Black History Month at HP Society

The History and Politics Society is marking Black History Month this October with a series of events on the subject. Above is the presentation from last Tuesday's talk, focusing on the less positive aspects of the way black people have been treated, particularly in America, while next Tuesday the focus will be much more uplifiting! The borough of Sutton is has also laid on a series of events. You can read more about them at their website here and in this flyer.

Logo Competition

At HP society we have all kinds of fun discussing, debating, watching videos and quizzing about anything and everything History and/or Politics related… And because we are such a great society we thought it would be a good idea to get ourselves a logo.

Design a creative – but relatively simple - logo for our society. It must include the words ‘Nonsuch’ and ‘HP society’ or ‘History and Politics Society’ and it should be no bigger than a quarter of an A4 page (or at least suitable for scaling the size down on a computer), apart from that it’s up to you.

The winning logo will hopefully be used on all our posters and for more HP events in the future! The winner will also get a prize! So please get involved and come to HP society every week on a Tuesday Lunchtime, we would love to see more of you involved.

Bring all entries to the logo competition to a HP lunch session within the next two weeks, Thanks.

The HP team

The Decade's Most Significant...

Mrs Budden launched today Nonsuch HP's quest to find the most significant event, person or development from the previous decade. Above is the powerpoint with a few ideas, but please let us know your thoughts. What would be your choice, and have we missed anything out?

PS: If you're not sure, here is plenty of material from the Guardian to help you, including reviews of the significant news events, politicians, films and music videos of the decade.

PPS: If you're having trouble seeing the powerpoint, you can download it here.

Battle of Hastings - Live!

The HP Society will be recreating The Battle of Hastings on Tuesday lunchtime. Come to Room 103 for a briefing and then we'll go out onto the field. Bring suitable clothing!

Author's Christmas Visit

On Tuesday 8 December at 1.20pm in Room 103, Nonsuch HP Society is lucky enough to have the author Brian Landers in to give a talk. He has written a book called 'Empires Apart' analysing the parallel development of Russian and American Empires over the course of 400 years. It has some great reviews and promises to spark some debate about the role of Russia and America in the world today.
Everyone is invited but it will obviously be particularly useful to GCSE students and above. See his website here for more information about the book and the author.

HP Society

Many thanks to everyone who attended the meeting at lunch time which introduced the newly re-named "HP Society". Maddy suggested that we had a debate next Tuesday so please leave comments here on suitable titles or pass on your ideas to her.

PS: If you have any good ideas for logos for the society, please bring them along next week!