I’ve been doing some historical reading recently for a potential project about school meals in turn of the 20th Century Bradford. It is lovely to be reading and thinking about history again, after a long break, enforced by taking up
A trip to the Black Country Living Museum
A month ago, we packed the family into our ageing Megan, and travelled to the Black Country to see relatives and visit one of my favourite Museums, the Black Country Museum. Sharing a hotel room with your tweenage family was,
5 great podcasts for history teachers*
My job means that I’m quite often in my car, and therefore listening to my radio. Unfortunately, this often seems to coincide with ‘moneybox live’ or Chris Evans. In response to this terrible conjunction, I’ve fallen back in love with podcasts.
Distance – Paris, Syria and ‘us’.
I’m writing a section of a GCSE text book at the moment, for Edexcel’s recently approved spec (for teaching next year!). The section is about London in the Second World War, and it’s part of their warfare through time unit. This
The “Writing Lives” project*
*(or why following twitter historians can be as rewarding as following history teachers) I was thinking about teaching A level coursework the other day, specifically OCR’s interpretations and investigations coursework. For years the examiner’s reports have emphasised that students should
Great History spotted on the Web
I have read such great history around the web this week, that I thought I’d compile some of it into a post. Most of what I’ve spotted here should be directly relevant to teachers at KS3-5. A good example of that
A Cup of Tea from the History Resource Cupboard #28daysofwriting
So, yesterday was the end of a long week (even for a part timer like me), and I was stuck for something to do with my year 9 class. It was the end of the half term, they’d just done
BBC Radio 4 – Churchill’s Other Lives
Caught this in the car the other day, and really enjoyed it. Really interesting to see another perspective on this great man. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zgqdl
Using Political Cartoons in the Classroom – a web-bibliography
As part of the writing of our book (Enquiring History: Italian Unification 1815-1871 £) I’ve been looking into how teachers, and historians, use cartoons. I’m blogging about this for AS students on the Italy Podcast site, and I thought I’d share
Ian Dawson is on Twitter.
Ian Dawson is on twitter, and is also promising a re-vamp of his website. If you’re a history teacher, you’ll want to follow him! Twitter a 10th birthday present for website and 3×21 present for me. Site to be refreshed,