Pete Jackson
@petejackson.bsky.social
History teacher. 23 years in education. Husband. Father of 4 boys. Twinlife. Running. Parkrun Ultra. Oasis. MUFC. FPL. Guitar. Piano. History. Camping. Photography. Mancunian in Yorkshire. Views my own.
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Pete Jackson
@petejackson.bsky.social
· Jun 27
Happy weekend.
Reflecting on a significant week for our family. Change is opportunity! Exciting times ahead. #madforit #lovingthelearning
Reflecting on a significant week for our family. Change is opportunity! Exciting times ahead. #madforit #lovingthelearning
New Years Day - perfect
January 1, 2026 at 5:43 PM
New Years Day - perfect
What a fab 2025. Thanks to everyone on here who interacted or who helped influence my thinking and teaching. You’re all class! Fab day today and even got in a final run for 2025 - 1,009 miles ran across the year! Here’s to 2026
December 31, 2025 at 8:47 PM
What a fab 2025. Thanks to everyone on here who interacted or who helped influence my thinking and teaching. You’re all class! Fab day today and even got in a final run for 2025 - 1,009 miles ran across the year! Here’s to 2026
Iconic - love this city
December 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Iconic - love this city
Spectacular work from Mrs J making this from scratch with the kids! ❤️
December 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Spectacular work from Mrs J making this from scratch with the kids! ❤️
Watched episode 1 this morning - absolutely superb. Great sound and fascinating history of one of the best bands there’s ever been.
I’m hugely enjoying The Beatles Anthology on Disney — the remastered audio sounds great with big telly surround sound. Man, that band was so tight even when they couldn’t hear a thing for all the screaming fans
December 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Watched episode 1 this morning - absolutely superb. Great sound and fascinating history of one of the best bands there’s ever been.
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The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
December 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
December 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
New Northallerton PB this morning. 7th time this year I’ve gone sub 23 🏃♂️
December 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
New Northallerton PB this morning. 7th time this year I’ve gone sub 23 🏃♂️
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Often looked like this in our lessons when you’re teaching ‘on’ Hadrians Wall! 🗡️ 📏
Delighted to be a judge for the North West region @lucyworsley.bsky.social @sathnam.bsky.social @gregjenner.bsky.social get your nominations in! @histassoc.bsky.social 🙌🏻
Delighted to be a judge for the North West region @lucyworsley.bsky.social @sathnam.bsky.social @gregjenner.bsky.social get your nominations in! @histassoc.bsky.social 🙌🏻
December 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Often looked like this in our lessons when you’re teaching ‘on’ Hadrians Wall! 🗡️ 📏
Delighted to be a judge for the North West region @lucyworsley.bsky.social @sathnam.bsky.social @gregjenner.bsky.social get your nominations in! @histassoc.bsky.social 🙌🏻
Delighted to be a judge for the North West region @lucyworsley.bsky.social @sathnam.bsky.social @gregjenner.bsky.social get your nominations in! @histassoc.bsky.social 🙌🏻
New post - a write up of the key points from my recent @1972shp.bsky.social talk on historical writing at the Yorkshire History forum in November.
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Improving historical writing
Strategies and ideas to develop writing at both Key Stage 3 and GCSE
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December 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
New post - a write up of the key points from my recent @1972shp.bsky.social talk on historical writing at the Yorkshire History forum in November.
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#historyteacher
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#historyteacher
Great time at the snooker with my Dad and brother in York! Great fun
November 30, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Great time at the snooker with my Dad and brother in York! Great fun
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@petejackson.bsky.social in full flow delivering his workshop on Effective Historical Writing, which was packed full of practical tips for everyone in the room at the SHP Yorkshire History Forum
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
@petejackson.bsky.social in full flow delivering his workshop on Effective Historical Writing, which was packed full of practical tips for everyone in the room at the SHP Yorkshire History Forum
Super evening last night presenting @1972shp.bsky.social Yorkshire history forum. Great to catch up with fab people in the history community. @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social @historyrichk.bsky.social @robbalding.bsky.social @davidturner2000.bsky.social @joecox23.bsky.social @mr-s-tiffany.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Super evening last night presenting @1972shp.bsky.social Yorkshire history forum. Great to catch up with fab people in the history community. @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social @historyrichk.bsky.social @robbalding.bsky.social @davidturner2000.bsky.social @joecox23.bsky.social @mr-s-tiffany.bsky.social
Had one of my best form times in years today. We watched 25 mins of The Ashes - Stokes on 🔥
November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Had one of my best form times in years today. We watched 25 mins of The Ashes - Stokes on 🔥
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So‼️behold, cover of my first solo book. I hope you like it?! After 33 years & over 20,000 lessons I’ve put pen to paper. So many people have suggested this, encouraged & helped me 💕I truly hope it is beneficial🙏to @katejonesteach.bsky.social for fab foreword. 📕 Publication Spring 2026 🙌🏻
November 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
So‼️behold, cover of my first solo book. I hope you like it?! After 33 years & over 20,000 lessons I’ve put pen to paper. So many people have suggested this, encouraged & helped me 💕I truly hope it is beneficial🙏to @katejonesteach.bsky.social for fab foreword. 📕 Publication Spring 2026 🙌🏻
Thanks @colinmccormick.bsky.social
Pete doing Pete things. Genius this 🔥🔥 @richkhistory.bsky.social
It's been great to adapt our enquiry - How did the Transatlantic Slave Trade change the world - using the ideas from the Liverpool and the Transatlantic Slave Trade book. Huge thanks to @colinmccormick.bsky.social @katieamery.bsky.social and @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social for your fab work on this.
November 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Thanks @colinmccormick.bsky.social
It's been great to adapt our enquiry - How did the Transatlantic Slave Trade change the world - using the ideas from the Liverpool and the Transatlantic Slave Trade book. Huge thanks to @colinmccormick.bsky.social @katieamery.bsky.social and @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social for your fab work on this.
November 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It's been great to adapt our enquiry - How did the Transatlantic Slave Trade change the world - using the ideas from the Liverpool and the Transatlantic Slave Trade book. Huge thanks to @colinmccormick.bsky.social @katieamery.bsky.social and @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social for your fab work on this.
Would you like to use more historical
stories in your GCSE teaching? Find out more and freely download loads of examples. Spread the word…
#historyteacher
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stories in your GCSE teaching? Find out more and freely download loads of examples. Spread the word…
#historyteacher
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Would you like to use more stories in your GCSE teaching?
Sharing some of our best stories to make GCSE History memorable and engaging.
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November 15, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Would you like to use more historical
stories in your GCSE teaching? Find out more and freely download loads of examples. Spread the word…
#historyteacher
open.substack.com/pub/petejack...
stories in your GCSE teaching? Find out more and freely download loads of examples. Spread the word…
#historyteacher
open.substack.com/pub/petejack...
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10 days to go until the SHP Yorkshire History Forum! Looking forward to sharing principles for teaching Transatlantic Slavery with a local history lens 🔎 @1972shp.bsky.social @danlyndon.bsky.social tickets still available 🎟
November 14, 2025 at 10:39 PM
10 days to go until the SHP Yorkshire History Forum! Looking forward to sharing principles for teaching Transatlantic Slavery with a local history lens 🔎 @1972shp.bsky.social @danlyndon.bsky.social tickets still available 🎟
Reflections on our key stage 3 17th century enquiry
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The World Turned Upside Down
Crafting a knowledge-rich 17th century enquiry for Year 8
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November 13, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Reflections on our key stage 3 17th century enquiry
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Inspired by the story of Angel Meadow in Manchester for teaching Industrial living conditions for OCR B, I've done something similar for the East End of London in the 20th century using the amazing The Abyss of London by the aptly named Jack London. This story really helps build the East End world
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Inspired by the story of Angel Meadow in Manchester for teaching Industrial living conditions for OCR B, I've done something similar for the East End of London in the 20th century using the amazing The Abyss of London by the aptly named Jack London. This story really helps build the East End world
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Is there any better way to spend a Monday evening - hosting a workshop AND handling Viking artefacts!
Incredible opportunity to get your (gloved) hands on some Viking artefacts at our next Yorkshire History Forum at St Barnabas School in York (Nov 24 5-8pm). Just ask @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social and she'll tell you how awesome they are! Tickets available here: store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...
November 7, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Is there any better way to spend a Monday evening - hosting a workshop AND handling Viking artefacts!
The Alpine war is fascinating
I also found this photo of Italian troops fighting the Austrians in the Alps really intriguing. A reminder that we must teach the FWW as a global war and ensured our narratives give enough focus to the Western Front, but don’t allow it to dominate.
November 3, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The Alpine war is fascinating
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.
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November 2, 2025 at 9:53 PM