If you click here then you get to the excellent Open University webpage on the Orgins of the First World War. There is plenty to read, listen to and watch. Enjoy… Explore the origins of the war The … Continue reading
Please click here for an excellent article from the This Week website. It outlines the historical debate well, and then considers which country should take most of the blame. “The question of which country or countries caused the war is … Continue reading
As we have finished with flottenpolik and have now considered the collapse of Wilhelmine Germany this seems timely. Click here for a BBC magazine description of Operation ZZ – the code name for the surrender of the German High Fleet after the First World … Continue reading
Click here for the excellent Spin the globe series from Radio 4. Each programme looks at a familiar historical date and finds out what was happening away from the geographical centre that makes them so familiar to us. It is an … Continue reading
Something a bit different for you – an article and slideshow on an aspect of the history of medicine. I have posted this to accompany the work that we have been doing in the history society on the Black Death. If you … Continue reading
Upper Sixth students, An excellent documentary on Wilhelm II which will be very useful for your early essay work, and our present historiography on the origins of the First World War. Useful links Please also bookmark these; http://fccfromkaisertofuhrer.blogspot.co.uk/ http://fhshistory.weebly.com/unit-3-from-kaiser-to-fuhrer.html … Continue reading
Upper Sixth, As I showed you in the lesson, please click here for the excellent BBC timeline of the countdown to war. This chronology will really help you as you practice / get confident with with the gobbets and typicality. … Continue reading
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If you click here you will get to Alastair Smart’s article in the Daily Telegraph review of the National Portrait Gallery’s “Real Tudors: Kings & Queens Rediscovered” exhibition. “The curators are keen to stress how coloured our vision of the Tudor monarchs has … Continue reading
All, The Making History website, developed by the Institute of Historical Research, is dedicated to the history of the study and practice of history in Britain over the last hundred years and more, following the emergence of the professional discipline in … Continue reading
The 28th June marked the 100th anniversary of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. This event is usually seen as the trigger that set off a chain of events that culminated in the First World War. However, the long term causes of that … Continue reading
