History Teacher Educators' Network
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HTEN UK represents those who work with and have responsibility for the professional education, development and training of beginning and serving history teachers. Email: HTENUK@outlook.com https://www.hten.org.uk
Now, we all know the Bayeux Tapestry is currently visiting the BM &tha t there is a replica in Reading. But do you know there are quite a few embroideries inspired by the BT around the UK? Today I went to see the Invasion Tapestry in Fishguard lastinvasiontapestry.cymru #skystorians 🏺1/
The Last Invasion Tapestry - Last Invasion Tapestry
78 local Fishguard people spent 4 years making the Last Invasion Tapestry,9 to be displayed on the bicentenary of the 1797 invasion.
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Good to see a chapter on #mentoring from our co-chair @victoriacrooks.bsky.social in this new edition of Learning to Teach In the Secondary School.
Routledge Books@routledgebooks.bsky.social · last wk.The 10th edition of ‘Learning to Teach in the Secondary School’ is here! 🍎 This market leading text for beginning teachers provides an essential introduction to the key skills and knowledge needed to become a successful teacher 🚀 Learn more 👉 spr.ly/6001BElGyx #SecondaryEducation #NQT
In this new blog I show how Paul Marshall (GB News, The Spectator, UnHerd) and Michael Gove are frustrated by @willdalrymple.bsky.social’s erudite & rival influence on the public’s historical understanding. Also, how the British Empire is *really* taught in schools: alanlester.co.uk/blog/teachin...
Teaching the British Empire: Experts Versus The Spectator
Alan Lester The Spectator’s owner Paul Marshall and its editor Michael Gove are afraid of William Dalrymple. His sequence of books on colonial India that have sold millions, his Empire podcast with…
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'History and Archives in Practice' 2027: call for participation now open for our annual gathering of historians and archivists, co-hosted with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. HAP27's theme is connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy, value and applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians
'History and Archives in Practice' (HAP), 2027. Call for participation now open - RHS
History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual partnership event, co-hosted by the Royal Historical Society, The National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Now in its fifth year...
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This is so useful - really looking forward to building women’s stories even further into our curriculum #shp26 #historyteacher @endsexisminschools.bsky.social it’s the KS3 NC for history, with women you should weave through suggested for every single topic. 😍
@danlyndon.bsky.social speaking to @profdanhicks.bsky.social about his route into history. Highlighting the interdisciplinarity which has underscored so much of this #SHP26 conference. #historyteacher @1972shp.bsky.social
Some wonderful discussion here with @fredoxby.bsky.social about principles for teaching empire. Love the idea of getting pupils involved in ethical decision making about the use of language. #historyteacher #SHP26
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
What role do the humanities and social sciences play in tackling today's biggest challenges? The latest issue of the Journal of the British Academy explores climate action, higher education, the future of work, and more through interdisciplinary research. Read now 👉 https://bit.ly/3STRuXx
Reminder about Time To Talk today
History Teacher Educators' Network@htenuk.bsky.social · 4w agoJoin @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
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
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
HA Webinar: Survive and thrive in your initial teacher education
Calling all those beginning their initial teacher education! In this session you’ll hear from and be able to ask questions to both teacher educators and those who have just completed their initial tea...
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@htenuk.bsky.social supports all those involved in #TeacherEducation, including SCITTs and HEIs and Museum colleagues. Get in touch.
Historical Association@histassoc.bsky.social · last mo.The HA has teamed up with a group of history leads across different Multi Academy Trusts to re-ignite a network group dedicated to those leading history across a trust. Join us in July for our first in person event. historical-association.cademy.io/mat-history-...
New article has just been published OA @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social ! Lots of archival work in here tracing the the women who ran “Indian houses” in #17thc London. Including one woman who may have helped plot the Glorious Revolution!! #earlymodern www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Christine Kooi@christinekooi.bsky.social · last mo.A good survey of the intellectual legacy of Carlo Ginzburg. He too was subject to criticism and revision. "Only historians who fundamentally reshape a discipline compel later generations to test, revise, and sometimes overturn their conclusions." 🗃️ www.cantierestoricofilologico.it/2026/07/carl...
A PS, since it's me rather than IOE. I've a few things that may be of interest here - including on Historical Interpretation, Historical Explanation & the Aims of HistEd. Mostly open-access. thecamelsback.org. The blog's a bit under-developed but there's material there on narrative ethics also.
@histassoc.bsky.social @htenuk.bsky.social South Asian History Month feature. Nice to see my 2017 Enquiry article 'A trail of garnet and gold: Sri Lanka to Anglo-Saxon England' Primary History Journal listed as a resource. An Enquiry for KS2 sleuthing pupils. www.history.org.uk/historian/ne...
South Asian Heritage Month 2026
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It's the final countdown, the end is nigh, just one more push, we've nearly made it! Tickets for the SHP Summer Conference close tomorrow. You know the score, don't miss out on the History Teachers' Glastonbury: store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... or store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...
Looking 4ward 2 talking about historical representation, graphic novels & historical truth, in its various senses, with graphic novelist @polypartist.bsky.social @ the IOE History Special Interest Group seminar this coming Friday. All welcome. Registration & details: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/hie-sig/2026...
bmgn-lchr.nl/article/view... shared by Carla van Boxtel on FB #HistoryEducation so much fine work by van Boxtel, colleagues and students
View of How Dutch Students Make Meaning with the Past
BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review is the leading academic journal for the history of the Low Countries
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Are you studying, researching or teaching military histories? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers
For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.
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'Zinat-un-Nisa was a powerful political actor and an "extraordinarily influential and important political bulwark for her ageing and politically vulnerable" father toward the end of his life.' Looking forward to learning more about her and others in these records
Ian Petrie@icpetrie.bsky.social · last mo."My whole experience of working with the akhbarat has been one big eureka moment after another!," Faruqui told me. "It never ceases to amaze me how the density of the informational ecosystem was at the time".
Last week @htenuk.bsky.social celebrated brilliant #mentors who support #ITT & #ECT #teachers. As we approach the end of ITT year we'd like to say thank you to all #mentors. Take a look at this blog by our co-chair @victoriacrooks.bsky.social uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/06/26/m...
Mentoring beginning and early career teachers: A thank you to our mentors
Photo by Ann H on Pexels.com From the outside, teacher mentoring can look like a simple weekly meeting, a quick post-lesson conversation, or a shared planning session squeezed in before home time. …
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History Teacher Educators' Network@htenuk.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt is with pleasure we can announce ERIN JOSH, Northallerton School as the winner of the inaugral @htenuk.bsky.social Helen Snelson Mentoring Award. There is a beautiful serendipity in this as Erin is a mentor for @uoyeducation.bsky.social partnership. 1/ #historyteacher #TeacherMentoring
One week left to book your ticket for the SHP Conference! 40 wonderful workshops, 2 kicking keynotes, 1 raucous roundtable, fabulous fringe sessions, beautiful bildung sessions, and an exhilarating exhibition! If you can't make the whole weekend, then why not join us just for the Saturday!
Tonight the Inspiring #historyteacher awards are being presented @hrp-palaces.bsky.social Tower of London. Earlier this week, @htenuk.bsky.social celebrated the people who help make them. Good luck to the nominees! #HistoryEducation #TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation @histassoc.bsky.social
History Teacher Educators' Network@htenuk.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt is with pleasure we can announce ERIN JOSH, Northallerton School as the winner of the inaugral @htenuk.bsky.social Helen Snelson Mentoring Award. There is a beautiful serendipity in this as Erin is a mentor for @uoyeducation.bsky.social partnership. 1/ #historyteacher #TeacherMentoring
Such a wonderful tribute to Helen. So brilliant to read about all these amazing mentors having such impact on the next generation of history teachers
History Teacher Educators' Network@htenuk.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt is with pleasure we can announce ERIN JOSH, Northallerton School as the winner of the inaugral @htenuk.bsky.social Helen Snelson Mentoring Award. There is a beautiful serendipity in this as Erin is a mentor for @uoyeducation.bsky.social partnership. 1/ #historyteacher #TeacherMentoring
Our congratulations to @erinjosh.bsky.social ! A truly outstanding #historyteacher #mentor
History Teacher Educators' Network@htenuk.bsky.social · 2mo agoIt is with pleasure we can announce ERIN JOSH, Northallerton School as the winner of the inaugral @htenuk.bsky.social Helen Snelson Mentoring Award. There is a beautiful serendipity in this as Erin is a mentor for @uoyeducation.bsky.social partnership. 1/ #historyteacher #TeacherMentoring
