Great War

Unreal City: November 11th 1919

London on November 11th 1919 - a two minute silence at 11 o'clock to observe the first anniversary of the…

9 years ago

Modern Learning and the Shock of the New

Here's something terrific for free: It's an E-book of great articles from the always useful Educating Modern Learners, an online…

10 years ago

The Christmas Truce: “A Day of Perfect Peace”

This well outfitted German trench has a lighted Christmas tree and soldiers celebrating with music and sausages! It's true -…

10 years ago

The Chronicles of Grit

I’ve been researching grit - the way one does on a snowy day. In the process I discovered an Australian…

11 years ago

Operation War Diary: Backward men and awkward horses

For anyone with even a passing interest in the First World War here is an unparalleled opportunity: Operation War Diary.…

11 years ago

A Darkling Year or Joy Illimited.

BBC's Radio 4 first tweet for 2014 was a thrush with a bright blue sky background and a quotation from…

11 years ago

Necessary Heroes

"The necessary supply of heroes must be maintained at all costs." (Siegfried Sassoon 24 February. 1917, quoting Sir Edward Carson…

11 years ago

Darkness and Light

What 60 schools can tell us about teaching 21st century skills. Here's the TEDx Denver version of the talk Grant Lichtman gave at…

12 years ago

An Age of Marvels

If there’s any doubt that we are living in an age of marvels just read these accounts of what happened…

12 years ago

My First and Last Poppy: Evermore and Nevermore

In Memory of Lance Corporal Frank Herbert Sims. Royal Army Medical Corps who died on 28 January 1919 Age 34 Son…

12 years ago

The Price

Thanks to my Twitter feed I saw this short BBC news piece about recently discover aerial photographs of the battlefields…

14 years ago

With the Guns

With school closed for the day there was time for a walk. Buttercup Farm Sanctuary off Route 82 just north…

15 years ago

“And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds”.

Ninety years since the end of the First World War. Passengers at Paddington station on Armistice Day, 11 November 1919.…

16 years ago

The Book is Dead: Long Live the Book

And they smell good and feel good too! In a fascinating article in the current New York Review of Books…

16 years ago

Regeneration

This July marks the ninetieth anniversary of the start of third Ypres - better known as the battle of Passchendaele…

17 years ago