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
Writing to Argue
My undergraduates are unwilling to argue, in person, or in writing. Their essays are often surveys of a scene, descriptions of a landscape. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with a survey if that’s what you’ve been asked to do – but
Tweet tweet! That’s the sound of the police…
I’ve been thinking about (and will probably have been writing this post) for quite a long time – collecting examples of a kind of twitter behaviour that has been interesting me for some time. A key feature of many edu-twitter
Patriotism and Brexit – a few thoughts.
Patriotism is often the last refuge of the disenfranchised, or a lever of power which is used to wield influence over them. People need institutions and ideas that they can invest belief in, and that they can trust to help
Feedback
Writing school textbooks is a lot like dropping big rocks into a well. It takes some effort, and there’s a bit of a splash when you first publish them, but then…. silence. So I happened to look at the first book I helped
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
What is a textbook? III What are textbooks for?
One can’t read about textbooks for long without coming across Tim Oates’ policy paper (1) ‘Why textbooks count’ (Oates 2014). Mr Oates was one of the expert panel on the review of the National Curriculum – I think he was the
What is a textbook? II The textbook definition
The OED has some very interesting and definitions for the word ‘text-book’. An entry from 1730’s Dictionarium Britannicum has defines it (“in Universities”) as “a Classik Author written very wide by the Students, to give Room for an Interpretation dictated
What is a textbook?
In 2010 I started writing a textbook on Italian Unification. Over the next three years, with the help of my co-writer Pam Canning and our editor Ian Dawson we made something of which I am really quite proud. The book