Category Archives: Enrichment

Enrichment : Something to listen to. BBC Sounds – You’re dead to me…

Posted on September 1, 2022 by Mr Kydd

All, Welcome back. If you click here you will get to the website of the excellent Radio 4 programme – You’re dead to me. This is excellent enrichment for you on topics as diverse as Mary Seacole, the history of … Continue reading →

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Enrichment. History Society – something to discuss. Do you agree with Noam Chomsky?

Posted on April 8, 2022 by Mr Kydd

This is taken from his recent New Stateman article. This can be found here. See what you think. Mr Kydd.

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Enrichment – a chance to lead.

Posted on March 7, 2022 by Mr Kydd

This educational and commemorative project offers post-16 students the opportunity to learn about the Holocaust and consider its relevance for today. Through the bespoke interactive online platform, participants join others from across the country as they embark on an educational … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – somewhere to go. The world of Stonehenge exhibition at the British Museum.

Posted on March 6, 2022 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to the British Museum’s webpage on it’s new Stonehenge exhibition. The curator’s introduction is included below. A review from The Guardian can be found here. Shrouded in layers of speculation and folklore, this … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – something to listen to. Radio 4 – Ukraine – how did we get here?

Posted on March 6, 2022 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to an excellent half hour discussion of the historical origins of the present war in the Ukraine. The programme description is included below. The invasion of Ukraine is, according to the man behind … Continue reading →

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History in the News – what is happening in the Ukraine?

Posted on January 27, 2022 by Mr Kydd

The present situation in the Ukraine has clear some resonance with our Russia and its rulers A level course (Y317). If you click here you will get to a very clear summary of the present situation. from BBC News How … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – something to write. Essay competition.

Posted on January 9, 2022 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will to the NCH essay title questions. Have a look at them, and pop in and see me if you want to chat them through. The history title – What does history teach us about … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – Something to read. In the run up to International Women’s Day (8th March) Reading and the suffragettes.

Posted on January 7, 2022 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to an excellent article from Reading Museum entitled “Five Reading citizens and the fight for votes for women” – Reading had an active WSPU, and I particularly enjoyed the descriptions suffragettes. Mabel Norton, … Continue reading →

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Obituary- Desmond Tutu

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Mr Kydd

In November F W De Klerk died. To support and extend our South Africa course, I posted his last message to the South African people and an obituary (see a few posts down). Over Christmas arguably the last key individual … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – things to read – The best history books of 2021.

Posted on December 21, 2021 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to a way to invest your Christmas book tokens wisely. It is the Financial Times’s top ten history books of 2021. Can I recommend Margarette Lincoln’s “London and the Seventeenth Century – the … Continue reading →

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