Category Archives: Enrichment

Which way should you vote ?

With the election pending, try this test to see how your opinions fit in with the current political parties and their policies. It helps explain that politics is relevant to your life and that without realising it you do care and understand … Continue reading

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Agincourt, Waterloo and the Magna Carta

2015 is of course very much a year of anniversaries, and I thought that I would use this post to collect some of the better articles. This article from the Daily Telegraph is a good start. It looks at the Magna … Continue reading

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Window-Shopping Through the Iron Curtain. An insight into a lost world…

There is a lovely article here from the BBC news magazine about the work of David Hlynsky. After the collapse of the Iron Curtain he photographed as much as he could of the quickly disappearing Communist world. The article focuses on the a tantalising set of … Continue reading

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In our time – What is the relevance of history ?

If you click here then you will get to an old edition of In Our Time. In it Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the study of history. The programme guide information follows. “One of the debates raging in the practice of history … Continue reading

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Obituary – Churchill’s biographer – Martin Gilbert

You may have noted that the 24th January marked the 50th anniversary of the state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill. As this Radio 4 programme by  Sir David Cannadine and this BBC news magazine article reflect, Churchill was a complex and often controversial man. … Continue reading

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Pulling Weimar together…

A couple of  useful links to look at before youe write on Weimar Germany. If you click here then you will get an excellent discussion of Weimar Germany from Stephen Tonge. To us it is probably most helpful as a securing overview and for … Continue reading

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Locarno and Stresemann

All, Please find the map that we were using to explain the Locarno Treaties below. The key point to remember is that Germany would guarantee her western borders and pledged never to invade Belgium and France again (along with a … Continue reading

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History Society – the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

As agreed, we are going to spend the next the next two weeks considering the holocaust to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. There is a good account of the day from the BBC here. At … Continue reading

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Conflict Time Photography

All, I visited the Conflict Time Photography exhibition at the Tate Modern  over the weekend. You can find reviews of it from The Daily Telegraph here, and from The Guardian here . As Alistair Snook suggests in the Telegraph, the basic premise of the … Continue reading

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Alpha history – Weimar Germany enrichment

Happy New Year all, As you will soon be writing on Weimar Germany I thought that you might like to bookmark this page from Alpha history. It is really most useful as securing information, but there are plenty of hyperlinks to … Continue reading

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