Director of Sixth Form / AHT / History Teacher / Cumbria
Jen Turner
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This was completely wonderful. Funny, rude, sad, really historical- ‘history is written in wax’ says Lambert at one point. I am sore dole to have finished it.
Jen Turner
As always, a great read from Vic with a sobering but important focus. The further resources at the end are really useful for any school based colleagues.
The misogyny on this post is really shameful. If she’s not qualified for the post, criticise her on her qualifications.
I have never felt so seen.
Check out these statistics. We really need exam boards on board with change!!
What a great read, combining well established disciplinary practice with current generic practice in schools- love this!
I found out this week that Woodrow Wilson’s mum was from Carlisle and he loved cycling holidays in the Lake District. My Cumbrian Y12 history nerds were very happy to learn this fact (as was I!)
Good letter in response to the frustrating but predictable post 16 funding announcement.
There’s a great source I use for Stalin’s cult of personality- a survivor of the Terror saying he’d been very sure that Stalin could do brain surgery better than anyone. Sure, he didn’t- he was busy! - but he could, if he chose…
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‘While women certainly undertook vastly more of the recorded tasks for housework and care work, these two categories of labour took up less than 40 per cent of the total time they spent working.’
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on early modern work.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jen Turner
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London Review of Books
Brilliant thing about history is there's always something to learn even in the most familiar of lessons. I've just clicked why whether Becket deliberately remaining in the Cathedral is important - seeing martyrdom was considered vain.
