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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).

A recent computer recreation shows that perhaps it was not so magic (see the link below). What does this mean ?

• Well of course it does not mean that there was no conspiracy.
• Equally however it reflects how careful we need to be when considering revisions on Orthodox ideas. The most exciting answer is not always the most accurate.

Magic bullet page

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 Cambridge, Suzanne Paul, discusses the Parker Library. It is described here as “one of the most important collections of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts”, and it holds more than 550 documents – including the 6th Century St Augustine Gospels, and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the earliest history written in English.

For us as A Level historians it is an interesting insight into a world before our courses, and also shows the link to the study of music, languages and art. Beyond this, just enjoy the beauty of them…

BBC audio slideshow

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 and diasporait nature of the discipline. Below is a good example of this.

In November 2012 BBC Radio 3 ran a series of fifteen minute lectures from young academics in the humanities and the arts. Here Jonathan Healey gives a talk questioning the value of learning lessons from history. He argues ”that lessons drawn from the past and applied to our own world are meaningless, despite what we are told by best-selling historians and television documentaries. It is precisely because the past is so foreign that we are able to understand what is so unique about today.” Have a listen and see what you think.

Mr Kydd.

Please find here the department’s 5Rs document (Research, Reflect, Review, Read around, and Respond to feedback). It sets out what A level students should expect from us, and what we expect from you. The diagrams below shows the skills that we want you to develop and some of the reasons why historians disagree…

The essay planning sheet master can be found here

A* students share their revision secrets here

A historian’s five top tips for better writing can be found here

Writing advice from the University of Reading can be found here

Why study history at university ? Outcomes

The Times – UK  rankings for history – 2022

Complete university guide UK rankings for politics – 2023

Uniguide – studying history at University – a guide

Sutton Trust summer schools

Uni taster days website

Open Days.com

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