Histatic!

In 1917 two young girls took some photographs that would go on to captivate the world. Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright, who lived in Cott...

When Swanwick Hall's students come back to school in the new year Year 9 will be studying the First World War. The BBC have got a great...

In Victorian Britain if you came from a poor family, when you reached a certain age you wouldn't go to school instead you would start wo...

The infamous and yet engrossing exhibition designed by German anatomist Gunther Von Hagens, has come back to the UK. The exhibition sees the...

Ever wondered where we get our Christmas traditions from? Well, we have those glorious Victorians to thank for some of our most beloved fest...

Most of my GCSE History students will know that the key to exam success is revision! For those of you that are in year 11, I am sure that re...

In Year 10 History we have been studying 19th century surgery this week, paying particular attention to Simpson and chloroform. I have just ...

If you are doing GCSE History at Swanwick Hall, you will be studying Medicine Through Time. There is a chance that you'll get a question...

Sophie Scholl has been someone who I have admired for quite a while-ever since I saw the amazing 2003 Marc Rothemund film about her. The fil...

As a child Winston Churchill longed for attention and affection from his mother; even when Winston was away at boarding school he would writ...