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OK, British students, start researching how to get a postal vote NOW, and figure out where best to use it. You are PERFECTLY ENTITLED to be registered at both a term-time and permanent address, and to vote from whichever suits you, as long as you only cast one vote!

Further information to share especially with young people. You cannot vote unless you have photographic ID.

gov.uk/apply-for-phot…

Register to vote - GOV.UK gov.uk/register-to-vo…

Radio 4 Emma Barnett: Can you give us an example of inappropriate content taught in some schools... how wide spread is that issue? Gillian Keegan: I don't know EB: You don't know? GK: We've listened to reports. While the govt are listening here are some wide spread issues.

May is Local and Community History month. We have lots of resources and some great original articles from our Great Debate entrants #localhistory24
Local and Community History Month 2024 / Historian / Historical Association

It was an pleasure to take part in this chat organised by Historical Assoc following up Martin Spafford’s amazing Ian Dawson Dawson Lecture at the 2023 conference. Privileged to be in the company of Martin and the brilliance of Emmy and Joshua Preye Garry history.org.uk/secondary/modu…

NEW 🧵: how Britain became gripped by the worst homelessness crisis in the developed world

Consistently brilliant and hugely informative. Looking forward to doing some trust wide work on this. Well done Carmel Bones 🌟

We’ve partnered with the Sheldon Memorial Trust to launch a new bursary scheme for schools around York to contribute towards school visit costs!

Please visit our website for the terms and conditions and how to submit your application 👉 learning.yorkarchaeology.co.uk/sheldon-memori…

🧵On Thursday last week, History Teachers Education Network held our first in-person conference for over a decade. Wonder what we got up to? Check out the thread.

HTEN = History Teacher Educators Network.

We support all those involved in professional development of #historyteacher s.

Picking up on threads from Richard + my talk at Historical Assoc #HAconf24 - Here's a visual exploring how historians might arrive at different conclusions - making the disciplinary as explicit as possible.

Suspect oliver caviglioli might approve of the approach, (if not the execution!)

Anyone want to claim this lovely book? #HTEN2024 History Teachers Education Network

Follwing Dale Banham's workshop at Historical Assoc Conference on stories in the classroom (pr'y and sec'y) here's the link to many of the ideas and examples and different forms of story-telling he discussed plus, e.g. how to build confidence as a story-teller:
thinkinghistory.co.uk/Issues/downloa…

Are you the teacher who spoke to me at Historical Assoc conference on Friday morning about her Y8 class and the Industrial Revolution? If so, I'm sorry I didn't get your name but could you reply to this?

To find out more about disability history please see slides on suggested scholarship.

Also see: onebighistorydepartment.com/tag/disability/

And history.org.uk/publications/r…

As well as the Historical Assoc website

My MP is the shadow schools minister, and I am drafting an email re retention/funding and questioning the heavy Labour focus on curriculum change over everything else. Has anyone got any thoughts they think I should highlight? My email will be read by someone on the team.

I’ve started reading this after a recommendation in Gemma workshop yesterday and the repeated exploitation of people with learning disabilities is making me furious. It seems like people were just waiting for their support system to look away before they swooped in.

If you missed this outstanding session from Jonathan Grande on “takeaways” (so useful for assessment) then you can read about it in detail in his Historical Assoc Teaching History article here: history.org.uk/publications/r…