10 of my favourite little known historical facts, part 3
Here I am, back again to help you get through the Easter revision with a third lot of amazing factoids. Turn your world upside down In the 1870s, there was a surge of books using the word ‘pokemon’. In the Cornish dialect, pokemon meant ‘clumsy’. In the mid 19th century, Cornish glossaries and dictionaries […]
10 of my favourite little known historical facts, part 2
It’s your favourite History fanatic, back to help you through holiday revision with another lot of amazing factoids. Enjoy having your world turned upside down…. The story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin really happened. No one is sure what the piper is a symbol for, or why the children disappeared, but a stained glass […]
10 of my favourite little known historical facts, part 1
If you enjoyed my Christmas facts, this should blow your mind Stonehenge would have already been in ruins by the time Jesus was born Easter Island Moai figures were ‘walked’ to where they needed to go by aid of ropes. When the indigenous people told European explorers that the statues walked there, they were […]
How to Impress Your Tutor
There must be a myriad of articles and blog posts telling you how to get extra credit by convincing your tutors that you’re a brilliant student who knows everything. However this will not work at Leicester. Due to the anonymous marking system the only way your tutor will know that you wrote your essay is […]
The Last Goodbye…
If you had told me 6 years ago that I would be graduating this summer I don’t think I would have believed you. No one expected me to be graduating, because I never wanted to go to university. It had never interested me until someone told me what it was like to study History at […]
History On Film
In the last month or so there have been two major films about slavery gracing our cinemas. Django Unchained and Lincoln have created award buzz and public interest in their two different ways of story telling. This is a history blog so I am not going to go into much detail about Django Unchained as […]
Where Gloves Go To Dry
Greetings all from what many people call moderate freedom. Sorry I have been away for a while but revision has been number 1 priority… and my laptop broke again. Let’s hope this time it is feeling a bit better as I ONLY HAVE SIX MORE MONTHS! A most scary reality. I’ve been busy applying for […]
England, England- a look at the British Image
With the Olympics all over our televisions as well as our country there are so many different historic angles I could take. However, I’ve decided to focus on the opening ceremony- not only because it presented the last two hundred years or so of British history with hints of Shakespeare but also because I have just finished […]
Exam Stress
I doubt anyone has gone through life without stress, especially if at any point you have had to take an exam. I am possibly the most stressed person I have ever met and with my added immune deficiency I end up being an ill mess the majority of the time. As someone who is so […]
Why Do We Forget?
As History students we are meant to remember the events and the people, but the things we are meant to remember often appear to be what other people have forgotten. For my dissertation I am planning on writing about the legacy of Frederick Douglass, someone who I think deserves to be remembered. However, on doing […]
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