This weekend I went up to the Wigtown Book Festival . It is a looong way. But it was more than worth it. It wasn't only worth it to sp...

How to put children off history with one little book A few years ago there was a cinema advert with the tag line ‘No one forgets a good teac...

The Horrors of History – what do we tell the children ? Barbara Mitchelhill I’d already written this blog when I read Katherine Langrish’...

I wasn't going to write about this at all.  I was going to write a post about sailing reproduction Viking ships on the sunny waters of R...