Jenny Hall
@jenhistorycw11.bsky.social
History teacher. Book lover. Mum of boys. Permanently tired.
I'm loving the recent trend of books on the reign of James I. Charles & Cromwell tend to get all the attention but I love teaching about James. All 3 of these are full of stories and details that help bring the reign to life for me and my students. Highly recommended. #historyteacher #history
October 12, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I'm loving the recent trend of books on the reign of James I. Charles & Cromwell tend to get all the attention but I love teaching about James. All 3 of these are full of stories and details that help bring the reign to life for me and my students. Highly recommended. #historyteacher #history
Such an important report. Please take the time to engage.
Publication day is here for our @endsexisminschools.bsky.social report: ‘The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum’ a nationwide research project into the representation and teaching of women in the KS3 history curriculum
endsexisminschools.org.uk/campaign-pro...
endsexisminschools.org.uk/campaign-pro...
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
September 24, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Such an important report. Please take the time to engage.
Following my talk at @ttrhistory.bsky.social on Saturday, I wanted to share our dept approach to making good history booklets. Hopefully it will be useful. Feel free to message me if you would like to know any more. #ttrhums
Firstly, why booklets?
Firstly, why booklets?
September 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Following my talk at @ttrhistory.bsky.social on Saturday, I wanted to share our dept approach to making good history booklets. Hopefully it will be useful. Feel free to message me if you would like to know any more. #ttrhums
Firstly, why booklets?
Firstly, why booklets?
This book needs its own post.
When it started, it was a bit meh. Not a great bit of writing, just a band guy chatting on.
But as it progressed, I started listening to the songs he wrote about, watching the videos...it made sense.
Now it is done, I'm listening...
One More Time - man. 🥰😫
When it started, it was a bit meh. Not a great bit of writing, just a band guy chatting on.
But as it progressed, I started listening to the songs he wrote about, watching the videos...it made sense.
Now it is done, I'm listening...
One More Time - man. 🥰😫
July 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
This book needs its own post.
When it started, it was a bit meh. Not a great bit of writing, just a band guy chatting on.
But as it progressed, I started listening to the songs he wrote about, watching the videos...it made sense.
Now it is done, I'm listening...
One More Time - man. 🥰😫
When it started, it was a bit meh. Not a great bit of writing, just a band guy chatting on.
But as it progressed, I started listening to the songs he wrote about, watching the videos...it made sense.
Now it is done, I'm listening...
One More Time - man. 🥰😫
This looks so exciting for our little part of Cheshire
BBC News - New Crewe history centre ‘to be stuffed with stories’ - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - New Crewe history centre ‘to be stuffed with stories’ - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New Crewe history centre ‘to be stuffed with stories’
Work is well under way on a project to build new sites for the county's archives
www.bbc.co.uk
June 6, 2025 at 10:38 PM
This looks so exciting for our little part of Cheshire
BBC News - New Crewe history centre ‘to be stuffed with stories’ - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News - New Crewe history centre ‘to be stuffed with stories’ - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Teaching Y9 today about Henry V offering the crown jewels as a guarantee to his soldiers before Agincourt. A lad looked horrified and asked me if they were his actual crown jewels while gesturing at his crotch.
Apparently that phrase has more than one meaning to 14 year old boys 😂😂😂
#historyteacher
Apparently that phrase has more than one meaning to 14 year old boys 😂😂😂
#historyteacher
a man wearing sunglasses and a black shirt is holding a microphone and says i wasn 't expecting that
ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a black shirt is holding a microphone and says i wasn 't expecting that
media.tenor.com
June 6, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Teaching Y9 today about Henry V offering the crown jewels as a guarantee to his soldiers before Agincourt. A lad looked horrified and asked me if they were his actual crown jewels while gesturing at his crotch.
Apparently that phrase has more than one meaning to 14 year old boys 😂😂😂
#historyteacher
Apparently that phrase has more than one meaning to 14 year old boys 😂😂😂
#historyteacher
If any teachers out there have a set or even just a couple of these textbooks at the back of a cupboard and would be willing to sell, please let me know. We need a few more for September and have no budget so can't really afford new. Thanks!
#historyteacher
#historyteacher
June 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
If any teachers out there have a set or even just a couple of these textbooks at the back of a cupboard and would be willing to sell, please let me know. We need a few more for September and have no budget so can't really afford new. Thanks!
#historyteacher
#historyteacher
Queueing outside the Sir John Soane Museum because my son is so loving @mglnrd.bsky.social new book which begins here, he wants me to go in and facetime him. I'm a little worried he is expecting time travel....he told me to be on the look out for keys 😉
May 28, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Queueing outside the Sir John Soane Museum because my son is so loving @mglnrd.bsky.social new book which begins here, he wants me to go in and facetime him. I'm a little worried he is expecting time travel....he told me to be on the look out for keys 😉
This looks like a brilliant opportunity for any AQA GCSE History teachers! #historyteacher
Calling all #historyteachers excited to 🚀 this new for 2026 GCSE AQA Historic Environment! can’t wait to welcome 🙏 you to the first performance! 🎭 please retweet & spread the word! 🤗 scholarship @tracyborman.bsky.social 🙌🏻🥳
April 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This looks like a brilliant opportunity for any AQA GCSE History teachers! #historyteacher
Highly recommend this series (1st episode linked here) on the history of Ireland. It starts with pre-Tudor attempts at colonisation and goes through the Troubles to modern day. Fascinating for us English of Irish heritage who should know more! #history
open.spotify.com/episode/2vWM...
open.spotify.com/episode/2vWM...
231. Colonising Ireland: Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, & The Tudor Conquest (Ep 1)
Empire · Episode
open.spotify.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Highly recommend this series (1st episode linked here) on the history of Ireland. It starts with pre-Tudor attempts at colonisation and goes through the Troubles to modern day. Fascinating for us English of Irish heritage who should know more! #history
open.spotify.com/episode/2vWM...
open.spotify.com/episode/2vWM...
Found myself channelling Dr Evil when teaching Y11 about Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative today.
"So, lads, the idea was to get space lasers...." (obviously with air quotes!)
#historyteacher
"So, lads, the idea was to get space lasers...." (obviously with air quotes!)
#historyteacher
March 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Found myself channelling Dr Evil when teaching Y11 about Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative today.
"So, lads, the idea was to get space lasers...." (obviously with air quotes!)
#historyteacher
"So, lads, the idea was to get space lasers...." (obviously with air quotes!)
#historyteacher
Spent far too long with Y13 today researching if replicas of Mao's mangoes were still available to buy online after discussing this fascinating story from the Cultural Revolution. #HistoryTeacher
(They are but mostly plastic ones!)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazin...
(They are but mostly plastic ones!)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazin...
China's curious cult of the mango
Benjamin Ramm discovers a period during China's Cultural Revolution when the country was gripped by a mania for mangoes.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Spent far too long with Y13 today researching if replicas of Mao's mangoes were still available to buy online after discussing this fascinating story from the Cultural Revolution. #HistoryTeacher
(They are but mostly plastic ones!)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazin...
(They are but mostly plastic ones!)
www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazin...
For 2025, I've decided to focus on rediscovering fiction. I've loved reading so much excellent historical non-fiction over the past few years but it left little time for thrillers, mysteries and romances. So 2025 = tipping the balance to fiction (including historical fiction, an underrated genre!).
February 2, 2025 at 12:15 PM
For 2025, I've decided to focus on rediscovering fiction. I've loved reading so much excellent historical non-fiction over the past few years but it left little time for thrillers, mysteries and romances. So 2025 = tipping the balance to fiction (including historical fiction, an underrated genre!).
Teaching Y12, I got far too excited when comparing the Junto of the 1640s to @thetraitors.bsky.social
But seriously, think about it. A secret group manipulating events, puppet mastering and controlling....even committing treason by encouraging the Scots to invade. Actual traitors.
#HistoryTeacher
But seriously, think about it. A secret group manipulating events, puppet mastering and controlling....even committing treason by encouraging the Scots to invade. Actual traitors.
#HistoryTeacher
January 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Teaching Y12, I got far too excited when comparing the Junto of the 1640s to @thetraitors.bsky.social
But seriously, think about it. A secret group manipulating events, puppet mastering and controlling....even committing treason by encouraging the Scots to invade. Actual traitors.
#HistoryTeacher
But seriously, think about it. A secret group manipulating events, puppet mastering and controlling....even committing treason by encouraging the Scots to invade. Actual traitors.
#HistoryTeacher
Was analysing this cartoon with Y11 today and asked them to come up with a caption. Some great ones like "unlikely friends", some funny ones like "Stalin swooning" but my fav has to be "Hitler's rizz" 😂 Lucky I kind of know Gen Z banter despite my old age, so understood!!
#historyteacher
#historyteacher
January 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Was analysing this cartoon with Y11 today and asked them to come up with a caption. Some great ones like "unlikely friends", some funny ones like "Stalin swooning" but my fav has to be "Hitler's rizz" 😂 Lucky I kind of know Gen Z banter despite my old age, so understood!!
#historyteacher
#historyteacher
Two of my worst nightmares are clowns and popping balloons. 🤡🎈
Hey, @thetraitors.bsky.social , throw in some spiders and I'm never sleeping again 😳😳
Hey, @thetraitors.bsky.social , throw in some spiders and I'm never sleeping again 😳😳
January 9, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Two of my worst nightmares are clowns and popping balloons. 🤡🎈
Hey, @thetraitors.bsky.social , throw in some spiders and I'm never sleeping again 😳😳
Hey, @thetraitors.bsky.social , throw in some spiders and I'm never sleeping again 😳😳
Couldn't answer this one today @teachertapp.bsky.social We have at least one building from every one of those eras 🤷♀️😂 Earliest 1850, newest 2022!
January 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Couldn't answer this one today @teachertapp.bsky.social We have at least one building from every one of those eras 🤷♀️😂 Earliest 1850, newest 2022!
Finally started marking my Y11 mocks. (Under a blanket with biscuits, obviously, I'm not a total weirdo).
Within pages, I'm rudely back in the land of school with one sentence:
"The Munich Putsch was a march through Berlin..."
Yep. Sigh.
#historyteacher
Within pages, I'm rudely back in the land of school with one sentence:
"The Munich Putsch was a march through Berlin..."
Yep. Sigh.
#historyteacher
January 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Finally started marking my Y11 mocks. (Under a blanket with biscuits, obviously, I'm not a total weirdo).
Within pages, I'm rudely back in the land of school with one sentence:
"The Munich Putsch was a march through Berlin..."
Yep. Sigh.
#historyteacher
Within pages, I'm rudely back in the land of school with one sentence:
"The Munich Putsch was a march through Berlin..."
Yep. Sigh.
#historyteacher
Worth watching for teachers of Crime & Punishment. Focuses on the stories of life in Whitechapel around the Ripper crimes.
Plus Lucy Worsley interviewing Hallie Rubenhold and Julia Laite while drinking gin in the Ten Bells pub might be my actual dream event 😍
#historyteacher
Plus Lucy Worsley interviewing Hallie Rubenhold and Julia Laite while drinking gin in the Ten Bells pub might be my actual dream event 😍
#historyteacher
New series of #LucyWorsleyInvestigates kicks off on Friday at 9pm on BBC Two with ... Jack the Ripper! We're excited to be coming to PBS next week as well!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
January 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Worth watching for teachers of Crime & Punishment. Focuses on the stories of life in Whitechapel around the Ripper crimes.
Plus Lucy Worsley interviewing Hallie Rubenhold and Julia Laite while drinking gin in the Ten Bells pub might be my actual dream event 😍
#historyteacher
Plus Lucy Worsley interviewing Hallie Rubenhold and Julia Laite while drinking gin in the Ten Bells pub might be my actual dream event 😍
#historyteacher
I've really enjoyed recording my reads online over the past few years.
2022 - 55 books
2023 - 56 books
2024 - 74 books
This year I'm trialling a paper reading journal as I don't use X anymore & am not sure on this site yet. Will post any particularly good ones here in case there is interest though!
2022 - 55 books
2023 - 56 books
2024 - 74 books
This year I'm trialling a paper reading journal as I don't use X anymore & am not sure on this site yet. Will post any particularly good ones here in case there is interest though!
January 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I've really enjoyed recording my reads online over the past few years.
2022 - 55 books
2023 - 56 books
2024 - 74 books
This year I'm trialling a paper reading journal as I don't use X anymore & am not sure on this site yet. Will post any particularly good ones here in case there is interest though!
2022 - 55 books
2023 - 56 books
2024 - 74 books
This year I'm trialling a paper reading journal as I don't use X anymore & am not sure on this site yet. Will post any particularly good ones here in case there is interest though!
I think I'm a 2, but under a blanket.
December 31, 2024 at 5:28 PM
I think I'm a 2, but under a blanket.
The Royal Variety Show has reminded me that I still know the words to all the original Starlight Express songs 😍🎶
My son is unimpressed at the amazing performance I just gave though 🤷♀️😂
My son is unimpressed at the amazing performance I just gave though 🤷♀️😂
December 15, 2024 at 8:41 PM
The Royal Variety Show has reminded me that I still know the words to all the original Starlight Express songs 😍🎶
My son is unimpressed at the amazing performance I just gave though 🤷♀️😂
My son is unimpressed at the amazing performance I just gave though 🤷♀️😂
One of my favourite lessons with Y13 this week! Got them to read the intro chapter to Dikotter's book on Dictators and individually identify what makes a dictator. They added their views to a word cloud - so visually powerful. Two different classes, two similar results!
#historyteacher
#historyteacher
December 13, 2024 at 3:36 PM
One of my favourite lessons with Y13 this week! Got them to read the intro chapter to Dikotter's book on Dictators and individually identify what makes a dictator. They added their views to a word cloud - so visually powerful. Two different classes, two similar results!
#historyteacher
#historyteacher
November 28, 2024 at 9:26 AM
The best thing about DNA Journey being back on TV is that I get to covet the wonderful Brad Argent's job once again.
Who among us wouldn't want to work researching family trees and sharing the historical context 😍
Who among us wouldn't want to work researching family trees and sharing the historical context 😍
October 29, 2024 at 10:38 AM
The best thing about DNA Journey being back on TV is that I get to covet the wonderful Brad Argent's job once again.
Who among us wouldn't want to work researching family trees and sharing the historical context 😍
Who among us wouldn't want to work researching family trees and sharing the historical context 😍