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Rich Kerridge
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Rich Kerridge @historyrichk.bsky.social · 3d
History Entry Level Certificate Network Meeting: St Paul's Cathedral.
If you teach ELC or thinking about it, come for a tour of one of the most iconic buildings in the world and network with other ELC teachers.
Free but limited places, please attend if you book.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-...
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helenpins.bsky.social
Gone Medieval this week is easy to follow history of the Vikings in the east. It very clearly explains the differences, reasons for and significance of expansion to the east. I reckon this could be used in lessons and stuff. #historyteacher #VikingExpansion podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...
When the Vikings met the Slavs
Podcast Episode · Gone Medieval · 28/11/2025 · 52m
podcasts.apple.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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colinmccormick.bsky.social
History teachers please read this. Open acces! Congratulations to my friends @abdulmohamud.bsky.social et al. discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
Teaching Slavery: New approaches to Britain’s colonial past - UCL Discovery
UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.
discovery.ucl.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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lambhearttea.bsky.social
Retrieval practice for history

Join me for a *free* webinar exploring the common pitfalls of retrieval in history and how to avoid them.

I’ll be sharing questions from the new Carousel Edexcel History retrieval banks.

Link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/retrieval-...
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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gillmartin.bsky.social
He was 15 when he used racist language to describe classmates, sang Hitler youth songs, joined the NF. Many say we should forgive his youthful waywardness.
She was 15 when she was groomed by ISIS & state intelligence experts, ran away from home,was trafficked and raped...
#farage
#shamimabegum
November 28, 2025 at 7:02 AM
historyrichk.bsky.social
History Entry Level Certificate Network Meeting: St Paul's Cathedral.
If you teach ELC or thinking about it, come for a tour of one of the most iconic buildings in the world and network with other ELC teachers.
Free but limited places, please attend if you book.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cambridge-...
November 27, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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davidrvetter.bsky.social
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
siepr.stanford.edu
November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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redhen90.bsky.social
Next year is the 100th anniversary of the General Strike 1926. #GeneralStrike100 is about workers making history, not reliving it.

Share the website: generalstrike100.com
Donate: bit.ly/GeneralStrike100
Read my blog for @balhnews.bsky.social : bit.ly/GS100BALHblog
October 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
historyrichk.bsky.social
Hope @petejackson.bsky.social got home OK to see the football!
Sorry mate, couldn't resist.
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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msquinnhistory.bsky.social
Another wonderful free event coming up from the North East teacher branch of @histassoc.bsky.social featuring the brilliant @mrmayhew.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-bur... #history #historyteacher
Beyond Burnt Cakes and Beserkers: Why the Saxons And Vikings Matter
Audience: KS2-5
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
historyrichk.bsky.social
In a world where capitalism is failing, this place always fills me with optimism and enthusiasm. The combined weight of socialist what could have been.
A better, fairer world was possible and people fought for it and wrote about it.
If you haven't visited MML, you should.
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
Drawn 133 years ago, and the con hasn't changed one bit.
November 9, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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gillmartin.bsky.social
Still Talking about Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump

#releasethefiles
#listentothevictims
#swearinadelitagrijalva
November 9, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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petejackson.bsky.social
Inspired by the story of Angel Meadow in Manchester for teaching Industrial living conditions for OCR B, I've done something similar for the East End of London in the 20th century using the amazing The Abyss of London by the aptly named Jack London. This story really helps build the East End world
November 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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katarney.bsky.social
What did Watson and Crick discover in 1953?”
“Rosalind Franklin’s notes!”
Now would be a good time to listen to my interview with the brilliant @matthewcobb.bsky.social about Franklin, Watson, Crick and the discovery of the double helix. geneticsunzipped.com/blog/2023/8/...
What really happened between Franklin, Watson and Crick in the discovery of the DNA double helix? — Genetics Unzipped
Kat Arney chats with Professor Matthew Cobb about what really happened between James Watson, Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin during the discovery of the double helix structure of DNA.
geneticsunzipped.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
November 7, 2025
November 7, 2025
The repercussions from Tuesday’s vote, in which Democratic candidates were victorious across the country, continue to echo.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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gillmartin.bsky.social
#nobodysgirl
#listentothevictims
#releasetheepsteinfiles
November 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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gillmartin.bsky.social
"The great dividers want you to think the problems in society are caused by migrants and refugees. They’re wrong. They’re caused by an economic system that protects the interests of the super-rich."
Jeremy Corbyn.

#billionaires #wealthtax
November 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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gillmartin.bsky.social
Still Talking about Jeffrey Epstein & Donald Trump

#releasetheepsteinfiles
#listentothevictims
November 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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zoejardiniere.bsky.social
3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇

1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK

2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves

3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...
Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward
The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.
metro.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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msquinnhistory.bsky.social
If you’re still on X, why? Why are you happily contributing to this? Is your follower count so important that you can’t make a stand?

observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Musk’s war on Wikipedia is a fight for a future without f...
The tech mogul’s Grokipedia relies on right-leaning AI instead of consensus between human moderators
observer.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
October 31, 2025
October 31, 2025
Yesterday a reporter asked Representative Joe Neguse, a Democrat of Colorado, about the administration’s withholding of reserve funds Congress intended would fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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sashasmith.bsky.social
Huge thanks to Educate for this feature on our @endsexisminschools.bsky.social History report, alongside @katemossewriter.bsky.social

‘Change is needed’. 💪🏻
October 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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helenpins.bsky.social
This book is great for setting the scenes for each section of Viking Expansion. It can be quite tricky for students to get into the Vikings, as it’s so different from everything else they’ve studied; I think this will help. #historyteacher #GCSE I haven’t got to kings yet, which is where we struggle
October 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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apf102.bsky.social
Neat way of visualising extreme wealth…

Didcot is most avg town in England (pop. 32,186)

Mean net worth in England is about £305k per person.

If a millionaire came to live in Didcot, the mean worth would rise by 22p per person.

If Elon Musk arrived it would rise by £11.5 million

#itsnotnormal
October 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM