This is simply wonderful news for the Migration Museum and its ongoing project to create the UK's first permanent museum exploring migration to and from the UK. The new Museum will be in the City of London, but is already working with collaborators outside London and outside England. 1/3

The Wolfson Foundation commits £600,000 to the UK’s ‘Missing Museum’

The Migration Museum is delighted to announce that The Wolfson Foundation has become a Founding Partner of the UK’s first permanent museum dedicated to exploring how the movement of people to and from...

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🚨NEW BLOG🚨 One for new #ITT #PGCE #ECT #teachers starting in school in the new school year. This one is all about why and how we set ground rules and articulate our expectations around #behaviour. #TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/07/31/c...

Consistency, Consistency, Consistency: Articulating Ground Rules and Establishing Expectations in the Classroom

Photo by Caleb Oquendo on Pexels.com Every year my main message when teaching beginning teachers about behaviour management is CONSISTENCY. This week, I’ve been dropping my child off at a holiday c…

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This is fascinating. As a former HoS I would suggest timing also comes into play. Often the boys in my sixth form cohorts would see significant improvement in their attainment across yr13 when compared to their end of Yr12 attainment. Predictions are made at start of yr13 based on Yr12 outcomes.

Tes magazine@tesmagazine.bsky.social · 5d ago

Teachers systematically predict lower A-level grades for boys relative to 'observationally similar' girls who go on to get the same results, according to research

My bad luck with films continues... This time watching 'One battle after another' from my own sofa. Am now 100mins in & have no particular interest in any of the characters, which is a shame. Had high hopes given it was an Oscar winner. About to duck out. Tell me I'm wrong & should stick with it...

🚨NEW BLOG🚨 One for new #ITT #PGCE #ECT #teachers starting in school in the new school year. This one is all about why and how we set ground rules and articulate our expectations around #behaviour. #TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/07/31/c...

Consistency, Consistency, Consistency: Articulating Ground Rules and Establishing Expectations in the Classroom

Photo by Caleb Oquendo on Pexels.com Every year my main message when teaching beginning teachers about behaviour management is CONSISTENCY. This week, I’ve been dropping my child off at a holiday c…

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Just been to see Minions & Monsters. My review? Don't.

I'm working through a series of preparation tasks for next year. Last year our subject advisory group mentors came up with an idea to better support new mentors. Just made it & it's a brilliant idea. I'm really proud of the co-creation approach we take to our #ITT curriculum & #mentor development.

Reminded today of why I encourage #ITT beginning teachers to have a go at lesson activities they give to pupils I've made a new support resource for next year & decided to make a model completed version. In the process of completing it, I discovered lots of holes in original version! #learning!

100% A significant proportion (½ -⅔) of applications I receive from #ITT #historyteacher s these days mention Horrible Histories as their gateway into loving history. Do they think HH should be the basis of #HistoryEducation? Of course not. But it was the thing that got them started.

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some academics turn up their noses at movie adaptations or popular history books, but I call them "gateway drugs" into deeper scholarship. How many of us fell in love with history because a movie (or book) sparked our curiosity first? For me, it was Amadeus - it sent me down an 18thC rabbit hole.

Hi all, If anyone has the time to complete a survey about teaching the American West over this summer, it would be hugely appreciated. It’s not a super quick survey but should only take about 15-17 minutes. Thanks in advance for any help. #historyteacher

Alex Ford@apf102.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hi #historyteacher people. I am still looking for volunteers for my survey on teaching (and learning about) the American West at GCSE. 15 mins but vital to PhD research (see 🧵 Also looking for pupils for another online survey. Do DM if able to help. york.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Are you doing interesting work in history education at primary or secondary school? Have you thought about sharing your ideas with other teachers and subject leaders? The call for papers is open for our 2027 conference in Stratford-upon-Avon. We want to hear from you! shorturl.at/E7LbO

The trend toward appointing to teaching-only contracts, rather than teaching & research contracts, has accelerated across the SHAPE disciplines across the sector. See the stats and consider the implications here. 4/4

All power to the elbow of every parent teacher/educator coping with the mega juggling fest that is the end of the school year. It's 9.30am and I already feel like I've done a full day of work due to managing other people's commitments.

Rachael Kay Albers: One Cup A Day Coffee

ALT: Rachael Kay Albers: One Cup A Day Coffee

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#historyteacher s will love to see Hannah Cusworth is on You're Dead to Me!

Greg Jenner (Historian)@gregjenner.bsky.social · 3w ago

🏴‍☠️🚨NEW EPISODE!! 🚨🏴‍☠️ This week on You’re Dead To Me we sail the high seas with female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read, with comedian Kemah Bob and expert curator Hannah Cusworth from Greenwich Royal Museum Listen to the full episode on BBC SOUNDS 🎧, or watch us on BBC iPlayer 📺

Really important article on why history (and historical thinking especially) is vital for pupils who will have to navigate a world dominated by AI. AI does not render history less important but more. Lots of links to @samwineburg.bsky.social #historyteacher www.history.org.uk/secondary/re...

Why history is the future: the centrality of historical thinking in the AI age

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A quick pre-kick off read?

Victoria Crooks@victoriacrooks.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨NEW BLOG🚨 A new blog (aiming to capture the zeitgeist 😂) with some thoughts about THAT interview with Tuchel & Bellingham & what #mentors might learn from it about post-lesson feedback. #ITT #ECT #Mentoring #TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/07/13/t...

This phase of the British Academy's SHAPE Observatory project focuses on academic staff, analysing trends since 2012/13 to explore how staffing levels vary by subject, region and employment characteristics. The data lag: the 2025-26 redundancies you've been reading about are not yet captured. 1/3

Loss of academic staff and "cold spots" for humanities and social science degrees threaten strategically important skills for UK, says British Academy

A new data map released today shows a sharp and widespread decline in opportunities for university staff in the humanities, social sciences and arts subjects in 2024-25. The data shows a precarious la...

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🚨NEW BLOG🚨 A new blog (aiming to capture the zeitgeist 😂) with some thoughts about THAT interview with Tuchel & Bellingham & what #mentors might learn from it about post-lesson feedback. #ITT #ECT #Mentoring #TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/07/13/t...

Tuchel and Bellingham: What teachers can learn from the World Cup when giving post-lesson feedback

Photo by Allen Boguslavsky on Pexels.com For me, one of the most fascinating moments of England’s World Cup quarter-final victory over Norway happened in the minutes immediately after the mat…

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New post on UoN Primary Blog today: Gary Mills with Part 2 of his work on teaching the Holocaust in primary schools. Read the whole series here: tinyurl.com/bdeb9998

New post today on the UoN Primary blog. Gary Mills considers the teaching of 'difficult history' to primary-aged pupils. Read this post and the whole series (now 95 posts!) here: tinyurl.com/bdeb9998

Delighted to have contributed to @histassoc Move Me On in TH203 with @lauralondo1017.bsky.social & @missrcarter89.bsky.social. Pleased to model the importance of #tutor & #mentor collaboration to support #ITT students. Thank you to the editors for emphasising this in the section intros.

Right, I'm going to say it. For me, the most notable thing about that match was that I had to pull the sofa blanket over my knees. It has turned a bit chilly.

We are so fortunate to have @missrcarter89.bsky.social in our @uonsoe.bsky.social partnership. Looks like a fab session @missrcarter89.bsky.social ! #TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation

Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 4w ago

@missrcarter89.bsky.social with a jam packed workshop on building student knowledge and revision skills #SHP26

#HistoryEducation #historyteacher

Alex Ford@apf102.bsky.social · 4w ago

Jason Todd makes a key point here: history has always shifted. It is interdisciplinary by nature. If we want children to understand the world we inhabit then this can’t happen through a single disciplinary lens. We need to think about the questions history helps us to answer alone and together

The heatwave’s arrived in Yorkshire. That means it must almost be time for the @1972shp.bsky.social Summer Conference!! See you all soon for #historyteacher Glastonbury

Join @htenuk.bsky.social colleagues on Mon 13th July for our next Time to Talk. Two sessions this time as we have separate rooms for primary with @ramble14.bsky.social & secondary with @lauralondo1017.bsky.social providing space to chat about this year & next! Open to non-members too. Get in touch

Really pleased @lauralondo1017.bsky.social and I get to host this webinar for new #ITT #historyteacher s for @histassoc.bsky.social again. It's always a highlight at the start of the academic year. #Mentors please make a note so you can invite your new #ITT #mentees to join us.

History Teacher Educators' Network@htenuk.bsky.social · 4w ago

As you prepare for 2026/27 #history #ITT cohort, include 30th September in your new students' calendar so they don't miss this event hosted by our @htenuk.bsky.social co-chairs in collaboration with @histassoc.bsky.social www.history.org.uk/events/calen... #historyteacher #TeacherEducation

The reason why it is essential to read IN BULK when studying history is not simply to amass empirical knowledge—though that is important, too, of course—but because *interpretation* requires thick contextual awareness, and there is NO SHORTCUT for building that up that awareness.

And that's a wrap for the @uonsoe.bsky.social #historyteacher #PGCE #ITT cohort of 2025/26. They have been a dream. One of my fab tutees wrote this in my card. It is a total privilege to support bright, curious, ambitious, caring, professional people into #teaching. THIS is why I do this job. 👇

Actually, it was a volunteer archivist at The National Archives, Kew called Michael Scurr who found it, not the "UK" that found it. (with a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

UK finds lost US Declaration of Independence copy after 250 years

Document revealed by National Archives ahead of its anniversary on Saturday

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