ArthurJChapman
@arthurjchapman.bsky.social
Prof History Ed & Head of Department Curriculum Pedagogy & Assessment @ UCL’s Institute of Education. Editor HistEd Research Journal & International Rev of HistEd. Vice-Chair OHTE SAC. FRHistS. FHA. Member HEIRNET Board. Blog: thecamelsback.org. Own views.
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Honoured to be elected Vice-Chair of the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe’s Scientific Advisory Committee today. Looking forward to our work together! #OHTE @ioe.bsky.social #HistoryEducarion www.coe.int/en/web/obser...
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The @1972shp.bsky.social SHPUnderstanding:UNEARTHED webinar launched this afternoon and it was spectacular! Massive thanks to @btrappy.bsky.social for kicking us off with some brilliant sources about the Wardian cases that transformed the exchange of plants around the globe ...
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The @1972shp.bsky.social SHPUnderstanding:UNEARTHED webinar launched this afternoon and it was spectacular! Massive thanks to @btrappy.bsky.social for kicking us off with some brilliant sources about the Wardian cases that transformed the exchange of plants around the globe ...
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So much @1972shp.bsky.social stuff going on right now! Last call to register for SHP UNEARTHED (Nov 10 5-6pm), our groundbreaking (ha ha!) webinar on Empire and Gardening - email d.lyndon-cohen@leedstrinity.ac.uk to sign up.
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
So much @1972shp.bsky.social stuff going on right now! Last call to register for SHP UNEARTHED (Nov 10 5-6pm), our groundbreaking (ha ha!) webinar on Empire and Gardening - email d.lyndon-cohen@leedstrinity.ac.uk to sign up.
This is going to be a must-read. Great that it's open access! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This is going to be a must-read. Great that it's open access! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Loving this paper title - 'nonumentality' is a concept who's time has come! The typology proposed looks great to think with also. @alexvont.bsky.social @demantowsky.bsky.social @1972shp.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
November 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Loving this paper title - 'nonumentality' is a concept who's time has come! The typology proposed looks great to think with also. @alexvont.bsky.social @demantowsky.bsky.social @1972shp.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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My talk ‘From Liberalism to Illiberalism' will highlight four turning points. Moral phil translated into politics (1810s), 'socialism in disguise' (late-C19), primacy of economics (1940s), perversion of founding emphasis on indiv. protections (recent) @historicalculture.bsky.social 12.30-13.30EOJ376
November 5, 2025 at 12:47 PM
My talk ‘From Liberalism to Illiberalism' will highlight four turning points. Moral phil translated into politics (1810s), 'socialism in disguise' (late-C19), primacy of economics (1940s), perversion of founding emphasis on indiv. protections (recent) @historicalculture.bsky.social 12.30-13.30EOJ376
What a great opportunity here from @1972shp.bsky.social!
Just one week to go before our UNEARTHED webinar (just email d.lyndon-cohen@leedstrinity.ac.uk to register for your FREE place). Thought we needed some male role models to publicise the event as currently I am the ONLY male who is attending!! So come on lads, environmental history is for everyone!
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM
What a great opportunity here from @1972shp.bsky.social!
I edited my final Teaching History in September (the 1st was in 2006 & I’ve given it 10 years in 2007/13 and again in 2022-25 so I reckon I’ve paid my dues). Delighted to finish with this grear piece based on a 2023 @1972shp.bsky.social conference workshop. www.history.org.uk/publications... 1/2
Approaches to teaching about national identities and belonging across the history curriculum
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November 5, 2025 at 8:03 AM
I edited my final Teaching History in September (the 1st was in 2006 & I’ve given it 10 years in 2007/13 and again in 2022-25 so I reckon I’ve paid my dues). Delighted to finish with this grear piece based on a 2023 @1972shp.bsky.social conference workshop. www.history.org.uk/publications... 1/2
Cannot recommend this book highly enough: it takes history education seriously and is a history of ideas about it - it’s also a powerful philosophical enquiry.
#historyeducation
#historyeducation
Empathy and History @berghahnbooks.bsky.social—the principal arguments:
1) Empathy designates the attempt to grasp the 'context' in which people’s actions made sense
2) The methodological question raised by empathy concerns the way in which this 'context' enters a historical explanation 1/2
1) Empathy designates the attempt to grasp the 'context' in which people’s actions made sense
2) The methodological question raised by empathy concerns the way in which this 'context' enters a historical explanation 1/2
Empathy and History: Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Cannot recommend this book highly enough: it takes history education seriously and is a history of ideas about it - it’s also a powerful philosophical enquiry.
#historyeducation
#historyeducation
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Empathy and History @berghahnbooks.bsky.social—the principal arguments:
1) Empathy designates the attempt to grasp the 'context' in which people’s actions made sense
2) The methodological question raised by empathy concerns the way in which this 'context' enters a historical explanation 1/2
1) Empathy designates the attempt to grasp the 'context' in which people’s actions made sense
2) The methodological question raised by empathy concerns the way in which this 'context' enters a historical explanation 1/2
Empathy and History: Historical Understanding in Re-enactment, Hermeneutics and Education | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
www.berghahnbooks.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Empathy and History @berghahnbooks.bsky.social—the principal arguments:
1) Empathy designates the attempt to grasp the 'context' in which people’s actions made sense
2) The methodological question raised by empathy concerns the way in which this 'context' enters a historical explanation 1/2
1) Empathy designates the attempt to grasp the 'context' in which people’s actions made sense
2) The methodological question raised by empathy concerns the way in which this 'context' enters a historical explanation 1/2
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Just one week to go before our UNEARTHED webinar (just email d.lyndon-cohen@leedstrinity.ac.uk to register for your FREE place). Thought we needed some male role models to publicise the event as currently I am the ONLY male who is attending!! So come on lads, environmental history is for everyone!
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Just one week to go before our UNEARTHED webinar (just email d.lyndon-cohen@leedstrinity.ac.uk to register for your FREE place). Thought we needed some male role models to publicise the event as currently I am the ONLY male who is attending!! So come on lads, environmental history is for everyone!
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The Department of History at Queen’s University seeks a postdoctoral fellow to start July 1, 2026. Applications are due on January 15, 2026 for the Marjorie McLean Oliver Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The full position description can be found here: www.queensu.ca/history/abou...
Employment | Department of History, Queen's University
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October 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
The Department of History at Queen’s University seeks a postdoctoral fellow to start July 1, 2026. Applications are due on January 15, 2026 for the Marjorie McLean Oliver Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The full position description can be found here: www.queensu.ca/history/abou...
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Just in time for half term @1972shp.bsky.social is delighted to be able to announce that the tickets for our VIRTUAL Developing Teachers' Conference (Jan 31 2026) are now available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... for inflation busting prices!
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Developing Teachers Conference 2026 January 31st 2026 Early bird standard ticket  £40 Early bird Trainee/ECT/Primary  £30 Any questions
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October 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Just in time for half term @1972shp.bsky.social is delighted to be able to announce that the tickets for our VIRTUAL Developing Teachers' Conference (Jan 31 2026) are now available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... for inflation busting prices!
“It was a careful formula,” blaming not in Brexit itself, but “the manner of its implementation; blaming the politicians who did it, not the ordinary people who willed it…”
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Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr
It is the right way to go, but taking the long way round to such an obvious point has cost Labour precious time and credibility, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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October 24, 2025 at 4:43 AM
“It was a careful formula,” blaming not in Brexit itself, but “the manner of its implementation; blaming the politicians who did it, not the ordinary people who willed it…”
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PhD coursework? Come to Stavanger to study my hermeneutics course (5 ECTS). It's about developing a methodological language to communicate your aims as a humanistic researcher. www.uis.no/en/course/DU...
Hermeneutics: An Introduction | University of Stavanger
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October 23, 2025 at 7:36 AM
PhD coursework? Come to Stavanger to study my hermeneutics course (5 ECTS). It's about developing a methodological language to communicate your aims as a humanistic researcher. www.uis.no/en/course/DU...
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The series grows, and I love Maria's phrase 'iconoclastic activism'.
I'm delighted to welcome another title to the CUP @universitypress.cambridge.org series Elements in Historical Theory and Practice. Maria Grever, Contested Public Monuments. doi.org/10.1017/9781.... This is available for free download till Nov 5 2025.
Contested Public Monuments
Cambridge Core - Global History - Contested Public Monuments
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October 23, 2025 at 4:43 AM
The series grows, and I love Maria's phrase 'iconoclastic activism'.
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I reviewed Frank Ankersmit's new book for the AHR academic.oup.com/ahr/article-... @historians.org
+ brilliant defence of historicism and how individual representations of historical reality contribute to the growth of historical knowledge
- bogged down in the mysteries of the Leibnizian system
+ brilliant defence of historicism and how individual representations of historical reality contribute to the growth of historical knowledge
- bogged down in the mysteries of the Leibnizian system
Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit. Representation: The Birth of Historical Reality from the Death of the Past.
Historians should have no more trustworthy a philosophical companion than Frank Ankersmit. For the past five decades, he has been the historicist’s philo
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October 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I reviewed Frank Ankersmit's new book for the AHR academic.oup.com/ahr/article-... @historians.org
+ brilliant defence of historicism and how individual representations of historical reality contribute to the growth of historical knowledge
- bogged down in the mysteries of the Leibnizian system
+ brilliant defence of historicism and how individual representations of historical reality contribute to the growth of historical knowledge
- bogged down in the mysteries of the Leibnizian system
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National Army Museum identifies portrait of Black Waterloo veteran:
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
#Hstory #BlackHistory 🗃️
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#Hstory #BlackHistory 🗃️
London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting
‘Honourable’ bandsman Thomas James will feature in display at National Army Museum highlighting service of black soldiers in Napoleonic wars
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October 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
National Army Museum identifies portrait of Black Waterloo veteran:
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
#Hstory #BlackHistory 🗃️
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#Hstory #BlackHistory 🗃️
Inspiring 2 spend time in Strasbourg with @ioe.bsky.social history doctoral students @ @heirnet.bsky.social colleagues debating the contribution history education can make 2 democratic resilience in difficult times. ThankU @coe.int 4 making this possible! #OHTE #historyeducation @cpaucl.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Inspiring 2 spend time in Strasbourg with @ioe.bsky.social history doctoral students @ @heirnet.bsky.social colleagues debating the contribution history education can make 2 democratic resilience in difficult times. ThankU @coe.int 4 making this possible! #OHTE #historyeducation @cpaucl.bsky.social
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It was so much fun chatting to @carmelbones.bsky.social about the history of the Schools History Project and how it can support the #historyeducation community today and in the future. I hope you enjoy the chat that we had with Mel @histassoc.bsky.social creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
RETEACH HISTORY SE03E04 - Making History Matter With Mel Jones and Dan Lyndon-Cohen by RETEACH
In this episode of Reteach History, our host Carmel speaks with two of the history‑teaching community’s most influential figures: Mel Jones (Education Manager, Historical Association) and Dan Lyndon-C...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It was so much fun chatting to @carmelbones.bsky.social about the history of the Schools History Project and how it can support the #historyeducation community today and in the future. I hope you enjoy the chat that we had with Mel @histassoc.bsky.social creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
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Looking further forward we host our Developing Teachers' Conference on January 31 2026: We will have 9 secondary workshops and 3 primary workshops featuring legends like @mr-s-tiffany.bsky.social @oblaize.bsky.social @missrcarter89.bsky.social & @msquinnhistory.bsky.social. Tickets on sale v soon!
October 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Looking further forward we host our Developing Teachers' Conference on January 31 2026: We will have 9 secondary workshops and 3 primary workshops featuring legends like @mr-s-tiffany.bsky.social @oblaize.bsky.social @missrcarter89.bsky.social & @msquinnhistory.bsky.social. Tickets on sale v soon!
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I was delighted to speak to Alan Finlayson for the @lrb.co.uk's On Politics. We take on the digital right (and online left), the champions of inegalitarianism, print and social democracy, Farage as influencer and... whether the internet is just right-wing.
October 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM