Category Archives: Enrichment

Enrichment – something to discuss – historians put forward rogues’ gallery of pet hates from the last millennium

Posted on October 17, 2018 by Mr Kydd

If you click here, you will get to Jon di Paolo’s article in The Guardian discussing the worst Britons of the last thousand years. Britain’s biggest cads, rogues and evil-doers from the past 1,000 years have been given special recognition … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – something to listen to. In Our Time – Who was St Hilda?

Posted on August 31, 2018 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get the In Our Time website. Again a great chance to listen to historians debate. In this edition Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 7th century saint, Hilda, or Hild as she would have … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – something to listen to. In Our Time – Bismarck

Posted on August 27, 2018 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you can listen to Radio 4’s In Our Time. As ever, it is a great opportunity to listen to historian debate. Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the original Iron Chancellor, Otto Von Bismarck. One of Europe’s … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – something to discuss in History Society

Posted on August 25, 2018 by Mr Kydd

The Case for Applied History Can the study of the past really help us to understand the present? Click here for an article by Robert Crawford in September’s edition of History Today. In An Autobiography, published in 1939, R.G. Collingwood … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – place to go. Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One (Tate Britain)

Posted on August 8, 2018 by Mr Kydd

If you click here, you will get to an an introduction article on   Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One  at Tate Britain until 23rd September 2018. It is excellent, and considers some of the ways in … Continue reading →

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Politics enrichment – something to watch. Leadership with Steve Richards.

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Mr Kydd

These are just excellent – enjoy… Mr Kydd.

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Enrichment – something to read – Fascism: A Warning by Madeline Albright

Posted on July 31, 2018 by Mr Kydd

Madeline Albright was the Secretary of State in the Clinton White House (1997-2001). Born in then-Czechoslovakia, her family fled Hitler and the Nazis in 1938. Initially they came to Britain. Her latest book – Fascism – a warning  is a … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – something to read. Overlooked No More: The Russian Icon Who Was Hanged for Killing a Czar

Posted on June 24, 2018 by Mr Kydd

Year Thirteen, If you click here you will get to an article from the New York Times about Sophia Perovskaya – one of the five members of the People’s Will who assassinated Alexander II, and changed the direction of the … Continue reading →

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Russia – reading and noting

Posted on June 24, 2018 by Mr Kydd

All, Obviously there are four things to do over the summer for your A level history. Your Year Twelve notes audit (USA and Tudor).  Your two timed papers.  Your coursework introduction tasks. Your Russia introduction reading and noting.  PLEASE REMEMBER THAT … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – the “Belsen boys” who came to Ascot.

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to an excellent article from the BBC website about Holocaust survivors who ended up in Ascot. Beyond its local significance, it is a reminder that soon such personal memories will be lost to … Continue reading →

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