Past Explorers

  • Exam Season 2024; and more
    The upcoming exam season is causing anxiety for students and staff, but Past Explorers is committed to helping with tuition programs and resources. The focus this summer will be on rights challenged throughout history, with an emphasis on Stuart Britain, Weimar & Nazi Germany, and US Civil Rights.
It is 366 years since George Monck convinced - at the head of an army - Parliament to vote itself into dissolution and call for new elections. Monarchy would subsequently be restored. It marked an end to the Long Parliament that King Charles had been forced to call 1640 by the Bishops War. It took twenty years of shuttling across the country, moving from one rented accommodation to the next and one job to another. Today, however, my totemic slate replica of the Rosetta Stone is finally mounted over the office door of the house I’ve bought. It is a brilliant feeling to have the freedom to drill an incorrect hole in the wall, patch it up, and try again! We have grown familiar in recent decades with the idea of the 'Hidden Figures' in NASA history - women who did the calculations that helped get us to the moon. Other cases are notable too, such as that of Betty Holberton and her six fellow programmers who made the first programmable electronic, general purpose digital computer (1945) Hey we're still in the 🎁Xmas-New Year vortex, consider this a belated christmas card! Plans for revision material for three popular A Level History topics over the next few months. But do they have a Clarendon DRESS Code? #History #alevels #stuartbritain And we're back.. Though our saturday post appears to have been deleted here. So here it is again. Blue skies! Summer is coming and with it the opportunity to go do some touring of historic sites. Where will you go next? Reconstructed Roman townhouse on the site of Wroxeter Roman City. The front right corner has a room secluded from the rest of the building that served as a shop front either for the owners wares or a renting merchant. This house has a hot and cold bathing room at the back and a fantastic suntrap of a yard.. obviously considering there are no other buildings today overlooking it. Apparently they're not selling.. shame. :-) Wroxeter Roman City, Open by english Heritage to pre-booked visitors (website).
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