I adore History and have had the absolute pleasure of being a teacher, tutor and examiner in the subject. My main interests at university were in Tudor and Stuart England, the Russian Revolution and the First World War.
I undertook my Master’s Degree whilst teaching in a Secondary School, and thoroughly enjoyed rummaging in the Kent County Archives for primary sources relating to the history of crime and punishment. However, there is no area of History I don’t enjoy learning about and I keep learning. I am a member of the Historical Association and take advantage of their courses and articles, and I love to visit English Heritage sites and museums with my two children.
As historians we are custodians of the past and are lucky enough to make windows into the lives of our ancestors, to see how they lived, breathed, thought and felt. I consider myself to be a life-long learner and I hope, through teaching, that I can pass this love for the subject on to others.
I have had a varied and interesting career in teaching. I have taught across the secondary school age range, alongside teaching Politics, and the Extended Project Qualification. I have also worked with students from a variety of backgrounds, learning needs and abilities, to meet their personal goals. I have worked with international students and travelled to places such as Berlin and Ypres with my students. I undertook a teacher exchange programme to a school in Taipei and was able to experience education in Taiwan. My time as a one-to-one tutor and an examiner has also been very important in forming my understanding of the requirements for exam success.
I now live in the North Downs of Kent with my husband and two children, running a local baby bank. In my spare time, I keep chickens and an allotment garden.
