Teaching Fellow (History Education) | @MorayHouse | Difficult & Uncomfortable Histories | Remembrance & Commemoration | With a Dash of Cycling
Glasgow, Scotland
Joined April 2015
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Boxing Day, blow the cobwebs away! Hope you all had a lovely Christmas Day!
Over on Insta now for anyone who’s left here: instagram.com/_paulhamilton?…
An absolute pleasure to represent @MorayHouse at the @I_W_M’s Beyond Borders CPD event.
Not only a day spent at one of the world’s best museums, but even managed to get some time in the research room too.
7 schools, 4 days, 312 miles… It’s been great to catch-up with the @MorayHouse PGDE Historians this week in W. Dun, S. Lanark, Fife, Renfrewshire, & Edinburgh. A huge thank you to history teacher colleagues for their magnificent mentoring. Here’s to next week and more visits!
Tour De Renfrewshire today. Including my first tutor visit to Johnstone High after being a student teacher there sixteen years ago!
Two placement visits with observed lessons on the Scottish Wars of Independence, followed by that game. There was a theme to yesterday 🏴👀
Proud to share the first film in our ongoing collaboration between @MorayHouse and @ScotWarMemorial, exploring the history, legacy, and future of Scotland’s memorial to conflict.
youtu.be/5IbJYhufDnQ
Worst attempt at annual leave almost at an end! Feeling very Kenneth More [Colin Maud] on the Normandy beaches for my return. If you see me carrying a shilleagh and ranting about placements this week, I’m okay, don’t be overly concerned!
My burnt respiratory system had some view of this! 🫣 Was on the platform about ten ft from the tree as the cables blew ⚡️
Great day with @WFASouthScot branch members at the @TheWFA Scotland Annual Conference. Brilliant lectures by Prof Sir Hew Strachan, Prof Peter Doyle, and Nick Hewitt to name a few.
My mountain bike was stolen earlier this year 💔 I debated for a long time about getting something new/different. Well, here she is…
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David Carter delivering an excellent presentation to the Branch yesterday about the Quintinshill Rail Disaster on 22 May 1915.
Many thanks to Branch members, and friends of the Branch, for making it such a successful event.
PGDE History on tour…
A pleasure to be at the Scots Guards Club in Edinburgh with some of the @MorayHouse historians for a @WFASouthScot lecture on the Quintinshill Rail Disaster.
“Flags are never just pieces of fabric. They are symbols that carry deep emotional weight, representing identity, loyalty, and belonging. But they can also divide, intimidate, and exclude.”
A few thoughts on the flags appearing in towns and cities…
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Fourth annual ‘Wheel & Walk Challenge’ at @drum_cycle. Always an amazing day working with a fantastic team to get riders [of all ages] from Drumchapel to Clydebank, Bowling, and Dumbarton.
Chamberlain - you see God in you.
Trotsky - Honeymoon, serenade the naked.
Che Guevara - you're all target now.
Pol Pot - withdrawn traces, bye bye.
Farrakhan - alimony alimony.
Without this album and without Revol I doubt I would’ve been a history teacher!
Absolute bucket list experience! Riding the track at the @chrishoy velodrome. What an adrenaline rush! Is it too late for a career change?
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It’s happening! 25th to 29th August, a team from @UofGArchaeo & @ArchScot will be excavating the old Kelvingrove Park concrete skatepark with some 1970s skateboarders!! Visitors welcome. Watch the media for more info! #KelvinWheelies
Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Park skatepark (1978-1983). I’m hopeful of being able to soon announce details of a week of skateboarding heritage & archaeology here later in the summer. #HalfpipeHeritage
ALT Kelvingrove skatepark remains in the park
ALT Kelvingrove skatepark remains in the park