Category Archives: historians

Enrichment – something to read and watch – Is Britain becoming more divided? David Olusoga.

Posted on September 30, 2023 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to a link where David Olusoga introduces his new BBC series. He suggests that Britain is becoming more divided. Read the article, and if you like watch the programme. Do you agree with … Continue reading →

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Book Review –

Posted on November 18, 2022 by Mr Kydd

Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe What brings strong personalities to power?’ asks the historian Ian Kershaw. ‘And what promotes or limits their use of that power?’ Those two questions are at the centre of this book, … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – something to listen to. Radio 4 – a user’s guide to disinformation.

Posted on August 24, 2021 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to historians such as Robert Service and Richard Evans discuss how there is nothing new about fake news. It is excellent enrichment, and I recommend it to you. Mr Kydd. Programme description. Phil … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – something to read. Black London: History, Art & Culture in over 120 places

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to a review of Black London by Avril Nanton. The book contains maps, photographs and a timeline of black history. It also includes a potted history of the HMT Empire Windrush. Have a … Continue reading →

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History Society – something to discuss – Cultural warriors attacking ‘woke’ history care little for truth. It’s all political theatre David Olusoga

Posted on January 26, 2021 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to a  sharp article in Sunday’s Observer by David Olusoga. I have included an extract below. Have a read and see what you think… “In both the US and the UK, these new … Continue reading →

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History Society – Something to discuss – What will Trump’s legacy be?

Posted on January 21, 2021 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to a BBC article where US historians debate Donald Trump’s legacy. This is a useful article for us. By contrasting different historians back-to-back it makes the point very clearly that you conclusions often … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – obituary Norman Stone – perhaps the rudest historian…

Posted on June 30, 2019 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to The Guardian’s review to Margret Thatcher’s favourite historian – Norman Stone. Right-wing, undoubtedly brilliant, his survey texts were perhaps his real strength. I have also included one of his last lectures below. … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – something to listen to – historians in discussion. #VersusHistory

Posted on May 11, 2019 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to the excellent #VersusHistory website to hear historians discuss and debate. Upper Sixth historians should click here to get to a very sharp podcast analysis of Soviet industrial policy. Mr Kydd.

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Obituary: John Lukacs, iconoclastic historian who wrote a best-selling tribute to Churchill

Posted on May 10, 2019 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to a Scotsman obituary for the Hungarian historian John Lukacs. Perhaps his most famous work was his tribute to Winston Churchill – “Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat”. I always remember him for being … Continue reading →

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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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