WW1

Happy New Year 1917

A few images from a century ago to wish everyone the very best for 1917. War is lurking!  This Reading…

8 years ago

Treasons Greetings: The Ghosts of Happy Holidays Past

It's politically incorrect to say Happy Holidays these days. We must all say Merry Christmas. No word on the acceptability…

8 years ago

Goodbye to all that

The first day of my new life as an idle good-for-nothing superannuated coffin-dodger (my brother's description of retirees) coincides with…

8 years ago

The Barrage Lifts

After forty five years it's time to re-wire! And the start of my re-wirement coincides with the centenary of the…

8 years ago

Happy New Year

A small selection of New Year's greetings from a a century ago.  

9 years ago

1915 and The Midnight of the Nations

On Christmas Day 1915 David Lloyd George the former radical liberal,then Minister of Munitions and soon to be Prime Minister…

9 years ago

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

Operation Grit

I take comfort in knowing that I am not the only gritless wonder on the internet. Peter Gow has now…

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