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Ian Dawson @iandawson51.bsky.social · 29d

A doubly good day - a new Redmayn chapter online:
16. One Fortnight in Summer: 26th July to 11th August 1415
How did the delay to Henry V’s expedition affect the Redmayns?
thinkinghistory.co.uk/MedievalFami...
and my first tennis as a 74 yr old and since a brief hospital stay last month.

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Ian Dawson @iandawson51.bsky.social · Aug 27

A happy moment this month hearing from a student I taught in the late 1980s. It's easy to wonder in teaching whether our work is worthwhile but such contacts out of the blue provide evidence that all the efforts teachers put in are worthwhile in ways far beyond the achievement of a good exam result.

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Ian Dawson @iandawson51.bsky.social · Aug 22

An inspiration for anyone facing stoma surgery and even those of us who've had a stoma for decades. It's quite a birthday present knowing I was one of the first to have the experimental surgery (tho it didn't work back then) that now enables people to have internal pouches and hence stomas reversed

Irish News 🇮🇪 @news-flows-ir.bsky.social · Aug 20

‘No Colon, Still Rollin’: Cass Bargell, US scrum-half and ostomy advocate, sets sights on World Cup

Hosts England hold few fears for the Harvard graduate who recovered from serious illness and surgery to play with a stoma and a bagA few years ago, Cass Bargell gave a Ted Talk at Harvard, the...

‘No Colon, Still Rollin’: Cass Bargell, US scrum-half and ostomy advocate, sets sights on World Cup

Hosts England hold few fears for the Harvard graduate who recovered from serious illness and surgery to play with a stoma and a bag

www.theguardian.com

Ian Dawson @iandawson51.bsky.social · Aug 15

For VJ Day
Sergeant George Dawson (seated), Royal Artillery 39-45, served in Indian and Burma, 42-45. An intelligent and kind man, he would have been an excellent teacher if born in a different decade. Like so many, he never spoke about his war in India and Burma.

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Ian Dawson @iandawson51.bsky.social · Jul 11

The first few years - 1989 to c94 - the conference was the last weekend of term before Easter. That worked really well but LTU had to refund students for a night's accommodation so they made us move to July. Never had to miss a conference because of heat before Easter!

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Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · Jul 10

🧑🏽🏫 Inclusive history in the classroom means acknowledging previously excluded voices and empowering teachers to share them.

We're fundraising for a GRT Teacher Fellowship in memory of Helen Snelson, who advocated for inclusive, rigorous history.

💛 Support us here: shorturl.at/2wGcW #HACommunity

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Ian Dawson @iandawson51.bsky.social · Jul 9

The original doc is from 2006 so about 6 years before I first had electronic proofs. Everything was still on paper then though it had moved on from my first NC series in 1991 when cutting and pasting involved a knife and glue to work on proofs. Feels nearer Caxton than today.

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Ian Dawson @iandawson51.bsky.social · Jul 9

Hi Fred - the only version I have is the word doc I originally sent Hodder - is that any use to you? It is probably different in places from the final version and there's no photos but I'm happy to email it to you. Worth asking @apf102.bsky.social as i think he was creating a version.

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Ian Dawson @iandawson51.bsky.social · Jul 7

This new chapter could be useful but equally it could be an enjoyable read!