Author Archives: Mr Kydd

Obituary – Churchill’s biographer – Martin Gilbert

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Mr Kydd

You may have noted that the 24th January marked the 50th anniversary of the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. As this Radio 4 programme by  Sir David Cannadine and this BBC news magazine article reflect, Churchill was a complex and often controversial man. … Continue reading →

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Pulling Weimar together…

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Mr Kydd

A couple of  useful links to look at before youe write on Weimar Germany. If you click here then you will get an excellent discussion of Weimar Germany from Stephen Tonge. To us it is probably most helpful as a securing overview and for … Continue reading →

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Locarno and Stresemann

Posted on February 1, 2015 by Mr Kydd

All, Please find the map that we were using to explain the Locarno Treaties below. The key point to remember is that Germany would guarantee her western borders and pledged never to invade Belgium and France again (along with a … Continue reading →

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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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