Video support for the Nazi seizure of power

Posted on March 4, 2016 by Mr Kydd

Year Thirteen,

Following on from our last three lessons,

 

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The British Library

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Mr Kydd

BL_LogoYear Twelve,

Following on from your prep click here for the documents from the British library. Note in particular;

Edward VI diary entry

The 1549 Book of Common Prayer

Foxe’s Book of Martyrs

The 1588 Speech by Elizabeth I.

Mr Kydd.

 

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Who is who in Tudor England ?

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Mr Kydd

roseYear Twelve,

This is the site I was talking about in class. It is a who is who in Tudor England (sorted by surname). Obviously it is most helpful to us for the historical context work on the Mid Tudors.

Mr Kydd.

 

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Hitler became German chancellor on January 30th, 1933

Posted on January 30, 2016 by Mr Kydd

hitlerEighty three years ago today Hitler became chancellor of Germany. How this happened is our post-Mock investigation. As such, you may like to look at the following from History Today.

  • Click here for Richard Cavendish’s article about that day.
  • Click here for Elizabeth Wiskemann’s article about the Night of the Long Knives.

Mr Kydd.

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Enrichment – totalitarianism and a comparison of Stalin and Hitler

Posted on January 12, 2016 by Mr Kydd

All,

Following on from our class discussion of totalitarianism in today’s lesson, the following Channel Four documentary explores this topic by comparing Hitler and Stalin.

Let me know what you think.

Mr Kydd.

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Enrichment – The Spartacist Uprising in Berlin

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Mr Kydd

spartacistIf you click here you will get to Richard Cavendish’s 2009 article from History Today exploring the failure of the Spartacist Uprising in Berlin in January 1919…

By January 11th, Liebknecht and Luxemburg had lost all control of events and Liebknecht could only say, fatalistically: ‘Ultimately one should accept history as it develops.’

You should also watch the following excellent A Level video presentations that have been posted on Youtube.

 

Mr Kydd.

 

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Enrichment – An introduction to the Mid Tudor Crisis

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Mr Kydd

Lower Sixth,

 

Welcome back,

As part of your introduction to source work on the Mid Tudor Crisis can you please watch these for  Tuesday (19/1). They should complement my overview lecture. For each write down three points that you think are important for our class discussion.

Mr Kydd.

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Why the Study of History Is Imperative Today

Posted on December 23, 2015 by Mr Kydd

those-who-dont-study-historyIf you click here you will get to an article by  in the Huffington Post on the importance of history in the modern world. It is well worth a read – I have included an extract below…

“History should teach us compassion. It should teach us not to assume, but to reserve judgement about people whose values and beliefs are different to ours. When it comes to looking back at the experiences of men and women who lived five or six centuries ago, we are forced to confront the barriers to understanding, the pitfalls of interpretation, of twenty-first century thinking against that of the medieval world. ”

Mr Kydd.

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History books of the Year 2015

Posted on December 15, 2015 by Mr Kydd

printingpressIf you click here  you will get to History Today’s review of the top history books from 2015. As they put it themselves, “From Aristotle to El Alamein, via the Silk Road and Charlemagne’s vast empire, ten leading historians tell us about their best books from 2015“.

May I recommend John Robertson’s magnificent Iraq – a History.iraq As Eleanor Robson comments, “the past is irrevocably entangled with the present, as Tony Blair has reluctantly acknowledged through his admission that the 2003 Iraq War laid the roots of ISIS, the Syrian conflict and the international refugee crisis. Far better historians than Blair see the origins of Iraq’s current predicament in Britain’s crypto-imperial Mandate of 1920-32. But John Robertson’s magnificent Iraq: A History (Oneworld) takes a truly long perspective. From the first Sumerian cities over 5,000 years ago, via the great empires of Assyria, Babylonia and Abbasid Baghdad, to the modern Iraqi state, he shows how this complex past has always shaped, and been shaped by, contemporary political concerns.”

Happy Christmas,

Mr Kydd.

 

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Obituary – Christopher Duggan

Posted on December 11, 2015 by Mr Kydd
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All,

If you click here you will get to the Daily Telegraph’s obituary for Christopher Duggan. He worked at the University of Reading from 1987, and was noted for his work on Italian history. Indeed, one of his earlier works, A Concise History of Italy would prove to be an excellent starting point for anyone coverwanting to understand the unique story that that country.

His last work was Fascist Voices: An Intimate History of Mussolini’s Italy  is described thus – Duggan turned to the inner lives of those ordinary people who supported Fascism. Much of the research for the book was carried out in an archive of popular diaries in a small village in Tuscany, which he loved visiting and spoke of with great warmth. 

It is well worth a read.

Mr Kydd.

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