Have spent a fair bit of today doing some research about Burghley House for Year 8. Spoke to the curator, one of the guides told me about a bigamist con-artist Earl, Year 8 will be all over that. Met a sheep. #historyteacher

Making me want to rewrite (I can’t do every unit in KS3!) Maybe I can tweak. #historyteacher I was only looking for evidence in Stamford and for Capability Brown who did the landscaping at Burghley, and now I’ve added more to the list of stuff. discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10... It’s open access

Preach. An encouragement of nerdiness. This year I learnt more about WWII even though I have little interest in military history, because I know it’s a subject weakness for me. I find it hard to sound enthusiastic about it, so I did some work on it. God bless Noiser podcasts. #historyteacher

Love this. #historyteacher (this is in chapter 9: High Challenge, Low Threat - which, by the way, is another of Myatt’s books and also well worth a read)

Am reading Mary Myatt’s new book (still - it’s not a ‘read it in one sitting’ book) and this jumped out at me in a chapter about reading aloud and challenging texts. #historyteacher #KS3

And I got to read this whole book on the train. Strong recommend #historyteacher

Today I have been to see A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Globe. I want to go every week. #historyteacher It is the perfect play (with perfect audience participation)

It’s heavy (weight and subject matter) but very good.

@waterstones.bsky.social Peterborough coming up with the goods as always #historyteacher #GCSE #CrimeAndPunishment

Summer work this year is to diversity (and make more interesting) our Crime and Punishment lessons. It’s a from scratch rewrite, hooray! Using some excellent stories of not just straight white men. #historyteacher #GCSE Of course that means many, many books. Oh dear.

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. 😍

Beautiful artwork @1972shp.bsky.social @historyrichk.bsky.social @teachmedwomen.bsky.social (they did only have 25 mins)

‘Key Stage 3 should be the intellectual powerhouse of the secondary school.’ #historyteacher #currentlyreading I’m 2 pages in and I already agree. @marymyatt.bsky.social

Get out of here with your vanity portrait, Ambassadors! Shall we shift our focus? #SHP26 #ALevel #historyteacher

School closed early because 🌞🔥so I have come to the coldest cafe in Peterborough for lunch. Cathedral adjacent so Katharine of Aragon’s ghost can tell me to stop procrastinating and finish my #SHP26 workshop about 16th century women #historyteacher Not a bad view!

Foreign policy + women = essential research #shp26 #historyteacher I love Elizabeth Norton’s writing, she’s so readable.

Today I am reading for my #SHP26 workshop about the essential role of women in 16th century foreign policy (remember, women don’t exist in A Level specifications!) In the preface of this book, I learnt that the Treaty of Cambrai (1529) was entirely negotiated by women #historyteacher

We went on our trip to our local Cathedral today and gained a new student, who followed us around and learnt the history of the Abbey site over time #historyteacher #HistoryAroundUs

Oh, yes please @rentravailer.bsky.social #historyteacher I am not exaggerating: my department will *devour* this book. Courting India is already on our curriculum, so I expect this will follow.

Putting a LEGO image of the site on their Instagram the day before the History Around Us exam? Talk about meant to be *manifests a LEGO question for tomorrow* #historyteacher #HistoryAroundUs

What did I do with Y12 today? #historyteacher

Student told me the assembly I did about how to revise properly was the most useful tutorial she’s had since she started Y12. She said she’d never heard of testing herself first - but it’s working! And she’s only revising from paper, on paper. It’s from this *brilliant* book #OutsmartYourBrain

And Katja Hoyer’s new book is out (I can probably wait for the paperback as long as I don’t pick it up in the shop) #historyteacher

Would anyone like to guess how my Year 11s reacted to me cutting off their cheat sheet resources in today’s lesson? #historyteacher #HistoryAroundUs They have a week. The paper will not be removed until 10am on Friday 15 May.

Look where I have been this evening (listening to a fascinating talk by an expert historian whose name you may know…) #historyteacher #EarlyTudors It’s the 500th anniversary of Tyndale’s New Testament this year, so you should expect me to be unbearable.

Out on a school night! (I am at a talk by Tracy Borman about her new fiction book. It still counts - the cat is not here and I am not at my laptop. I’m out.) #historyteacher

An extract from this book has infuriated my Year 13s (it’s not the book - it’s the person it mentions. He winds them up so much, and they thought they were rid of him in 1497, yet here he is mentioned again in 1556!) #historyteacher ‘Oh God, not Warbeck *again*’ This is the Dudley Conspiracy.

This one now. I am determined to get through the TBR! #historyteacher Stoyle’s explanation of the rising on Not Just the Tudors was gripping, so I am looking forward to finally getting into this book.

What a great read. I really enjoy Tallis’ style; I like the way she integrates sources seamlessly into the story (a bit like Anna Whitelock’s biography of Mary I, also a great read) #historyteacher 100% will use in classroom (esp the last chapter about interpretations of LJG)

Reading this and enjoying it a lot. I will never not laugh at Thomas Seymour shooting Edward’s dog. #historyteacher I didn’t realise Jane spent such a long period as Seymour’s ward @nicolatallis.bsky.social