During 2019 I was lucky enough to use time to research into a few different areas. This blog has been fantastic as a place to outline and reflect on ideas, but it is always fantastic to have more time to delve deeper into academic research. So, during the course of 2019 I produced a couple […]
Last December I visited SS Great Britain in Bristol for the first time (you can read the post here). And this December I returned to SS Great Britain, as part of the same history trip organised by the programme leader of the History with English foundation degree at University Centre South Devon. What was my […]
Over the summer break I took the opportunity to update the appearance of this blog, something I last attempted in the summer of 2018 (back when i came up with the very ground-breaking “innovation” of monthly round-ups and figured how to link posts to Twitter!). So, what is new? A new logo (of sorts), an […]
In a recent post I outlined my excitement for an upcoming day: the Research Showcase held at University Centre South Devon College. It is a day in which students and staff complete 20 minute talks on research that they have conducted over the past year, and the range of topics always enthuses and astounds me. […]
Today marks the first anniversary of this blog. In many ways, for a blog devoted to history, to trumpet one year – a mere 365 days – as a victory could be be seen as rather shallow. However, in the world of blogging one year could be considered ancient. As I noted in my very […]
The new half-term brings a brand new module in the teaching on the Access to HE programme: Twentieth Century Dictatorships. It is quite a large module in terms of covering the key assessment criteria, but this is all distilled into the essay question: comparing and contrasting the Nazi dictatorship with one other dictatorship in the […]
