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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 ...

Charlie Chaplin has hit the news today, years after his death due to the release of MI5 and FBI documents. It turns out that during the ...

Louis XIV was just four years old when he became King of France in 1643 after the death of his father Louis XIII. When Louis's chief adv...

Amanda Foreman's wonderful biography 'Georgiana-Duchess of Devonshire', published in 1998, is an absolute treat!  All I can say...