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2023 Review
As we begin another year, it is appropriate to review what has happened last year in order to plan for this year.
This introduces the subject of ‘History’ which, as a school subject, is starting to die in schools up and down the country.
As humans, we learn by example at our parents’ knee and they have learned before us and so tradition and history is built.
Such ideas provide comfort as we wrestle with our everyday lives, we can think and look back and say, ‘ …… did it this way!’ This is history.
As a Classicist, my interest goes back to ancient history but I also provide classes in more modern history.
We are like hamsters on a wheel, it has all been done before: the scandal of PPE rages on; the Black Death of 1348 introduced its own version of PPE, hopeless we might say, but there are gathering questions about the standard of PPE for the Covid pandemic.
Great calamities provide a mask for other human activities: while the world was struggling with Covid, Mr Putin was planning to invade the Ukraine.
After WWII, Europe struggled with the devastation of the Nazis and before Europe knew it, it was divided East and West.
History is vital in guiding humans not to make the same mistakes, humans forget but history does not.
AI is the next challenge, how will history record this?
As we begin another year, it is appropriate to review what has happened last year in order to plan for this year.
This introduces the subject of ‘History’ which, as a school subject, is starting to die in schools up and down the country.
As humans, we learn by example at our parents’ knee and they have learned before us and so tradition and history is built.
Such ideas provide comfort as we wrestle with our everyday lives, we can think and look back and say, ‘ …… did it this way!’ This is history.
As a Classicist, my interest goes back to ancient history but I also provide classes in more modern history.
We are like hamsters on a wheel, it has all been done before: the scandal of PPE rages on; the Black Death of 1348 introduced its own version of PPE, hopeless we might say, but there are gathering questions about the standard of PPE for the Covid pandemic.
Great calamities provide a mask for other human activities: while the world was struggling with Covid, Mr Putin was planning to invade the Ukraine.
After WWII, Europe struggled with the devastation of the Nazis and before Europe knew it, it was divided East and West.
History is vital in guiding humans not to make the same mistakes, humans forget but history does not.
AI is the next challenge, how will history record this?
