Choose from the following two options 20 Factual Questions Complete the gaps exercise
Month: July 2010
Essay planning: Mussolini’s Domestic Policies
Essay Planning Task A worksheet which guides students through the steps of writing an effective essay on Mussolini’s domestic policies
Mussolini and Fascist Italy
Research Task: Short Version Eight main policy areas will be researched (students later boil these down to five, then link them). The teacher will provide details on the first one using a model research piece and students should make notes. The class will then research the other rows and feedback with their findings.
Introductory Prezi: Mussolini and Fascist Italy
A brief overview of the main themes and the key events. Students should take notes!
18th July 1610 (400 years ago today) Michelangelo and Caravaggio died
Two of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.
Orlando Figes to pay fake Amazon review damages
A leading historian who wrote anonymous reviews on the Amazon website praising his own work and criticising rivals is to pay libel damages and costs.
Orlando Figes to pay fake Amazon review damages
A leading historian who wrote anonymous reviews on the Amazon website praising his own work and criticising rivals is to pay libel damages and costs.
Mussolini and Fascist Italy: Overview
Mussolini (a former schoolteacher and socialist) was appointed prime minister in October 1922 . As Duce (leader), he initially headed a coalition of Fascists and nationalists, but soon assumed dictatorial powers, although muted parliamentary opposition continued until the murder of Matteotti in 1924. As an extension activity, read through Mussolini’s answer to the question “What…
Auschwitz ‘I will survive’ dance video is internet sensation
A video showing a Jewish Holocaust survivor and his grandchildren singing and dancing to the tune "I will survive" at the entrance to the Auschwitz death camp has provoked a storm of controversy after receiving more than half a million hits on YouTube.
Auschwitz ‘I will survive’ dance video is internet sensation
A video showing a Jewish Holocaust survivor and his grandchildren singing and dancing to the tune "I will survive" at the entrance to the Auschwitz death camp has provoked a storm of controversy after receiving more than half a million hits on YouTube.
Historical Anniversaries for August 2010
• The following list provides important anniversaries that could be commemorated in 2010. • It can be used by teachers preparing assemblies, extension tasks and one-off lessons. • I am limiting the list to multiples of 50 years (1960 (50 years ago today), 1910 (100 years ago today), 1860 (150 years ago today) etc). •…
Barack Obama compared to Hitler and Lenin in Tea Party billboard
A roadside billboard created by a branch of the Tea Party in Iowa comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin has been condemned by other groups in the movement.
Barack Obama compared to Hitler and Lenin in Tea Party billboard
A roadside billboard created by a branch of the Tea Party in Iowa comparing President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin has been condemned by other groups in the movement.
Theory of Knowledge
It has been said that “all history is contemporary history” (Croce) and “History tells us more about the person who wrote it than about the people being written about” (Carr). In this sense, works of history themselves become sources for later generations of historians! In this session, we will look at the three broad interpretations…
‘Biggest canal ever built by Romans’ discovered
One of the biggest canals ever built by the Romans in an ancient port as important as Carthage or Alexandria has been discovered by British archaeologists.
‘Biggest canal ever built by Romans’ discovered
One of the biggest canals ever built by the Romans in an ancient port as important as Carthage or Alexandria has been discovered by British archaeologists.
Historians locate King Arthur’s Round Table
Historians claim to have finally located the site of King Arthur’s Round Table – and believe it could have seated 1,000 people.
11th July 1960 (50 years ago today) Harper Lee releases her critically acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird
Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28, 1926) is an American author, best known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom of the United States for her contribution to literature in 2007…[more]
The Historians and their Sources
Sources are incomplete, untypical and unreliable, as we found out in our last session. Historians therefore need to: Select sources to use, based on what questions need answering; Interpret those sources and make deductions from them; Organise and present their main conclusions to the public. Arguably, this process of selection and interpretation distorts our “knowledge”…
Historiography: The Historians and their Sources
The first way in which we gain knowledge of the past is through historical evidence (“sources”). Two questions raise themselves: How can we extract knowledge from the sources? (issues of quality and quantity) How useful is the knowledge that we extract in this way? (issues of comprehensibility and the ‘language gap’) [Student worksheet | Extension…
6th July 1960 (50 years ago today) Aneurin Bevan died
Aneurin Bevan was one of the most important ministers of the post-war Labour government and the chief architect of the National Health Service…[more]
5th July 1810 (200 years ago today) Phineas T. Barnum was born
Barnum is widely but erroneously credited with coining the phrase “There’s a sucker born every minute.”…[more]
Theory of Knowledge in History
Why and How is History Produced? – student worksheet and teacher notes to help deliver a historiography course.
4th July 1910 (100 years ago today) African-American boxer Jack Johnson defeats James J. Jeffries (Film!)
As a result of this heavyweight boxing match, race riots broke out across the United States. YouTube Video
4th July 1910 (100 years ago today) Schiaparelli died
Prolific Italian astronomer whose research ranged widely but whose name is forever associated with Mars, and the controversy over the Martian “canals” which, unwittingly, he helped to unleash…[more]
France’s new medieval castle
Deep in the forests of central France, an unusual architectural experiment is half-way to completion, as a team of masons replicates in painstaking detail the construction of an entire medieval castle.
Niall Ferguson: ‘What would the left wing do without me?’
He's the media don who makes liberals bristle. Now Niall Ferguson is rewriting economics. He talks to Sean O'Grady about banking in the Third Reich, the failure of Obama and how he's helping Michael Gove
Rare Napoleon memorabilia, including a lock of his hair, sold in New Zealand auction
Rare memorabilia of former French Emperor Napoleon 1st, including a lock of hair cut from his head after he died in exile in 1821 on the remote island of St. Helena, have fetched 140,000 New Zealand dollars ($97,000) at auction.
List of French who collaborated with Nazis to be published online
Thousands of French citizens who collaborated with the Nazis during the Second World War will be unmasked when police reports from the era are finally made public and published online.
Man facing jail over Hitler ringtone
A German man is facing up to six months in jail for having a speech by Adolf Hitler as his mobile phone ringtone.
Every time the 54-year-old man's phone rang, it played a speech by Hitler, in which the former dictator pledged the destruction of world Jewry if Germany was dragged into war.
MazeGame: The Chinese Civil War and the Rise of Mao
Meet some of the key characters relating to the topic, learn about some of the key documents and artefacts, and take a series of tests before being given an overall score in this decision-making adventure.
1st July 1860 (150 years ago today) Charles Goodyear died
Goodyear’s discovery of what came to be known as vulcanization strengthened rubber so it could be applied to a vast variety of industrial uses, including, eventually, automobile tyres…[more]
