Space Race: The Battle to Rule the Heavens
Did your teacher send you here? If so, the extension questions are at the bottom of the post – but read the post first to help you answer...
Persians: The Age of The Great Kings
If you're a student who has been sent here by your teacher - the 5 stretch questions on this blog post are at the bottom of the post....
Ready Player One: Is Assassin's Creed the future of teaching?
Growing up I was obsessed with simulation games. Sim City, Theme Park, Theme Hospital, and Civilisation were my go-to games, the Command...
How Suffolk could have saved the world... but we voted for the Tory Anti-Science Brigade instead.
About a month ago I wrote a blog giving my thoughts on the Ipswich MP Tom Hunt's membership of the so called 'Common Sense' group. This...
Dead in the Water by Campbell and Chellel
A breathless account of yet another behind the scenes industry that shapes out world. The journalists have written a superb story of...
This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends | Nicole Perlroth
This is how they tell me the world ends: The Cyber Weapons Arms Race. Business Book Of The Year 2021 (Financial Times). Again, another...
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert Massie
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War by Robert Massie To call this book mammoth is to do it an injustice. It has...
Why Ipswich MP Tom Hunt's denial of historical evidence would make Wolsey turn in his grave...
I'm an Ipswich boy. I love my town. I love my club. I love our history. I love that we exported the wool of East Anglia to the world (we...
Barbarossa by Jonathon Dimbleby
Another pacy and engrossing narrative history from Jonathon Dimbleby. My notes switch in and out of being prep for a future lesson on the...
Disaster By Choice, by Ilam Kelman
Read this one ahead of the first Geography Teacher Book Club chat on Twitter (Zoom, actually - fancy). Ilam Kelman himself was in...