Category Archives: IGCSE

Civil Rights obituary – John Lewis

Posted on July 19, 2020 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get t o the BBC’s obituary for John Lewis. Below is the news report from Channel Four. Please have a look at both – they are like a timeline of the Civil Rights unit. … Continue reading →

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iGCSE enrichment – From the Kerner Report to today. The USA’s race problem.

Posted on June 5, 2020 by Mr Kydd

It will have been almost impossible for you to miss the reports of the death of George Floyd. The video is certainly a disturbing one, and the police involved face murder charges, whilst protests and riots have followed. A timeline … Continue reading →

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iGCSE enrichment – The Second Red Scare / McCarthyism – Is this tomorrow?

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to the infamous “Is this tomorrow” cartoon in full. It is not subtle stuff to our modern eyes, and sums up the paranoia and feat of the Red Scare in 1940s / 1950s USA perfectly. … Continue reading →

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iGCSE enrichment – something to watch – The People’s Century – On the line

Posted on September 18, 2019 by Mr Kydd

Year Ten, Following on from the snippet that we saw in the lesson on Fordism and the moving assembly line, the whole episode from the People’s Century project. This series tried to tell the history of the Twentieth Century in … Continue reading →

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iGCSE enrichment – something to watch – The Rise of the Nazis

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Mr Kydd

Year Eleven, Welcome back. Timing is of course everything in life, and as we are starting to explore Weimar and Nazi Germany, the BBC have kindly produced a first rate three-part series exploring the Nazi rise to power in 1930s … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – IGCSE – something to think about – Roe V Wade today

Posted on May 16, 2019 by Mr Kydd

All, There are few more sensitive issues than abortion, and I certainly do not see it as my job to tell you what to think about it. However, as we study Roe V Wade in 1973 as part of our … Continue reading →

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Enrichment – IGCSE – Who was Rosie the riveter?

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Mr Kydd

If you click here, you will an article exploring the identity of the famous Rosie the Riveter. It is well worth a read – not least for the insight the casual sexism of the caption next to Naomi Parker. This … Continue reading →

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Some IGCSE enrichment – USA work. The photography of Walker Evans and a BBC article on the white southerners who fought US segregation

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Mr Kydd

A couple enrichment opportunities here. The video below discusses the photography of Taylor Evans. His work really brings the human cost of the economic collapse alive, and I strongly recommend it to you. 2. If you click here you will … Continue reading →

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