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French Revolution

Why I love teaching the French Revolution

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Storming of the Bastille

I first became fascinated by the French Revolution when I was in the lower 6th in the late 1980s. Back in the day being in the lower 6th generally meant sitting in the 6th form common room, talking pretentious nonsense  and doing very little work – well it did for[…]

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Appreciating our artistic heritage through history

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Appreciating our artistic heritage through history. One of my favourite resources to use in the History classroom is the visual image. I simple love using images in general and paintings in particular. It never ceases to astound me how well students respond to well chosen paintings and how, if used in the[…]

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