Category Archives: Enrichment

Enrichment – somewhere to go – Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth

If you click here you will get to information from the British Library about their exhibition on Alexander the Great. I thought it was great, and I warmly recommend it to you. Mr Kydd.

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Enrichment – Something to discuss – What are historians for?

If you click here you will get to Jack Nicholson discussing the purpose of historians. He quotes, and then rejects David Cannadine’s argument that historians could have steered Liz Truss from her disastrous mini-budget if they had been consulted. Have a read of the … Continue reading

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Enrichment – something to discuss – How should history view Oliver Cromwell?

If you click here you will get to an article from The Guardian about an Irish amateur historian who is on a mission to save ‘bogeyman’ Cromwell from genocide charges. The Irish historian has spent three decades attempting to convince … Continue reading

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Enrichment – something to read – the best one hundred history books of all time (perhaps)…

If you click here you will get to a list of what are meant to be the best one hundred history books of all time. Such lists are of course subjective, but there really is something for everyone here. Moreover, … Continue reading

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Enrichment – map histories

Map histories are a good way into new topics, and I have included here two different examples as a start. They are often most helpful in military history. The first here explains the origins of the American Civil War, whilst … Continue reading

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Enrichment – something to listen to – BBC Witness clips

It is a bit late for Black History Month, but you may like to explore / listen to the various interviews with people who were there at key moments in civil rights history, from Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a … Continue reading

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Enrichment – somewhere to go. The 2022 Stenton lecture

Mr Kydd

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Enrichment – something to discuss – how vulnerable is American democracy?

Mr Kydd.

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Enrichment – something to watch – Traumazone (on the BBC iPlayer)

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Enrichment – something to listen to:- Napalm Girl: Spreading forgiveness 50 years on

If you click here you will get a chance to listen to something rather special. It is a 20-minute podcast from Kim Phuc Phan Thi. She became famous as the girl in the Napalm photo of 1972 in the Vietnam … Continue reading

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