Really looking forward to heading back to Leeds this year after missing 2025. Come too! The line up this year is so good.

Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Have you got your ticket for the @1972shp.bsky.social Summer Conference yet? It's the hottest ticket in town so snap it up while you can: box office closes July 1st, tickets are available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... Concession tickets from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...

Why did it have to take several nations to threaten to ban social media for under 16s for Meta to start doing teen insta accounts? If they'd been doing them from the start, we might not be talking at a ban now.

Went to a free exhibition of rarely-seen Elizabethan portraits today and I took this snap especially for you @helenpins.bsky.social

Russell Brand on being a sex pest: 'When I was 30, I was a very different person. I was a lot younger.' As explanations go, this one is poor.

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So offended by my fortune cookie. What does it mean 'soon achieve'?!

Just reading that Drake died in his amour. It's given me the giggles. Particularly because he died of dysentery. #didyouforgetthatfirstR

As automated emails go, this one was a shocker. Made me panic my account had been hacked when it was nothing to do with the payment failing. I replied to say, 'This sounds like a you problem'. I await their response.

Quite pleased to work out that today's gym visit was my 52nd of the year. Also Weird Gym Man was there but did not approach me, so that was good.

In pursuit of some kind of life outside of work and inspired by the summer hol list of @spbeale.bsky.social I've had some 'nice things' to do lists since Sept and they've worked well. Now trying to write one for the coming term. What's traditional for Jan/early Feb? Other than self-flagellation.

Shout out to everyone else doing the @steplab.bsky.social CCL course, chasing that 9am assignment deadline 🫣😂 I see you all on the proforma download! #solidarity

Michelle Mone is a proper villain, isn't she. Sell the boat, Michelle! Reject that neo-lib programming and do something for someone else for a change.

Paul Lewis@paullewismoney.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Michel Mone linked firm goes bust bit.ly/3Yzqwns Liquidation means the money will not be repaid unless the govt can go after the personal assets in trust but that could be tricky.

School tripping with Y13 to Greenwich today for some early empire input. 5.30am start 😩 but Harts has its dauphinoise danish on the counter for the season 🥳

I did not expect to wake up this morning and find myself agreeing with some Marjorie Taylor Greene said. What an odd sensation.

Teaching the histories of slavery and keen to inform your students with insights from the most recent research? Just a month to go before @uclpress.bsky.social publishes this open access (free to download) expert volume. uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

Teaching Slavery

This groundbreaking book brings together the latest academic research on Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery, with innovative thinking on the teaching of such challenging histories in the c...

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Here endeth the term 🥳

Me: ugh, why have I taken on so much AGAIN, I'm so busy, I have no free time to do anything Also me: ooh, a 1000 piece glow in the dark advent puzzle? Tell me more. 🙄

Ok folks, who's getting fired? @teachertapp.bsky.social

If you're having an idle rainy Saturday it's definitely worth dipping into this, such good chats today! #TTRHums

Teachers Talk History@ttrhistory.bsky.social · 2y ago

Loved today's event. Find the recording and the Presentations below: drive.google.com/drive/folder... The recording is available below: streamyard.com/watch/bV8VSg...

Absolutely loving this talk on metacognition from Thalina, she is unconsciously filling out a plan I've been making for tackling this topic in school 🎉 #TTHumanities

Teachers Talk History@ttrhistory.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🎤 Speaker spotlight: Thalina Chowdhury “Metacognition in Humanities: Strategies, Implementation and Benefits” 🧠 A practical session to strengthen teaching across subjects. #EduCommunity #TTROnAir www.eventbrite.com/e/teachers-t...

#HistoryEducation @mrsthorne.bsky.social make time for this one!

Teachers Talk History@ttrhistory.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🎙️ Meet Sally Thorne – Teachmeet 1 with Inspiring each other: cross-curricular ideas for KS3. Join us to explore how Humanities can drive creativity across the curriculum. #TeachersTalkHumanities www.eventbrite.com/e/teachers-t...

Tell me how your week's going without telling me how your week's going. In other news: big welcome to the first cold of the academic year 🤧

Today's puzzle: Why do I have 64 reusable shopping bags when I do almost all my grocery shopping online?

The tenseness of a plane loading. I am in a window seat. Another single person is in the aisle seat. It's the hope that kills you.

Saw a sign in a shop today that said 'Your comfort zone will kill you' and felt moved to say that this kind of LinkedIn poison is absolute bollocks. Being comfortable is a life goal for many people. Choose hustle culture if you want, but don't try to impose it on me, please and thank you.

Thanks to everyone who recommended Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing when I posted this, it was my first summer read and I got completely lost in the stories. Highly recommended by me now too!

Sally Thorne@mrsthorne.bsky.social · last yr.

Right, the summer is just round the corner and I am sick of reading academic articles about assessment for my Masters, so hit me with your good reads so I can stock up for my summer holidays. I like historical fiction but all recs gratefully received.

I see the Telegraph has been picked to lead the charge against long school hols this year. I love how many people think children would cope with being in school 50 weeks pa. I wonder what the crossover is between those people and the ones who let their children have a day off after sports day.

Why I 🧡 the web. drawafish.com Just draw the fish. Trust me. 🐟

Summer holidays, eh? Still in pyjamas. Home for the door to door salesmen selling double glazing. ...'sorry to ask but are you Mrs Thorne?' Oh hi, ex-student 🫣

How are women in the past represented in current history textbooks? With specific attention paid to three consecutive waves of feminism, this paper examines the representation of women in Hungarian and Flemish history textbooks: doi.org/10.14324/HER...

Looking forward to heading north in September to talk about some exciting cross-curricular units we've been working on at school, inspired by both the @histassoc.bsky.social and the @geographicalassoc.bsky.social conferences #TeamHums

Teachers Talk History@ttrhistory.bsky.social · last yr.

History 📚): 📖 @jenhistorycw11.bsky.social Narrative-based booklets for GCSE: using story structure to aid retention and understanding. A practical, powerful tool. 🌟 @mrsthorne.bsky.social Cross-curricular inspiration at KS3 – fresh, energising ideas! #HistoryTeacher