Author Archives: Mr Kydd

Enrichment – Something to read. In the run up to International Women’s Day (8th March) Reading and the suffragettes.

Posted on January 7, 2022 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to an excellent article from Reading Museum entitled “Five Reading citizens and the fight for votes for women” – Reading had an active WSPU, and I particularly enjoyed the descriptions suffragettes. Mabel Norton, … Continue reading →

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Obituary- Desmond Tutu

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Mr Kydd

In November F W De Klerk died. To support and extend our South Africa course, I posted his last message to the South African people and an obituary (see a few posts down). Over Christmas arguably the last key individual … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – things to read – The best history books of 2021.

Posted on December 21, 2021 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to a way to invest your Christmas book tokens wisely. It is the Financial Times’s top ten history books of 2021. Can I recommend Margarette Lincoln’s “London and the Seventeenth Century – the … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – something to listen to and something to watch. How terrible was Ivan?

Posted on November 25, 2021 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to a BBC Radio 4 “Your dead to me” programme discussing Ivan the Terrible. At the time he was known as Ivan Grozny (the purifying storm) and his only ally was Elizabeth I … Continue reading →

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Key dates / revision support 2022

Posted on November 24, 2021 by Mr Kydd
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Something useful from OCR – the chief examiner showing marker how to mark their A level coursework / marked examples

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Mr Kydd

You really should watch this 30 minute presentation of the marking of a level 6 script. If you click here and here – you will get more marked examples from the exam board. Mr Kydd

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Obitury – F.W. de Klerk. Something to discuss – what is his legacy?

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Mr Kydd

Click here for The Guardian’s obituary of F.W de Klerk – South Africa’s last white president. It states “when De Klerk succeeded P W Botha in 1989, he oversaw an event no less unexpected than the collapse of Soviet communism … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – somewhere to go – The British Library’s Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens exhibition

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Mr Kydd

Click here for Phillipa Gregory’s review of the exhibition. In it she states “the exhibition is steered by its content, and many of the documents perpetuate the traditional contrasting of the two queens. It was in the interests of both … Continue reading →

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History Society – something to discuss. Should we still be tracking down Holocaust war criminals seventy six years after the Second World War ended?

Posted on October 7, 2021 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to a BBC article exploring the trial of a 100-year-old SS guard – Josef S – who is accused of complicity in the shooting Soviet prisoners of war and the murder of others … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – somewhere to go. The British Museum – Nero exhibition (until 23rd October)

Posted on September 3, 2021 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get a link for the excellent Nero exhibition at the British Museum. It is on until 23rd October. I have been, and it is excellent. Now that we can start to get back to … Continue reading →

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