Category Archives: Obituaries

Obituaries:Roy Hackett and Mikhail Gorbachev

Posted on August 31, 2022 by Mr Kydd

In face as we return to school this post has two obituaries in it for two reformers who passed this summer. Roy Hackett and Mikhail Gorbachev If you click here you will get to get to The Guardian’s obituary for … Continue reading →

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Obituary- Desmond Tutu

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Mr Kydd

In November F W De Klerk died. To support and extend our South Africa course, I posted his last message to the South African people and an obituary (see a few posts down). Over Christmas arguably the last key individual … Continue reading →

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Obituary – Lee Evans, record-setting US sprinter and 1968 Olympic activist, dies aged 74

Posted on May 24, 2021 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to The Guardian obituary for Lee Evans – Evans became the first man to crack 44 seconds in the 400m, winning the gold medal at the Mexico City Games in 43.86. His victory … Continue reading →

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Obituary – Jonathan Steinberg. Historian whose work Bismarck: A Life is considered the best study of its subject in the English language.

Posted on March 23, 2021 by Mr Kydd

If you click here, you will get to The Guardian’s obituary for Jonathan Steinberg. He famously wrote Bismarck – a life. The obituary suggests that Bismarck – a life is “brilliantly readable – nearly 500 pages go by in a … Continue reading →

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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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Obituary – Paul Farnes – the last Ace of the Battle of Britain

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Mr Kydd

All, If you click here  you will get the BBC obituary for Wing Commander Paul Farnes, who died this week aged 101. Farnes, a Hurricane pilot, was the last surviving ace, an accolade referring to those who brought down at … Continue reading →

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Obituary – Eva Kor

Posted on July 6, 2019 by Mr Kydd

If you click here you will get to The Guardian’s obituary for the remarkable Eva Kor. She was the victim of Joseph Mengele at Auschwitz, who became a forgiveness advocate, deadicting her life to Holocaust awareness. She testified in 2015 … 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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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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Obituary – Linda Brown (Brown V Board)

Posted on March 29, 2018 by Mr Kydd

A bit of enrichment for you IGCSE students. If you click here you will get to The Guardian’s obituary for Linda Brown, the Kansas girl at the center of the 1954 supreme court ruling that concluded that “in the field … Continue reading →

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