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...
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...
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...
February Blog: Death of Navalny
There is much in the news about the tragic death of Putin's most vocal opponent, Alexei Navalny. We've added some articles below that you might wish to share with your students, but we particularly recommend...
January blog: Holocaust Memorial Day
That is when the trouble started for the Jews. Our freedom was severely restricted by a series of anti-Jewish decrees. Anne Frank, diary entry, Saturday 20 June, 1942 – reflecting back on May 1940...
December Blog: Kissinger's legacy
Last week saw the death of Kissinger - a figure who The Guardian describes as 'a giant' and 'the most controversial US foreign policy practitioner of the last half-century'. This BBC obituary gives a...
November Blog: Armistice and Anniversaries
We have discussed Armistice Day several times over the years and the opportunity that this gives for History DP students to play a role in explaining to the rest of your school the significance of this...
October blog: Israel and Palestine
This week sees the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. This has been made even more significant by the Hamas attack on Israel which was clearly timed to coincide with this anniversary. Given...
September blog: JFK assassination - new information
We are continuing to update our site - making the layout of our pages clearer and more attractive. Also adding more content and activities at the same time. This month we have worked on Paper 3: Asia....
August Blog: Site update and an intriguing exhibition
From the exhibition in Berlin: Roads not Taken. Oder: Es hätte auch anders kommen können (see below) We hope that those of you returning to school in August after the long vacation have had a restful...