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Year Twelve – Unit Six planning map

As promised – please find attached a photo of our plan for the Unit Six problems, and how they link together. If you want some further reading on this then you could do a lot worse than the conclusion to … Continue reading

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The American Civil War – A significant upward revision of the death toll.

The American Civil War has always felt to me to be something that I should know more about. The truth is it has always passed me by. This article from the New York Times shows how remiss this is. Recent statistical work … Continue reading

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The English Revolution…

A couple of articles from the BBC from a period of British History that I find fascinating, but perhaps does not get the attention that it deserves. This Today programme report and this news report cover the auction of a poster from … Continue reading

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Treblinka: Revealing the hidden graves of the Holocaust

With Holocaust Memorial Day approching I thought it would be appropriate to post this article about Treblinka from the BBC. The mass graves found there expose the nonsense of those, like David Irving (see earlier posts), who deny the Holocaust killed … Continue reading

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Roman helmet turns history on its head…

This excellent article from the Sunday Telegraph clearly shows the growing importance of archaeology to our understanding of the past. Just like the earlier article on Calleva Atrebatum it shows how recent archeological discoveries have changed our understanding of an aspect of the … Continue reading

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Revision Support

Date What When & Where Sunday 15th January Elizabeth Overview, examiner feedback and planning technique 10 am – 12pm History Block Sunday 22nd  January Italy Overview, examiner feedback and planning technique 10 am – 12pm History Block For those of you who … Continue reading

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The ANC – Centenary celebrations

A couple of excellent articles from the BBC to mark the centenary celebrations of the ANC. This video contrasts its early roots as a party of liberation with its post-Mandela disappointments. This Today interview from Radio Four looks at the problems of … Continue reading

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The books that shaped history

Another excellent audioslide here from the BBC. This one looks at the Gutenberg Bible and the student notes of Sir Isaac Newton (and how writing helped make the scientific revolution of the Enlightenment possible). As a school boy I can remember … Continue reading

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Repost – when historians fall out…

Again I am not going to repost all the articles that were lost. However, the racism row between Niall Ferguson and Pankaj Mishra, is chronicled well in this Observer article provides a good summary. Two questions do seem apposite here; 1. Why do … Continue reading

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“2011 – it reminds me of 1848” – Eric Hobsbawm

You will probably remember from an earlier post that Eric Hobsbawn is a British Marxist historian, most famous for his trilogy of books on the nineteenth century – The Age of Revolution, The Age of Capital and The Age of … Continue reading

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