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An @ESRC research project @CamHistory exploring Secondary Education & Social Change in the UK since 1945 📚 📸: @ChronicleLive/@natlibscot
Cambridge, England
Joined October 2017
'In what ways do schools reflect social change in the UK since 1945?' Our KS3 resource packs for history teachers are now live and free to download THREAD.
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RT @CharterhouseAr3: The School library has changed quite a bit over time but if you look carefully at this image from c.1956, you can stil…
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RT @carter740: Writing up the @Sesc_Cam book also gives me the chance to revisit the fabulous KS3 resource packs for schools that our teach…
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RT @HeatherLWEllis: Just over two weeks left to register for the #HES2023 conference! 'Senses, Emotions and Experience in #histed @HistEdSo…
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Lino prints made by female pupils from Rutherford High School (a girls' grammar school in Newcastle), printed in school magazines, 1950s-1960s @TWArchives
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Message from King George VI to secondary school pupils in England, for the London Victory Parade on 8 June 1946
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School dinner menu at Cheddar's comprehensive school (@kowessex) 1976: Bacon and Egg Flan, Bread Rolls, Cabbage, Beetroot, Carrot, Sultanas, Watercress, Chocolate Semolina 🍮 Roast Beef, Yorkshire Pudding, Spring Greens, Roast Potatoes, Gravy, Iced Ginger Bread, Cream Sauce 🥬
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School dinner menu at Cheddar's comprehensive school (@kowessex) 1976: Bacon and Egg Flan, Bread Rolls, Cabbage, Beetroot, Carrot, Sultanas, Watercress, Chocolate Semolina 🍮 Roast Beef, Yorkshire Pudding, Spring Greens, Roast Potatoes, Gravy, Iced Ginger Bread, Cream Sauce 🥬
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RT @HeatherLWEllis: Call for #oralhistory participants! #histed @EducationSheff @HistEdSocUK Parents, teachers, former pupils and cater…
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RT @carter740: In light of the current #RAAC crisis in UK schools, can't not share this document found today whilst going through stuff for…
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'For sale' adverts from a Weston-Super-Mare secondary school magazine, 1974 🦜🫖📺
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A rather simple map of a complicated #comprehensive school settlement: Different secondary school types across Somerset by 1972, adaptation to include middle schools (9-13) and 11-16, 11-18, & 13-18 secondary schools, with some separate post-16 institutions @SomHeritage
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RT @carter740: Combing through school archive notes from 1950s and 1960s and coming across lots of references to 'danglers' (earrings) - we…
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'Empire Day' programme and song lyrics at Kitchener Road Secondary Modern Girls’ School, Cardiff, 1955 Empire Day was established in 1905 to promote patriotism and loyalty among the dominion countries of the British Empire, and in Britain. It was renamed Commonwealth Day in 1958
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RT @carter740: Our @Sesc_Cam book on UK secondary education will include a chapter on 'Memories'. This morning browsing one possible source…
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We've collected lots of material from school archives over the past 6 years, including many impromptu photos capturing everyday life inside schools. E.g. here's room 2A in a Bristol grammar school, 1950s. Caption: 'Just another normal History lesson'
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RT @carter740: UK ambassador to France @MennaRawlings writes that the UK and France have made a commitment to making school travel easier p…
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A new set of teacher-made classroom resources from @max_long available free from his website, useful for teaching history, media, and environmentalism, check out this thread for a synthesis 🌳📽️🐧⬇️
After a year-long collaboration with two schoolteachers, today I am sharing the fruits of our labours in the form of four teaching packs based on my research at @CamHistory into #20s30s popular nature films. 🧵1/10
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RT @OCR_History: Talking to teachers last week, quite a few are going on trips. Very jealous of those going to Ypres! Have a wonderful, if…
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Thanks to Mike Goddard of @OCR_History for this blog about how our school resource packs can be used in their History B GCSE option, prompted by @PeterMandler1's @histassoc Presidential Lecture @MollyNavey @jonnysellin @hannahcusworth
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