Gained my Chartered Teacher status today! @collegeofteaching.bsky.social #CTeach
Robyn C
@robynlc.bsky.social
Teacher of History, Trustee of a heritage site. Interested in material culture & heritage sites in education, Museums, Engagement with objects, Letters, Journals,✨ MCCT working on #CTeach
I've been doing some work with English Heritage to develop some maths trips at castles (well - one castle so far). First pilot going on Monday, which I'm really excited about.
I love learning about activity around the Museum Data Service, like a great practical post on 'Checking for new museum records with the Mapping Museums Database, Excel and OpenRefine' by Haixin Huang, UCL Digital Humanities postgrad museumdata.uk/blog/checkin...
Checking for new museum records with the Mapping Museums Database, Excel and OpenRefine - Museum Data Service
Haixin Huang, UCL Digital Humanities postgrad student, discusses how they used a combination of Excel, OpenRefine and Wikidata to find new museum records to add to MDS from the Mapping Museum…
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Delighted to be able to share a first teaching and research resource relating to The Firearm Revolution: a compilation of links to primary sources - visual, objects and translations of texts that I cite in the book #academia #earlymodern #skystorians
Primary sources for The Firearm Revolution
Are you teaching with The Firearm Revolution? Or perhaps you’re an independent researcher with an interest in the history of firearms. With the help of my PhD student Guy Reynolds, I’ve …
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We love Prof. Machado! “Students in Associate Professor of Classics Dominic Machado's community-based learning course worked with middle school students in the Marlborough School District to help bring the Latin language to life for the younger audience.” magazine.holycross.edu/stories/anci...
An Ancient Language Finds a New Audience
A community-based learning course brings Latin into the middle school classroom.
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Really enjoyed this mixture of detective work and close reading!
Victoria Moul@victoriamoul.bsky.social · 4mo agoSome new Latin poetry by women (or possibly one woman using two names). Hot off the press!
Great to see Hannah Young's article published and available open access. #Skystorians
“Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System”? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
“Unconscious Stipendiaries of This Wicked System”? Female Enslavers and Compensation in Nineteenth-century Britain - Volume 65
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Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online project @montaguletters.bsky.social has announced their next round of paid internships, focusing letters from Montagu to Classicist and poet Elizabeth Carter - emco.swansea.ac.uk/project/inte... @bsecs.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @oxford18thc.bsky.social
EMCO Internship Programme
A digital edition of the complete letters of Elizabeth Montagu 1718-1800 - ISSN 2753-9091
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England’s civic museums call for new £120m-a-year investment - English Civic Museums Network sets out vision for ‘coherent, fair and sustainable support system’
England’s civic museums call for £120m strategic investment programme - Museums Association
English Civic Museum Network sets out vision for ‘coherent, fair and sustainable support system’
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I cannot recommend highly enough this free, open access resource for anyone teaching about slavery in the UK uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...
Teaching Slavery
Teaching Slavery offers ground-breaking research and practical guidance for teaching Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Combining historical analysis with classroom strategies, it equips educato...
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My blog for the @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Library Special Collections went live yesterday! It's a very short glimpse of the thousands of women whose lives I've been researching over the last 16 months.
Women’s activities in seventeenth-century St Andrews: the evidence of the Kirk Sessions – University Collections blog
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#EarlyModern 🗃️ Rosamund Oates is researching the history of early modern deafnes - see her P&P article, book out soon I think. academic.oup.com/past/article...
Speaking in Hands: Early Modern Preaching and Signed Languages for the Deaf
Abstract. This article demonstrates that deaf men and women were integrated into early modern communities through use of sign language, and that Protestant
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Neil Younger@neilayounger.bsky.social · 6mo agoWell this is a very touching local news story.
In this week's OBHD Blog from @histassoc.bsky.social we have Meggie Hayes from The Crypt School writing about Queer History onebighistorydepartment.com/2026/02/06/t... #historyteacher
The queer question. Navigating the waters of historical queerness
This post has been written by Meggie Hayes, History and Politics Teacher and Inclusion Lead at The Crypt School, Gloucestershire People are queer and people have always been queer. So it stands to …
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My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
Selling Education in England, 1650–1715*
Abstract. In the period 1650–1715, a growing consensus emerged that educational culture in England did not meet the needs of the population, and that chang
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Teaching with material and visual culture - my favourite class of the year, in the Sudan Archive at Durham University. 🗃️📜📷📸🇸🇩
Teaching notes, no. 2: A material world
In last month’s post, I confessed that teaching has never been my favourite aspect of academic life. It’s the area I have struggled with the most in my career, in part because I teach a…
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The £1.5 billion of funding is made up of: £760 million for museums, including local and regional museums, and at risk heritage and historic buildings
Government announces bumper £1.5 billion package to restore national pride
£1.5 billion will be invested in cultural organisations over a five-year period – turning the corner on underfunding over the last decade and more
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My first proper blog post for @globalmarhist.bsky.social 🙌🏻 This is the source I repeatedly return to when I teach others about Caribbean slavery. There is so much that can be gleaned from this source alone. My post discusses some of the features!
Global Maritime History@globalmarhist.bsky.social · 8mo agoHappy to share that I've successfully achieved the Professional Knowledge Award from @collegeofteaching.bsky.social One step closer to Chartered Status #CTeach
Happy to share that I've successfully achieved the Development of Teaching Practice Award from @collegeofteaching.bsky.social One step closer to Chartered Status #CTeach
Nassau Street, From Outside The Kildare Street Club, Dublin, painting by Rose Mary Barton (1856-1929).
👁️ SEEING THINGS by Amanda Shubert tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by magic lanterns, stereoscopes, and illusionistic stage magic—redefining what it meant to see in the modern world. Learn more here ⬇️ 📖 https://ow.ly/sveJ50XeJkv
Seeing Things by Amanda Shubert | Paperback | Cornell University Press
A cultural history of nineteenth-century media imaginaries, Seeing Things tells the story of how Victorians experienced the virtual images created by modern optical technologies—magic lanterns, stereoscopes,...
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The Peculiar Case of a Royal Peculiar: A Problem of Faculty at the Tower of London By Alfred R J Hawkins www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Peculiar Case of a Royal Peculiar: A Problem of Faculty at the Tower of London | Ecclesiastical Law Journal | Cambridge Core
The Peculiar Case of a Royal Peculiar: A Problem of Faculty at the Tower of London - Volume 24 Issue 3
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If anyone is planning to do the #AScareADay October challenge (a story or poem a day, curated by yours truly!)... I've made a little recording of the first day's poem - Robert Herrick's 'The Hag' A nice quick listen (for fun or for the challenge) - enjoy! youtu.be/pGPeozcz4DM
The Hag by Robert Herrick (1648)
YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic
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The Wolfson History Prize shortlist for 2025 is announced. Good reading.
The Wolfson History Prize - Celebrating Outstanding History
The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience.
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What can a museum object reveal about colonialism, extinction and genocide? Thomas Kador’s latest blog post explores how collections help us confront difficult histories and rethink the role of museums in education. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4n92tX9 #ObjectBasedLearning
Tackling difficult histories with (museum) objects
What can a preserved animal specimen tell us about colonialism, extinction and even genocide? In this blog post, Thomas Kador reflects on the themes of his recent book Object-Based Learning: Exploring...
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