KevigsHistory

King Edward VI Grammar School History Department.

[History Today @HistoryToday]

Since it became its first imperial possession in the 18th century, Russia has denied Ukraine’s national existence, while seeing it as an exotic threat.

https://t.co/gUK2IkkkHL

[History Today @HistoryToday]

In the early hours, #OnThisDay in 1912, the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic ocean.

From the archive: how, in Britain, resistance to ‘talking Titanic’ has a fascinating history of its own.
https://t.co/7qYQr5K7Bg

[H.E.T. @HolocaustUK]

Today is the 77th anniversary of the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Today we remember all the tens of thousands of Jews who were murdered there, all those incarcerated, as well as the British Armed Forces who liberated the camp.

[HistoryExtra @HistoryExtra]

“The women even earned the dubious accolade of receiving a threatening letter from Jack the Ripper, or someone claiming to be him…” | @LouiseRawAuthor https://t.co/pXHe2ihgYF

[History Pod @History_Pod]

#OTD 28th October 1962: End of the Cuban Missile Crisis as Khrushchev agrees to remove nuclear missiles from Cuba https://t.co/Tgvo7VPXzf #historyteacher #sschat

[History Of Parliament @HistParl]

#OTD 1549 John Dudley, earl of Warwick forced Edward Seymour, duke of Somerset to resign from the office of Lord Protector to Edward VI.

🎨 via @nationaltrust

See Warwick's bio for more on the affair & his subsequent elevation and political manoeuvering: https://t.co/6DeXXVXvEa

[HistoryExtra @HistoryExtra]

“The cost of removing a few tonnes of excrement, kitchen waste and menstrual cloths was £2 4s in 1575, the equivalent of 132 days’ work for a labourer.” | @IanJamesFM shares a few of the sights, sounds and smells of Elizabethan England https://t.co/wWZxh4zYsf

[History Of Parliament @HistParl]

This week in 1921 Margaret Wintringham was elected to the House of Commons, becoming the first ever liberal woman MP.

In today's blog Dr Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20 discusses Wintringham, her election, and the issues she supported in Parliament. 👇
https://t.co/9fu62bUZ3U

[KevigsHistory @KevigsHistory]

History club have been learning about Margaret Wintingham this week and have visited the display at St James Church.

[History Of Parliament @HistParl]

New video📽️

To mark 100 years since the first woman Liberal MP was elected (tomorrow). Here's a new video on Margaret Wintringham voted MP for Louth in 1921.

https://t.co/G3duvGNBxn via @YouTube

[History Of Parliament @HistParl]

Died #OTD 1588, Robert Dudley, 1st earl of Leicester.

He was a favourite of Elizabeth I and rumours of a romantic relationship between them were rife.
Read about Elizabeth's suitors and the political impact of her choice of husband (or not!) here 👇👇
https://t.co/cFqTfCC6Vz

[HistoryExtra @HistoryExtra]

The invasion of Poland took place #OnThisDay in 1939. @Roger_Moorhouse tells the story of this brutal blitzkrieg, a campaign that set a murderous template for the six-year conflict that was to follow…
https://t.co/VhAMMu1PW5

[History Today @HistoryToday]

'From the Tower to the Temple, I thinke, ther is not one house left.'

The Great Fire of London began #OnThisDay in 1666.

From the archive:
https://t.co/EFUfxAf6tU

[History Of Parliament @HistParl]

What did the Elizabethan House of Lords look like?

This is the question Dr Paul Hunneyball asked this week on the #HistParl blog this morning- and the answer is not as straightforward as you may think...
@UKHouseofLords

Read the blog below 👇
https://t.co/K2g38CglPD

[History Pod @History_Pod]

#OTD 27th August 1883: The eruption of Krakatoa https://t.co/mI9cn006J7 #historyteacher #sschat

[History Of Parliament @HistParl]

Nowadays the Chambers of Parliament are a familiar sight, but the same cannot be said for the 16th century...

#ICYMI, yesterday on the #HistParl blog Dr Paul Hunneyball asked, just what did the Elizabethan House of Lords look like?

Find out here 👇
https://t.co/E8rOtbq89Y

[History Pod @History_Pod]

#OTD 25th August 1944: Paris liberated from Nazi control https://t.co/mtrQwnwSor #historyteacher #sschat

[History Pod @History_Pod]

#OTD 23rd August 1939: Nazi-Soviet Pact signed by Molotov and Ribbentrop https://t.co/vJFHPWcc11 #historyteacher #sschat

[History Pod @History_Pod]

#OnThisDay 22nd August 1791: Start of the Haitian Revolution in the French colony of Saint-Domingue https://t.co/EsaSKmEJMC #history

[Kate Jones @KateJones_teach]

September is the ideal time to start creating/using flashcards (little & often). If students wait until the exam season it becomes a big task workload wise & can’t be used for regular spaced retrieval practice.

Q & A simple. Flash cards don’t need to be flashy! @Inner_Drive

[History Of Parliament @HistParl]

#OTD 1642 Charles I raised his royal standard in Nottingham, often regarded as the starting point of the English Civil Wars.

Oliver Cromwell emerged as a leader of parliamentary forces during the Wars, but who was he? 👇 https://t.co/57HFEqKUhR