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On the HERJ blog today, author Jason Todd explores the themes in his research article and why he chose to publish in HERJ.

This is a fascinating, personal blog.
Stories We Inherit, Stories We Make: History, Culture and Belonging
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Telling Stories at A-Level: Chekhov, the Cholera, and the Contempt Stories, it seems, are in vogue in the History classroom. And for good reason. Telling a gripping tale, as Christine Counsell has recently...

How and with what effect can stories be used to introduce enquiry questions in #history?

Following @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social's excellent @histassoc.bsky.social Teaching History article on telling stories at KS5

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Excited to have an article in the 200th edition of @histassoc.bsky.social Teaching History, co-authored by @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social

Amid calls to ‘storify’ history curricula, we detail our attempts to write and teach stories of the French Rev to A-Level students.

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Glad you enjoyed it!

Teaching History 200: Telling Histories

The article (and the entire issue) is free this term. You only need to register for free basic website access by following this link.

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I also therefore see the article as a small contribution to the phenomenal achievement of history teachers in building a coherent, generative and codified body of professional knowledge over decades. 4/5

In celebration of TH's 200th edition, the article tries to live up to the publication's best traditions. We adopt a cautious criticality to a problem of practice in the classroom - acknowledging, celebrating and building on both the triumphs and ground-clearing done by history teachers before us.3/5

In particular, we acknowledge, explore and attempt to mitigate some of history teachers’ commonly stated concerns about stories. We aimed to reconcile captivating narrative, disciplinary integrity and curricular representativeness - not wholly successfully! 2/5

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Excited to have an article in the 200th edition of @histassoc.bsky.social Teaching History, co-authored by @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social

Amid calls to ‘storify’ history curricula, we detail our attempts to write and teach stories of the French Rev to A-Level students.

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Hope you found it interesting Alistair!

Thanks a lot Jonathan, glad you enjoyed it!

Cracking article from @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social in latest Teaching History. Couldn’t be more timely for me as I’ve been consciously writing and using stories much more with my A Level students. Plenty here both to encourage and to challenge me.

An image of the first two pages of our article in Teaching History

Lovely to find the 200th edition of TH in my postbox today, including an article by me and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social. Hopefully it will contribute to the journal's tradition of starting conversations amongst history teachers! @histassoc.bsky.social

Really excited to read this from @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social and @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social! A really important question being asked - what can the role of storytelling be in #history teaching?

In this paper a study was conducted to identify curricular goals for colligation in students’ causal arguments. The study finds that students were capable constructing their own causal colligation, appreciating the disciplinary framework that underpinned those constructions:

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Racist epithets in the classroom: Unpacking attitudes to the N‐word in teaching English Since 2020, there has been a growing discussion around the representation of Black lives in the curriculum, and their representation in the classroom. There is a need to examine the ways in which tex...

New open access article! Racist epithets in the classroom: Unpacking attitudes to the N-word in teaching English

TLDR: White students and teachers should not say/ read the n-word aloud

(But please do click on the link anyway!)

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My new (free!) article in the History Education Research Journal exploring what ‘colligation’ is and how it might help teachers develop students’ causal arguments.

Based on a case study with one of my Y13 classes.

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My new (free!) article in the History Education Research Journal exploring what ‘colligation’ is and how it might help teachers develop students’ causal arguments.

Based on a case study with one of my Y13 classes.

journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/article...

Really honoured to be a part of this. Well done editorial team!

It was such a privilege to help edit this book- I learnt something from each chapter about what it means to teach history and do it well.

An honour to finally be able to stand up and launch The Practical Guide to Teaching History to the history teaching community at #SHP25! Thank you to @joshpreyegarry.bsky.social and @mrmayhew.bsky.social Thank you to Matt Stanford and @corinnegoullee.bsky.social for getting us to this place

And even if you weren't able to join @alistairdickins.bsky.social you should still check out these resources, they are phenomenal. On a par with the work of @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social and that's saying something!

Responding to SHP 2025: Part 2, Claire Holliss on Stories at A-Level The 2025 Schools History Project (SHP) conference was, as ever, a highlight of the teaching year and a stimulus for all sorts of thoughts. ...

Huge thanks to @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social for a wonderful @1972shp.bsky.social workshop on storytelling at KS5!

Following an earlier blog on @arthurjchapman.bsky.social workshop, here are some (incomplete) thoughts stimulated by Claire Holliss' session.

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Tom Allen masterpiece. Watch his @histassoc.bsky.social session before it expires if you can

Claire Hollis reflecting on the effectiveness of story telling with her A Level students: the answer, much deeper planning on how to get a viable and sustained response

Settling down 2 hear the stellar @citoyenneclaire.bsky.social reflect on & explore the affordances & constraints of narrative @ A Level. Do stories bias towards the individual not the general? How can we tell stories about those who leaves few archival traces? Does story bias to the dramatic? #SHP25

Jim Carroll on X: "THREAD on 'The Writing Revolution' (TWR) and its applicability when teaching students to write in history. (I hope to write a blog/article on this topic later when I have more time but here are some of my initial, undeveloped thoughts). 1/14" / X THREAD on 'The Writing Revolution' (TWR) and its applicability when teaching students to write in history. (I hope to write a blog/article on this topic later when I have more time but here are some of my initial, undeveloped thoughts). 1/14

Glad you enjoyed it! I wrote about WR potentially hindering historical specificity on Twitter (before Musk took over) here.

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Don’t you think we deserve an explanation? The limits of generic ‘explaining’ writing frames for constructing historical causal arguments In a previous post, I argued against ‘sentence starters’ such as ‘I believe…’ being labelled as the ‘language of the historian’.[i] I now want to consider another manifestation o…

Looks great Alistair!

If you haven’t read it already you might also be interested in this blogpost (when I used to blog 😂). In it, I wrote about the potential pitfalls of students relying on conjunctions instead of verbs, nouns and prepositional phrases.

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I've spent years encouraging students to use causal verbs alongside conjunctions. But this can lead to confused language/mixed metaphors.

Inspired by @jcarrollhistory.bsky.social, I'm planning to explicitly integrate metaphors into KS5 using targeted vocab

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