We speak with South African broadcaster and author Joanne Joseph about her novel Children of Sugarcane, set mostly in 19th century colonial India and South Africa and telling the story of a female indentured Indian labourer migrating to work at a plantation in the Colony of Natal. We speak about Joanne's own family history and how it inspired her to dig deeper into what has been a largely neglected story of shared Indian, South-African and British history. We also discuss the merits of teaching history through fiction and the wider role of education both in her book and in society at large.

More on historical fiction in the classroom? Sign up for EuroClio's webinar with history teacher Sally Burham on 11 July!

In this episode, we speak to Helen Snelson and Katarína Pišútová who contributed to the development of the Teacher Guide on Effective and Blended Learning – as part of the project: Online Teaching in the Visegrad Region. We reflect on opportunities and challenges deriving from the implementation of online learning activities as well as crucial ingredients of valuable online learning materials.

In conversation with Laurence Bragard and Blandine Smilansky, we discuss the challenge of setting up a museum on European history from scratch. Which artefacts finds its way to the exhibition and what is left out? We also discover the possibilities for teachers and students visiting Brussels or working with the House of European History online from their own classroom

In this episode, Maayke and Andreas speak with Rodrigo Mayorga (Instagram rodrigomayorgac), Director of Momento Constituyente, about the consitutional reform process that took place in Chile over the last few years. Momento Constituyente is an NGO based in Santiago de Chile and focusing on civics/citizenship education. Both Rodrigo and his NGO were actively encouraging conversations around the constitutional reform process and we learn more about its implications for students, teachers and history and citizenship education.

EuroClio's Adam Dargiewicz and Andreas Holtberget speak with Prof. Joanna Wojdon (University of Wrocław) and Jacek Staniszewski (history teacher, headmaster, and co-founder of The Good Education Association). We discuss the latest developments and proposed changes to the Polish history curriculum, the new and controversial subject ‘History and the Present’ (HiT in the Polish abbreviation) and the impact of the war in Ukraine. 

Understand Polish? Have a listen to Jacek's own podcast, Podcasterix!

In this episode, EuroClio staff Eugenie Khatschatrian and Andreas Holtberget speak with a teacher, Tatjana Juric, and a student, Teofan Badza, both from a high school in Banja Luka in Bosnia-Herzegovina about their project focusing on the victims of the Ustase regime during World War II.  The work in Banja Luka was part of the  "Who were the victims of the national socialists" project funded by the EVZ foundation. 

Our latest podcast guest is the social activist, teacher, and president of the South African Society for History Teaching, Marj Brown. We speak on overcoming the deep racial divides post-Apartheid, current challenges for history teaching in South Africa and possibilities for regional and global collaboration in history education.

In this episode we are joined by Barry van Driel, President of the International Association for Intercultural Education and Juraj Varga, EuroClio Board Member and Chairman of the Centre for Education and Innovations (CEDIN), to talk about place-based learning. Why and how do we do it? Both Barry and Juraj are involved in EuroClio projects taking history outside of the classroom - which was also the focus of our most recent thematic webinar series. Follow us on social media and consider joining us as an individual member to stay up to date on the latest news, including the Seeking Justice: From Nuremberg to The Hague initiative led by Barry and the Who were the victims of the National Socialists project involving Juraj!

We speak with Russian historian, history teacher, activist and EuroClio ‘Ambassador’ Tamara Eidelman about authoritarianism and totalitarianism. Having left Moscow for Lisbon in connection with the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tamara continues to run her wildly popular YouTube channel on Russian and World History from aboard. Tamara shares her thoughts on teaching about totalitarianism, her experience as a teacher in Russia, her own school education in the Soviet Union, as well as the current war and situation in Russia - and its implications for history teaching. Is Putin’s Russia itself on the road to totalitarianism?

This podcast episode was recorded in connection with EuroClio's webinar series "The Road to totalitarianism". Registrations on euroclio.eu will open shortly!

For more content with Tamara Eidelman, we highly recommend her interview on the YouTube channel of Russian journalist Yury Dud (with English subtitles).

We are joined by Claire Holliss, head of history at Reigate College in the UK and author of the blog Fresh Alarums, to talk about gender and sexuality in the history classroom. We discuss her approaches to teaching queer history, gender and sexuality, including the difficult issue of terminology. Discover more on the topic with Claire's blog (including a set of teacher's primers) and EuroClio's webinar series.