Gibberings

The new academic year has started and summer is over. But the “free-thinking” weeks of July and August provided plenty of opportunity for research (into the earls of Cornwall) and on other historical related areas. It also has offered the temptation of compiling a collection of past articles for an ebook. Having read into the […]

The summer break is great for reading benders. I’ve managed to tuck into a few good reads, focussing on Tudor history (including John Matusiak’s biography on Wolsey, and Francis Bacon’s classic 17th century text on Henry VII) and some noted novels (including The Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde, The Invisible Man, and Gulliver’s Travels). […]

So, today was the premiere of the new play by Dave Shakespeare: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It was received warm to middling reviews and responses from the unfortunate souls that were willing to indulge my artistic endeavour. In the same of 4 sheets of A4 it recounts not only Lincoln’s death, but also the […]

This week I made an agreement with my first year A-level History class: I would not subject them to another PowerPoint based lesson for two weeks. This promise was made after having struggled through two sessions of Henry VIII’s foreign policy. Over Easter I constructed a mammoth 60 slide beast, and was excited about covering […]

Whilst marking a batch of interesting essays for The Dawning of America module I debated as to how far I should highlight spelling/grammatical errors. Surely that comes with the job, highlighting errors to help correct them for future essays and assignments. But a marker could be tyrannical about it, and I’m pretty sure that many […]

For a good while now I’ve had the intentions of setting up a blog. In fact, I have gone as far as setting up new usernames and passwords with the very good intention of setting up a blog. But somehow, it never seemed to worked. I could blame the lack of motivation, or my lack […]