Category Archives: Enrichment

Enrichment – The Spartacist Uprising in Berlin

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to Richard Cavendish’s 2009 article from History Today exploring the failure of the Spartacist Uprising in Berlin in January 1919… By January 11th, Liebknecht and Luxemburg had lost all control of events and Liebknecht … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – An introduction to the Mid Tudor Crisis

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Mr Kydd

Lower Sixth,   Welcome back, As part of your introduction to source work on the Mid Tudor Crisis can you please watch these for  Tuesday (19/1). They should complement my overview lecture. For each write down three points that you think … Continue reading →

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Why the Study of History Is Imperative Today

Posted on December 23, 2015 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to an article by Amy Licence in the Huffington Post on the importance of history in the modern world. It is well worth a read – I have included an extract below… “History should teach us compassion. … Continue reading →

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History books of the Year 2015

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Mr Kydd

If you click here  you will get to History Today’s review of the top history books from 2015. As they put it themselves, “From Aristotle to El Alamein, via the Silk Road and Charlemagne’s vast empire, ten leading historians tell us about … Continue reading →

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Obituary – Christopher Duggan

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Mr Kydd

All, If you click here you will get to the Daily Telegraph’s obituary for Christopher Duggan. He worked at the University of Reading from 1987, and was noted for his work on Italian history. Indeed, one of his earlier works, A … Continue reading →

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The Starkey series

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Mr Kydd

Lower Sixth, We have watched part one of the Starkey series in History Society. Below is a You-tube Channel allowing you to watch all four programmes in 10 minute blocks. They go chronologically through the reign. You may like to look … Continue reading →

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25 maps that explain the English language

Posted on December 1, 2015 by Mr Kydd

Something a bit cross curricular today. If you click here you will get to a website that claims to explain the English language in twenty five maps. Obviously this is great for you English language students, but as historians we could … Continue reading →

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Obituary – Hans Mommsen

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Mr Kydd

All, With our interpretations and evidence posters now complete, next week is going to be very important for us. We are going to plan and write a past paper on the causes of the First World War debate. As you … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – Interactive Crusades map

Posted on November 27, 2015 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to an excellent History Today interactive map that attempts to pick out some of the key milestones in the history of that conflict. Like my earlier post on Syria, perhaps its real lesson is to highlight … Continue reading →

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Causes of the First World War support materials

Posted on November 23, 2015 by Mr Kydd

All, As promised the map we were using last lesson. This is more useful than the text book ones because it reflect the collapse of the Ottoman Empire – thus showing how Morocco and the Balkans are two sides of … Continue reading →

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