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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Aug 18

First day for the new PGDE Secondary (25/26) cohort at @morayhouse.bsky.social! Welcome Week is always a brilliant time on-campus ☺️ Kicking the pedagogical pondering off this morning with an ‘Introduction to Scottish Education’ lecture. Here’s to another fantastic year ahead! 😎

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Jul 15

A brilliant first day of filming for an exciting new project at the Scottish National War Memorial, in partnership with @morayhouse.bsky.social. Time spent in the memorial and the archive. A huge thank you to everyone involved (inc. Lochgelly High School) for their support.

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Jul 14

Please, if you can, donate at the link below and help support the Glasgow Children’s Hospital:

www.justgiving.com/page/dads-an...

Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Jul 6

Middle-aged man doing middle-aged man things.

Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Jul 6

PTSD Law Grads. If you know, you know!

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Jul 2

Days like today.

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Jul 1

An MEd study on ‘factors impacting the formation of identity for secondary school probationer teachers in Scotland’.

Please, if applicable to you, complete the survey at the link below and share in your networks.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Influences on Identity - Scottish Secondary Probationer Teachers

This questionnaire forms part of my data collection for my Extended Work-based Project dissertation at the University of Edinburgh, titled "Miss, who are you? An investigation of the systemic factors ...

docs.google.com

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Jun 24

Started work with colleagues on a project looking at 'protest' through an interdisciplinary lens. Art, History, Literature, and Music. Feels timely!

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Jun 20

Has Senior Phase History in Scotland lost its spark? A few rambling thoughts of mine. Available to read on SubStack at the link below.

open.substack.com/pub/phamil/p...

History and Creativity

Has Senior Phase History lost its spark?

open.substack.com

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Jun 19

End of term (24/25) - the last supper!

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Jun 19

Something in the pipeline, working in collaboration with the Scottish National War Memorial. Watch this space!

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Jun 9

The view while riding the closed-road Glasgow city centre route after the Tour of Britain. A real treat to have the streets to yourself! #ToBW

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Jun 9

Tremendous day at Tour of Britain (stage four) ladies race yesterday. A great atmosphere at Glasgow Green and opening the course up to the public afterwards was a marvellous thing to do👌🏻 #ToBW

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Jun 6

PGDE Ceilidh for the @morayhouse.bsky.social Class of 25. The future of the past!

Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · May 18

Attended a Social Studies collaboration event this week (as part of the Curriculum Improvement Cycle). Sometimes, my default mode is to approach review and reform with trepidation and cynicism - but this was a genuinely good day with inspired thinking from passionate teachers.

Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · May 18

Great being back at Uddingston Grammar School this week. A brilliant social subjects faculty who have welcomed two @morayhouse.bsky.social PGDE Historians this year 📚

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · May 17

Visit to Dalry Cemetery recently. Nature doing its thing but headstones in good order - I quite like it!

Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · May 14

I had a great visit to Castle Douglas High School this morning. Observed an excellent lesson on the Declaration of Arbroath taught by a @morayhouse.bsky.social PGDE Historian 📚

A huge thank you to Ms Connelly and the team for the warm welcome and the fantastic mentoring!

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · May 13

Kicked-off placement three visits today at Tynecastle High School. Always a pleasure to visit the Social Subjects faculty - a huge thank you to Ms Buchan and the team for their excellent mentoring of a @morayhouse.bsky.social PGDE Historian.

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · May 7

A familiar theme with a new perspective. Looking forward to speaking later this week at Manchester Metropolitan’s War and Pilgrimage network on Battlefield Tours as Modern Pilgrimage.

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Apr 30

Delighted to have written a blog for the Imperial War Museum sharing some reflections - my own and those of young people - on visiting former First World War battlefields.

Drawing on pieces of my work at @morayhouse.bsky.social, available to read at the link below…

www.iwm.org.uk/blog/partner...

Walking in Their Footsteps: Young People, Commemoration, and the Battlefield ExperienceWalking in Their Footsteps: Young People, Commemoration, and the Battlefield Experience

www.iwm.org.uk

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Apr 23

The Great War: I Was There (Part 21).

Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Apr 21

Available to read now, on SubStack, at the link below - a few thoughts after attending the recent @cwgc.bsky.social event hosted by @rusi.bsky.social on the subject of commemoration and diplomacy.

phamil.substack.com/p/who-owns-r...

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Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Mar 23

Watching the Wyndford flats come down did hit hard. As someone who grew up in a multi-storey in Glasgow, it’s more than bricks and concrete - it’s memories, community, and identity. A piece of the city gone.

Dr Paul Hamilton @drpham.bsky.social · Mar 23

End of an era for Maryhill!

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