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Something excellent (but very late) for International Women’s Day.
Clare Balding investigates whether Emily Davidson meant to kill herself at the Derby in 1913. En route she explores the brutal realities of how the suffragettes were treated, and asks if we should consider them terrorists.
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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.
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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History in the News – ‘A gift for Holocaust deniers’: how Polish libel ruling will hit historians. Something to discuss in History Society…
If you click here you will get to an article in The Guardian by Jo Glanville. It comments on reports a that the authors of a study on the fate of Polish Jews under Nazism have been told to apologise … Continue reading
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Enrichment – something to listen to – In Our Time – The Emancipation of the Serfs.
If you click here you will get to last night’s edition of In Our Time on Radio 4. In it, Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the 1861 declaration by Tsar Alexander II that serfs were now legally free of their … Continue reading
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Year Nine prep
All, Following on from today’s lesson, for prep I would like you to do the following. Explore the three BBC web pages below. This account of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz II-Birkenau (here). The audio slideshow from … Continue reading
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Year Nine holocaust prep
All, Following on from today’s lesson, for prep I would like you to do the following. Explore the three BBC web pages below. This account of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz II-Birkenau (here). The audio slideshow from … Continue reading
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Year 7 Silchester Investigation work
For next lesson. Read “The Romans build towns” – on the second page you will find a plan of Silchester. Study it. 2. Watch the following 5 minute video. 3. Explore the following links http://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/collections/archaeology/silchester/ http://www.reading.ac.uk/silchester/ 4. Write a … Continue reading
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