This is Cold War Steve‘s take on Gary Lineker’s comments on Twitter. Below is the famous 1936 August Landmesser image. The government are certainly not happy with what Lineker posted.
Lots to discuss here.
1.Do you agree with Lineker (and Cold War Steve) – or is both he and Cold War Steve the ones causing offence with an inappropriate analogy?
2. Is this an example of Godwin’s law ?
3. Why do people continually compare others to Hitler and the Nazis?
Mr Kydd
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Mr Kydd
I would hope that as A level historians you are aware that this Friday is Holocaust Memorial Day. You will have an assembly to mark this. However, if you want to find out more, you may wish to go the Auschwitz photographic exhibition in South Kensington (SW73LD) – open until 12th February. It is truly humbling. In addition, it is also thought-provoking history – as the lead curator, Paul Salmons comments, “these photographs are not neutral sources at all: we are looking at a piece of reality but seen from the Nazi perspective.”
Mr Kydd.
What is UNIQ?
UNIQ is the University of Oxford’s access programme for state school students. We prioritise places for students with good grades from backgrounds that are under-represented at Oxford and other universities. Every year more students from diverse backgrounds get offered places at Oxford with help from UNIQ.
Mr Kydd
If you click here you will get to information from the British Library about their exhibition on Alexander the Great. I thought it was great, and I warmly recommend it to you.
Mr Kydd.
If you click here you will get to Jack Nicholson discussing the purpose of historians. He quotes, and then rejects David Cannadine’s argument that historians could have steered Liz Truss from her disastrous mini-budget if they had been consulted.
Have a read of the article, and then decide if you agree will Nicholson or Cannadine more. In short, are we about contemporary commentary or timeless reflection?
Mr Kydd.
If you click here you will get to an article from The Guardian about an Irish amateur historian who is on a mission to save ‘bogeyman’ Cromwell from genocide charges.
The Irish historian has spent three decades attempting to convince his compatriots that Oliver Cromwell, the 17th century English conqueror, was honourable, decent and not genocidal.
Reilly’s contention that Ireland needs to rewrite its history books appears all the more quixotic because he is from Drogheda, the County Louth town and site of Cromwell’s most infamous slaughter. “We should apologise to Cromwell’s family for blackening his name, for making him a monster,” Reilly, 62, said last week. “We are teaching our children propaganda that perpetuates anti-English prejudice.” The Puritan leader is, in fact, about to come under renewed scrutiny. Oxford University Press will publish The Letters, Writings, and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell, a multi-volume tome of more than 1,000 texts written and edited by leading British and Irish historians.
HAve a read and tell me what you think.
Mr Kydd.
If you click here you will get to a list of what are meant to be the best one hundred history books of all time. Such lists are of course subjective, but there really is something for everyone here. Moreover, whatever one thinks about Amazon, you can probably pick a second-hand copy up of one that might interest you for a couple of pounds.
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Map histories are a good way into new topics, and I have included here two different examples as a start. They are often most helpful in military history. The first here explains the origins of the American Civil War, whilst the second shows the mistakes that led to the Axis defeat in the Second World War.
If you click here you will get to a news article from The Guardian, explaining how “a team of researchers in France have cracked a five century-old code that reveals a rumoured French plot to kill Charles V. It took the team from the Loria research lab in France six months to decipher the letter, written in 1547 by the emperor to his ambassador in France. Bearing the signature of Charles V, it was at once mysterious and utterly incomprehensible, she told reporters on Wednesday.“
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