NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
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This is because I have had to mark three separate essays for Y13 about Henry VII foreign policy in the last fortnight and I am bored of it. Bored, I say! Medina del Campo be damned! (Don’t tell Ferdinand)
I have also been reading Y13 coursework and marking Y11 answers, so it is exhausted delirium
Just FYI, exam board: there isn’t a separate section in the book about foreign policy, so…keep that in mind, pls and stop asking the same question every year, thx.
Here he is! #historyteacher #EarlyTudors
My copy of Penguin Monarchs: Henry VII arrived today! #historyteacher #EarlyTudors
Come and see us talking about our favourite women from Peterborough's history on Saturday!
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Should do a school trip to Grimsthorpe really, it’s only up the road and we could go in the mini-bus. We could sit in the chamber where Henry VIII rode his horse to the privy council meeting (so legend has it) #historyteacher #localhistory
Tomorrow Y12 learn about court factionalism in the 1540s through the eyes of Katherine, Duchess of Suffolk, using @nikkiclark86.bsky.social’s book ‘The Waiting Game.’ Thank goodness Catherine Parr surrounded herself with clever, brave, opinionated women. #historyteacher #EarlyTudors
That is a devastating burn.
Humphrey Gilbert is one of my favourite Elizabethans because he is so confident in his abilities and he fails so hard. It’s one of the best things about teaching Elizabethans on OCR B, and it happens to so many of them. #historyteacher #GCSE #OCRB
Year 12 opinion of Henry VIII:
What a melt
Just some stinky old egomaniac
Mr Fragile Masculinity
Paper thin skin
(We did about Anne of Cleves meeting Henry for the first time when he was in disguise) #EarlyTudors #historyteacher
Today we are launching the 2026 SHP Summer Conference, which will be taking place July 10-12 at Leeds Trinity. This year, due to the huge increase in proposals for workshops, we have extended our offer to 46 wonderful workshops for primary and secondary teachers of history (see below for a taster!
It’s also so well written and accessible that I’ll be using it with my students this week. Because you know factionalism, am I right? #historyteacher
Book recommendation: Young, Damned and Fair by Gareth Russell. It has a really good overview of the political impact of the Henrician Reformation in the 1530s and 1540s in chapter 1. If you’re teaching factionalism to your Y12s at the moment, it’s worth a read #historyteacher #EarlyTudors
Henry VIII did it, with no repercussions for the rest of the 16th century 👀. Edward VI gave it a good go. Do it, do it, do it! Government considers removing Andrew from royal line of succession www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
19 Feb 1601: Robert Devereux, Earl of #Essex tried in Westminster Hall as a rebel #otd (NPG)
I felt satisfied when it was finished, but it was a bit of a slog in the middle. I’ll stick to Jane Eyre (my all-time favourite book)
Linton reminds me a bit of Colin from the Secret Garden (both annoying weaklings)
Cathy II, I feel you could be redeemed if you were ever allowed to meet people who were not your immediate relations. You family is messed up. Get the hell out of there, girl.
Linton is 16 years old and he’s just had a tantrum because his cousin pushed him a little bit. I’m embarrassed for him.
There’s no way he’s actually Heathcliff’s son, is there?
Cathy: But what if he’s disappointed when I don’t turn up?
Nelly: he won’t be; you’re not all that. He has more interesting people to talk to.
Nelly: Cathy II, stop crying! You have nothing to cry about! What if your father and I were dead? Huh?!
How to comfort a spoilt child, by Ellen Dean (1800-ish)
Aaaaannnd Linton is also insufferable. Hooray. At least Brontë was consistent with her unlikeable characters: they all suuuuuck.
Cathy II: more annoying than Cathy I? (She’s just finished being a bratty snob to Hareton)
Great, now I feel bad (start of book 2, chapter 2)
‘She’s fainted or dead,’ I thought, ‘so much the better. Far better that she should be dead, than lingering a burden, and a misery-maker to all about her.’
Nelly: not a Cathy stan. (I know I shouldn’t find it funny; I can’t help it)
I have just reached the point where Isabella is regretting her rash decision, and Heathcliff is all ‘I did tell you I hated you, and you married me anyway - this is all on you.’ Everyone is terrible.
Re-reading Wuthering Heights for first time since I was 18. Cathy: ‘I begin to fancy you don’t like me. How strange!’
*Everyone else in the book, and reading the book* ‘Not that strange, tbh.’
None of them have a single redeeming quality. #currentlyreading #wutheringheights
Seriously, though, there was literally a ‘Battle of the Spurs’ in 1513 won by Henry VIII, so the Tudor analogies are absurdly on the nose
