@matthewharperduffy.bsky.social
Primary teacher and founder of Local History Hub. Building a grassroots network for sharing local stories, ideas, and place-based learning in schools.
Huge thanks to @migrationmuseum.org and GEM for including Local History Hub in today’s brilliant event 🙌 Grateful to share how schools + heritage partners can collaborate on inclusive local history. Hope to join in person next time!
📍 localhistoryhub.org.uk
Academy Trusts—we’re working with you!
Local History Hub helps schools bring local history to life. We support trusts to enrich the curriculum, connect with heritage, and build community pride.
Want to explore a partnership?
📩 enquiries@localhistoryhub.org.uk
🔗 localhistoryhub.org.uk
🚀 Launching today at 4pm! Local History Hub Blackburn with Darwen is bringing schools, heritage orgs & communities together to explore local stories.
🖐️ Our new Schools Hub Lead will be welcoming everyone.
📩 Want to join? Email enquiries@localhistoryhub.org.uk for the link.
#LocalHistoryHub
📍 Local History Hub is launching in Derby!
We’re connecting schools, heritage orgs & communities to bring local stories into the classroom.
🗓 Mon 7 July, 4pm (online)
🔗 Sign up: www.localhistoryhub.org.uk/local-histor...
#LocalHistory #Derby #HeritageEducation
📍 Local History Hub is launching in Liverpool!
We’re bringing together schools, heritage orgs, and local historians to make Liverpool’s past part of the classroom.
Join our welcome session:
📅 Wed 16 July, 4pm
💻 Online
🔗 Sign up: localhistoryhub.org.uk/liverpool-ci...
#LocalHistory #Liverpool
We're looking for Regional Heritage Advisors to support our teacher-led Local History Hubs in:
📍 South Wales (Cardiff)
📍 North West England (Liverpool, Blackburn, Cheshire West & Chester)
Know anyone who’s passionate about place-based education and local stories? Read on. 🧵
We're very excited to welcome Alex Fairlamb to the Local History Hub Strategic Board as a Non-Executive Director! Her expertise in history education and curriculum design will help shape our growing, teacher-led network.
#LocalHistoryHub #AlexFairlamb #HistoryEducation #CurriculumDesign
🚨 Big news from Local History Hub!
We’re heading to… Derby 🎉
Our fifth and final pilot hub for 2025–26 is officially launching.
📣 We're proud to announce a growing partnership between The Black Curriculum and Local History Hub!
Together, we’re supporting inclusive, place-based history education in schools across the UK. 🧑🏽🏫🏛️
#InclusiveEducation #BlackBritishHistory
🚀 It’s been an exciting week at Local History Hub!
We’re growing our Strategic Board with three brilliant new appointments. 🧵
📢 New appointment at Local History Hub!
We’re excited to welcome Sarah Hartsmith
(@sehartsmith.bsky.social) as our new Director of Curriculum Design. 🧵
🌍 May Round-Up: Local History Hub
This month, we’ve deepened our roots, welcomed new volunteers, and laid the foundations for two exciting new Hubs.
Here’s what we’ve been up to… 🧵👇
We’ve just started developing Local History Hub Liverpool—part of a grassroots, teacher-led pilot helping schools explore the heritage on their doorstep.
It’s early days, but we’re excited to begin connecting with educators, historians, and community partners across the city. 🧵
👀 Something’s brewing…
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Quietly but confidently, something is taking shape in Cheshire West & Chester.
A new Local History Hub—led by teachers, backed by communities, and rooted in place.
It’s part of a UK-wide pilot, and the response has been amazing.
#LocalHistory
#CommunityArchives
#PublicHistory
#BurnhamOnSea
#Highbridge
#NorthSedgemoor
#Sedgemoor
#SomersetHistory
#VisitSomerset
#SomersetHeritage
#WestOfEngland
#SouthWestHistory
The North Sedgemoor Local History Group deserves real recognition for this thoughtful exhibition. If you're in the area, it's well worth a visit — and even better if you can bring someone who might help piece together the stories behind the photos.
13.05.2025 11:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0When communities are invited in, exhibitions become more than displays. They become stories that belong to people.
13.05.2025 11:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is what makes local history so powerful — it’s collaborative. Everyone has a piece of the puzzle.
13.05.2025 11:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The best part? The organisers are asking the public to help identify people in the pictures. “We’re hoping their relatives will come along and help us fill in the jigsaw,” they said. Love that.
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📸 Just saw a story about an amazing photo exhibition in Burnham-on-Sea — 140 years of local history on display: from Victorian beach days to 1953 coronation parties to long-lost railways.
13.05.2025 11:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thinking about VE Day today.
Hard to imagine what it felt like in 1945 — relief, joy, exhaustion, silence.
So much of that history is still around us, just not always in plain sight. A photo on the wall, a name on a memorial, a story someone once told.
It’s worth pausing for.
#VEDay
Delighted to welcome Beck Crnoja as Community Lead for Cardiff Local History Hub!
She’s teaming up with Liz Berry (Schools Lead) to connect schools with Cardiff’s heritage. Can’t wait to see what they create together. First hub meeting this autumn.
Welcome, Beck!
#LocalHistoryHub #Cardiff
📣 April Round-Up from Local History Hub
This month, we’ve made steady progress — growing new hubs, building partnerships, and laying the groundwork for more place-based education across the UK. A thread 🧵
📢 Volunteer Opportunity: Regional Heritage Advisor – North West England
Help shape how local history is taught and shared in schools and communities across the region. 🧵
🚨 Volunteer Opportunity: National Heritage Advisor – England
Join Local History Hub and help shape how local history is explored, shared, and taught across England. 🧵
🌟 Volunteer Opportunity! 🌟
We’re looking for a Community Lead to help launch our new Blackburn with Darwen Hub with Local History Hub! 🏡✨
Exciting news from Local History Hub! 🎉
We've officially launched our new hub in Blackburn with Darwen — building a grassroots network to connect schools, communities, and local heritage.
🧵 We’re looking for a Regional Heritage Advisor for South Wales!
A voluntary role for someone who loves local stories, community history & making learning rooted in place. More below ⬇️
#Volunteering #Heritage #Education #Cymru #LocalHistoryHub
