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ArthurJChapman

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Prof History Ed & Head of Department Curriculum Pedagogy & Assessment @ UCL’s Institute of Education. Editor HistEd Research Journal & International Rev of HistEd. Vice-Chair OHTE SAC. FRHistS. FHA. Member HEIRNET Board. Blog: thecamelsback.org. Own views.

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · Jul 1

Honoured to be elected Vice-Chair of the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe’s Scientific Advisory Committee today. Looking forward to our work together! #OHTE @ioe.bsky.social #HistoryEducarion www.coe.int/en/web/obser...

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 1h

Exciting to be heading to Strasbourg today for the Observatory on History Traching in Europe’s 2025 annual conference.

Looking forward to discussions of the power of teaching and learning history and to the exploration of OHTE’s thematic report on Economic Crises.

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 1d

Very excited to share the forthcoming SHP Understanding event from @1972shp.bsky.social: Unearthed (Nov 10 5-6pm). The first in a series of webinars looking at the transformative and radical power of gardening - from the Diggers to Mary Seacole to settler colonialism we've got it covered!

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 1d

IRASSHE 2025, Bucharest

ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 2d

Exciting 2B heading 2 Bucharest 4 the 2025 IRAHSSE Conference, where I will be speaking about The Powers of Knowing in History Education: Forms, Possibilities and Limitations. Thank U, colleagues, 4 the invitation! www.irahsse.eu/wp-content/u... @ioe.bsky.social @cpaucl.bsky.social #historyeducation

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 3d

“Making a statement….”

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The Spanish City….

ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 4d

An honour to have a renewed opportunity to serve on the @heirnet.bsky.social board with new and old colleagues.

Thank you so much to everyone who voted for us. It’s special to know you have the confidence of your peers.

Looking forward to serving!

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Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social · 4d

I am absolutely delighted to be able to share the news about our next @1972shp.bsky.social Yorkshire History Forum which will be taking place in York on November 24th. We have a superb line up of workshops for #primary and #secondary #historyteachers and all for a bargain basement price ...

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 7d

Exciting to see this 'out there' from @giuseppinadoro.bsky.social! Looking forward to reading!

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 13d

My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...

A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0

If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 12d

Honoured to have a chapter translated in this open access book. Thank you @mariliagago.bsky.social and the editors for this opportunity and for coordinating translation! ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/fich...

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John Simkin @johnsimkin1945.bsky.social · 13d

You can read my article on using AI in the history classroom.

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 14d

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Nuevo número de Panta Rei | Panta Rei. Revista digital de Historia y Didáctica de la Historia

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Timothy Garton Ash @fromtga.bsky.social · 15d

Important good news from #moldova ….in the long run, Putin is losing…
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Pro-EU party in Moldova takes lead in election mired in claims of interference
The vote is seen as critical for Moldova's future EU path, and President Maia Sandu has warned of Russian interference.

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 16d

I’ll defer 2 @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social @marywoolley.bsky.social & TH colleagues 4 comment. I’ve stood down from TH-ing. It’s been an honour to serve but after tours of duty in 2006, 2007-13 & 2022-5, it’s time I made space 4 others. Focusing on the day job & HERJ, HEIRNET, OHTE & SHP in future.

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 17d

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Book Ends - Poetry Archive

Baked the day she suddenly dropped dead we chew it slowly that last apple pie. Shocked into sleeplessness you’re scared of bed. We never could talk much, and now don’t try. You’re like book ends, the ...

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 17d

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National Trust - Poetry Archive

Bottomless pits. There’s one in Castleton, and stout upholders of our law and order one day thought its depth worth wagering on and borrowed a convict hush-hush from his warder and winched him down; a...

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 17d

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Initial Illumination - Poetry Archive

Farne cormorants with catches in their beaks shower fishscale confetti on the shining sea. The first bright weather here for many weeks for my Sunday G-Day train bound for Dundee, off to St Andrew’s t...

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 17d

Gutted to read this from Bloodaxe.

Vale, Tony Harrison, poet and pugilist for poetry, learning and social justice.

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 18d

26.09.1940

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 19d

Well that’s one way to begin a book.. A nearly thirty-page rumination on how a symbolic frontispiece image figures the book’s theoretical arguments… (Vico, 1999: 0 & 29).

ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 19d

“…since their wars never ceased, they saw no need to declare them” - Vico, The New Science (1999: 21).

ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 19d

“…geography and chronology are the two eyes of history” - Vico, The New Science (1999:12).

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ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks Dan! Me too! Looking forward to it!