About Mr Allsop
Scott Allsop studied History at Emmanuel College in the University of Cambridge and graduated in 2002. He worked for a short period as a buyer for HMV before returning to Cambridge to complete his teacher training. He is currently teaching History at an international school in Egypt, having been the Head of History as well as an elected Staff Governor at a comprehensive school in the UK for the previous four years.
He was nominated for the national Teaching Awards in 2008 and was shortlisted for the BBC History Magazine/Historical Association History Teacher of the Year award in 2007.
He is a keen advocate of the use of ICT to help students study History, and this website is part of that. His GCSE revision podcasts were used by over 1,500 people from across the globe and as far away as Singapore, Canada and Australia in 2007, and were featured in a publication by the Training and Development Agency for Schools as well as an article on digital learning for the Guardian newspaper.
In the past he ran a website dedicated to abandoned shopping lists, and has been featured in the Times Educational Supplement as well as television programs including The Wonderful World of Weird for CBBC and Richard Hammond's 5 O'Clock Show for ITV to explain how this strange hobby links with the skills of an Historian.
He and his students were featured on the Open University/BBC television production The History Detectives in 2008 where they revealed the story behind one of the artefacts Mr Allsop uses in class.
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