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Historians and the riots.

All of us will of course have been aware of the awful rioting in early August, and many of us will have heard (about) David Starkey’s comments on Newsnight. If not, or if you want to hear the discussion Verbatim then this BBC … Continue reading

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Ian Kershaw on writing history about Hitler

In this interview in in the saturday Guardian, there’s a fascinating insight into what drives historians in their choices of research, in the process of writing history books, and in the way that different schools of historians views are often … Continue reading

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Computer recreation suggest that the magic bullet could work…

Something a bit different this time. If you cast your minds back to the enquiry work that we did on the Kennedy assassination in Year Nine then you might remember the problem of the magic bullet (see the attached image). … Continue reading

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A very beautiful insight into the Anglo-Saxon world

One of the aims of this new front page is to bring you into contact with History news items beyond our course.  The link below is for an excellent audio slideshow from the BBC. In it, the librarian at Corpus Christi … Continue reading

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Welcome

Fellow heathen historians. Welcome to the new heathen history site. This news feed will host all the general A level history news, and materials. We hope that this will build up to be a collection of enriching materials that will reflect the broad … Continue reading

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