Jen Turner
@jenturnerhistory.bsky.social
Director of Sixth Form / AHT / History Teacher / Cumbria
This is really good. Totally simple technique but sounds really powerful. Stealing.
New blog post from me with my @knowledge-hub.bsky.social hat on.
Stop Making Them Copy.
What should we do when we just need them to get something down?
theknowledgehubuk.substack.com/p/stop-makin...
Stop Making Them Copy.
What should we do when we just need them to get something down?
theknowledgehubuk.substack.com/p/stop-makin...
Stop Making Them Copy
As a young teacher, I used copying as a classroom management technique.
theknowledgehubuk.substack.com
September 10, 2026 at 9:51 PM
This is really good. Totally simple technique but sounds really powerful. Stealing.
When you go on holiday and forget to pack the books, and your other half finds this English language bookshop 😍
July 26, 2026 at 4:48 PM
When you go on holiday and forget to pack the books, and your other half finds this English language bookshop 😍
As always, cracking blog from Victoria. It’s so easy to fall into the trap of jumping straight into actions when giving feedback. Everyone needs recognition of hard work first and last.
🚨NEW BLOG🚨
A new blog (aiming to capture the zeitgeist 😂) with some thoughts about THAT interview with Tuchel & Bellingham & what #mentors might learn from it about post-lesson feedback.
#ITT #ECT #Mentoring #TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/07/13/t...
A new blog (aiming to capture the zeitgeist 😂) with some thoughts about THAT interview with Tuchel & Bellingham & what #mentors might learn from it about post-lesson feedback.
#ITT #ECT #Mentoring #TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/07/13/t...
Tuchel and Bellingham: What teachers can learn from the World Cup when giving post-lesson feedback
Photo by Allen Boguslavsky on Pexels.com For me, one of the most fascinating moments of England’s World Cup quarter-final victory over Norway happened in the minutes immediately after the mat…
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July 13, 2026 at 9:58 PM
As always, cracking blog from Victoria. It’s so easy to fall into the trap of jumping straight into actions when giving feedback. Everyone needs recognition of hard work first and last.
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.
June 20, 2026 at 5:02 AM
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.
Check out these statistics. We really need exam boards on board with change!!
Session 1 @histassoc.bsky.social amazing paper on addressing gender bias in the history curriculum #haconf26
May 16, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Check out these statistics. We really need exam boards on board with change!!
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.
🚨New Blog 🚨
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2026/04/21/t...
#Mentors #TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation #ECT #ITT
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#Mentors #TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation #ECT #ITT
“That Wouldn’t Be Said Now”… Or Would It?Supporting beginning teachers in an emboldened climate where schools are caught in the crossfire
Author’s note: This blog has been hard to write and will be hard to read. I’m grateful for the support of colleagues, mentors and beginning teachers who have helped me to shape it. I ho…
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog
April 21, 2026 at 1:19 PM
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.
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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...
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on early modern work.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Tom Johnson · Save My Beer: Industrious Revolution
Labour was once an organic part of the peasant household, done in the interest of subsistence. Certainly many people in...
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March 31, 2026 at 12:30 PM
‘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...
@tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on early modern work.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Good letter in response to the frustrating but predictable post 16 funding announcement.
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.
March 28, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Good letter in response to the frustrating but predictable post 16 funding announcement.
I have never felt so seen.
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.
March 20, 2026 at 9:29 PM
I have never felt so seen.
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!)
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.
March 6, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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!)
The misogyny on this post is really shameful. If she’s not qualified for the post, criticise her on her qualifications.
Proof that there is more than one way to prostitute yourself.
Too bad.
Too bad.
December 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The misogyny on this post is really shameful. If she’s not qualified for the post, criticise her on her qualifications.
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…
November 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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…
What a great read, combining well established disciplinary practice with current generic practice in schools- love this!
🚨NEW BLOG🚨
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
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2025/11/20/d...
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
uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/2025/11/20/d...
Diagnostic Hooks: Reconceptualising Initial Stimulus Material (ISM) for Eliciting Prior Knowledge
Photo by Rachel Claire on Pexels.com The power of Initial Stimulus Material (ISM) to ‘hook’ pupils into historical learning via an intriguing image, a provocative quote, a story, or even a soundsca…
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November 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
What a great read, combining well established disciplinary practice with current generic practice in schools- love this!
I miss being in a city for stuff like this. Fells and fields good. Not having opportunities like this on your doorstep… less good.
How do you feel about immigration?
Recent YouGov polling found that 52% of voters believe immigration to be the most important issue facing the UK.
@globaldevinst.bsky.social are holding a public discussion on immigration at John Rylands Library, this Friday.
Recent YouGov polling found that 52% of voters believe immigration to be the most important issue facing the UK.
@globaldevinst.bsky.social are holding a public discussion on immigration at John Rylands Library, this Friday.
November 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I miss being in a city for stuff like this. Fells and fields good. Not having opportunities like this on your doorstep… less good.
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Obviously, it’s been a tough day for the BBC. Big organisations, working under big pressure, will sadly make errors
But I still feel huge pride in hosting a BBC podcast, and having previously spent 11 years making a world-renowned children’s show that no other broadcaster would have made
But I still feel huge pride in hosting a BBC podcast, and having previously spent 11 years making a world-renowned children’s show that no other broadcaster would have made
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Obviously, it’s been a tough day for the BBC. Big organisations, working under big pressure, will sadly make errors
But I still feel huge pride in hosting a BBC podcast, and having previously spent 11 years making a world-renowned children’s show that no other broadcaster would have made
But I still feel huge pride in hosting a BBC podcast, and having previously spent 11 years making a world-renowned children’s show that no other broadcaster would have made
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Huge thanks to Educate for this feature on our @endsexisminschools.bsky.social History report, alongside @katemossewriter.bsky.social
‘Change is needed’. 💪🏻
‘Change is needed’. 💪🏻
October 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Huge thanks to Educate for this feature on our @endsexisminschools.bsky.social History report, alongside @katemossewriter.bsky.social
‘Change is needed’. 💪🏻
‘Change is needed’. 💪🏻
‘P.S. Please say howdy to George and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.’ Looking forward to using one of my favourite ever sources with Year 12 on Monday. Epic burn doesn’t even cover it.
Letter from Jourdon Anderson: A Freedman Writes His Former Master
Jourdon Anderson, a formerly enslaved person, responds to a request from his former master to return to work for him.
www.facinghistory.org
October 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
‘P.S. Please say howdy to George and thank him for taking the pistol from you when you were shooting at me.’ Looking forward to using one of my favourite ever sources with Year 12 on Monday. Epic burn doesn’t even cover it.
This book looks terrific and the fact it’s open access is amazing! One of the strongest misconceptions children bring to the history classroom is that ‘women were just at home.’ Can’t wait to read this! 👏👏👏
Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉
Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
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Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
October 11, 2025 at 8:01 AM
This book looks terrific and the fact it’s open access is amazing! One of the strongest misconceptions children bring to the history classroom is that ‘women were just at home.’ Can’t wait to read this! 👏👏👏
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Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers
Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM
Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM
Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education
Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors.
The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...
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October 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers
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Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers
September 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers
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So I’ve started a #Substack to share stories from my new book #Heiressss plus general history thoughts now I’m free from the book, but I currently have a grand total of 4 subscribers! Please join me there if you’d like to. Any tips on dos & don’ts also welcome! substack.com/@drmirandaka...
Dr Miranda Kaufmann | Substack
Historian. Author of #BlackTudors (2017) and #Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery (2025)
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August 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
So I’ve started a #Substack to share stories from my new book #Heiressss plus general history thoughts now I’m free from the book, but I currently have a grand total of 4 subscribers! Please join me there if you’d like to. Any tips on dos & don’ts also welcome! substack.com/@drmirandaka...
Anyone teach @aqaeducation.bsky.social A Level USA 1865-1975? I’ll be new to it next year and looking to network! @spbeale.bsky.social is this yours? @katiehall.bsky.social know anyone? Always wanted to teach this unit so v excited! #historyteacher
June 21, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Anyone teach @aqaeducation.bsky.social A Level USA 1865-1975? I’ll be new to it next year and looking to network! @spbeale.bsky.social is this yours? @katiehall.bsky.social know anyone? Always wanted to teach this unit so v excited! #historyteacher
What a great #haconf25… inspired by @msquinnhistory.bsky.social on Irish history, @mrbajkowski.bsky.social on assessment and barnstorming keynote from Diarmaid MacCulloch… loved presenting and thank you to my little group for all the enthusiasm for criminal women at GCSE!
May 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
What a great #haconf25… inspired by @msquinnhistory.bsky.social on Irish history, @mrbajkowski.bsky.social on assessment and barnstorming keynote from Diarmaid MacCulloch… loved presenting and thank you to my little group for all the enthusiasm for criminal women at GCSE!
Seeing a lot of train tweets from folk off to #HAConf25! Sad to miss tomorrow but all for the good reason of orchestrating leavers’ day for a fab bunch of Y13. See you on Saturday for some misbehaving GCSE women…
May 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Seeing a lot of train tweets from folk off to #HAConf25! Sad to miss tomorrow but all for the good reason of orchestrating leavers’ day for a fab bunch of Y13. See you on Saturday for some misbehaving GCSE women…