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
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
One of my all time favourite running routes! Beautiful
November 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
One of my all time favourite running routes! Beautiful
New blog - World Turned Upside Down - creating a knowledge-rich 17th century enquiry.
Thanks to @kat-oc-kearey.bsky.social whose ideas at last year's HA Conference helped inspire me to look again at this one.
#historyteacher
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Thanks to @kat-oc-kearey.bsky.social whose ideas at last year's HA Conference helped inspire me to look again at this one.
#historyteacher
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The World Turned Upside Down
Crafting a knowledge-rich 17th century enquiry for Year 8
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October 30, 2025 at 10:50 AM
New blog - World Turned Upside Down - creating a knowledge-rich 17th century enquiry.
Thanks to @kat-oc-kearey.bsky.social whose ideas at last year's HA Conference helped inspire me to look again at this one.
#historyteacher
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Thanks to @kat-oc-kearey.bsky.social whose ideas at last year's HA Conference helped inspire me to look again at this one.
#historyteacher
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Battlefields 2025 - a fantastic school trip!
October 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Battlefields 2025 - a fantastic school trip!
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🚨 History teachers, we’re back! 🚨
Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25.
Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today.
Presenters & link below 👇
Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25.
Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today.
Presenters & link below 👇
October 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🚨 History teachers, we’re back! 🚨
Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25.
Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today.
Presenters & link below 👇
Join us on 7 Feb 2026 for a day of workshops and a nice curry – all for £25.
Ten years after the ‘knowledge turn’, we’re exploring what knowledge-rich history teaching looks like today.
Presenters & link below 👇
Delighted to share this new blog on teaching People’s Health Industrial using the fabulous work of @manchesterhistory.uk and the story of Angel Meadow. I’ve loved working on this. Thanks Dean for your incredible book.
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World building with Angel Meadow
Teaching Industrial People's Health through the story of Victorian Britain's most savage slum
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October 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Delighted to share this new blog on teaching People’s Health Industrial using the fabulous work of @manchesterhistory.uk and the story of Angel Meadow. I’ve loved working on this. Thanks Dean for your incredible book.
#historyteacher
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#historyteacher
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On Nov 24 we will be hosting our 3rd Yorkshire History Forum with 2 workshops for primary and 2 for secondary history teachers, led by wonderful teachers like @petejackson.bsky.social and @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social. Tickets are now available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...
October 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
On Nov 24 we will be hosting our 3rd Yorkshire History Forum with 2 workshops for primary and 2 for secondary history teachers, led by wonderful teachers like @petejackson.bsky.social and @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social. Tickets are now available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...
Strongly agree. So many 17th century enquiries miss out King James I. He’s not just fascinating but his reign is crucial foundational knowledge to understand what comes next. Here’s a story we use to kick off our enquiry.
October 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Strongly agree. So many 17th century enquiries miss out King James I. He’s not just fascinating but his reign is crucial foundational knowledge to understand what comes next. Here’s a story we use to kick off our enquiry.
Paris piano cover
October 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Paris piano cover
New blog so that the GCSE historical stories that myself and @benbassett.bsky.social have worked on can be shared with the wider history teaching community. Enjoy.
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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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October 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
New blog so that the GCSE historical stories that myself and @benbassett.bsky.social have worked on can be shared with the wider history teaching community. Enjoy.
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#historyteacher
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Absolutely transfixed by the story of Abel Heywood and Angel Meadow in #changinghistories - this is an incredible story for People’s Health OCR B and got an idea on how to use it to teach pretty much this whole enquiry. Fab world building @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social
October 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Absolutely transfixed by the story of Abel Heywood and Angel Meadow in #changinghistories - this is an incredible story for People’s Health OCR B and got an idea on how to use it to teach pretty much this whole enquiry. Fab world building @willgoodfellow82.bsky.social
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So excited to be presenting at the next @1972shp.bsky.social Yorkshire History Forum! Can't wait to continue the conversation about teaching Transatlantic Slavery in different lenses
Delighted to be presenting at this fantastic event organised with @1972shp.bsky.social and alongside the wonderful @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social
Spread the word!
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Spread the word!
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October 10, 2025 at 7:14 PM
So excited to be presenting at the next @1972shp.bsky.social Yorkshire History Forum! Can't wait to continue the conversation about teaching Transatlantic Slavery in different lenses
So many of my students came up to
me this week excited to tell me that David Olusoga is on Celebrity Traitors and I just couldn’t be prouder that they already knew who this fantastic and inspiring historian was thanks to our curriculum.
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me this week excited to tell me that David Olusoga is on Celebrity Traitors and I just couldn’t be prouder that they already knew who this fantastic and inspiring historian was thanks to our curriculum.
#historyteacher
October 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
So many of my students came up to
me this week excited to tell me that David Olusoga is on Celebrity Traitors and I just couldn’t be prouder that they already knew who this fantastic and inspiring historian was thanks to our curriculum.
#historyteacher
me this week excited to tell me that David Olusoga is on Celebrity Traitors and I just couldn’t be prouder that they already knew who this fantastic and inspiring historian was thanks to our curriculum.
#historyteacher
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It's a dream team of secondary workshops at #YHF York!
Delighted to be presenting at this fantastic event organised with @1972shp.bsky.social and alongside the wonderful @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social
Spread the word!
#historyteacher
Spread the word!
#historyteacher
October 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
It's a dream team of secondary workshops at #YHF York!
Delighted to be presenting at this fantastic event organised with @1972shp.bsky.social and alongside the wonderful @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social
Spread the word!
#historyteacher
Spread the word!
#historyteacher
October 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Delighted to be presenting at this fantastic event organised with @1972shp.bsky.social and alongside the wonderful @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social
Spread the word!
#historyteacher
Spread the word!
#historyteacher
Looking forward to this in November
Tickets now available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata.... Secondary teachers come and see @petejackson.bsky.social share his great wisdom in helping students to improve their historical writing and listen to Caitlin Palmer's fascinating work on local links to the Transatlantic Slave Trade
October 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Looking forward to this in November
Revised story of Frederick Douglass to work as a full lesson to really support students to see the big picture of the Civil War and Reconstruction. My students find this enquiry hard and the idea is to see the era through the eyes of Frederick Douglass but focus them on the key takeaways.
October 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Revised story of Frederick Douglass to work as a full lesson to really support students to see the big picture of the Civil War and Reconstruction. My students find this enquiry hard and the idea is to see the era through the eyes of Frederick Douglass but focus them on the key takeaways.
Manchester running!
October 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Manchester running!
Shout out to those involved in Connected Worlds. I adapted some ideas on Samuel Pepys and this landed so well in teaching the Restoration. The story made abstract concepts so concrete enabling my students to think deeply about change in the 17th century. You could hear a pin drop during the story.
October 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Shout out to those involved in Connected Worlds. I adapted some ideas on Samuel Pepys and this landed so well in teaching the Restoration. The story made abstract concepts so concrete enabling my students to think deeply about change in the 17th century. You could hear a pin drop during the story.
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Or if you have some suggestions of what we should be offering in our Developing Teachers Conference #DTC26 (use this form forms.office.com/e/u1B14iYYhJ )
September 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Or if you have some suggestions of what we should be offering in our Developing Teachers Conference #DTC26 (use this form forms.office.com/e/u1B14iYYhJ )