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IB DP Category 2

Berlin, Germany, 28 February - 2 March 2025
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History: A focus on internal assessment
IB DP Category 3

Online (IB Approved), 21 - 23 March 2025
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December blog: Site update, anniversaries and history in the news
December blog: Site update, anniversaries and history in the news

December, 1994; Russia sends tanks and troops into Chechnya to end the rebel territory's three-year drive for independence - one of the significant anniversaries for this month. This month we have added...

07 December 2024
November Blog: Armistice Day
November Blog: Armistice Day

  Armistice Day is a significant day in the school calender; it gives us the opportunity to remember the lives lost and sacrifices made in previous wars; as well as remembering the conflicts that are...

05 November 2024
October Blog: Black History Month
October Blog: Black History Month

  In the UK, October is Black History Month - an annual celebration of Black history and heritage. The theme for 2024 UK Black History month in the UK is 'Reclaiming narratives' and there are some excellent...

06 October 2024
September Blog: Anniversaries, site update, books, programmes and podcasts
September Blog: Anniversaries, site update, books, programmes and podcasts

Operation Market Garden, September 1944 There are a couple of significant anniversaries this month linked to Second World War and the Cold War that you could discuss with your students: A commemorative...

21 September 2024
August Blog: Lessons from history
August Blog: Lessons from history

 An image from the BBC programe Atomic People. The books reviewed below, along with this BBC programme, focus on harrowing events in the past which can provide warnings to the present. We hope that...

22 August 2024
July Blog: The Olympic Games - historical controversies
July Blog: The Olympic Games - historical controversies

  This Friday sees the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics. As well as being the focus of remarkable sporting achievements, the Olympic Games have often provided a spotlight on key historical...

23 July 2024
June blog: D-Day Anniversary
June blog: D-Day Anniversary

6th June 2024 marks 80 years since D-Day, the largest seaborne invasion in history, and the beginning of the liberation of Western Europe in the Second World War. As Historian Max Hastings writes, 'the...

31 May 2024
May blog: Thinking about EE's and University applications
May blog: Thinking about EE's and University applications

 Well done to all DP History students who are graduating in June!  Many first year history students will now be thinking about applying to university. Students planning to study history might want to...

21 May 2024
April blog: Rwandan genocide
April blog: Rwandan genocide

  This week sees the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide which took started in April 1994 and is estimated to have killed nearly one million Tutsi and thousands of moderate Hutu. Despite advance...

12 April 2024
March blog: New history books
March blog: New history books

This is a very timely book. It is the story of the extraordinary career of Britain’s top wartime counter-propagandist, Sefton Delmer, who worked to counter Nazi propaganda. However Pomerantsev's message...

16 March 2024
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