Anna Brunskill

Assistant Head & History teacher. settling back into UK schools after a decade in international schools.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Intelligence must draw on memory. The mind must not simply compile data — as an algorithm now does more quickly than we can — but recall lived experiences, which contain depths of meaning that only the human soul can recognize, and connect more deeply with the goodness of these experiences. Everything that is good begins “with the Spirit” and thus possesses a breath, a dynamism and a sense of communion that, once experienced, are engraved upon the heart. https://t.co/Ij21tkb3qT

[Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde]

My column on Musk, the politicians, and the rape gangs scandal

https://t.co/bnwG1wsJjV

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

I am right in thinking everyone wants to Rejoin the EU aren't I?

Like if you do
RT if you really do

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

I'm writing today about kennings in Old English. Essentially these are two word-metaphors that were used instead of concrete nouns, and they are exquisite. A ship was a 'wave-horse', the sea was a 'whale-road', the mind was a 'thought-chamber', and the sun was a 'sky-candle'.

[Anna Brunskill @AnnaMBrunskill]

@TeacherBusy M&S workout gear, surprisingly good and not expensive.

[Anna Brunskill @AnnaMBrunskill]

@ZoeParamour I went by myself on Thursday and it was totally worth it and totally AWESOME - hope you made it!

[Anna Brunskill @AnnaMBrunskill]

@MrHtheteacher Hello!

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

something in my eye...🥲

[Holte 🇪🇺 @holte]

Got sent this and I love it, beautifully frames the hypocrisy of those involved in the #FarageRiots

Satire in case it's not obvious
#UKRiots
#FarageIsAFanny

[Caitlin Moran @caitlinmoran]

Our Prime Minister brought his own anorak to the Olympics #respect

[Anna Brunskill @AnnaMBrunskill]

@helenlewis Loved this. Also, from The Bluestocking photo of the group meeting Perry at the Union (we were contemporaries, not that it really matters, and whatever happened to Ambrose Faulks?) is that an actress next to you???

[Tim Taylor #MantleoftheExpert #TryThis... @imagineinquiry]

Quite a lot of love for Gove flying around since the publication of P8 league table this wk. Here's why he was a disaster for education: 1. He cancelled Building Schools for the Future programme. Look at the state of our schs for evidence of why that was a terrible idea...[1/n]

[Anna Brunskill @AnnaMBrunskill]

@jcarrollhistory Year 8 - with an assessment on the causes.

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

You will not read a nobler or more heart-felt expression of loss for the felled sycamore of Hadrian’s Wall than this, by the great laureate of the history of the north-east, ⁦@northumbriana⁩ https://t.co/xClduutNR8

[Campbell Craig @CampbellCraig1]

My review in the @jststs of Mel Leffler's Confronting Saddam Hussein is now online. H/T to @PatPorter76 and @stephenWalt. 50 free views at https://t.co/a3n9oF4mkl

[Anna Brunskill @AnnaMBrunskill]

I’m starting to develop serious fangirl feelings towards @helenlewis . The new series of Great Wives is the kind of funny that makes you spit out whatever you’re drinking and the kind of informative that makes you go ‘I’m sorry, what?’ Love it.

[Anna Brunskill @AnnaMBrunskill]

@weirdlilguys

[Anna Brunskill @AnnaMBrunskill]

@tombennett71 And if I wasn't already on my soapbox, there's the fact that the majority of proposals for Free Schools that the DfE rejected came from disadvantaged communities, whereas successful ones came local civil society groups that did not effectively represent poorer communities.

[Anna Brunskill @AnnaMBrunskill]

@tombennett71 Also Wiborg, S., Green, F., Taylor-Gooby, P. and Wilde, R. J. (2018). Free Schools in England: ‘Not Unlike Other Schools’? Journal of Social Policy 47

[Anna Brunskill @AnnaMBrunskill]

@tombennett71 I appreciate my research is from 2018...