A long shot but are there any history teacher colleagues who teach AQA A Level History option 1K (USA 1865-1975) who have access to full past papers (ie a scanned physical paper). All the papers online have at least one interpretation redacted for copyright reasons.

It’s been really interesting and exciting to see how enthusiastic people in the world of horology are about my new book, co-authored by watchmaker Rebecca Struthers - “About Time… is going to scratch the itch of every watch enthusiast parent”. I hope the author of this piece it right!

Had a brilliant day @edbookfest.bsky.social - Laurent Binet this afternoon and Richard Flanagan this evening. Inspirational words from both.

Out today - please buy/share/review, and above all read. I’m so proud of this book and the impact it’s had - and still a bit surprised at the places it’s taken me too over the last year.

www.penguin.co.uk/books/454163...

Greatly enjoyed 'The Big Dig' from @londonmuseum.bsky.social Docklands with my kids (5 and 10) this week - finding some Roman artefacts to help uncover 'layers of London'.
Recommended for a great summer holiday activity! www.londonmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/the...

A few years ago, I met the incredibly talented Dr Rebecca Struthers - the UK's only watchmaker with a PhD in horology. We immediately hit it off and became friends... and then wrote this book together. Out in August, available to preorder now! geni.us/AboutTimeDK

In May I'll be running the Hackney Half for the Tribe Freedom Foundation, which is a charity set up to fight human trafficking. Any donations would be very much appreciated!

www.justgiving.com/page/david-g...

#OTD in 1653, Oliver Cromwell dissolved the Rump Parliament.

Cromwell called in the musketeers, forcefully ejecting MPs after the Rump refused to dissolve itself. But this was not the only time force was used against Parliament...

Had a brilliant time last week leading a workshop for Sixth Form students on A Level History exam technique.

It gave me the idea for 'three golden rules', which I cover in my latest video;
youtu.be/kZYtb76mqR0

Wrote a blog about how racists who only like white men telly keep saying 'over-representative'. My argument: ATB only has a few Black characters and they were all real people, really there, so how can it be?

A man commented: "grossly over-representative" 🤷🏻‍♀️

grapplingwithhistory.com/2025/01/20/a...

Reading this about Britain's use of Marshall Aid, it makes me wonder if this is a particularly harsh interpretation or whether it really was squandered - does anyone have any further insight?

I had always assumed it was spent on infrastructure...

www.bbc.co.uk/history/brit...

In May I'll be running the Hackney Half for the Tribe Freedom Foundation, which is a charity set up to fight human trafficking. Any donations would be very much appreciated!

www.justgiving.com/page/david-g...

Primary Teachers! If you want to do some “making” activities with your pupils before Christmas, take a look at these videos of TOYS they can make from scrap materials: alomshaha.com/machines

BOOK GIVEAWAY!!! I'm not on social media a lot right now, working very hard on my new book, trying to get it done in less than 9 years this time! In the meantime, I'm giving away signed copies of all my books so far. Repost & follow to enter, & say which one you'd like - closes Dec 14! #KidLitUK

Greatly enjoying the audiobook of The Scapegoat by Lucy Hughes-Hallett - listening on my commute and am completely engrossed. Buckingham is such a fascinating character and the writing is excellent. I'm definitely going to use the refrain 'no money' in my teaching.

Down in London last week to lead a course for Hodder - snapped this around the Barbican while looking for Jackson Lamb. He was nowhere to be found.

So good to find lots of #historyteacher folks here!