• Arts

    Exam Season, Part 2

    So what exactly is a mock exam? Year 10s generally have their first mock once the GCSEs have finished. Although conditions are exactly the same as GCSEs – again, using JCQ regulations – the exam [more...]
  • Conservatives

    Tory Bad Boys – Part 09 The Westland Affair

    I recall the associated kerfulffle but I never really took much interest in this story.  The protagonists are the dog strangler (aka Michael Heseltine), Leon Brittan and Margaret Thatcher. At stake was the future of [more...]
  • 20th Century

    Four Poems

    I have visited the 1st World War battlefields several times. I have attended the ceremony at the Menin Gate in Ypres honouring those lost with no known grave and I have sat weeping in the [more...]
  • 20th Century

    Vote for War……….

    The population of Shirehampton village in 1914 is not explicitly documented in available historical records. However, it is noted that in 1901, the parish had a population of 2,570. By 1921, the population had increased [more...]

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