London on November 11th 1919 - a two minute silence at 11 o'clock to observe the first anniversary of the…
Here's something terrific for free: It's an E-book of great articles from the always useful Educating Modern Learners, an online…
This well outfitted German trench has a lighted Christmas tree and soldiers celebrating with music and sausages! It's true -…
I’ve been researching grit - the way one does on a snowy day. In the process I discovered an Australian…
For anyone with even a passing interest in the First World War here is an unparalleled opportunity: Operation War Diary.…
BBC's Radio 4 first tweet for 2014 was a thrush with a bright blue sky background and a quotation from…
"The necessary supply of heroes must be maintained at all costs." (Siegfried Sassoon 24 February. 1917, quoting Sir Edward Carson…
What 60 schools can tell us about teaching 21st century skills. Here's the TEDx Denver version of the talk Grant Lichtman gave at…
If there’s any doubt that we are living in an age of marvels just read these accounts of what happened…
In Memory of Lance Corporal Frank Herbert Sims. Royal Army Medical Corps who died on 28 January 1919 Age 34 Son…
Thanks to my Twitter feed I saw this short BBC news piece about recently discover aerial photographs of the battlefields…
With school closed for the day there was time for a walk. Buttercup Farm Sanctuary off Route 82 just north…
Ninety years since the end of the First World War. Passengers at Paddington station on Armistice Day, 11 November 1919.…
And they smell good and feel good too! In a fascinating article in the current New York Review of Books…
This July marks the ninetieth anniversary of the start of third Ypres - better known as the battle of Passchendaele…