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GCSE revision session PowerPoints

Posted on February 28, 2022 by Mr Kydd

All, I have added the PowerPoints that I have been using in the after school revision sessions to the GCSE page as requested. A direct link can be found here. I hope they are helpful. The revision Conference PowerPoints can … Continue reading →

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Exam guidance – From OCR

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Mr Kydd

Below I have pulled and scanned the exam guidance for our units. Be careful with how you use it. I will go through this in revision tomorrow.

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History in the News – what is happening in the Ukraine?

Posted on January 27, 2022 by Mr Kydd

The present situation in the Ukraine has clear some resonance with our Russia and its rulers A level course (Y317). If you click here you will get to a very clear summary of the present situation. from BBC News How … Continue reading →

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History in the News- new theories about Anne Frank

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to a BBC News article on the latest theory that identifies a possible suspect who betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis…. A team including an ex-FBI agent said Arnold van … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – something to write. Essay competition.

Posted on January 9, 2022 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will to the NCH essay title questions. Have a look at them, and pop in and see me if you want to chat them through. The history title – What does history teach us about … Continue reading →

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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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