Helen on Twitter asked me today if I had any recommended reading for someone new to the Restoration period. It seems like quite a long time since I wrote the book for Hodder, but as many teachers will be
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,
Whitechapel 1870-1900
@davidmullen141@Alec_Fisher@histassoc my Whitechapel 1870-1900 shelf. Also articles by Shpayer-Makov. pic.twitter.com/Z0yXgvKidU — ed_podesta (@ed_podesta) May 7, 2016 The other day I was asked on Twitter about the books that I read whilst writing the Whitechapel 1870-1900 section of this book. Books
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
Day Two (before lunch) #SHP15 #SHP2015 Conference – Longer Texts
Straight into the workshops on Saturday morning. Breakfast is always a sea of people bending over conference packs and making choices over which workshop to attend. When schools are farsighted enough to send more than one delegate, or where friends
Historic Environment Studies – AQA in more depth
Last week I took an overview of all the environment studies. Though they’re (mostly) worth around 10% of the GCSE I wonder if they’ll be giving many HODs and teachers something to worry about as they start to think about
H.A. Northern History Forum: Global Learning
Wednesday’s HA event at Leeds Trinity had a stall manned by Pearson which set out their ‘Global Learning Programme‘. At the start of the keynote we were told of a CPD event being run by the university (and paid for
Historic Environment Studies at GCSE
There are big changes coming at KS4. Others have written excellent posts summarising the new specifications and the differences between them. On reflection there’s something for everyone in most specs – we will each find some aspects that we seem to
Northern History Forum
Last night I attended the Northern History forum at Leeds Trinity University, ran a workshop entitled ‘Playing Games in History’ and met some great teachers, new and experienced. Ben Walsh gave the opening address, and reminded us of the benefit
New Stand Alone Lessons
I’ve added two lessons to the page set aside for stand-alone lessons. These are usually lessons I’ve made for job interviews, or to bridge a gap between topics. The sort of thing you might teach at the end or beginning of