. ...'sorry to ask but are you Mrs Thorne?'
Oh hi, ex-student 🫣
July 23, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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How are women in the past represented in current history textbooks?

With specific attention paid to three consecutive waves of feminism, this paper examines the representation of women in Hungarian and Flemish history textbooks:
doi.org/10.14324/HER...
July 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Looking forward to heading north in September to talk about some exciting cross-curricular units we've been working on at school, inspired by both the @histassoc.bsky.social and the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social conferences #TeamHums
History 📚):
📖 @jenhistorycw11.bsky.social
Narrative-based booklets for GCSE: using story structure to aid retention and understanding. A practical, powerful tool.
🌟 @mrsthorne.bsky.social
Cross-curricular inspiration at KS3 – fresh, energising ideas!

#HistoryTeacher
July 21, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Made it 😴
July 15, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Right, the summer is just round the corner and I am sick of reading academic articles about assessment for my Masters, so hit me with your good reads so I can stock up for my summer holidays.
I like historical fiction but all recs gratefully received.
July 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Enjoying all the headlines about Starmer disagreeing with 'punk duo Bob Vylan'.
Surely the entire point of punk is for the PM to disagree with you. That is almost as punk as it gets.
June 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Telegram spammers make me laugh. How needy is this one?! Imagine me, not showing much respect for their time. It's almost like this was...a totally unsolicited spam text.
June 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Fave teaching moment of the week: y7 and food chains, producers and consumers. Having said that basically everything humans eat is a plant or an animal, they worked extremely hard to disprove this.
I shut it down after a story about someone's primary school tchr who ate snail shells.
Classic y7.
June 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A super speedy 4 mins 32 for my blood donation today, I might have beaten my own record #giveblood
June 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Tickets still available for the launch of our wonderful SHP SW Forum with a superb programme of speakers including Michael Riley, @paulalobo.bsky.social and @tomallenhistory.bsky.social. Tickets available for as little as a fiver from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... so grab 'em now!
June 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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It's going to be a superb event! What a way to launch #SHPSW! Grab your ticket from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... it's an absolute bargain (£10/£5 concessions) and thanks again to @davidrawlings.bsky.social and @mrsthorne.bsky.social for organising!
June 4, 2025 at 6:30 PM