A wonderful article by James Wright for anyone teaching about castles at primary or secondary school or visiting castles for enjoyment - historiography, questions, challenge etc - very clearly explained.
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Looking forward to Historical Assoc conference especially as I'm not preparing a session - it's taken me decades to realise conferences are gentler this way. I do hope youthful presenters on teaching medieval history don't mind a retired ex-teacher sitting quietly at the back.

All of our Early Bird tickets have now sold, but don't worry we are launching our Tier 1 tickets for #SHP24 today! Check out some of the awesome workshops that we have lined up for you showing the breadth of content and calibre of presenters that will be Leeds Trinity University June 29-30

A delight to have a new generation of neighbouring children - they've just helped me measure out the Great Hall at Harewood castle c1400 in our cul de sac so I could see how large that 30ft x 55ft space really is.

Final chance to get your Early Bird tickets (saving £20 on a full price ticket!) and join us for our spectacular summer conference (schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/conferences/). More tasters to come next week with the launch of the Tier 1 tickets. store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-catalo…

Absolutely! At least 1 workshop in every session, with some fantastic presenters including Ailsa Fidler ([email protected]) Emmy and MrsBruce with workshops on diversity, empire and history around us. Tickets available here store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-catalo…

Great to see a strong Primary History programme alongside the Secondary History sessions at this year's SHP Conference.

Really enjoyed our group visit to Newcastle The Lit and Phil yesterday - my apologies to our guide for getting over-excited at seeing massed ranks of Cal Pat Rolls, Cal Close Rolls etc etc in a library that's not part of a university. My heart still belongs to The Leeds Library though

What do SHP Fellows do in retirement? Meet up 2x a year in different places and explore. Newcastle this week - tho sadly Chris Culpin absent. Lit & Phil, Mining Inst, Art Gallery & we stood where Stephenson built Rocket and where Garibaldi and Kossuth plotted revolution

Very taken by this quotation from Prof Alexandra Walsham in Historical Assoc HA News President's Letter
'History is a form of ventriloquism: it is the skill of making them speak again, across the centuries that divide us.'

Richard Keogh Historical Assoc You may have seen we are undertaking a national survey about the teaching of Empire. The survey can be completed online we have extended the deadline to 30th April , using the following link: redcap.idhs.ucl.ac.uk/surveys/?s=L33… . twitter.com/messages/media…

Excellent to see stomas being 'normalised'. Mine has so far given me 43 more years of life and marriage, our son & many other though less important enjoyments. It can be hard to get used to having a stoma but they save lives and create opportunities you'd never have without them

For every carer battling on - I can't achieve what I want to achieve i.e. I can't reduce my wife's pain, restore her mobility or our life as it was but she sent me this today and we are so lucky to be still together after nearly 50 years. Dr Paddy Dawson

Flummoxed to discover that this is to be published in Taiwan in Chinese 21 years after publication here - archaeology in medieval Yorkshire, Richard III, 17thC emigration to America Windrush etc. But I have bought myself an Easter Egg as a reward.

Eerie text from our son on a fieldtrip with his GCSE students 'We survived the night and are on our way to the Somme'.
Sent shivers up our spines.
In tribute here's my grandfather's letter from Ypres 1915 on one night's fighting:
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The Eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that it looked like all the workshops at #SHP24 were taking place on Saturday, I've now updated the schedule to reflect the whole weekend schoolshistoryproject.co.uk/conferences/

Absolutely thrilled to be able to share the final programme for the SHP Summer Conference June 29-30 Leeds Trinity University. We have a wonderful array of speakers and topics and some very special guests in our plenary slots. Early Bird tickets still available from store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-catalo…

This article about sport headlinde 'time for sport to prioritise joy' applies just as much to teaching - 'coaches such as Gareth Southgate and Sarina Wiegman create environments characterised by fun & flair, support & compassion (in) preparing for world-class performance'

I totally agree, I owe so much of my progress, and enjoyment as a History teacher to my SHP family (shoutout to d c Nick Dennis Luke Mayhew Richard Kerridge!) and having the opportunity to share at the SHP summer conference has been invaluable

Thanks so much for your inspiring contributions Claire Holliss, and we can't wait for your workshop at our summer conference in Leeds (Early Bird tickets still available here store.leedstrinity.ac.uk/product-catalo…)