#myspace is coming back? I’ve always thought it was just sat somewhere on the internet still playing Seether in the background

A good professional community doesn't just support where you are now – it supports where you're going next. How has being part of a subject association, network or community helped your career as a history teacher? #HistoryTeacher

I love Belfast. 1) it has my lovely friend Emma there 2) awesome pub quizzes with fellow millennial tattooed people 3) I get to geeking out at the Belfast Summer School with the Classics Academy 4) an amazing rescue cat cafe which helps to foster and then find forever homes for cats

Watching both David Blunkett and Neil Kinnock well up at Burnham’s speech makes me feel like something that the Labour Party lost, a true Labour spirit, has returned. Something for our a level Politics, and our Making of Modern Britain students to track, reflect on, and evaluate over the next year.

Comrade on my A-level quest…or I’m being micromanaged

Summer time = redesign the classroom and purge it from everything we don’t really need! Today, I actually picked a lock with a bobby pin and a paper clip! Fallout style! Take that missing C8 filing cabinet key!

Summer time = redesign the classroom and purge it from everything we don’t really need! Today, I actually picked a lock with a bobby pin and a paper clip! Fallout style! Take that missing C8 filing cabinet key!

When your Year 12 Historians see Metallica and bring you back merch! My students are awesome!!!

Year 11 prom to AQA HQ this morning, Sports Day and Y13 prom tomorrow - this week is 🤩🥳

A whole week since an epic @downloadfest.bsky.social

My quest begins tomorrow! #download

This week at #LCSagora we explored the Thirty Tyrants and started reading Lysias’ Against Eratosthenes! I’m SO proud of these amazing students! Ranging from ages 11-16, today they read Attic Oratory that most undergraduates don’t even study! #TeamRhetoric #Oratory #speeches #teaching #UK #school

@emmasouthon.bsky.social book tour stars this week! #rome #ancientRome #romanempire #slavery

My dear friend Emma is on her book tour! She’s awesome so if she’s at an event near you, go and hear about Servus, how slavery made the Roman Empire @emmasouthon.bsky.social #rome #ancienthistory #slavery #romanempire #book

Session 1 @histassoc.bsky.social amazing paper on addressing gender bias in the history curriculum #haconf26

It’s history paper 1 day! Hoping it’s a great paper for my Year 11s as they’ve all worked so hard preparing for today! #GCSE #History #AQA #Germany #ConflictandTension #Korea #Vietnam

@histassoc.bsky.social on my way to the North for #haconf26 #teachhistory

Emma Southon is on tour with her new book "Servus - How Slavery made the Roman Empire" ...

My dear friend Emma is on her book tour! She’s awesome so if she’s at an event near you, go and hear about Servus, how slavery made the Roman Empire @emmasouthon.bsky.social #rome #ancienthistory #slavery #romanempire #book

When your Year 11 historians surprise you for the last lesson before exams 🥹 and got cinnamon rolls for everyone 🥹

When you teach civil rights in A-level History & in Politics, and you’ve studied the movement and LBJ’s Voting Rights Act, but you now have another Supreme Court ruling to study (like the overturning of Roe) that diminishes the hard won protection of those rights youtu.be/KLb8UnuudFo?...

'These people play fast and loose with our DEAD': RAGE at SCOTUS grows over HUGE voting rights blow

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Year 12 Politics are currently looking at the PM & Cabinet, and today we looked at PMs being ‘presidential’ and using Special Advisers (SpAds) instead of MPs and Civil Servants; as part of our research we looked up how much SpAds earn and collectively asked ‘how much?!’ www.gov.uk/government/p...

Special adviser data releases: numbers and costs, July 2025 (HTML)

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Today at the LCS Agora club (with students in KS3 and KS5) we recapped parrhesia in democracy, & explored how Demosthenes uses the Athenian past to soften his parrhesia to the Assembly. We then analysed King Charles’ speech to Congress and how he expertly used the past to expertly deliver parrhesia

Re the #WHCD let’s remember that there have been over 30 gunfire incidents on school grounds in 2026. It’s only April. The fear of the people in that room is what students and teachers face as part of school life. everytownresearch.org/maps/gunfire...

The long, shameful list of gunfire on school grounds in America.

This list keeps growing. How many more before our leaders act?

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The Strokes end Coachella performance with fiery political video condemning US government

The Strokes end Coachella set with fiery political video condemning US government

Frontman Julian Casablancas repeated, 'What side are you standing on?' while the violent footage played

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Amazing to see ancient democracy in the modern history classroom! I’m so chuffed that my talk was useful and that Year 8 are thinking about @utaustin.bsky.social Prof Michael Gagarin’s thoughts on democracy! #teachAncient #democracy #UKteaching #schools #Athens

Verity Dove@veritydove.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Had an amazing time presenting and learning at TTR Connect on Saturday! @ttradioofficial.bsky.social The mark of a good conference when I have already planned a new lesson to summarise our Year 8 unit on the road to democracy based on @brummieclassicist.bsky.social talk on Ancient Democracy!

Realised today that students would like to read my paper on ancient and modern populism that I gave at the CA Conference last summer… I’ve not published my research since 2020, maybe now is the time to return to the world of submitting my work for peer-review! #research #populism #classics #oratory

Had an absolutely brilliant day with Sian and her awesome Classical Civilisation students talking about Plato, Aristophanes, demagogues and decision making in the Assembly. #classics #Alevel #teaching #OCR #teachClassics #democracy #Athens

Classical Civilisation Shrewsbury College@classicsshrewsbury.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This!

Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts@elliemackinroberts.net · 6mo ago

I can't overstate how much I absolutely hate the terms 'primary source' and 'secondary source' in ancient history. We have ancient sources, we have commentaries, we have scholarship. What does 'primary' mean when using Pausanias to talk bout 5th century Athenian architecture?!?