Can History be Objective?
Great article for those seeking to delve deeper in the latest edition of Modern History Review from @HLearning11to19.
Well worth the subscription for this alone! 👍
29.09.2025 17:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This week our Law, History & Politics Society began prep for our first student-led (thank you to my amazing 6th Formers!) mock trial of the year. Alongside the excitement of debating and challenging ideas, we have placed language, oracy and literacy at the heart of what we do.
29.09.2025 17:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘Hitler’s non-bureaucratic, personalised style of rule encouraged underlings to push ahead with initiatives of their own in the hopes of anticipating the Führer’s will.’
Historian Volker Ullrich.
22.09.2025 16:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘… even after 1933, Hitler did his utmost to avoid hard and fast political rulings where possible.’
Historian Hans Mommsen, 1976.
22.09.2025 16:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
😅😅😅
12.09.2025 09:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘Governors must have the skills at their disposal to carry out effective selection processes.’
Encouraging to see the focus on the very highest standards of school governance being maintained in the latest DfE guidance for state schools.
Link: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/68b836...
12.09.2025 09:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great people make great schools. And there are none greater than the St Chris Cafe legends!
They bring the good vibes, big smiles, friendly faces and GREAT COFFEE! ☕️ 🇧🇭 🥐 🫖
30.06.2025 13:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘NEP demonstrated a struggle in Lenin’s mind between the need to accommodate the shortcomings of the revolution and reintegrate state with society, and yet to hold onto the essentials of Bolshevism and preserve as much as possible of what had been achieved.’
Historian James Ryan
10.06.2025 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This is where all the HISTORY HAPPENS! 💥 🔥 💪
19.03.2025 11:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘Geography is the backdrop to human history itself.’
Robert D. Kaplan in ‘The Revenge of Geography’
15.03.2025 18:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Classroom washing lines: some excellent work from our IB historians on the rise of an authoritarian state in Germany. Bravo! 👏 🔥 🧼
05.03.2025 12:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Historian E.P. Thompson had very little time for counterfactuals, labelling them ‘unhistorical *%#*’. 😮
That notwithstanding (!), some of the greatest pedagogic utility I have leveraged out of AI / LLMs thus far has been to generate counterfactuals as starter activities. #AI
25.02.2025 18:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Amazing student-baked treats with our Sixth Form Historians. 😋 🇧🇭 👍
20.02.2025 06:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Exploring the beauty of Bahrain National Museum! 🇧🇭
18.02.2025 08:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Jolly diplomatic … 🤭
14.02.2025 14:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Better than New Walk & Newarke House?
14.02.2025 14:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Those gunnies would do some serious damage, too … 😳
09.02.2025 14:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All the fun of the Future Learning Summit comes to St Christopher's School this weekend! Good luck to Lauren Binnington & the organising team. We are all very excited about this! #FLS #StChris #FutureLearningSummit
05.02.2025 13:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘It was no accident that Orwell’s Big Brother had a Stalin-like moustache.’
Historian John Lewis Gaddis.
04.02.2025 13:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A glorious day supporting the Under 13 BSME - British Schools in the Middle East games here at St Christopher’s today. #schoolsport #athletics
01.02.2025 14:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Counterfactual questions to kick lessons off with cognition this week with our IB Diploma Historians. #history #IB #IBO
29.01.2025 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Some awesome CPD in our History Department this week from Monnay Sewell, reviewing our KS3 History Assessment strategy.
Some great takeaways, food for thought and plans for future action! #CPD #history
29.01.2025 17:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
And don’t a great many military generals across the ages know it … #history
25.01.2025 18:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The delights of exploring the epistemological & disciplinary underpinnings of History with students never cease! I just love kicking off lessons with such quotes. #history #teaching #learning
24.01.2025 15:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great to accompany our Year 7 students on their cross-curricular Geography and History trip to Bahrain Fort. Lots of great student-led and directed multimedia documentaries on the way! #bahrain #bahrainfort #XCurricular
21.01.2025 17:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So excited that our annual Sixth Form Humanities Symposium is taking place today!
Our wonderful Sixth Form students delivering an eclectic & stimulating range of presentations.
A brilliant day for student-led research, networking, presentation skills and oracy! 🫡 🇧🇭 🎙️
18.01.2025 10:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Living in History Teacher wonderland with the jacket on for the Winter! 🧥 🥶 🇧🇭
16.01.2025 15:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Flowers in bloom here in the front garden of St Christopher’s! 🌷
14.01.2025 14:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
‘It is worth starting with visions … because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.’
Historian John Lewis Gaddis.
10.01.2025 15:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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