Contributors

History teachers from around the country – as well as expert educationalists and writers – have contributed to PracticalHistories.com to share their experience and knowledge with other teachers.

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Tom Dipple is the Programme Development Manager (Education) at Black Country Living Museum and has spent the last 20 years of his career delivering and developing Schools Education Programmes throughout museums in the West Midlands. He has been at Black Country museum for the last six years and has made it his mission to make school trips as easy as possible for visiting teachers.
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Lead History Teacher at Harrow Way Community School, Andover, Hampshire.
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Victoria Crooks is Associate Professor and Subject Lead for the History PGCE at the University of Nottingham. Laura London is Subject Lead for the History PGCE at the University of East Anglia. Victoria and Laura worked with Professor Terry Haydn to co-author Mentoring History Teachers in the Secondary School, published in 2024.
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Tim Jenner is HMI and Ofsted’s Subject Lead for History. Tim has also led history departments in London, Cambridgeshire and West Yorkshire. He regularly writes and presents on history teaching.
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Richard McFahn and Aaron Wilkes are co-founders and editors of PracticalHistories.com. Between them, they have roughly 50 years of experience teaching History and in education publishing.
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Simon Thompson taught History in Brighton in the 1990s before becoming History Lead of the PGCE course at the University of Sussex in 2002. He has been Director of Initial Education, Head of Education and is now Head of the School of Education and Social Work. Simon's PHD focused in on what early career history teachers should know.
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Jonty Leese is an Associate Professor within the Centre for Teacher Education (CTE) at the University of Warwick. He helps plan, co-ordinate and deliver the secondary PGCE with a focus on Computer Science. He works with Project Enthuse and the NCCE and he sees himself as a futurologist.
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Ian Luff taught history in state schools for 32 years as a Head of History and served as advisory teacher for History in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. He retired as a deputy headteacher in 2013 then taught on the University of East Anglia PGCE programme for five years. He was awarded his PhD in Education in 2021 and has been an Honorary Fellow of the Historical Association since 2011.
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Elena Stevens teaches History at St Philip Howard School in West Sussex. She has a PhD in History from the University of Southampton and is an advocate of teaching history through unconventional perspectives.
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Eleanor Hilton is the National Portrait Gallery's Digital Learning Manager. She has previously held Digital and Learning roles at the National Museum of Australia and Imperial War Museums.
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Sarah Jackson-Buckley is Head of History at Sawston Village College, Cambridgeshire and the Subject Community Leader (History) for Anglian Learning. She also has responsibility for leading Literacy in her school.
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Sean Ingram is the Head of History at Claverham Community College in Battle, East Sussex.
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Garry Craggs has been a History Teacher for 15 years across three schools, including out of mainstream. A former Head of Department, Head of Faculty and SLE Examiner for two exam boards. He has assisted with curriculum consultation and standardisation and is currently Subject Tutor and Secondary Lead for a SCITT provider and works for two other universities in the north of England as both a subject tutor and dissertation supervisor.
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Molly Navey and Ellie Osborne are history teachers at Priory School in Lewes. They are also both mentors for Initial Teacher Education history trainees with the University of Sussex.
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Tom Haward is Associate Professor at the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education. He has over 20 years’ teaching experience, has carried out research into visual learning at the University of Brighton and holds a University of Sussex doctorate in how visual sources are experienced in the teaching of History.
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Simon Beale is Subject Leader of History and Politics and Associate Assistant Headteacher at Vyners School, a large 11-18 secondary school in West London. Simon is also co-founder of the History Teacher Book Club.
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Dr Alison Morgan is an Associate Professor at the University of Warwick where she is the deputy head of the postgraduate secondary teacher-education programme.
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Claire Hollis is Head of History at Reigate College, Surrey.
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Dr David Brown is Curriculum Manager for Modern History at The Sixth Form College, Farnborough, Hampshire. David has also contributed to numerous Historical Association and Schools History Project conferences.
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John Hough leads the PGCE History programme at Liverpool Hope University and is Archdiocese Subject Leader for History in Liverpool. Previously, he worked in schools as a Literacy Coordinator, Lead for Practitioner Development, Head of Humanities and Associate Assistant Principal. John works closely with the Chartered College of Teaching as a mentor and assessor.
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Aaron Wilkes has over 20 years’ experience working in schools as a teacher, department and faculty leader. He is also the Secondary PGCE History Subject Lead at the University of Warwick. Aaron is also one of the leading history authors in school publishing.
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Peter Mandler is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and Director of the Education and Social Change Project based at Cambridge.
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Tom Cox and Jake Watts are History Teachers at the Weald School in Billingshurst, West Sussex. Both advocate an immersive teaching of world history and alternative perspectives.
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Dr Martin J Ryan began his career as a lecturer and researcher in Early Medieval History and has recently completed a PGCE in Secondary History at the University of Sussex.
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Helen Snelson leads the History PGCE at The University of York. She is also currently chair of the Historical Association’s Secondary Committee.
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Lou Cash is a Learning Officer at Westminster Abbey and freelance writer of education materials.
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Terry Haydn is Emeritus Professor for Education at the University of East Anglia.
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Emmy Quinn is Head of History at Newminster Middle School, Morpeth.
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Liam Hall is Head of History and a member of the senior leadership team at a large 
comprehensive school in the West Midlands
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Arthur Chapman is an Associate Professor of History in Education at UCL Institute of Education.
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Ian has retired from involvement in history teaching several times but continues to write resources for teaching on medieval history on thinkinghistory.co.uk
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Rosie Culkin-Smith is a History Teacher and Head of Year at Whalley Range 11-18 High School, part of the Education and Leadership Trust (ELT), Manchester
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Maddie Warren, is a Newly Qualified Teacher at Brighton Aldridge Community Acadamy in Brighton
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Rachel Ball is Assistant Principal of Teaching and Learning and History Teacher at Co-op Academy Walkden, a large 11-16 school in Salford.
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Lindsay Bruce teaches History at Moreton School in Wolverhampton, part of the Amethyst Trust. She is an Assistant Head and is an author for OUP, contributing to the KS3 Aaron Wilkes series and the AQA GCSE student books, handbooks and revision guides.
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Tom Pattison is Director of Humanities at Greensward Academy, Essex.
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Richard is co-founder and editor of PracticalHistories. He leads ITE History at the University of Sussex, runs History Resource Cupboard and is passionate about history education.
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James is a newly qualified teacher at Sackville School in East Grinstead.
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Katrina Shearman is Head of History at St James Academy, Dudley
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Dale Banham is a Deputy Headteacher (Curriculum, CPD and Teaching & Learning) at Northgate High School, a large 11-18 comprehensive in Ipswich. Dale is an Honorary Fellow of the Schools History Project and has recently published a new set of textbooks for Hodder Education
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Mike Maddison is a former HMI Inspector and Ofsted’s National Lead for History. He is currently an independent education consultant,inspector and trainer.
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