Author Archives: Mr Kydd

History Society – the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

Posted on January 27, 2015 by Mr Kydd

As agreed, we are going to spend the next the next two weeks considering the holocaust to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. There is a good account of the day from the BBC here. At … Continue reading →

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Conflict Time Photography

Posted on January 19, 2015 by Mr Kydd

All, I visited the Conflict Time Photography exhibition at the Tate Modern  over the weekend. You can find reviews of it from The Daily Telegraph here, and from The Guardian here . As Alistair Snook suggests in the Telegraph, the basic premise of the … Continue reading →

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Alpha history – Weimar Germany enrichment

Posted on January 3, 2015 by Mr Kydd

Happy New Year all, As you will soon be writing on Weimar Germany I thought that you might like to bookmark this page from Alpha history. It is really most useful as securing information, but there are plenty of hyperlinks to … Continue reading →

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2014 in archaeology

Posted on December 29, 2014 by Mr Kydd

Happy New Year all. Please click here for a super review of the year in archaeology from the BBC magazine webpage. As Dr Iles suggests “it’s been a fascinating year for ground-breaking archaeology around the globe, with cholera-stricken “vampires”, armour made … Continue reading →

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Viewpoint: Why the shadow of the First World War and 1989 hangs over world events.

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Mr Kydd

If you click here then you can read an excellent article from Jeffrey Sachs on the BBC magazine website. In it he reflects “this has been a year of great geopolitical anniversaries. We are at the 100th anniversary of the … Continue reading →

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That training paragraph from today’s lesson.

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Mr Kydd

All, Excellent feedback today – most pleasing. A huge thank you to Jade for typing up our training paragraph on the interpretations work that we did today. A colour coded version can be found here. I hope that it is … Continue reading →

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The best history books of 2014

Posted on December 8, 2014 by Mr Kydd

Please click here for the Guardian’s review of the best history books of 2014. Hopefully there will be something that interests you (for when you get the Christmas book tokens). God’s Traitors is described as follows; Jessie Childs’s account of cloak-and-dagger … Continue reading →

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Book Review – Joan of Arc: A History, by Helen Castor

Posted on December 4, 2014 by Mr Kydd

If you click here then you will be taken to the Times Higher Education review of the wonderful Helen Castor’s  Joan of Arc. In it, Rachel Moss praises “an elegant account that sets a charismatic Maid of Orleans in political context“. She … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – Medieval city ‘detected’ by experts

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Mr Kydd

All, If you click here then you will get to a BBC report explaining how archaeologists from the University of Southampton have built up a detailed plan of Old Sarum (Salisbury) using modern techniques. These included  “magnetometry, earth resistance, ground penetrating … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – places to visit over the holidays.

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Mr Kydd

All, If you fancy a trip out over the holidays, then the following museum exhibitions have all had excellent reviews, and are well worth a visit.    Germany – memories of a nation at The British Museum. William Blake: Apprentice and Master at The … Continue reading →

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