Monthly Archives: March 2019

Some IGCSE enrichment – USA work. The photography of Walker Evans and a BBC article on the white southerners who fought US segregation

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Mr Kydd

A couple enrichment opportunities here. The video below discusses the photography of Taylor Evans. His work really brings the human cost of the economic collapse alive, and I strongly recommend it to you. 2. If you click here you will … Continue reading →

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Year Nine – Holocaust reflection prep

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Mr Kydd

All, Following on from today’s lesson, for prep I would like you to do the following.     Explore the following BBC web pages below. This news report (here). This account of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – something to listen to. In Our Time – William Cecil

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Mr Kydd

All, Something rather special for you today. If you click here you will get to last night’s In Our Time on Radio 4. In it, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact on the British Isles of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, … Continue reading →

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History Society – something to discuss – Halford Mackinder and Geo-politics.

Posted on March 2, 2019 by Mr Kydd

Geopolitics is the study how geography informs politics ( and thus history). In the aftermath of the First World War, is was particularly associated with a British thinker – Halford Mackinder. He famously argued; “Who rules East Europe commands the … Continue reading →

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