Category Archives: history in the news

The Invention of Italy

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Mr Kydd

Something (mainly) to support AS students with their document work. BBC Radio 4 are in the process of running a three part series on Italian Unification called  The Invention of Italy. Episode two was on tonight, and appears to be most useful … Continue reading →

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Black History Month

Posted on October 20, 2013 by Mr Kydd

Witness: Black History For Black History Month, you may like to listen to interviews with people who were there at key moments in civil rights history, from Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech, to surviving Robben Island with … Continue reading →

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Obituary – Penry Williams

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Mr Kydd

Sincere apologies all, but the pressures of examinations and the end of term meant that I missed the passing of the great Penry Williams in May. Many of you will have come across his text  The Later Tudors as further reading … Continue reading →

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History and Policy

Posted on July 7, 2013 by Mr Kydd

All, A colleague from another school recommended this website to me. History and Policy set themselves the mission of producing “better public policy through an understanding of history by connecting historians, policy makers and the media.” They  believe study of the past can … Continue reading →

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Henry VIII, the Saddam of the Tudor court ?

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Mr Kydd

There is a  piece of comparative  / journalistic history in The Independent here. In it Professor Kevin Dutton argues that “Henry scores 174 on a “psychopathic spectrum” which starts at 168 (the “average” male scores 112). In The Wisdom of Psychopaths, out in … Continue reading →

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AJP Taylor – the first TV historian.

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Mr Kydd

It has been particularly pleasing to me to see that the BBC have made available some of their lectures from the 1970s by the legendary radical historian AJP Taylor. I warmly remember my history teacher showing us his half hour programme … Continue reading →

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Enrichment opportunity – Propaganda: Power and Persuasion exhibition at the British Library.

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Mr Kydd

All, This is the link to a very special exhibition at the British Library in London which is well worth a visit this summer. Moreover you with youth on your side (ieyou are under 18) get in free. The Propaganda: Power and Persuasion … Continue reading →

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Could two brass coins re-write Australian history ?

Posted on May 30, 2013 by Mr Kydd

It was Captain Cook in 1770 who first brought the outside world to Australia – well perhaps. However, this article from Australian Geographic presents the possiblitity of earlier contact and trade. This is one of the ninth century Kilwa coins found on … Continue reading →

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1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Mr Kydd

There is a super little article here from the BBC website by Andy Walker. It highlights the apparent coincidence that in 1913 Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived Vienna at the same time. The article rightly suggests that this in part … Continue reading →

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Return to Stalingrad: Nostalgia for Uncle Joe alive and well in Volgograd

Posted on February 3, 2013 by Mr Kydd

As many of you know, this weekend marks the 7oth anniversary of the German surrender at Stalingrad. It is, in itself, a battle of huge significance worthy of study and report. As the most famous text on the topic – Antony Beevor’s … Continue reading →

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