David Rawlings
davidrawlings.bsky.social
David Rawlings
@davidrawlings.bsky.social
Bristolian | PGCE History Subject Lead - University of Bristol | Researcher in social justice, coloniality and history education
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"Confronting the politics of race, ethnicity and nation in schooling: evidence from school practices around the world"

Call for papers!

#EduSky @edusky.bsky.social

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Comparative Education Review: Call for papers - Confronting the politics of race, ethnicity and nation in schooling
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November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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The Autumn HTEN conference takes place this Thursday. Looking forward to seeing our members as we explore this important aspect of our work.

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Join @htenuk.bsky.social for our November half-day online conference as we grapple with important questions in history educational research, teacher preparation, teacher professional development and teaching in schools.

#historyteacher #TeacherEducation #TeacherMentoring #HistoryEducation
November 25, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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In febrile times, exploring how we prepare teachers to address SCIs feels all the more important. We're delighted Rob Kanter and @helenfcarr.bsky.social will be sharing their important work and experiences with us at the next @htenuk.bsky.social conference.

Make sure it is in your diary. 🗓️
Join @htenuk.bsky.social for our November half-day online conference as we grapple with important questions in history educational research, teacher preparation, teacher professional development and teaching in schools.

#historyteacher #TeacherEducation #TeacherMentoring #HistoryEducation
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Had a brilliant chat with @corinnefowler.bsky.social this morning to plan our SHP Understanding: UNEARTHED event on November 10 (5-6pm) on the SHP YouTube channel. Corinne will be sharing her deep knowledge about the colonial countryside and the legacy of empire on our gardens ...
October 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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It was so much fun chatting to @carmelbones.bsky.social about the history of the Schools History Project and how it can support the #historyeducation community today and in the future. I hope you enjoy the chat that we had with Mel @histassoc.bsky.social creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...
RETEACH HISTORY SE03E04 - Making History Matter With Mel Jones and Dan Lyndon-Cohen by RETEACH
In this episode of Reteach History, our host Carmel speaks with two of the history‑teaching community’s most influential figures: Mel Jones (Education Manager, Historical Association) and Dan Lyndon-C...
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October 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Time to talk is an opportunity for @htenuk.bsky.social colleagues to meet more informally in our virtual staff room. Our first session of 25/26 will be hosted by @davidrawlings.bsky.social.

It is also open to non-members #historyteacher #TeacherEducators. Please do get in touch for the link.
Time to Talk is back. Get the date in your diaries. Links to follow.

#historyteacher #TeacherEducation #HistoryEducation #TeacherMentoring
October 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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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!
October 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Calling all Cambridge OCR GCSE History Spec B Teachers - you know who you are! Please can you spare 5 minutes to complete this survey and tell us what you think of the current spec. having you say now will only make what we do in the future better.
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Microsoft Forms
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September 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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WE ALSO WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU ...
If you want to present a workshop at #SHP26 (use this form forms.office.com/e/UHkC15w52G )
September 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Or if you have some suggestions of what we should be offering in our Developing Teachers Conference #DTC26 (use this form forms.office.com/e/u1B14iYYhJ )
September 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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📢 Calling all #ITT #iTE #PGCE #SCITT #TeacherEducation colleagues

Please tell your new #historyteacher beginning teachers about a FREE @histassoc.bsky.social webinar on 1st October. They need to register. Pop it in welcome presentations now before you forget!

www.history.org.uk/events/calen...
HA Webinar: Survive and thrive in your initial teacher education
Calling all those beginning their initial teacher education! In this session you’ll hear from and be able to ask questions to both teacher educators and those who have just completed their initial tea...
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August 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Teachers of Russian and Soviet history!

Join us in Manchester this November for unique @histassoc.bsky.social event with 3 world-leading scholars to discuss pedagogical approaches to teaching Russian and Soviet cultures, gender and sexualities

www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
Sex, symbols, gods, devils: teaching Russian and Soviet cultures, gender, and sexualities
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July 15, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025
History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
July 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Last chance to win £25 from Rayburn Tours if you book a ticket for #SHP25 today! If you can't make the whole weekend come along on Saturday, we have a really packed, exciting programme lined up. Tickets here store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... and you can get all of this for just over £100
June 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Tickets still available for the launch of our wonderful SHP SW Forum with a superb programme of speakers including Michael Riley, @paulalobo.bsky.social and @tomallenhistory.bsky.social. Tickets available for as little as a fiver from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata... so grab 'em now!
June 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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#primaryteacher s and #historyteacher s, if you would like to join us in calling for the reintroduction of a minimum bursary for ALL #ITT students, then you can find more information on writing to your MP here:
www.history.org.uk/ha-news/news...

@histassoc.bsky.social #HistoryEducation
June 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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#SHP25 Competition 💷Win £25 from Rayburn Tours, one of our many awesome exhibitors at this year's summer conference! Just grab a ticket here (1 day, 2 day and weekend options available) store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata.... We also have 40 wonderful workshops, 3 kicking keynotes and a fab fringe
June 7, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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‪I can highly recommend Michael's talk - it's a captivating, wonderful and important discussion - with Bristolian adaptations to the original Liverpudlian focus @histassoc.bsky.social conference, I suspect! You will thoroughly enjoy it.
1. I am absolutely thrilled to be able to announce the launch of the @1972shp.bsky.social South-West History Forum! The inaugural event will be taking place on June 18 in Bristol, with a stellar lineup: Michael Riley, @paulalobo.bsky.social and @tomallenhistory.bsky.social
June 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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If any teachers out there have a set or even just a couple of these textbooks at the back of a cupboard and would be willing to sell, please let me know. We need a few more for September and have no budget so can't really afford new. Thanks!
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June 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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I'm hosting a free online workshop series on Anti-Racism and Reparations in Education.

Please join us!
10am UK time: June 11, June 18 and July 2.

Details and registration: baice.ac.uk/baice-presid...

Please help spread the word to academic/education folx! 🙌🏾
BAICE Presidential Workshop Series
Anti-Racism and Reparations: perspectives from Comparative and International Education
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May 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Come do a PhD with us at @wminhumanities.bsky.social on Black Caribbean men and women in 2WW UK - a project which combines archives, photographs and community engagement. @saradominici.bsky.social, Pippa Catterall and myself as supervisors. Click on link below deadline late May!
There is still time to apply for our AHRC CDP PhD studentship with Imperial War Museums! www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

‘Convinced ambassadors of Empire’?: exploring the visual record of Black Caribbean men and women serving in the UK during the Second World War

Deadline: 23 May 2025
May 23, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This is going to be ace!!
1. I am absolutely thrilled to be able to announce the launch of the @1972shp.bsky.social South-West History Forum! The inaugural event will be taking place on June 18 in Bristol, with a stellar lineup: Michael Riley, @paulalobo.bsky.social and @tomallenhistory.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Our competition to win 3 copies of the superb Practical Guide to Teaching History in the Secondary School closes at midnight tonight. Anyone who buys a ticket for the SHP Summer Conference gets entered in the draw store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-cata...
May 19, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Hey History teachers! I've been working with @carousel-learning.bsky.social at expanding their offer of official question banks. If you teach GCSE History please take a minute to answer a few questions for us 🙏 forms.gle/NVLVHEdPbHCT...
Carousel History research
PLEASE READ THE BELOW BEFORE ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS: We know that retrieval practice is critical for helping students grow and develop their knowledge, and we want to support history teachers with hi...
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May 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM