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John Kirkaldy is a tutor and examiner for The Open University and presently tutors on the Arts Foundation, WWI and WWII courses.

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RSVP Empire Featuring: activity, Copyrighted Image The Open University

By The OpenLearn team (The Open University), Dr John Kirkaldy (The Open University)

25 August 2011

Take a walk down our RSVP Empire highstreet and you'll find all sorts of goods that originated from the British Empire. Tick items off your...  Read more : RSVP Empire

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Debate: Did you enjoy history at school?Jupiter Images

By Dr John Kirkaldy (The Open University)

18 January 2006

The Open University's John Kirkaldy wondered what people's memories of learning history could tell us  Read more : Debate: Did you enjoy history at school?

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The nature of historyBBC

By Dr John Kirkaldy (The Open University)

18 January 2006

John Kirkaldy outlines how the teaching of history has improved over the years.  Read more : The nature of history

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RSVP Empire

Comment posted by mm26889

05 Mar 2012

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RSVP Empire

Comment posted by om2245

06 Feb 2012

Hi Chris, Unfortunately, the poster won't be available until the programme airs - the expected date will be sometime towards the end of February. The page that will have the order link can be found... Read more : RSVP Empire

RSVP Empire

Comment posted by wm2527

06 Feb 2012

I'm after the Empire poster. Is it available yet? It was mentioned on Issue 9 of the Open learn flyer. Read more : RSVP Empire

RSVP Empire

Comment posted by zz882516

30 Jan 2012

As with the other comment I was wondering where you can order the free Empire poster, Thanks Read more : RSVP Empire

RSVP Empire

Comment posted by om2245

26 Jan 2012

Hi Warren - could you possibly let me know which poster you are after as you don't say in your comment. If you are after the Frozen Planet poster, unfortunately there has been such a high demand we... Read more : RSVP Empire

RSVP Empire

Comment posted by wm2527

25 Jan 2012

How do I order my free poster? Read more : RSVP Empire

Debate: Did you enjoy history at school?

Comment posted by Unknown

24 Jan 2010

...I'd even forgotten about that cross-section of the Roman road - yes, we had to do that too: just what I need if I ever have to build a 2nd-century road.
they were... Read more : Debate: Did you enjoy history at school?

Debate: Did you enjoy history at school?

Comment posted by dave p

24 Jan 2010

I found history a profoundly frustrating experience at school - not because of the dates (which I never had any trouble remembering) but because of the geographical & chronological limitations.... Read more : Debate: Did you enjoy history at school?

Debate: Did you enjoy history at school?

Comment posted by Unknown

01 Feb 2009

I left school in 1984. I remember and enjoyed watching the programme How We Used To Live at junior school. During my first year of secondary school I didn't enjoy History lessons as we just copied... Read more : Debate: Did you enjoy history at school?

Debate: Did you enjoy history at school?

Comment posted by Unknown

25 Nov 2008

I did enjoy history from an early age however I found the toplics in secondary school to be repetative and being frank boring, we seemed to spend an eternity on subjects like the industrial... Read more : Debate: Did you enjoy history at school?

Biography

Read Dr John Kirkaldy’s biography.

John Kirkaldy is a tutor and examiner for The Open University and presently tutors on the Arts Foundation, WWI and WWII courses. John was born in Kashmir and grew up in Burma, Germany and various parts of Britain.  He taught history at the University of New South Wales, Australia and in Jamaica where he also taught adult literacy. His special interests are 19th and 20th century history.

John has written extensively, for publications from The Lady to the New Statesman, while also contributing to the Times Education Supplement and the Times Higher Education Supplement and the Independent newspaper.

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