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Obituary – Sir John Keegan
As students move into and beyond A Level history they should be aware of how the discipline becomes more specialised. Military history has never really been my thing but I have always had great admiration for two British historians of … Continue reading
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Reinterpretation of the cause of the Spitalfields mass graves
In the 1980s a mass burial pit from the 1340s Black Death was discovered at Spitalfields in London. This report was typical, stating “it contained two mass burial trenches and a mass burial pit, densely filled with several hundred articulated skeletons, as well … Continue reading
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Archaeology in the News
The contents of which photograph do you consider to be more valuable ? These two images come from the two news stories below. In a material sense, the answer is of course clear cut -the coins have an estimated value in excess … Continue reading
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Alexander the not so Great ?
Churchill is meant to have once said “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it”. Perhaps it is an obvious point to suggest that History tends to be written by the winners, but that does not stop … Continue reading
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Some Tudor History in the News
As many of you will have the misfortune to know Tudor history is really my bag, and there certainly has been a lot of it in the news recently. As such, I thought it might be helpful if I posted … Continue reading
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David Starkey “Salmond is a Caledonian Hitler”
Those of you who can cast their minds back to the posts on last summer’s riots will remember that David Starkey is not an individual shy of a point of view. This week he compared the Alec Salmond, the Scottish First … Continue reading
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Year Twelve – Unit Six planning map
As promised – please find attached a photo of our plan for the Unit Six problems, and how they link together. If you want some further reading on this then you could do a lot worse than the conclusion to … Continue reading
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The American Civil War – A significant upward revision of the death toll.
The American Civil War has always felt to me to be something that I should know more about. The truth is it has always passed me by. This article from the New York Times shows how remiss this is. Recent statistical work … Continue reading
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The English Revolution…
A couple of articles from the BBC from a period of British History that I find fascinating, but perhaps does not get the attention that it deserves. This Today programme report and this news report cover the auction of a poster from … Continue reading
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If you think it is cold here at the moment…
A bit of military history for you. I am sure that you all really appreciate the efforts of the caretakers to get the site open today – who wants an early start to Half Term anyway. However cold you might think … Continue reading
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