June: Anniversaries and updates
Anniversaries of world changing events and updates to Paper 2 Cold War topic to bring it in line with the ammendments for 2020. This month sees some important anniversaries; as ever these are a great...
May: Should governments apologise for crimes of the past?
With the May History IB examinations imminent, we wish the best of luck to all of your students! Here we ponder the signficance of some more anniversaries and give you an update on this month's additions...
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April: Focus on exams!
Photo by Green Chameleon on Unsplash May exams are fast approaching so we have put up a revision section for students to give some tips on how to revise effectively. You can find this on the home page...
March: International Women's Day
Some thoughts on International Women's Day, interesting articles and site update. Marie Stopes in her laboratory 8 March is International Women’s Day; this gives historians and students a great opportunity...
February: Site update and more anniversaries
February update on our new ATL and quiz pages as well as some ideas for commemorating 2019 anniversaries. As ever, historical anniversaries mean that the media is re-visiting key individuals and events...
January: Anniversaries for 2019 and history in the news
Happy New Year! See below for site updates, plans for 2019, forthcoming Anniversaries and some other interesting articles. Many thanks for all of your responses to our New Year message and your positive...
December: Site update and best history books of 2018
More site updates and some extra resources from the Web. Several developments have taken place on our site since the last blog in November. We have added more multiple choice quizzes (with interactive...
The Wound in Time: a sonnet for 11th November
The Wound in Time is a sonnet written by the British poet Carol Ann Duffy for Armistice Day commemorations. THE WOUND IN TIME by Carol Ann Duffy It is the wound in Time. The century’s tides, chanting...
November: Armistice and site update
More site updates and more ideas for commemorating Armistice Day. We would also like to wish good luck to all students who are currently taking their IB exams- and especially for the history exams this...
October: Site update and remembering the Armistice 1918
Yet more updates to the site this month, the need for 'short answer testing', and thoughts and resources on the upcoming 100 year anniversary of the Armistice, 1918. We have added some extra actvities...