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Enrichment – things to read.
If you have book vouchers from Christmas burning a hole in your pocket, then click here and you will get to the BBC History magazine’s recommended history reads from 2018. There is something for everyone. Can I recommend American Empire: … Continue reading
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Enrichment – something to watch. Simon Sharma – A history of Britain
All, I am really pleased that you all enjoyed Sharma’s comparison of Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth in History Society today. The episode is “Heart of a Queen”. It was certainly very different to anything we have watched to … Continue reading
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Enrichment – something to discuss – historians put forward rogues’ gallery of pet hates from the last millennium
If you click here, you will get to Jon di Paolo’s article in The Guardian discussing the worst Britons of the last thousand years. Britain’s biggest cads, rogues and evil-doers from the past 1,000 years have been given special recognition … Continue reading
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Understanding success evening
Many thanks to you and your parents for coming tonight – we very much hope it was helpful. As promised, please find below the PowerPoint we used below. Understanding success evening Mr Kydd.
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Centenary of the Armistice – Year Nine research a soldier project
Year Nine, The following letter and PowerPoint will be available on the school Gateway in the near future. However in case you have problems with it, I have added them here as well. My PowerPoint As you may … Continue reading
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Enrichment – something to listen to. In Our Time – Who was St Hilda?
If you click here you will get the In Our Time website. Again a great chance to listen to historians debate. In this edition Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 7th century saint, Hilda, or Hild as she would have … Continue reading
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Enrichment – something to listen to. In Our Time – Bismarck
If you click here you can listen to Radio 4’s In Our Time. As ever, it is a great opportunity to listen to historian debate. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the original Iron Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck. One of Europe’s … Continue reading
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Enrichment – something to discuss in History Society
The Case for Applied History Can the study of the past really help us to understand the present? Click here for an article by Robert Crawford in September’s edition of History Today. In An Autobiography, published in 1939, R.G. Collingwood … Continue reading
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Enrichment – place to go. Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One (Tate Britain)
If you click here, you will get to an an introduction article on Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One at Tate Britain until 23rd September 2018. It is excellent, and considers some of the ways in … Continue reading
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