Histatic!

68 years ago it was the government fighting for the NHS; in 1948 the then Minister of Health, Aneurin Bevan, was instrumental in establis...

Today marks the anniversary of when Hitler was made Chancellor of Germany, after a series of failed attempts by others to lead a countr...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary assassinated in Bosnia by Serb nationalists 28th June 1914 The 28th June 2014 marked a hu...

I am excited to introduce to you a new blog that I have put together as part of my new role at school.  Great Wyrley High School are goin...

Whenever we think about Tommies in the trenches of the First World War, we think about mud, trench foot and a questionable diet.  Is it true...

Attention Year 13-this will be good to use as a stimulus for revising Domestic Policy in Wilhelmine Germany (1890-1914).  

Thomas Cromwell One of the most monumental falls from grace; the story of Thomas Cromwell is one of the most interesting in the history...

  Queen Victoria I The past week I have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of my second daughter-today she is 8 days overdue. Ne...

The first part of a very interesting documentary by Private Eye editor, Ian Hislop. For the benefit of my Year 12s really but let me know ...