Covid and the Earthquake
‘Unprecedented’. My working theory is that there’s some kind of high-stakes bet going on between government ministers over who can say it most. There’s probably a giant roulette wheel strapped…
History
A (Very) Brief History of Transgenderism
Happy Transgender Awareness Week! That start alone will have been enough to deter some people from reading on. They’ll think ‘typical lefty snowflake student’ and ‘transgenderism doesn’t even exist’. Now…
‘We Cannot Edit Our Past’: The Dangers of Removing Political Debate from Schools
There is no denying the importance of education, especially in our formative school years. We learn how and why things happen and use that information to form opinions about the…
Coronavirus: Learn From the Past to Help the Present
George Santayana once said that "Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it". Looking back at the 20th Century Spanish Flu Pandemic, what does it teach…
We will fight them in the textbooks: Churchill and historical memory
Regarded by many as the greatest ever Briton, does Churchill represent the need to rethink how we view historical figures?
The First Feminist: How Mary Wollstonecraft Changed The World
To many people, Mary Wollstonecraft is merely a name to remember for GCSE History when learning about the Suffrage movement of the late-19th and early-20th Century. She is known for…
Talkin’ ‘Bout A Revolution: Music in the American Civil Rights Movement
The USA: the largest global economy, the self-titled world’s police, the so-called ‘home of freedom’. All pretty impressive titles, but to what extent the latter two are accurate is certainly…
Proud to be British?
Winston Churchill, tea, democracy. All things we consider fundamental symbols of ‘Britishness’. They are things, or rather people, in which we are supposed to find inspiration, pride and patriotism. We…
A Case of Malady, M’Lady: Love, Sickness and Desire
Last Thursday was Valentine’s Day, and while many will have been engaged in a day of celebrating love, I wonder just how many will have questioned how being in love…
1919: the beginning of modern feminism?
1919: politics is controlled by men, business is controlled by men, in fact, the world is run by men. 100 years later, what’s changed? The answer is, sadly, not a…