We have come to the end of yet another fantastic book giveaway for our members. The prizes are three copies of Roger Childs’ new book New Zealand’s History Curriculum – Education or Indoctrination? Today we are announcing the three lucky BFD members who won a book. We used an online
By Cameron Slater ( *republished) I made this video some time ago for Skippy, my father-in-law. Some of the photos in the video were taken by him at Nui Dat. He was an Aussie serving with the NZ Army…he trained at Puckapunyal, Canungra and Singleton…many of the places mentioned
Wyn Fountain served as a Welfare Officer in the Middle East and Europe and was away for over four years. Later he ran a very successful business in New Zealand and, with wife Shirley, grew a great family. At 90 years old (in this clip) he brought history alive.
My father-in-law Skippy fought in the Battle of Long Tan. This is the documentary made by Martin Walsh of that battle.
In 2015 Dad and I were at the dawn ceremony at ANZAC Cove and then the service at Chunuk Bair. I carried the medals of my great-grandfather Harry Crozier with me. It was 100 years since ANZAC troops set foot on the Gallipoli peninsula in that ill-fated campaign. Going to
This is my ANZAC Day tribute posting. ANZAC Day means a great deal for me and my family. I suppose it is because we have a connection to the original ANZACS in 1915 and Gallipoli, and to a veteran of a war much fresher in our minds, Vietnam. Firstly, I
Bruce Rottman fee.org Mr Rottman has taught economics in secondary schools for over 40 years and is currently director of Brookfield Academy’s Free Enterprise Institute, in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Social justice. Capitalism. Socialism. Nationalism. Systemic racism. Each of these can be “trigger words”, which describes words that trigger strong
Ancient Egypt has been a regular focus for those wanting to blackwash history. In a way, perhaps, one can understand the determination of the “We wuz kangs n kweenz” mob to try and claim Egypt for their own. Egypt was a civilization which has fascinated outsiders for millennia. Its stupendous
The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect, states a character in 1984. This is the fundamental principle of the fictional language of “Ingsoc” (“Socialist England”), Newspeak: not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of Ingsoc,. but
Peter J Morgan Peter J Morgan BE (Mech.), Dip. Teaching – professional forensic engineer, retired economics, mathematics and physics teacher Part 13 of 18 The social conditions prevailing in the Kingdom of England and Wales at the very beginning of the 18th century were such that the parliament of the Kingdom
