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This educational and commemorative project offers post-16 students the opportunity to learn about the Holocaust and consider its relevance for today. Through the bespoke interactive online platform, participants join others from across the country as they embark on an educational journey in which they:

• Learn about the history of the Holocaust and the role of camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau
• Consider the individuals whose lives were affected by the Holocaust
• Reflect on the relevance of the Holocaust today and share their learning with others

During the Project, participants:

• Explore this challenging history by taking part in interactive, online Live Sessions, led by experts in the history of the Holocaust
• Hear directly from Holocaust survivors, who share their personal experiences, including an online, live survivor testimony and Q&A
• Experience the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum using virtual reality technology

Students end the course by completing their Next Steps, an opportunity for them to share what they have learnt and experienced with their school and wider community.

If you want to know more, please come and see me.

Mr Kydd.

If you click here you will to the NCH essay title questions. Have a look at them, and pop in and see me if you want to chat them through. The history title – What does history teach us about humanity’s ability to adapt to climate change? is a classic open-ended question, which should allow genuine intellectual freedom. 1500 words, and the deadline is 31st January.

Mr Kydd.

If you click here you will get to an excellent article from Reading Museum entitled “Five Reading citizens and the fight for votes for women” – Reading had an active WSPU, and I particularly enjoyed the descriptions suffragettes.

Mabel Norton, of Caversham, a member of the Reading branch  of the Women’s Social and Political Union, which had a premises in West Street, Reading (shown below), was sentenced to seven days’ at Holloway prison for her part in a demonstration. She was reported as giving a ‘racy account’ of her experiences at a meeting of sympathisers on the 14 December 1911. Norton described how ‘I wasn’t a bit hysterical when I took a small hammer and smashed five windows one after the other. I did it quietly and deliberately. Then a walk down the street to the police-station cheered by a friendly crowd.’

Another local militant suffragette was Jessie Laws of Lower Armour Road in Tilehurst. She was arrested more than once (including for a raid on the House of Commons in June 1909 along with their first cousin Emmaline Pethick-Lawrence).

Next time that you are in town, have a look – the shop frontage can still be identified. Have a read and see what you think.

Mr Kydd