Here are the details for our final Historical Association Bolton Branch lecture of 2024-2025 👇

A wonderful (albeit chilly 🥶) morning at Hoghton Tower with Sixth Form historians, learning about its links with The Stuarts. Plus a few ghost stories for good measure #BSGDY12 #BSGDY13

This week we have launched our annual #BSGDY7 castle building competition. Pupils in Year 7 should submit their entries to the department by Friday 28th March. This half term is always ‘castles half term’ in Year 7 as we have our visit to Skipton coming up on Friday 21st March.

Coming up on Monday 3rd March, our final Historical Association Bolton Branch lecture of 2024-2025 👇

Poppies return to the Tower of London 🌺 To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, some of the 2014 ceramic poppies will feature in a new commemorative installation within the Tower's walls. 6 May - 11 Nov 2025 bit.ly/TowerRemembers…

County map of Civil War battles by theater and year

Today marks 110 years since the first OB was killed in action during WW1. In 2014 #BoltonSch bought ceramic Tower of London Poppies for each of the OBs who gave their lives. Over the next 4 years we will commemorate them by adding the poppies to a display in the Riley Centre.

#BGGDY9 will be remembering Albert this week and the other OBs who died in the Great War

Last Friday #BSGDY7 made another trip to Skipton Castle as well as the local museum and neighbouring Holy Trinity Church. They shall now be presenting their ‘plans of attack’ in class. A reminder that this Friday 28 March is the deadline for entries to our castle competition.

Working with #BSGDGeography today on our #BSGDY7 “One Square Mile” display in Hesketh House - great to show off how our learning habits are being developed

Today #BSGDY12 History & Bolton School Politics pupils travelled to LRGS to take part in Parallel Histories debates on US Civil Rights. Oracy, critical thinking & debating skills all in plentiful supply.

Well done to Ayaat in #BGGDY7 - the winner of this term’s castle building competition. Also, very well done to our other entries.

Here is part of the ⁦ITV Granada Reports⁩ report from the ⁦Parallel Histories⁩ debates that our #BSGDY12 ⁦Bolton School⁩ pupils took part in ⁦⁦LRGS⁩. It really was a fantastic experience to engage in contested and controversial histories.

⁦Bolton School⁩ are also repeating the act of remembrance we performed at 100 years for 110. We place a Tower of London poppy into the display for each fallen soldier on the 100th anniversary. There are now 3. bbc.com/news/articles/…

The bunting is out and the assembly has been recorded. We are ready for #VEDay80 in #BSGDHistory

Here is the #VEDay80 assembly delivered in form rooms this morning youtube.com/watch?v=kVNm8j…

Here is the Historical Association Bolton Branch programme for 2025-26. These Historical Assoc lectures have been based Bolton School for well over a decade, offering enrichment for pupils & the local community. Full details of our first lecture on Monday 8th September are 👇 #BSGDHistory #BSBDHistory

We are enjoying our first Historical Association Bolton Branch lecture of 2025-26 at Bolton School Ian Tumble Museum Ian who is Curator of Egyptology at Bolton Museum, is delivering a lecture on the influential Barlow family of Bolton Historical Assoc

Was a pleasure to speak to Historical Association Bolton Branch this evening about my PhD research and work at Libs and Museums

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