‘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.
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Labour was once an organic part of the peasant household, done in the interest of subsistence. Certainly many people in...
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.
Good letter in response to the frustrating but predictable post 16 funding announcement.
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!)
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.
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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.
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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It’s difficult to express how harmful the country’s current approach to sixth form education is, that at the moment of greatest impact we stop investing in the productivity of our young people and encourage them to see themselves as part-timers, only partially involved and included.
Incredible headline.
Session 1 @histassoc.bsky.social amazing paper on addressing gender bias in the history curriculum #haconf26
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Something a bit different from me today. Thinking about core #pedagogical practice of ELICITING PRIOR KNOWLEDGE through the lens of #historyteacher #HistoryEducation. And a reflection on how we keep #subjectspecific in #ITT #ITAP s
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Proof that there is more than one way to prostitute yourself.
Too bad.
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.
It's a great injustice that booking a night out to see friends is socially acceptable but there's no way to book a night in own house without childcare.
