Fred Oxby
@fredoxby.bsky.social
Head of History in South Yorkshire, Anti Racist School Award Coach, Doctoral Student. Speaking history to power. https://decolonial-curriculum.pubpub.org/
Today we are launching the 2026 SHP Summer Conference, which will be taking place July 10-12 at Leeds Trinity. This year, due to the huge increase in proposals for workshops, we have extended our offer to 46 wonderful workshops for primary and secondary teachers of history (see below for a taster!
You can read my article on using AI in the history classroom. www.history.org.uk/publications... @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social @peterjukes.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @petejackson.bsky.social @fredoxby.bsky.social @mr-s-tiffany.bsky.social
Into the unknown: changing technology and the history classroom
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Have you got 49 seconds to spare? Check out our latest promo video for @1972shp.bsky.social's Developing Teachers' Conference, 31/01/26. Early Bird Tickets available from here store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... #skystorians #historyeducation #edusky www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4s6...
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We also have Rachel Bruce and Judy Clarke showing how they weave local stories into primary history teaching, helping students engage with the past and the familiar. @1972shp.bsky.social
Next up at the @1972shp.bsky.social Yorkshire History Forum we have the inimitable @petejackson.bsky.social sharing some strategies for writing.
We also have Charlotte Sellars discussing how we should present chronology to our primary students. @1972shp.bsky.social
It's the @1972shp.bsky.social Yorkshire History Forum tonight and we are kicking off with a session from @cpalmerhistory.bsky.social on teaching transatlantic enslavement using local stories.
Great analysis from Alex Ford on the Curriculim Review.
Alex Ford@apf102.bsky.social · 9mo agoWorld Class or Bottom of the Class? A Deep Dive into the Curriculum and Assessment Review It's taken a while to digest but here are my initial thoughts on the Review and its implications for schools and school History #historyteacher #EduSky #CurriculumReview www.andallthat.co.uk/blog/world-c...
World Class or Bottom of the Class? A Deep Dive into the Curriculum and Assessment Review It's taken a while to digest but here are my initial thoughts on the Review and its implications for schools and school History #historyteacher #EduSky #CurriculumReview www.andallthat.co.uk/blog/world-c...
I love it when students bring in artefacts and this one is one of the best...a 1735 edition of Dialogues of the Dead in great condition....buzzing
We've been having lots of fun threading environmental history through existing parts of our curriculum this year. The only big surprise was how few y7 know the story of Robin Hood!!
1. After @btrappy.bsky.social's wonderful @1972shp.bsky.social conf session where she used an extract from Amitav Ghosh's "Sea of Poppies" in her Lessons on the British Empire in KS5, I was inspired to do similar using Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" when talking about Britain and Africa.
This, 100 times this. "Embedding Affirmation, Critical Thinking, Community, and Democracy is not a wellbeing add-on. It is safeguarding in practice. It is how we make school the place where young people are hardest to exploit." www.class13.org/flags-dont-l...
Flags don’t land on neutral ground - Class 13
A London flags debate in schools piece from Pimlico Academy to today. Student: “Why are there flags everywhere?” Teacher: “We are not getting into that.” If that question lands in your classroom tomo...
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A mob of angry drunken men screaming abuse outside an asylum hotel have defended their actions, saying all they want is for women and girls to feel safe walking the streets. From the new Private Eye, out now.
Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings
Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum
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When you say that flags on roundabouts isn't about racism, that may well be the case for you. But these are the people you're throwing in with... Every argument about immigration has racism at its core. Peel back even one layer, it's always underpinned by racism and white supremacy. Always.
Great thread. AI planned lessons I've seen are at best very superficial and at worst just plain poor. When teachers deliver lessons without doing the thinking themselves, or understanding the thinking of the person who planned, or without adapting, learning and student thinking are the casualties.
Sue Cowley@suecowley.bsky.social · 12mo agoWhen I went to uni to become a teacher, developing lesson plans and schemes of work was a key skill for us to learn, not because premade lesson plans didn't exist, but because *it's how you think through your lessons*. If you're just 'delivering AI content' you're not *thinking*. 😔
@iandawson51.bsky.social we are planning on doing a version of the classic skeletons at Maiden Castle enquiry next year. Do you have digital versions of the clues/sources by any chance?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rLR... I'm working really hard on trying to get my students to understand public feeling during of the Cold War. These brilliant street interviews during the Cuban Missile Crisis really help!
1962: Cuban Missile Crisis: Street Interviews with Londoners
YouTube video by ITN Archive
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1. As part of my research, I've been looking at the history of how secondary teachers have navigated colonialism, enslavement and diversity in the past. In doing so, I have been reading some of the first editions of teaching history. Fascinating stuff. www.history.org.uk/publications...
Teaching History 17
About the journal, page 2The Editors, page 2Islam in history, page 3Resources - Islam in history, page 5African history in the classroom, page 7History in Central Africa, page 10Review article - recen...
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IWM has recently launched our India's War collecting project, aiming to improve our representation of the Indian experience of the Second World War within the museum’s collections. More details here: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
India's War: An IWM Collecting project
Find out more about how IWM is looking to increase the representation of the Indian experience of the Second World War within the museum’s collections.
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I'm really looking forward to this. No doubt there will be some excellent workshops, keynotes and chances to discuss history teaching with a range of interesting and passionate people. There really is no better cpd!!
Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · last yr.#SHP25 is fast approaching, the excitement is rising, the workshops are being finalised, the keynotes are being drafted, the exhibitions are being mounted & the bar is being stocked! Ticket sales end July 4th so not long left to grab 'em from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... Come and join us
I was really struck by the power of KS4 stories at the HA conf during @benbassett.bsky.social and @petejackson.bsky.social's session. I'm so greatful to be able to try out one of their stories in our curriculum. Thank you 🙌🙌🙌. So wonderful to be part of a collaborative history teaching community.
Looking forward to reading this. So important that "global topics" like enslavement are also taught as local history. Congratulations @colinmccormick.bsky.social and @katieamery.bsky.social for all the work you did on this! Sheffield teachers can do similar with resources I've linked in comments.
www.justgiving.com/campaign/ha-... The history of Roma, Gyspy, and Traveler people is absent in most schools. Help us change that by donating towards an HA fellowship! In memory of Helen Snelson and in the name of revealing hidden history, developing subject knowledge and doing justice to the past.
Support the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Teacher Fellowship Programme | In memory of Helen Snelson
The Historical Association is working to raise funds to establish a Gypsy, Roma and Traveller Teacher Fellowship Programme - a professional development initiative for teachers - in memory of Helen Sne...
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I'm going a bit meta with my new approach to the Cold War at GCSE. I am doing a whole lesson on what a superpower is to try and help students understand what I view as the key misconception still - what the cold wat actually was! Not a little relevant still of course. Let's see if it works!
The Labour Party government is such a depressing reality. No political backbone, no vision, no plan to make life better for working people. They already seem to work for the people who will employ them after the lose the next elections.
