Durham School History

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The deeply moving memorial to Alice Nutter, one of the ten Pendle witches hanged in 1612, at Roughlee in Lancashire. Designed and crafted by local artist David Palmer, it was unveiled in 2012 on the 400th anniversary of her death. #FolkloreThursday

Love this... 1973, David Bowie asleep on the Trans-Siberian. “David is sleeping off a long night of boozing somewhere in Siberia. We drank cheap Riesling and beer (Peeva) with a bunch of soldiers we'd met the night before." Geoff MacCormack

A brief history of the Crusader States. historytoday.com/reviews/why-di…

Tsutomi Yamaguchi had just arrived in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped. After being injured, he travelled to his hometown of Nagasaki and survived another atomic bomb attack there. He is one of 160 people who survived both Hiroshima and Nagasaki #FactOfTheDay

This is big. If confirmed. Finally all the remains proven to be Romanovs. The two unburied remains the Tsarevich and Maria must now be formally buried themoscowtimes.com/news/investiga…

Tonight was the night 100 years ago the Bolsheviks, on Lenin's orders, awoke ex-tsars Nicholas II, Alexandra & their 5 teenaged children, &, led them into a cellar where w barbaric ineptitude, they killed them all. #Romanovs

York Walls with Year 7&8. @Dunelmia

Yr7&8 at Henry VII experience in York @Dunelmia

York trip for Yr7&8. @Dunelmia

Yr12 Historians on their way to look at Bodies of Evidence Civil War Exhibition in Durham. ⁦@Dunelmia⁩

Today my Lower Sixth said goodbye. They contacted Christopher Tyerman and Peter Frankopan. Amazing initiative and thoughtfulness. And then there was cake. @Dunelmia

@peterfrankopan thank you for my video message! My Durham School Sixth Form Historians are a very special and talented bunch. I will miss them hugely and your video was inspirational for them. #silkroads. @Dunelmia

Good grief. twitter.com/jimwaterson/st…

10 things you might not know about the Anglo-Saxons bit.ly/FactsAngloSaxo… #AngloSaxons #Vikings

#OTD 1948: Start of the #Berlin Blockade: The Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible. #ColdWarHist

Now on to Medieval, and WWII. @Dunelmia

Year 10 History trip today. @Dunelmia