Ben Jerrit FCCT History Teacher
@benjerrit.bsky.social
Chartered Teacher (CTeach) 2023. #HistoryTeacher
Former #HeadofDept, current #Headofyear. Mark scheme enjoyer.
I work in a busy #Boardingschool in SE England (Boarding Practitioner Level 3). Keen to learn new pedagogical ideas.
#Educator #UKTeaching #UKEd
Former #HeadofDept, current #Headofyear. Mark scheme enjoyer.
I work in a busy #Boardingschool in SE England (Boarding Practitioner Level 3). Keen to learn new pedagogical ideas.
#Educator #UKTeaching #UKEd
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The superb #RobinBriggs #WitchesandNeighbours. Brings the era of the European witch hunts to life and explores the varied aspects of the different cases. Majestic and impressive, covers a broad range while also able to focus on the illustrative detail. #Booksof2025 No.1 #HistoryEducation
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In November 1749, John London walked from his home to vote in the Westminster constituency parliamentary by-election.
As Dr Gillian Williamson explores, this provides the earliest known record of a Black person voting in a British parliamentary election:
As Dr Gillian Williamson explores, this provides the earliest known record of a Black person voting in a British parliamentary election:
John London: Britain's First Black Voter? - The History of Parliament
this election could serve as the earliest known record of a Black person voting in a British parliamentary election - John London
historyofparliament.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In November 1749, John London walked from his home to vote in the Westminster constituency parliamentary by-election.
As Dr Gillian Williamson explores, this provides the earliest known record of a Black person voting in a British parliamentary election:
As Dr Gillian Williamson explores, this provides the earliest known record of a Black person voting in a British parliamentary election:
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It's a great episode! Fascinating discussion 😊
November 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It's a great episode! Fascinating discussion 😊
That's a niche reference I can get behind!
'Four cones wins, but in order to get a cone you have to build a civilization. Which is where the spirit cards come in'
November 16, 2025 at 11:38 AM
That's a niche reference I can get behind!
Adding this to my list!
The latest episode of A Slice of Medieval is out now!
@derekbirks.bsky.social and I have a fascinating chat with @historylauren.bsky.social about the subject of her latest book, the much-maligned and misunderstood - and remarkable, Margaret Beaufort!
#medievalsky
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@derekbirks.bsky.social and I have a fascinating chat with @historylauren.bsky.social about the subject of her latest book, the much-maligned and misunderstood - and remarkable, Margaret Beaufort!
#medievalsky
soundcloud.com/user-1425259...
MargaretBeaufort | A Slice of Medieval #79
Historian, Sharon Bennett Connolly and historical author, Derek Birks are joined by historian, Lauren Johnson, to discuss the much-maligned Margaret Beaufort.
Music by Adriel Fair licensed from Epid
soundcloud.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Adding this to my list!
Looks very sensible to me. Which is probably why they won't do anything nearly as good.
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Looks very sensible to me. Which is probably why they won't do anything nearly as good.
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A great piece this, which reflects on a media landscape which is unable to do more than simple false equality debates. A big problem for our time and one of the reasons why dead tree media is in trouble. #Skystorians
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A great piece this, which reflects on a media landscape which is unable to do more than simple false equality debates. A big problem for our time and one of the reasons why dead tree media is in trouble. #Skystorians
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Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
Trump's winning 2024 coalition has evaporated
Claims of a conservative realignment of non-whites, the working class, and young voters have been highly exaggerated
www.gelliottmorris.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Dem gains in this week's elections erased the inroads Trump made with non-white, young, and low-income voters in 2024. In fact, the R-to-D shift from 24 to 25 is double Trump's gains from 20-24. Claims of a GOP political realignment have been highly exaggerated
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
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What a fabulously curated and presented site this is. Clean & clear to navigate, lots of fascinating data & artifacts. And to hear newly recorded political songs from the era! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
@philipwblood.bsky.social
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
@philipwblood.bsky.social
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture
18th-century Britain is notorious for corrupt and restrictive politics, when few could vote, bribery and debauchery were commonplace. But it was also an age when modern democracy was being shaped.
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
What a fabulously curated and presented site this is. Clean & clear to navigate, lots of fascinating data & artifacts. And to hear newly recorded political songs from the era! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
@philipwblood.bsky.social
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
@philipwblood.bsky.social
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
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I am so upset.
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
To be asked to write about racism only to be racially aggressed in the editing process is a new level unlocked I have to say.
November 3, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I am so upset.
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
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'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
Fascinating story of #OlaudahEquiano and how student research helped bring to life the family history. #Skystorians. #HistoryTeacher
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Fascinating story of #OlaudahEquiano and how student research helped bring to life the family history. #Skystorians. #HistoryTeacher
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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I visited Grand Street Senior Housing on the Lower East Side today and tried a little Bomba y Plena…
October 31, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I visited Grand Street Senior Housing on the Lower East Side today and tried a little Bomba y Plena…
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I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵
October 31, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵
Fascinating thread
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Fascinating thread
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Read this and now you can too. Some case studies of leeches getting, um, where they shouldn't really be. But! A good overview of how they have been used in medicine thru time.
#Skystorians #HistoryTeacher
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
#Skystorians #HistoryTeacher
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Man accidentally gets leech up his nose. It took 20 days to figure it out.
Leeches have a long medical history. Here’s what happens if one gets in your nose.
arstechnica.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Read this and now you can too. Some case studies of leeches getting, um, where they shouldn't really be. But! A good overview of how they have been used in medicine thru time.
#Skystorians #HistoryTeacher
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
#Skystorians #HistoryTeacher
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Read this and now you can too. Some case studies of leeches getting, um, where they shouldn't really be. But! A good overview of how they have been used in medicine thru time.
#Skystorians #HistoryTeacher
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
#Skystorians #HistoryTeacher
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Man accidentally gets leech up his nose. It took 20 days to figure it out.
Leeches have a long medical history. Here’s what happens if one gets in your nose.
arstechnica.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Read this and now you can too. Some case studies of leeches getting, um, where they shouldn't really be. But! A good overview of how they have been used in medicine thru time.
#Skystorians #HistoryTeacher
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
#Skystorians #HistoryTeacher
arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
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You had me at “fancy cheese vending machine”
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
You had me at “fancy cheese vending machine”
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Tough but essential history in @fxmc1957.bsky.social’s new history of the Holocaust.
It began with speech. It ended with bullets, bayonets and gas.
It began with speech. It ended with bullets, bayonets and gas.
October 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Tough but essential history in @fxmc1957.bsky.social’s new history of the Holocaust.
It began with speech. It ended with bullets, bayonets and gas.
It began with speech. It ended with bullets, bayonets and gas.
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I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
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There are people in office who are armored by incumbency who aren't a tenth as brave as this woman
I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.
October 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
There are people in office who are armored by incumbency who aren't a tenth as brave as this woman
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The third and final part of our epic 'Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin' Origin Story. We're now at the point of total homicidal breakdown, burying into some of the darkest experiments in human history.
🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Welcome back to Origin Story: The Story of Socialism as we resume the story of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin in part three @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss Terror 👉 linktr.ee/originstoryp...
#originstory #lenin #trotsky #stalin
#originstory #lenin #trotsky #stalin
October 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The third and final part of our epic 'Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin' Origin Story. We're now at the point of total homicidal breakdown, burying into some of the darkest experiments in human history.
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Incredible work, everyone!
Over 6,500 letters sent, which means (on average) over 10 letters per MP!
If you haven’t written in and still want to, you can find @transactualuk.bsky.social’s easy-peasy tool here: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Over 6,500 letters sent, which means (on average) over 10 letters per MP!
If you haven’t written in and still want to, you can find @transactualuk.bsky.social’s easy-peasy tool here: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
October 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Incredible work, everyone!
Over 6,500 letters sent, which means (on average) over 10 letters per MP!
If you haven’t written in and still want to, you can find @transactualuk.bsky.social’s easy-peasy tool here: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
Over 6,500 letters sent, which means (on average) over 10 letters per MP!
If you haven’t written in and still want to, you can find @transactualuk.bsky.social’s easy-peasy tool here: actionnetwork.org/letters/scra...
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In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
goodlaw.social/ncfw
goodlaw.social/ncfw
‘Abject terror’: survey shows 84% of trans people feel Britain is unsafe
YouGov poll reveals safety crisis for trans people in the UK
goodlaw.social
October 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
goodlaw.social/ncfw
goodlaw.social/ncfw
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There is still time to enter the Midland History essay prize
£400 first prize and opportunity to publish in a peer reviewed journal
Closing date for entries 31 October 🎃
#phd #ecr #postgrad
£400 first prize and opportunity to publish in a peer reviewed journal
Closing date for entries 31 October 🎃
#phd #ecr #postgrad
To enter the Midland History Essay Prize, the essay must be a genuine work of original research, not published or accepted for publication as an article or a chapter in an edited collection book. Max. 10,000 words, including footnotes, tables and figure captions (2/2)
More Details 👇
More Details 👇
October 24, 2025 at 6:55 AM