History

Bloody Mary: Did she deserve her reputation?

This teaching activity is about reputations, what they are, how we can acquire one and how we can change or lose one. The 18th February marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Mary I, the lesser known daughter of Henry VIII and sister of Elizabeth I. History today remembers her by… Read More

Did you know? Notes from the History of the Alhambra

A blog exploring the history related to the geometrical symmetry used in the Alhambra Palace, Granada, Spain. Read More

The Power of Mystery in History

By Mike Gould When I was offered the chance to write The Body in the Car Park for Read On I jumped at it. My fascination with Richard III goes back many years, beginning in childhood when I first heard about the mysterious disappearance… Read More

Bringing history to life: writing Invasion

By Alan Gibbons   One of the last survivors of the First World War, Harry Patch, described war as ‘organised murder.’ So imagine how the young men in the Allied Forces felt as they headed for the Normandy beaches on June 6th, 1944, a date thar would go down in… Read More

Maths Activities for the 90th Anniversary of the Opening of Tutankhamun’s Tomb

Explore the 'Mummy's Curse' and investigate probability in these maths activities based around the opening of Tutankhamun's Tomb. Read More

Secondary History- Old Newspapers- they’re only good for wrapping up fish and chips, right?

Many of us have used adverts from old newspapers to illustrate various aspects of history – early C20th adverts for, for example, Fry’s Chocolate or Palmolive Soap suggest both continuity and change, but why not use some of the stories too? They can help to round out our studies of… Read More