Thomas Crapper, English inventor of the modern toilet, died: 27th Jan. 1910.

A new resource for IGCSE history – Causes of the Vietnam War – Sourcework.

Django Reinhardt, jazz guitarist, was was born: 23rd Jan. 1910.

I’ve produced this Historiographical Terms Handout for my IB students, just to give them some useful points of reference.

Feel free to use it in class – and if you think there’s something obvious I could add / amend / correct please let me know!

It covers such themes as intentionalism, structuralism, annales school and postmodernism so far: but I’d welcome comments regarding other stuff I could add.

Classroom Posters: 24 Key Terms for Historians
Two dozen defined terms, designed to be laminated and placed around the classroom for older students.

• Here are the major events to commemorate in lessons, assemblies and extension tasks in February 2010.
• It can be used by teachers preparing assemblies, extension tasks and one-off lessons.
• I am limiting the list to multiples of 50 years (1960 (50 years ago today), 1910 (100 years ago today), 1860 (150 years ago today) etc).
• This is more meaningful than the “on this day in history” format (there is a 1/365 chance that any event from the entire history of civilisation has a 1/365 chance it happened “today”!)

• To receive each month’s anniversaries a couple of weeks in advance, follow the ActiveHistory Anniversaries RSS feed.
• To add to this list for this or other months, please contact me with your suggestion or send a tweet using the hashtag #milestone2010.

Asquith’s Liberal Party wins the “Peers Against People” Election in Britain: 1st Feb 1910 (100 years ago today)
Dreadnought hoax: Prince Makalin of Abyssinia and five other members of royalty were welcomed aboard the British battleship HMS Dreadnought. The prince turned out to be prankster Horace de Vere Cole, and the group included Virginia Woolf: 10th Feb 1910 (100 years ago today).
Greensboro Sit-Ins: 1st Feb. 1960 (50 years ago today)
France tests its first atomic bomb in the Sahara: 13th Feb. 1960 (50 years ago today)
Churchill becomes Home Secretary: 14th Feb. 1910 (100 years ago today)
Louis XV, King of France, was born: 15th Feb. 1710 (300 years ago today)
Old Trafford, Manchester United football ground, opened (100 years ago today)
Douglas Bader, WW2 fighter ace, is born: 21st Feb. 1910 (100 years ago today)
Chopin was born: 22nd Feb.1810 (200 years ago today)