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!

Had a brilliant chat with @corinnefowler.bsky.social this morning to plan our SHP Understanding: UNEARTHED event on November 10 (5-6pm) on the SHP YouTube channel. Corinne will be sharing her deep knowledge about the colonial countryside and the legacy of empire on our gardens ...

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Very excited to share the forthcoming SHP Understanding event from @1972shp.bsky.social: Unearthed (Nov 10 5-6pm). The first in a series of webinars looking at the transformative and radical power of gardening - from the Diggers to Mary Seacole to settler colonialism we've got it covered!

Declaration today by B'Tselem and PHRI that #genocide is being committed in #Gaza confirms growing consensus by human rights groups. Next year, we in #education must reflect this when teaching genocide since #Holocaust. This means we must also challenge prior policy of silence on matter by HMDT

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@1972shp.bsky.social @danlyndon.bsky.social what a wonderful weekend! I am going back home re-energised and inspired. Already looking forward to next year. #SHP25

If you are rethinking any of your Key Stage 3 curriculum next year, you really should have a look at some of these amazing units #historyteacher

How Britain brought about regime change in Iran in 1953: by overthrowing a democratically elected government in favour of an autocracy after it threatened to nationalise Anglo-Iranian Oil (later BP) & use the revenue to benefit Iranians.

www.theguardian.com/world/2020/a...

'Madleen' was on a mission of urgency after a year of set backs, carrying baby formula, food, medicine & basic humanity. Then came unidentified vessels, speedboats, quadcopters & Israeli soldiers. @franceskalbs.bsky.social recounts what happened in real-time as she spoke to the crew live.
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She reminds us that #Madleen was a UK-flagged boat seized in international waters. Israel's interception is an act of piracy.

Abduction is illegal, as is their siege, genocide, occupation and countless other war crimes across Palestine.

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Now updated to consider how teachers might also frame post-war immigration as a radical discontinuity rather than ‘legacy’ of Empire.

alanlester.co.uk/blog/we-need...

Setting aside post-hoc legal definitions, there could not be a clearer instance of genocide. The closest historical parallel is the German colonial genocide in which Herero & Nama people who survived mass killing were forced into the desert to starve, 1904-08.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Have you got something to share from your lessons? We’re looking for Humanities speakers (Hist, Geog, RE) to speak at our event in September, particularly on climate and environment.
Get in touch if you’d like to be involved; docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Major announcement coming tomorrow, watch this space!!! #historyeducation #historyteacher #skystorians #history #primary #secondary

I am so excited about the latest @empirepoduk.bsky.social episodes with @sathnam.bsky.social on Kew Gardens and gardening, so many ideas to weave in more environmental history in the teaching of colonialism. Oh, and I can't wait for the Opium series!

Such an amazing exhibition! I really recommend it to anyone teaching British Empire.
www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/...

Hello lots of new followers- if you’re interested in UK History Education, you might find this useful…

I’ve built a History Education UK starter pack of accounts I’ve found so far!

go.bsky.app/BTJ8SaJ