Posts Tagged ‘history’
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Left out
4March 14, 2013 by Lydia Syson
I’m developing a new obsession, fuelled this week by a number of chance media encounters. Today I read an article by Mariko Oi reflecting on her own extremely selective education in history as a teenager in Japan – just nineteen pages of a textbook were devoted to events which took place between 1931 and 1945. Oi then outlined the ‘curriculum battles’ taking place in Japan right keep reading
Category News | Tags: curriculum, Edmund de Waal, Fujioka, history, Japanese Society for History Textbook Reform, Matsuoka, The Exiles Return, world war 2
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Digging deeper
0September 12, 2012 by Lydia Syson
So a royal funeral could soon be on the cards. I imagine the protocol might get a little tricky, what with it being the second time for this corpse. And there’s nobody left alive who knew him.
Category News | Tags: Bosworth, Engaging children in history, history, revisiting history, Richard III
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A sudden blow
0September 3, 2012 by Lydia Syson
A few weeks ago I lost my memory. I’m still circling round what happened, telling and retelling myself the story, and checking and double-checking with my children exactly what I did and said at the time. On holiday in France, I fell off a horse and hit my head. keep reading
Category News | Tags: amnesia, history, Memory, Stories
