‘All Tudor Life is There’. The Mary Rose Reborn.

The Mary Rose and I go way back. Like many people of my generation, my first experience of the Tudor warship came on a school trip. It’s the first school trip that stuck in my mind – taking the coach from Mudeford Junior School in Dorset, down the M27 to Portsmouth Historic Dockyards. In fact,…

Curriculum Wars

I suppose it’s nice to see History in the news. As purveyors of stuff that happened centuries ago we don’t really expect to spend much time in the media’s glare. But since Michael Gove’s new History curriculum, with its emphasis on chronology and factual ‘content’, was made public at Christmas, historians have been everywhere, and…