Handy History Teaching Tips are conversational podcasts designed to help history teachers with tips, examples and ideas about history teaching. Sally Thorne is a head of department and senior examiner. Helen Snelson was a head of department and now trains history teachers. Between us we have more years’ classroom history teaching experience than we are going to admit here! Both of us regularly write resources and present at conferences. We are proudly history specific and practical in our approach.
Our hope is that this podcast will become something of a problem page for history teachers: if you’re wrestling with something particularly tricky and need some help, drop us an email at handyhistoryteachingtips@gmail.com and we will see what we can cook up between us.
In this episode, Helen and Sally talk to Tessa Hosking, former history teacher and author of a 1984 textbook on Black British History. Huge thanks to Tessa for talking to us about past efforts to improve the diversity of school history and for her patience (it has taken nearly a year to get it uploaded!)
Tessa's book is Black People in Britain 1650-1850 (1984) and is available second hand. The book that Tessa refers to towards the end of the podcast is Black Settlers in Britain 1555-1958 by Nigel File and Chris Power (1981). Tessa is an enthusiastic participant in What's Happening In Black British History? details of which can be found here - https://blackbritishhistory.co.uk/
Don't forget, we're your History Teaching Agony Aunts! Contact us by emailing handyhistoryteachingtips@gmail.com or tweeting us @snelsonh and @MrsThorne
5 May 2021
Episode 31 - A Conversation with Kate Smee
In this episode, Helen and Sally talk to History teacher Kate Smee, who reflects on the work she has been doing to decolonise the curriculum and take an anti-racist approach in the history classroom.
Don't forget, we're your History Teaching Agony Aunts! Contact us by emailing handyhistoryteachingtips@gmail.com or tweeting us @snelsonh and @MrsThorne
27 Jan 2021
Episode 30 - A Conversation with Joshua Preye Garry
In this episode, Helen and Sally talk to History teacher Joshua Preye Garry.
You can read the blog post that Josh wrote here - https://blog.educationplatform.co.uk/author/jgarry/ - and read more about the How We Got Here project here - https://www.reachinghigher.org.uk/how-we-got-here
Apologies for the occasional, mysterious gaps in the sound recording; Sally is probably going to be using them as an excuse to buy a new and better computer in the near future.
Don't forget, we're your History Teaching Agony Aunts! Contact us by emailing handyhistoryteachingtips@gmail.com or tweeting us @snelsonh and @MrsThorne
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