Juliet Armstrong

My approach centres on critical thinking and analysis, no matter the subject I teach. Although I focus on History and English as a foreign language, I include elements from other subjects, especially maths and science, to provide a holistic view of topics and our understanding.

I work in partnership with my students to tailor our lessons to their needs, working out their learning style and maximising their learning potential. Everybody is different, and I don't have one single style or resource for every student. I create my resources to fit each individual, introducing real sources and texts to students who might not have been exposed to different styles of English before, and a variety of sources to History students from all over the globe and all over the span of human history.

I specialise in tutoring Chinese students as I am familiar with the education system and existing competencies. I have taught in Hong Kong, Macau, and Zhejiang Province, working in classrooms and with individuals, before the pandemic halted my international travel plans. I am now based in London.

I studied as an undergraduate at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and as a graduate at Balliol College, University of Oxford. I specialised in historiography (methodology of history), mostly in reception and memory theories, and took papers covering the Roman Empire, Greece, Russia and the Russian-speaking world, Scotland, India, Ireland and the early English empire. My dissertation and thesis were in aspects of reception and memory theory with a political dimension in early modern Scotland.