June Blog: Windrush anniversary
This month sees the 75th Anniversary of the arrival of the ship HMT Empire Windrush. It docked in Tilbury, Essex, on 22 June 1948 carrying passengers from the Caribbean to fill labour shortages in the...
May blog: Thinking about university applications
Well done to all IB 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 consider...
April blog: revision, site update plus Khrushchev and Putin
Exams are around the corner and so just a reminder that we have a revision section on this site to help students with revision strategies: And with the revision season in mind, we have also added...
March Blog: The Iraq War 20 Years on
The U.S. invasion of Iraq twenty years ago is rightly considered to be a major strategic blunder that destabilized the Middle East, consumed significant American resources, and sapped the power of the...
February Blog: One-year anniversary of invasion of Ukraine
'Ukraine is at the forefront of a renewed great-power rivalry between the West and Russia, setting a dangerous precedent that will influence international relations for decades'. (CFR) This week sees...
January: Holocaust Remembrance Day
What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life – that is what is abnormal. Elie Wiesel,...
December blog: 100 year anniversary of a 'fateful year'
. This month sees the 100 year anniverary of the formation of the USSR. As Robert Coalson wrote for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, in an article back in January this year, “on December 30, 1922, representatives...
November Blog: New resources, new books and Armistice Day
We have discussed Armistice Day several times over the years and the opportunity that this gives for History IB students to play a role in explaining to the rest of your school the significance of this...
October blog: 60th Anniversary of Cuban missile crisis
Anniversaries of key historical events provide an opportunity to examine in more detail these events and to assess their long-term impact. This month sees two significant anniversaries - both of which...
September: Gorbachev's legacy
‘The most significant political leader globally of the second half of the 20th century and one of the greatest reformers in Russian history’ Archie Brown “We see the best side of Gorbachev. The Soviets...