Welcome to Watching Brief. A monthly show available via podcast and as topical segments via YouTube. As the name implies, each month my co-host Andy Brockman of the Pipeline (Where history is tomorrow's news) and I cast an eye over news stories, topical media and entertainment and discuss and debate what we find.
Link of the Month:
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Links:
02:10 – Historic England Satisfied with ‘adequate’ Stonehenge tunnel investigations:
https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/historic-england-satisfied-with-adequate-stonehenge-tunnel-investigations-06-10-2020/
Two rare ladies loos in Northumberland and Sunderland have been given Grade II listed status:
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/two-rare-ladies-loos-northumberland-18866159
21:09 - Covid-hit university students: ‘Why have they sent us here?’
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-scotland-54292728
COVID-19: Coventry University student flats partygoers flout rules:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-54349548
COVID outbreak: Manchester Metropolitan University students in lockdown:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-manchester-54289648
COVID: About 40 Universities report coronavirus cases:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-54322935
Newcastle students who break COVID rules face expulsion:
https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2020-09-22/newcastle-students-who-break-covid-rules-face-expulsion
Coronavirus: Students ‘scared and confused’ as halls lock down:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54308329
A new front in America’s Pandemic: College Towns:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/colleges-coronavirus-students.html
COVID-19 Could be endemic in deprived parts of England’:
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/05/covid-19-could-be-endemic-in-deprived-parts-of-england?
Students admit to lying to break coronavirus law as they party in Newcastle:
https://metro.co.uk/2020/10/01/students-admit-lying-to-break-coronavirus-law-as-they-party-in-newcastle-13355762/
More than seven hundred students test positive for coronavirus at Northumbria University:
https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2020-10-02/hundreds-of-students-reportedly-self-isolating-at-northumbria-university-and-the-university-of-newcastle
Coronavirus: Consider pausing university return, says Labour:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-54313054?fbclid=IwAR1UL19k6QupzF5VbZqtut1JPAAkxxJx7Qo59T10vs__yA4oU-seyr1Be7c
47:25 - Trump wants TikTok deal to pour $5 billion into ‘real history’ education. It’s not that simple:
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/20/business/trump-education-fund/index.html
A historian takes on Trump’s view of American history:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2020/09/21/historian-takes-trumps-view-american-history/
Trump’s vision for American history is a nightmare:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/09/white-house-history-conference-curriculum.html
Why Boris Johnson mustn’t rewrite British History:
https://www.tes.com/news/why-boris-johnson-mustnt-rewrite-british-history