Great chat with film maker and environmentalist John Tween in Moseley Bog, a place associated with Tolkein & much loved by the poet Benjamin Zephaniah
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Wow, very brave here mate😁. Think I'll blend in later 😃

I suspect the narrative will remain unchanged, judging by his 'island of strangers' comment (albeit he has apologised). I hope all the talk of the 1833 abolition isn't solely focused on evangelicals, with only token nods to African agency.

3.Yet the British courts let him off, citing lack of evidence and turning a blind eye to ongoing profiteering. This contradiction eg the moral rhetoric at home vs complicity abroad is central to understanding Britain’s real legacy on slavery.

2.Will use this in our next book update. Will drop in next to Bramley Moore the Liverpool mayor/merchant who was caught trading forBrazil well after abolition. In the mid 1840s, he was linked to ships supplying enslaved people and goods produced by slave labour, despite laws against the trade

1. Thanks for this, Arthur. Interesting. Clearly the govt wants applicants to believe that GB was a moral leader, saw the error of its ways =abolished slavery. Typical GB News narrative/interpretation.The Danes abolished the slave trade first, in 1792 years before Britain’s 1807 Act.

Great to know @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social! Thanks so much to you and to @colinmccormick.bsky.social also for your #SHP25 workshop also! Loved the approach you've developed to connect the local/national/global! So much to work with there!

I suspect your inference is correct Lee

Brilliant session by @dankeates.bsky.social . Can't wait to read it. @victoriacrooks.bsky.social

Thank you Ailsa. Hope you're well

Kicking-off day 2 of @1972shp.bsky.social Conference 2025 with @colinmccormick.bsky.social & @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social’s powerful presentation of local, national and international approaches to learning about Liverpool’s history of slave-trading and enslavement. #SHP25

Tom Allen masterpiece. Watch his @histassoc.bsky.social session before it expires if you can

One account describes a retreating soldier: "We sensed somehow that these men had seen hell...He half turned, & indicating the weary straggling figures before him, shrugged expressively, [and said]: 'General fucked up.....Back where they fucking well started.'"

That general was my great grandpa.

Listen to @oblaize.bsky.social he knows what he's talking about! Come and join Otis and Justice2History for their workshop on Decolonisation and the British Empire. Tickets available here SHP Summer Conference 2025 | Leeds Trinity University Online Store share.google/6BoMprddy3g1...

If you are short of ideas for teaching but think AI is not the way you want to go, you might want to check out SHP's new #curriculumpaths project. Browse units planned by other professionals, complete with their rationales and ethical underpinnings!

www.padlet.com/cpaths/hub

#historyteacher

And here it is. Finally. Surrounded by some of the scholarship that shaped it. It’s beautiful and such fun to teach - it has given my Year 8 class stories to live inside. A parent messaged me to say history has ‘never been so fun!’ - all I did was tell the class stories from this book.

So the fabulous @anniehewett.bsky.social is leading CPD at Durrington next year. I’ve bought her a gift @ensermark.bsky.social & @greeborunner.bsky.social 😉

Why wouldn't you work with Hugh if you had the chance?

Thrilled to announce 📣 🚨 the need for an extra Sept 17th date! ☀️ The Globe Theatre 🎭 webinar @tracyborman.bsky.social @aqaeducation.bsky.social 🙏 please spread the word. Slots available from Oct 🗓️ onwards too, part of next years CPD. Thanks 🙏 for all the kind words, interest & support 💖

#SHP25 is fast approaching, the excitement is rising, the workshops are being finalised, the keynotes are being drafted, the exhibitions are being mounted & the bar is being stocked! Ticket sales end July 4th so not long left to grab 'em from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... Come and join us

Great review of The Truth About Empire by @corinnefowler.bsky.social

bellacaledonia.org.uk/2024/12/18/t...

Have seen the Policy Exchange "Lessons from the Past" report pop up a bit recently (in rel to Curric review & depts looking at their curriculua). Thought it was time I had a look..

Quick ver: some useful but not novel findings in a problematic package full of contradictions. #historyteacher

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