Category Archives: History in the news

1923 Kanto: Japan’s last major Earthquake

Posted on March 26, 2011 by kenbaker

Echoes From Japan’s Past With the massive quake and tsunami that struck Japan last week, the specter of another devastating event has returned: The 1923 Kanto earthquake, which shook the region around Tokyo, was the country’s last “big one.” The … Continue reading →

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Raising the GCSE History Standard

Posted on November 11, 2010 by kenbaker

During the last couple of weeks radio and TV stations have been running the story of King Charles I School in Kidderminster, which has seen its GCSE results rise by an extraordinary 18% in one year. In interviews with the … Continue reading →

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The Cold War: Introduction

Posted on November 11, 2010 by kenbaker

The Cold War was the most important political and diplomatic issue of the early postwar period. The main Cold War enemies were the United States and the Soviet Union. The Cold war got its name because both sides were afraid … Continue reading →

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Roosevelt’s first war…on the Depression

Posted on November 9, 2010 by kenbaker

Image via Wikipedia By late winter 1933, the nation had already endured more than three years of economic depression. Statistics revealing the depth of the Great Depression were staggering. More than 11,000 of 24,000 banks had failed, destroying the savings … Continue reading →

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From Gibbon to Goebbels? The Historians’ Trajectory

Posted on June 26, 2010 by kenbaker

Gibbon and Goebbels are not the obvious choices for comparison to Herodotus and Thucydides, but bear with me. H & T are frequently regarded as the “first historians.” They wrote the book, you might say, on how to do history. … Continue reading →

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Teaching History

Posted on June 15, 2010 by kenbaker

Great post from James Daley about the way we teach History at school in the UK. The amount of people who’ve said to me “This is so interesting, but I had a really boring teacher at school. Put me off … Continue reading →

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Historians are seedy and horrible, says Terry Deary

Posted on June 1, 2010 by kenbaker

Article by Sarah Ebner He owes his success to history, but the author Terry Deary has described historians as “seedy and devious”. From The Times May 31, 2010

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