background preloader

History

Facebook Twitter

Earth Timelapse video downloads   Third Genders From Cultures Around The World. Monty Python's Terry Jones (RIP) Was a Comedian, But Also a Medieval Historian: Get to Know His Other Side. Monty Python’s surreal, slapstick parodies of history, religion, medicine, philosophy, and law depended on a competent grasp of these subjects, and most of the troupe’s members, four of whom met at Oxford and Cambridge, went on to demonstrate their scholarly acumen outside of comedy, with books, guest lectures, professorships, and serious television shows.

Monty Python's Terry Jones (RIP) Was a Comedian, But Also a Medieval Historian: Get to Know His Other Side

Michael Palin even became president of the Royal Geographical Society for a few years. And Palin’s onetime Oxford pal and early writing partner Terry Jones—who passed away at 77 on January 21 after a long struggle with degenerative aphasia—didn’t do so badly for himself either, becoming a respected scholar of Medieval history and an authoritative popular writer on dozens of other subjects.

Source Exercise 4: The Wars of the Roses 4 — Faculty of History. Books, being highly expensive, tended to be seen by the rich and influential so they were a good site for political propaganda.

Source Exercise 4: The Wars of the Roses 4 — Faculty of History

This copy of The Troy Book was commissioned by William Herbert, earl of Pembroke, as a way of demonstrating his loyalty to the new regime: he and his wife Anne are the figures kneeling at the king’s feet, presenting him with the manuscript of the poem. Pembroke did indeed prove loyal to Edward and died fighting for him at the Battle of Edgecote in 1469. Choosing a poem about the fabled city of Troy was significant because, by tradition, the English liked to think they were descended from the Trojans and London was sometimes called ‘New Troy’ by poets; the implication is therefore that Edward IV is the descendant of the kings of Troy. This extract offers a personal description of Edward IV. Read it carefully and use its internal evidence to answer the questions that follow.

Source 3 Questions.

Ancient Studies

This Interactive Tool Will Show You Exactly How Incorrect The World Map Is. By Alex McKinnon, 10/9/2015 Maps are cool and fun, and if you disagree I will fight you outside the bike sheds after school.

This Interactive Tool Will Show You Exactly How Incorrect The World Map Is

But as that one scene in the West Wing taught us, every 2D rectangular world map you’ve ever seen has a pretty big inaccuracy: the areas close to the poles are always distorted to compensate for having to stretch the globe over a flat surface, meaning that countries like Canada and Russia look substantially bigger than they actually are, and that many parts of the developing world are much larger than they appear. If you take Australia, for example, and move it to a spot where it gets the same amount of distortion as Russia, our humble continent morphs into a hideous top-heavy creation that longs for release from the immense pain it’s clearly in. “Please, kill me.” So clearly that distortion effect is pretty significant on countries closest to the poles, which turn out to be much smaller than you’d think. The Fallen of World War II. HD Historic Stock Footage WWII HOLOCAUST NAZI ATROCITIES.

DACHAU 1945. How the world violates human rights, country by country. This map provides a snapshot of the human rights violations identified by Human Rights Watch (HRW) in their 25th annual review.

How the world violates human rights, country by country

The analysis of more than 90 countries is undertaken with human rights activists in the respective countries and this year, Kenneth Roth, HRW director, said human rights violations were fuelling the rise of groups like Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Boko Haram and others. “Human rights violations played a major role in spawning or aggravating many of today’s crises,” Mr Roth said as the report was published on Friday.

Interactive diagrams - Interactivities. GCSE Bitesize: Why was it difficult for black Americans to gain equal rights in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s? GCSE Bitesize: How much progress has been made by black Americans since the 1960s? SocSem.pdf. Weimar and Nazi Germany Online Lessons. SchoolHistory.co.uk - online history lessons, revision, games, worksheets, quizzes and links. Worksheets - Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany worksheets - Year 9. Nazi Germany Crossword Puzzle. Nazi Germany crossword #4. Watch 1000 Years of European Borders Change In 3 Minutes.

Teaching Heritage. World War II, 1939 - 1945. Detailed Timeline of European History World War II (1939 - 1945) Devastation of Europe, Change in Global Balance of Power Go to European History Interactive Map World War II Interactive Map.

World War II, 1939 - 1945

Www.odt.org/Pictures/popvillage.pdf. 8ways - home. Test your social intelligence. Test how well you can read emotions of others just by looking at their eyes.

Test your social intelligence

The ability to read the emotions of others is linked to "social intelligence" which, in turn, is linked to performance on team-based problem solving tasks. Try it! This is an implementation of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test developed by prof. Simon Baron-Cohen at the University of Cambridge. You're about to participate in a research study. Please read the following information carefully before proceeding. Why we are doing this research We are trying to understand how the ability to recognize emotions of others vary across cultures. What you will have to do You will be shown 37 pictures showing just the eyes part of people's faces.

Potential risks There are no risks anticipated in taking part in this study and you are free to leave at any time. Duration Approximately 10 minutes. Home: SOSE. Gallery - Maps.