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LEEDS TRINITY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CPD COURSE COURSE NO: 4/00901 Helping your students to become independent enquirers in history A day of inspiring professional development for secondary history...
View ArticleReview of ‘Dunkirk to Belsen’
Buy at Amazon In the closing days of the Second World War, men from 113 LAA Battalion RA, originally the 7th Battalion DLI, part of the British 8th Corp, were tasked with taking over an ‘internment...
View ArticleHow accurate is testimony?
A few days ago I saw a story about ‘Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?’ being made into a film (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/9627322/British-PoW-escaped-200-times-to-meet-German-lover.html) It...
View ArticleHow images speak to us
Yesterday (9th September 2018) I took part in the event marking the 85th anniversary of The Battle of Stockton , a truly memorable memorial. I was inspired by the words of David Rosenburg –...
View ArticleEmbedding local history into the curriculum – It needn’t be a battle
The following is the handout that accompanied my Presentation at the 2018 Schools History Project Conference, I appreciate that many aspects will not make sense unless you were at the presentation,...
View ArticleJutland 1916: the archaeology of a naval battlefield
Jutland 1916: the archaeology of a naval battlefield by Dr. Innes McCartney published by Bloomsbury Publishing 2016 274 pages, 200 colour and b & w illustrations Hardback ISBN 978-1844664164 As...
View ArticleNew Editions
Cuneo, Terence Tenison; The Opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1825; National Railway Museum; Last month I gave a talk at Preston Park Museum to mark the anniversary of the opening of the...
View ArticleAllegiance of Blood by Mark Turnbull
As someone with more than a passing interest in 17th Century warfare I anticipated that I would appreciate Mark’s historical fiction novel, and I was correct. For almost four decades I have read...
View ArticleThe People’s Army in the Spanish Civil War
The People’s Army in the Spanish Civil War – A Military History of the Republic and International Brigades 1936–1939 By Alexander Clifford Publisher: Pen & Sword Military Hardback £25 (£4 P&P)...
View ArticleIT WAS SOUTH BANK WHAT WON THAT WAR
I have been very lucky to have come into contact with so many wonderful people, who share a love of History, some have international reputations, a significant number are distinguished academics, many...
View ArticleGeorge M’Gonigle- Medical Officer of Health for Stockton-on-Tees
George M’Gonigle – “The housewives champion” George Cuthbert Mura M’Gonigle was the only son of William M’Gonigle, vicar of Ellingham, Northumberland. He trained at Newcastle Medical School, and...
View ArticleAn Interview with King Athelstan
Athelstan (894- 939) King of the Anglo-Saxons 924 to 927 and King of the England 927 to 939 When JJ was thinking about which Anglo-Saxon he wished to interview, his first thought was not Bede, but...
View ArticleFirearms in the Spanish Civil War
Like many people, when I first studied the Spanish Civil War; it was one of my A Level topics, the focus was on the political aspects, rather than the military. When questioned, I have found that most...
View ArticleThe Stockton branch of the National Unemployed Workers Movement
I have been studying Teesside in the 1930s for a number of years now, making a handful of breakthroughs in this time. I would just like to share a recent pleasurable experience. The pleasure was not...
View ArticleWhere’s Wilf
I have continued to work on the booklet to accompany John’s campaign for a memorial to the eight Stockton men who travelled to Spain to fight for the Republican Government within the International...
View ArticleFiring a Shot for Freedom
I have just finished a trio of books which are simply outstanding, they are the most inspiring books I have read for some time. Britons in Spain by William Rust is the history of the British...
View ArticleCircles and links
I am currently working with the wonderful Mike Wild on a couple of projects with the equally marvelous Rosie Serdiville; looking at his parents. For people who are unaware, his Father Sam Wild was the...
View ArticleDavid Marshall and The Tom Mann Centuria
After recently writing about Tom Mann and the link to David Marshall (https://foxburg.edublogs.org/2020/11/28/tom-manns-circles-and-links/) I came across this colorisation of the iconic photograph....
View ArticleDavid Marshall’s Spanish equipment
Reading accounts of the Battle of Jarama, and the XV Brigade up until May 1937 I am struck by the seemingly relentless impression given that the British Battalion were; ill equipped, ill disciplined...
View ArticleDavid Marshall fighting in Spain
Continuing on the story from https://foxburg.edublogs.org/2020/12/09/david-marshalls-spanish-equipment/ we left off David’s account with him going into action having not yet fired his rifle. We got...
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