You are part of history so make sure you understand it.

• Your Past• Your identity – where you came from and who you are?• Your place in your world

Past

Future

Present

• Different societies /leaders/ cultures

• Where our values and attitudes came from.

• Make us question why things happen and could they ever happen again.

1930’s 1960’s 2006

1340’s 1840’s 2004

Think first and weigh up all the evidence

Famous people who have degrees in historyDermot Murnaghan Journalist

Study History and be in good company!The people below have all studied history

• Jeremy Bowen, BBC News reporter (UCL) • Alan Green BBC Radio 5 Live football commentator

(Queens);Martin Tyler Sky Sports football commentator• Jonathan Legard BBC motors sports reporter (Leeds)• James Moir controller BBC Radio Two (Cambridge)• Peter Wilby editor of New Statesman (Sussex)• Melvyn Bragg ITV presenter South Bank Show (Oxford)• Jeremy Warner Business editor, The Independent (UCL)• Michael White political editor, The Guardian (UCL) • Salman Rushdie author

• Louis Theroux (Oxford) • Simon Thomas - Blue • Simon Mayo Radio DJ (Warwick)• Conan O'Brien US talk show host and

Simpsons writer (Harvard) • Michael Palin presenter and Python (Oxford) • Chris Martin of band Coldplay (UCL) • Nicky Wire and Richey Edwards Manic Street

Preachers (Swansea) • Sting former History Teacher! 

• David Sainsbury CEO Sainsburys (Oxford)• Roland Smith, former director Bank of England, now

dir. Manchester United (Birmingham)• Howard Springer CEO Sony America (Oxford)• Phil Soar, CEO Nottm. Forest (Keele)• Anita Roddick, founder of Bodyshop (Bath Spa)• Gerald Corbett ex Chief Executive of Dixons, Railtrack,

Woolworth (Cambridge)• Patrick Gillam ex Chief Executive of BP, Standard

Chartered Bank (London)

• Neil Kinnock former leader Labour Party, EU commissioner (Cardiff)

• John Prescott MP Deputy Prime Minister (Hull)• Mike Mansfield QC top barrister (Keele)• Dr John Reid MP Chairman of Labour Party (Stirling)• Paul Murphy MP Sec. State Northern Ireland (Oxford)• Alex Salmond MSP Leader Scottish National Party (St

Andrews)• Seb Coe former athlete and MP (Loughborough)• Lord Williams of Mostyn Attorney General (Cambridge)