Patrick O’Shaughnessy FRSA
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Patrick O'Shaughnessy | Head of Faculty | Co-Editor @versushistory | Edruptor via @ISC_Research | Chartered History Teacher & Historian | FIoL | FCCT | FRSA
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I am honoured and humbled to have been elected as a Fellow of the
@CharteredColl
. This is an amazing privilege and I look forward to doing all that I can to continue to contribute meaningfully to the teaching profession and the institution. I am very, very grateful.
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Welcome to the world, Ernest Franklin O’Shaughnessy, aka Historychappy Jnr. Mother & baby both well. I am as happy as can be! 😀 🍼
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Historians and the facts that they use. E.H Carr’s classic quote from back in 1961.
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Literacy is everyone’s responsibility. I routinely extract words from scholarship & test for them to help nourish & nurture the lexicon of students, giving examples of how they were used. Teaching students how to write better essays is pivotal - it won’t happen by osmosis.
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This superb Cold War timeline is available gratis from the good people
@HodderHistory
over at their website. Go get it! 😀
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Historical Thinking Chart from
@SHEG_Stanford
... History Teachers in the British system might find this useful, too! Really useful resource. 🇺🇸🇬🇧
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Absolutely delighted this morning to wake up to an email from the
@histassoc
informing me that I have just been awarded 'Chartered Teacher Status' (CTHist). 😀⭐️🙏
Thank you so much to all the Teachers of Twitter who so freely offered me insight & wisdom during the process!
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I am beyond delighted to have been elected as a member of the Royal Historical Society (
@RoyalHistSoc
) today! A genuine lifelong ambition achieved. I cannot wait to get involved with the invaluable work of the institution to promote history.
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I am overjoyed & delighted to say that Historychappy Jnr. / Errol Winston O’Shaughnessy arrived in the world today at 1.40pm Bahrain time.😀🤱🏼
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Historians and the facts that they use. E.H Carr’s classic quote from back in 1961.
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Analytic vocabulary for students when considering Change & Continuity. From Rachel Foster's article in
@histassoc
’s Teaching History'.
#history
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History Essays: have got these
@histassoc
bits & pieces laminated for the students to help when writing them in class. 😀
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Historical Thinking Chart from
@SHEG_Stanford
... History Teachers in the British system might find this useful, too! Really useful resource. 🇺🇸🇬🇧
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British History through time; great overview, worthy of display in any History classroom. Another
@histassoc
classic.
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11 Tips for Writing a Personal Statement. Awesome resource for any Sixth Form student.
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How to write an introduction to a History essay; article in the
@histassoc
magazine 'Teaching History'. Great stuff!
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On this day, 61 years ago (or 22,279 days ago). Ruby Bridges attended a previously all-white elementary school, escorted by US marshals.
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How to use Historiography at A-Level / IB / Pre-U. Great resource to help develop student essays. Thanks to Hodder for this useful artcile. 😀
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Really, really pleased to have received the 'Chartered Teacher' certificate today from the Historical Association today!
#CPD
#TeacherDevelopment
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Did the Nazis establish control over Germany? Yet another awesome heuristic from
@HodderMagazines
for History students. Get a subscription to Hindsight magazine! 😀
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Timeline of the Vietnam War from Hodder. If you are interested in History or Cold War, you need to check this out.
#history
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Integrating the work of E.H Carr into the History classroom. Great extract from
@histassoc
‘Teaching History’ & yet another example of why this publication is worth its weight in gold.
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History Essays: For those that requested the link to download these, here it is.
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Historians and the facts that they use. E.H Carr’s classic quote from back in 1961.
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Causes of the Nazi rise to power. From a 2007 article in Hodder's 'Modern History Review'.
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Magna Carta 1215 in short. From All About History Magazine.
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Who paid the highest price in WW1? Yet another gem of a resource from 'Teaching History' magazine.
#WW1
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Tottenham Hotspur’s first black footballer. His name was Walter Tull. He fought at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. We never returned home from WW1.
#LestWeForget
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Of the 1917 Bolshevik Central Committee, only one was still alive by 1940. That was Stalin. This source was produced by supporters of Trotsky.
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Blackpool in 1952. Lancashire always looks good in the sunshine. 😀
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Decolonisation in Africa. Resource from Hodder.
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History Vocabulary Table; got this gem from
@histassoc
magazine 'Teaching History'. Great for any Teacher looking to help students construct essays / arguments.
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Propaganda postcard for the Anschluss to the German Reich in the early 1920s. By Alfred Pirkkert.
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Treaty of Versailles, 1919. The impact in an infographic. From an old SHP Textbook.
#history
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Adolf Hitler practising his poses and posturing for a speech during the 1920s.
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Intentionalist, Structuralist & Social Historians. If I teach you IB or A-Level History, then you need to get to know this! 😀
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Treaty of Versailles, 1919. The impact in an infographic. From an old SHP Textbook.
#history
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The Roman Empire. From the DK publication ‘What Happened When’.
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Historians and the facts that they use. E.H Carr’s classic quote from back in 1961.
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Iconic rave photographs through time. Some outstanding primary source material right here! Thanks to
@Mixmag
for these. 😀
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Decolonisation in Africa. Resource from Hodder.
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History Vocabulary Table; got this gem from
@histassoc
magazine 'Teaching History'. Great for any Teacher looking to help students construct essays / arguments.
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Historical Thinking Chart from
@SHEG_Stanford
... History Teachers in the British system might find this useful, too! 🇺🇸🇬🇧
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I got married this week - the happiest day of my life. 😀
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Did the Nazis establish control over Germany? Yet another awesome heuristic from
@HodderMagazines
for History students. Get a subscription to Hindsight magazine! 😀
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Wives of Henry VIII. Useful infographic for anyone teaching or learning about the Tudors. From All About History Magazine.
#tudors
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1066. From the death of Edward the Confessor to the crowning of William on 25 December. Article from BBC History Magazine.
#NormanConquest
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Nanny of the Maroons is depicted on the Jamaican $500 bill. She led the Maroons in a successful guerilla war campaign against the British, signing a peace treaty in 1740. She was declared a Jamaican national hero in 1975. 🇯🇲
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Treaty of Versailles, 1919. The impact in an infograohic. From an old SHP Textbook.
#history
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Treaty of Versailles, 1919. The impact in an infographic. From an old SHP Textbook.
#history
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Nikita Khrushchev’s ‘Secret Speech’ in 1956. ‘The speech, which lasted four hours, was a turning-point in the USSR’s politics. It’s unifying topic was Stalin.’ Analysis of Professor Robert Service.
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Queen Elizabeth I: Was she a strong ruler? Great resource from Hodder. 👑
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The Kennan and Novikov Telegrams & the escalation of the early Cold War.
Analysis of Historian John Lewis Gaddis.
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Introductions to History essays.
A template of the essentials, avoiding waffle & unnecessary elements that can haemorrhage valuable time & obfuscate focus in exam scenarios.
This & much more in our book!
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Policing in Nazi Germany; the stuff every History Teacher should know, from the sublime
@histassoc
'Teaching History' magazine.
#history
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Cuban Missile Crisis. Where could Soviet missiles have potentially hit? Useful infographic for my GCSE Historians.
#ColdWar
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‘Communist ideology & Marxist-Leninist economic theory contained the seeds of their own destruction ... The smiling Communist youth cadres of the 1950s gave way to the sullen, apathetic workers of the 1970s ...’ Analysis of Historian
@anneapplebaum
.
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Hi
@claire_m1089
these are some examples from my classes, across a range of age groups. Hope it helps!
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How to treat the Black Death; great little infographic for KS3 students. From All About History.
#history
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Historical Thinking Chart from
@SHEG_Stanford
... History Teachers in the British system might find this useful, too! Helpful resource as the academic year begins. 😀
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Propaganda postcard for the Anschluss to the German Reich in the early 1920s. By Alfred Pirkkert.
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‘Nazi propaganda liked to give the impression that Gestapo officers were everywhere. Nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, the Gestapo was a very small organisation.’
Historian Frank McDonough
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President Hindenburg as a check on Hitler’s power until his death in 1934.
Analysis of Professor Ian Kershaw.
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Y9; check out this infographic of a Victorian Slum. Great little resource from All About History magazine.
#industrialrevolution
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Great Depression 1929-1933; a ‘must know’ paragraph for any student of Germany 1918-1945. From the classic & comprehensive textbook by Hite & Hinton.
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I have never seen this source before - perhaps of use for anyone teaching about Weimar & Nazi Germany:
‘He’s destroying everything! Vote him down!’
A German Election flyer from the early 1930s.
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The Great Depression. Why did Adolf Hitler succeed where others had failed? From the ‘tour de force’ textbook by Hinton & Hite.
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Having read this twice, I feel that now is the time for a third re-read. What a book. 😀
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‘The years 1924-9 have often been described as the ‘golden years’ of the Weimar Republic. ‘Gold-plated’ might be more apt.’
Analysis of Historian Theo Balderston.
#Weimar
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Thank you to everyone who caught my talk for
@SenecaLearn
&
@TMHistoryIcons
. I am very, very grateful! I will aim to get through the messages & get back to you all. I have learnt so much from my co-speakers. Thank you all! 😀😀😀
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Little Rock High School in Arkansas. The bench is dedicated to Elizabeth Eckford of the Little Rock Nine - there is one for each of the nine students. 🇺🇸
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‘History consists of a corpus of ascertained facts. The facts are available to the historian … like fish on the fishmonger’s slab. The historian collects them, takes them home and cooks and serves them in whatever style appeals to him.’
E.H Carr, 1961
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Hitler's Foreign Policy, 1933-1939. Yet another very useful resource from
@HodderMagazines
/
@HodderHistory
. If you don't already subscribe to Hodder Hindsight, it's a genuine, bona fide bargain! 😀
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Note-taking tools and techniques. Really useful piece from
@HodderMagazines
‘Hindsight’ History Magazine. 😀
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Analytic vocabulary for students when considering Change & Continuity. From Rachel Foster's article in 'Teaching History'.
#history
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‘The Treaty of Versailles ... left Germany in a surprisingly strong geostrategic position.’
Analysis of Historian Michael S. Neiberg. One to get debate going in your classroom, perhaps ...
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‘Can we call the Suffragettes terrorists? Absolutely’ Interview with
@FernRiddell
in a back issue of BBC History Magazine.
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Today I will be inspired mostly by this wonderful extract from
@histassoc
'Teaching History' Magazine.
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Nazi Education System. The History curriculum, school assignments & a dictation exercise. From the Hite & Hinton textbook.
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History knowledge tests have really aided the retention of key subject-specific information. Download my offerings gratis from
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Introductions by professional historians; some food for thought here. From
@histassoc
'Teaching History' magazine.
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‘Germany’s financial crisis precipitated the collapse of the Weimar Republic with frightening speed.’ Analysis of Historian Tobias Straumann.
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How to write an History Essay that shows synthesis. Great article from Hodder & a must read for A-Level students.
#history
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𝗟𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗸𝗲𝘆𝘀?
A useful article for anyone teaching about WW1 from a 2007 back issue of Hodder’s Hindsight Magazine.
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There are some genuine gems in this series! 🤴 👸
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Women in Nazi Germany. Analysis of Historian Stephen J. Lee.
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British Empire; using 'HP' Sauce as a starting point from which to launch our investigation of the topic. My favourite lesson this year.
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Vietnam War Timeline. Decent resource for anyone teaching / learning about the topic. From All About History Magazine.
#history
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Vietnam War Timeline. Decent resource for anyone teaching / learning about the topic. From All About History Magazine.
#history
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Civil Rights Timeline from 1955-1964. From All About History Magazine.
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How did Hitler go from Chancellor in 1933 to Fuhrer in 1934? This gem of a resource from
@VersusHistory
outlines the key causal factors. Grab it from
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Motte and Bailey Castle. The Norman Conquest 1066. From All About History Magazine.
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Medieval Castles; great KS3 resource for History Teachers & Students. From History Revealed magazine.
#history
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President Hindenburg as a check on Hitler’s power until his death in 1934. Analysis of Professor Ian Kershaw.
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