Pam Canning

Teaching Slavery Teaching Slavery offers ground-breaking research and practical guidance for teaching Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Combining historical analysis with classroom strategies, it equips educato...

I cannot recommend highly enough this free, open access resource for anyone teaching about slavery in the UK

uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Nearly 100k people have joined our call to get dangerous US spy tech firm out of our NHS.

Palantir's founder has called for the NHS to be ripped up. Now his company has access to millions of patient records.

Tell the government to end the contract!

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Reform Candidate Matthew Goodwin’s MAGA Network Matthew Goodwin, Reform UK’s candidate in the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election, has ties to influential groups in the orbit of U.S. President Donald Trump. Goodwin, a GB News presenter and forme...

“Reform’s plan to scrap net zero won’t take a penny off your energy bills. it’ll just hand your wallet over to the gas giants and markets controlled by dictators like Putin”

MAGA, Putin, Orbán, Bannon, Farage, Reform. All the v worst people colluding to screw us over.
www.desmog.com/2026/02/13/r...

I am absolutely thrilled that the @1972shp.bsky.social Developing Teachers' Conference has signed up 95 teachers of history for Saturday, nearly doubling last year's attendance. BUT I really want to hit three figures so am offering 5 free places to the first 5 people who DM me asking for them!

Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...

They claim they’re putting personal ambition aside and defecting to Reform to help fix the country.
To stop that pisstaking farce, they should be made to hold by-elections in their constituencies and let the voters decide if that’s ok with them. Please sign.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

That’s exactly where the bar needed to be today!

Conversation with my 3 year old daughter this evening which added much needed perspective to a really quite rubbish day.
3yo “I was good today”.
Me “that’s great, well done”.
3yo “yeah, I was kind today”.
Me “that’s lovely, what did you do that was kind?”
3yo “I didn’t hit anyone”
😆

So delighted to have this arrive today. Such an important book for #historyteacher s wanting to do justice to teaching about Britain’s colonial past!

Katie, Nicholas, @justice2history.bsky.social & @abdulmohamud.bsky.social do an amazing job of bringing research and pedagogy together.

Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past is now available as individual (free to download) chapters from JSTOR (no subscription needed). The first set of chapters deal with historical perspectives and the second set with pedagogical perspectives. 1/2

Why is this stuff not higher in uk news?! We cannot keep ignoring what is happening… nor the fact that a whole bunch of people want this for the UK too

Book talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain’s Colonial Past

If you teach histories of British slavery, don't miss this Thursday's book launch and talk: Teaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past, IHR, London 11 December & on Zoom. 5:30pm. Registration details are below and a link to the open access book in post 2/2. This post is 1/2.

If ReformUK get into government next time then we can kiss goodbye to:

Paid holidays

Sick pay

Safer working conditions

Human Rights

Workers Rights

Unions

NHS & healthcare

Social care

Minimum wage

Among many other things.

Every person who knows a Reformer should have the conversation!.

Congratulations 2 CPA's own Robin Whitburn & Abdul Mohamud, 2 Kate Donnington & Nicholas Draper, & 2 our @uclpress.bsky.social colleagues, on the publication of this remarkable & important book - Teaching Slavery: New approaches to Britain’s colonial past. Open access uclpress.co.uk/book/teachin...

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

Why wouldn’t you want to know? What have you got to fear? Losing your precious Brexit? Being revealed as a traitor and a liar?
Surely, anyone decent and honest who genuinely cares about our country and our democracy has nothing to lose from this. So, sign up.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Petition: Defend BBC independence from Trump’s interference Stop Trump Coalition

stoptrump.org.uk/petition-bbc/

Leaving the ECHR won’t stop the boats, 300 organisations warn in rallying cry Prime minister Keir Starmer urged to make positive case for ECHR after Kemi Badenoch pledged a Tory government would leave the treaty

Farage says leaving the ECHR is the “unfinished business" of Brexit and that the UK is "not sovereign” while we are in it.

But Farage lies. And Brexit is a shitshow. So, “finishing” it should fill us all with dread.

Sovereignty without rights is dictatorship.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Farage: epic grifter

Just hoping that one day soon, people will tire of targeting and terrifying asylum seekers and instead, they will turn on politicians who whip up hatred and division to grab at power for themselves…
They are the ones who are failing us.
Not these people.
Prejudice can never make anyone’s life better

Do you know a great history teacher?
Nominate them now for a new history teaching award! Maybe I'll see them at the Tower of London next year!
Nominate someone here: bit.ly/42yhGZP
#historyteachingawards

Thrilled to say I'm a judge for the first ever Inspiring History Teaching Awards, in association with Historic Royal Palaces. Do you know a great history teacher in the UK who deserves to go down in history? Nominate them here bit.ly/42yhGZP

My department have been using it for as long as I’ve been in the school. The Tudors teachers affectionately refer to it as ‘Babs’

Such a powerful and heartbreaking film Dan

www.instagram.com/reel/DPcAFoh... This short film features my mother, daughter of a Holocaust survivor, and now an activist against the war in Gaza. Please share widely

As part of the @BAMEedNetwork - @BameedWales have organised the following 3 events! For Free!

Standing up to Antisemitism 8/10
Islamophobia Awarenss 11/11
And
Gypsy and Traveller Awareness 8/1

Grab your Free Tickets here- www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gypsy-and-...

Please share!

Sexism in the History Curriculum - End Sexism in Schools End Sexism In School’s second crowd research project is looking into the History curriculum taught at KS3 (years 7-9) in England and Wales.

We’re launching the results of our research into gender balance in the History curriculum today.

The report - The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum - found only 12% of History lessons feature women as their main focus. 59% featured no women at all.

School history lessons minimise the role of women, report finds Campaigners say key stage 3 curriculum plays to misogny and teaches a ‘false version of the past’

This report is entirely valid, and I welcome it. However, glancing at the Key Stage 3 curriculum, I can see how it's happened -- there's little emphasis on social history or non-political biography
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Racism isn’t innate – here are five psychological stages that may lead to it There is no genetic or biological basis for dividing the human race into distinct “races.”

theconversation.com/racism-isnt-...

That would be good wouldn’t it! We’re still with edexcel. Looked at OCR B last year and it looks good but didn’t appeal enough to do all the work of moving.. good luck with it all!

Yeah, 6 weeks is long enough to feel like I’ve forgotten how to teach 😆 good luck with the spec switch, which one have you moved to?

If we ask should we teach history of Empire and race, including its controversies and complexities, then 73% of black respondents + two-thirds of white & Asian respondents think this matters

8% of white & minority respondents against

There will be challenges to get that right, of course