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Claire Holliss @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social · 10d

This is very kind of you Ali! I think you've summed up what makes TH so valuable - the way it provides a space for ongoing conversations amongst history teachers. I'm very glad that you think our article has contributed to this tradition!

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Alistair Dickins @alistairdickins.bsky.social · 11d

My letter to HMDT: drive.google.com/file/d/12HFT...

Template letter for anyone wishing to write also: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

HMDT Letter 09.25.pdf

drive.google.com

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Alistair Dickins @alistairdickins.bsky.social · 11d

Last year #HMDT refused to recognise mass killing in #Gaza, #Israel in commemorating genocide since 1945 for #HolocaustMemorialDay.

This contravenes mission of HMDT. It must not happen again.

I have written to #HMDT and urge educators do same. Letter and template follow 👇

#historyteacher #EduSky

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Sasha Smith @sashasmith.bsky.social · 14d

The History and wider team at @endsexisminschools.bsky.social are grateful for the support of @histassoc.bsky.social for making their articles and research into women in the curriculum open in their article on our report. Change is possible, thank you HA!

www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...

Report on Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum

www.history.org.uk

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Claire Holliss @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks very much Alistair! It was great to chat with you about this at the SHP conference!

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End Sexism In Schools @endsexisminschools.bsky.social · 16d

We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today.

The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.

Sexism in the History Curriculum - End Sexism in Schools

End Sexism In School’s second crowd research project is looking into the History curriculum taught at KS3 (years 7-9) in England and Wales.

endsexisminschools.org.uk

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Claire Holliss @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social · 19d

To be honest, this project gave me the impetus to think about this more carefully, previously I hadn't really engaged with it when I used stories. That's really interesting! How do your students respond?

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Claire Holliss @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social · 19d

Lovely to find the 200th edition of TH in my postbox today, including an article by me and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social. Hopefully it will contribute to the journal's tradition of starting conversations amongst history teachers! @histassoc.bsky.social

An image of the first two pages of our article in Teaching History

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Claire Holliss @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social · 20d

Thanks very much Jonathan! I'm really glad that you found it interesting - one of the things we were hoping to do with this article was to pose some questions that other people might look into, so it's good to hear that it was thought-provoking for you!

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Alistair Dickins @alistairdickins.bsky.social · Aug 30

Teachers of Russian and Soviet #History! Russian-language words got you flummoxed? Our spoken dictionary and pronounciation guide might come in handy.

200+ terms with audio recordings, free to use and access 👇

istorikteach.blogspot.com/p/spoken-dic...

#historyteacher #EduSky #historyeducation

Spoken Dictionary and Pronunciation Guide

“Saying it right” is a particular challenge for teachers of Russian and Soviet History. However familiar we are with the content and conce...

istorikteach.blogspot.com

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Alistair Dickins @alistairdickins.bsky.social · Aug 18

Does continuity in #history really mean "nothing happens"?

Exploratory blog post makes case for a dynamic understanding of continuity as a disciplinary concept

Thanks @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social for thoughts on earlier draft!

istorikteach.blogspot.com/2025/08/what...

#historyteacher #EduSky

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What happens when “nothing happens”? Rethinking continuity as a dynamic process

Claire Holliss was kind enough to offer her thoughts and critique on an earlier draft of this and the subsequent post, which were signific...

istorikteach.blogspot.com

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Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · Aug 16

I share this syllabus bc I'm one of a tiny handful of university faculty in the UK who teach trans history at a specialist level, & I'd like there to be more of us! I learned the field from scratch post-PhD, bc at my prev institution it was politically necessary - which means that you can too!

Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social · Aug 15

Updated my grad syllabus for the new year! The latest version of the weekly schedule and readings is now on the Teaching page of my website: samuelrutherford.com/teaching/

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Dr Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · Aug 15

Our first working-class prehistorian, Bill Varley, assisted socially during the Depression by recruiting unemployed men from Liverpool to his and Joan’s hillfort excavations in Cheshire, allowing them to work whilst still drawing their benefits.

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Jim Carroll @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social · Aug 7

***NEW***

My new (free!) article in the History Education Research Journal exploring what ‘colligation’ is and how it might help teachers develop students’ causal arguments.

Based on a case study with one of my Y13 classes.

journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/article...

journals.uclpress.co.uk

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · Aug 6

"What can you do? What can you do, resourceless as you are, with freedom withering in a bone-stripping sirocco of stupid, wasteful fascist oppression?" buttondown.com/theswordandt...

A Queer Shoulder to the Wheel

A version of this piece was originally published in Flaming Hydra, an art collective I'm proud to be a part of. Then I let David loose to edit as he does so...

buttondown.com

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Claire Holliss @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social · Aug 2

I'm sure nothing untoward will take place during this gig at the town church.

A programme entitled, 'Black Shuck Returns' and depicting the said hellhound menacing a blonde woman - propped up on a church pew.

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Claire Holliss @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social · Aug 2

It really does pay to read the signs when you're in Bungay.

A sign reading 'beware of the dog' with a hellhound depicted below.

A puppet of a large black dog with glowing red eyes.

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Claire Holliss @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social · Aug 1

According to the National Trust noticeboard it was one of the 14th richest towns in the late medieval period!

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Claire Holliss @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social · Aug 1

You can always rely on the people carving the choir stalls to deliver.

Looks like a woodwose face carved into the stone arch?

Some poor peasant guy carved being squashed by the choir seat.

Standard carved pelican feeding its chicks with its blood.

I think this guy is carrying a sheep over his shoulder.

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Claire Holliss @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social · Aug 1

Yes ok guys, we get that you made a lot of money in the wool trade...

Interior of the church, it's all pretty grand. Lovely ceiling and original rood screen.

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Claire Holliss @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social · Aug 1

We've reached the 'eerie East-Anglian road trip' stage of the summer holiday. Obviously that has to begin with a nose around a church, this time it's St Peter and St Paul, Lavenham.

Lavenham church - a large wool-church description can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter_and_St_Paul%27s_Church,_Lavenham

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Alistair Dickins @alistairdickins.bsky.social · Jul 28

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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Claire Holliss @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social · Jul 24

Once again, the millennials lose out.

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Claire Holliss @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social · Jul 24

I don't want to romanticise the rural past, but every year I spend the months of August to October shaking down every hedgerow I can find and no-one ever gives me a badge!
@themerl.bsky.social

Two circular Rose Hip Collectors Club badges, from 1964 and 1965. These badges were acquired for collecting a certain weight of rose hips.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · Jul 24

„Immersive“ is exactly the opposite of what the field of history is trying to achieve.

David Rogers @drogersuk.bsky.social · Jul 24

My optimistic view is that we end up with better AIs that are able to assist Historians, based on authoritative datasets from institutions that is able to offer contextual nuance. We could provide a more immersive experience of history in the future with the assistance of different AIs.

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Jul 24

This incredibly worrying study suggests Historians are the 2nd most likely occupation to be supplanted by AI.

That’s despite the fact that current AI history output is wildly unreliable, unsourced, hallucinates fale events, sources, and previous historians!!

Yay 😬😩🤪
arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07935

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