@labhistorical

Historian & Archaeologist - author and factual TV researcher - love rocks, pots and the Parthenon! 🏛⛏🌍✏📚🎬

labhistorical.co.uk
Joined November 2013
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Glad to bring new global units to the Knowing History series! Exciting times for teaching world history in our classrooms! 📚🌎📚🌍📚🌏📚
Collins Secondary
@FreedomtoTeach13 May 2022
Great to see @labhistorical, co-author of our upcoming Knowing History second editions at @histassoc #HAConf22 today! The exciting new editions include units on world history, from the Ottoman Empire to African kingdoms. Find out more: collins.co.uk/KnowingHistory
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Doing the move - now find me @labhistorical.bsky.social
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FREE Webinar: Discover how you can transform your KS3 History curriculum, driving student engagement and achievement. 📅 5th March, 4-5pm Find out more: ow.ly/L9LS50UYmnZ #CPD #History
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Night Thoughts: Time If only we could be like fleet-footed Hermes and steal a moment in time, then seize what was lost.
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For my latest article for @BBC_Culture, I wrote about the women freedom fighters of the Haitian Revolution. Women like Sanité Bélair who had bravery, determination and dedication against all odds for the liberation of #Haiti. Very proud of this piece bbc.com/culture/article/2024…

'In some cases, it was the women who were fiercest in the fight': The female freedom fighters of...

Contemporary paintings celebrate the brave women who fought fiercely alongside the men in the Haitian revolution of the 18th Century.

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Interesting!
James Wright@jpwarchaeology18 Aug 2024
The most stubbornly persistent myth about historic buildings is the yarn that all spiral stairs in castles turn clockwise to advantage right-handed defenders. Yet it was invented in 1902 by an art critic and didn't gain popularity until the mid-20th century... a thread 🧵
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Today's PUNCH colour cover. Olympics gone by... When in Rome... Charles Adamson 1960 #OlympicGames #Olympics #Italy #Italians #clergy #halos #flags #columns #architecture #Colosseum #culturalheritage #monuments #priests
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Sounds like a great opportunity!
Professor Amanda Vickery@Amanda_Vickery12 Jul 2024
We historians @QMUL are launching a new MA stream in the history of women, gender and sexualities - from Middle Ages to post Cold War. Come work with Jane Freedland @onslies @MiriERubin - me & others, plus do a history internship too.
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"Reading Station" by Charles Hindley & Co., London, с. 1890.
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Sign up for tomorrow!
Collins Secondary
@FreedomtoTeach21 Jun 2024
Looking to integrate exciting new histories into your KS3 curriculum? @labhistorical shows you how to globalise your reformation teaching in this free webinar focusing on #Aztecs and #Ottomans. 📅 Tue 25/6, 4–5pm Save your spot: ow.ly/g0lC50Si8F2
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Fellow Laura here heading to Winchester for my first #BATW24 today! Looking forward to meeting new scholars and friends this weekend :)
Britain and the World@BATW_tweets18 Mar 2024
Attend for the scholarship. Stay for the friendships. I (Laura) attended my first BATW conference in 2013. I’ve built meaningful friendships over the past decade through BATW. Whether this is your first or tenth conference, there’s a place for you to build your community, too!
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Join @labhistorical for a free webinar as she explores how you can integrate the Aztecs and Ottomans into your Reformation teaching and globalise your KS3 curriculum. 📅 Tue 25/6, 4–5pm Save your spot: ow.ly/AJtV50Si8y8
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nec.ac.uk/2024/04/25/the-cla… Highly recommend for #historyteachers to take advantage of the opportunity to expand your knowledge into such an interesting time period!
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Anyone got any particular questions in advance they might want me to cover....? #twitterstorians #edutwitter #historyteacher #haconf24
Collins Secondary
@FreedomtoTeach3 Jun 2024
Looking to integrate exciting new histories into your KS3 curriculum? @labhistorical shows you how to globalise your reformation teaching in this free webinar focusing on #Aztecs and #Ottomans. 📅 Tue 25/6, 4–5pm Save your spot: ow.ly/cxro50S3TtX
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Enrich your KS3 history lessons with the untold narratives of the Ottomans. @labhistorical sheds light on why and how to integrate this pivotal era into the curriculum. Don't miss out on bridging this historical gap: ow.ly/X7va50RHYZc

Restoring the Ottomans: Bridging the gap in the History Curriculum

Laura Aitken-Burt discusses how the Ottoman empire is often ignored in the history curriculum, to the detriment of a wider understanding of European and global history in the Early Modern period as...

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1/ During the Han Dynasty (202 BC - 220 AD), members of imperial family were buried in jade burial suits. Jade was believed to possess magical properties that would protect the body from decay and ward off evil spirits. This suit is constructed of 4,248 custom-cut jade pieces connected by gold wire.
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Great time at #haconf24 with fascinating talks and a load of new ideas to takeaway as always, particularly how to input more focus on the environment in our enquiries. Thanks to all who spoke and do reach out to collaborate with me on athenasocietyofficial.com
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Amazing to be there - great speech and got my book signed too! 🙌
William Dalrymple
@DalrympleWill11 May 2024
Marking the May 11th anniversary of the outbreak of the Great Uprising of 1857 by speaking to the Historical Association Annual Conference on the East India Company and its overthrow to #HAConf24 ⁦@histassoc
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This looks like it might be a useful resource for: - A Level Classical Civilisation - Invention of the Barbarian - GCSE & A Level Ancient History - GCSE Classical Greek - Herodotus set text 🏺
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Get in touch and get your students to submit their work! I'll be speaking @histassoc in a few weeks time - come and find out more #edutwitter #historyteachers
The Classical Association@Classical_Assoc16 Apr 2024
Up now on the #CA blog: classics, politics and history teacher @labhistorical shares her classroom experience and why she set up the Athena Society with her students! Read here: classicalassociation.org/ath…

Athena Society: using history to tackle misogyny in schools - The Classical Association

Athena Society: using history to tackle misogyny in schools AUTHOR: Laura Aitken-Burt On Monday 14th June 2021, the CA hosted a virtual event for schoolteachers, designed to provide information, and...

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@HughJRichards would love to get your school onboard after your great assembly efforts at trying to address misogyny
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