Eleanor Lowe

History and politics teacher in Essex. Previously PhD @camhistory on love, marriage and politics in 20c Britain.

[Eleanor Lowe @ellielowe]

Not saying it took me a long time to submit my PhD, but only one of the people in this picture existed when I started…We finally did it!

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@redhistorian Yes totally agree! I kind of meant it in the sense we constantly speak to kids about people collecting taxes in history, but they have absolutely no idea what it actually means.

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@redhistorian I once did a lesson where they had to match up the spending of Essex County Council with its departments. It sort of worked, but also lost salience as they didn’t really have a grasp of what government actually does. I spent a lot of time explaining what adult social care was…

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@redhistorian But also there’s not a single topic of history teaching at KS3 that doesn’t involve talking about taxes. And kids seem to have VERY strong opinions on taxes.

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@Emily_Baughan Loved this. The sentence I hate the most in the entire series is when it’s says about Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Satre ‘he wasn’t just her soul mate, he was her mind mate’.

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@MattDeaves I have got no flipping idea…I think it’s partly because some parents but so much effort into it in a social media age (elf on the shelf etc)

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@MattDeaves Guess who also learnt this lesson the hard way this year when teaching a load of 11 year olds…

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@soDeavious On my teacher training course last week one lecture absolutely fan boyed over her. And just did this completely uncritically. Fucking insanity.

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@LawrenceeBlack This was the first book I went to the BL to read after lockdown ended as I couldn’t get a copy anywhere…

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@KathrynRix Thanks so much for having me! It was such a useful discussion.

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I'm really looking forward to speaking at this tomorrow. Especially as I finally get to talk about my favourite memoir: Pauline Prescott's.

[History Of Parliament @HistParl]

Tuesday's @ihr_history Parliaments, Politics & People seminar paper will be given by Ellie Lowe.

Find out about Ellie's paper on the reinvention of the political wife in the age of suffrage and how to attend this hybrid session👇 @ellielowe https://t.co/2DEH5Oe9kk

[Eleanor Lowe @ellielowe]

@hansmollman My husband bought me a 2L bottle yesterday when I asked for DCs. Had to pretend I wasn’t furious. It’s still there untouched.

[History Of Parliament @HistParl]

Next Tuesday's hybrid @ihr_history Parliaments, Politics and People seminar paper will be given by Ellie Lowe, who will discuss the reinvention of the political wife in the age of suffrage.

Find out more about Ellie's paper and how to attend👇 @ellielowe https://t.co/2DEH5Oe9kk

[Eleanor Lowe @ellielowe]

Zoom meetings in half term bringing back old pandemic memories. Having to leave halfway through to be answer how many more years until I die and what 33 x 365 was. Unfortunately knew the answer to neither.

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@relgoldsmith @TCBHJournal Amazing well done xx

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@Vikiijackson Good luck!!

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@sadhistorygeek Ahhh thank you - will have to finally catch up soon for 🍻

[Eleanor Lowe @ellielowe]

Not saying it took me a long time to submit my PhD, but only one of the people in this picture existed when I started…We finally did it!

[Eleanor Lowe @ellielowe]

@EmmeLedgerwood @dmk1793 @HistParl Thanks so much for yours and @EmmaPeplow well-timed pep talk!

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@LilianLewis Ahh thank you

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@Rachel_Reville Good luck!! I wouldn’t say it’s been easy, but in lots of ways it’s been a great thing to do whilst they are little.

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@lottelydia Ahh thank you ❤️