Head's Newsletter - 16 October 2015

We entered a competition called 'Timeline 200' which asked students to determine their 100 Defining Moments in history from the last 200 years from 1815–2015. We received a letter from Peter Warwick of the New Waterloo Despatch who asked to visit Tiffin to present our boys with their own special New Waterloo Dispatch and Certificates “in recognition of their outstanding contribution to the Timeline 200 competition”. He is going to visit us on Friday 4 December, accompanied by Major General Sir Evelyn Webb-Carter, KCVO OBE, Chairman of Waterloo 200, and Victoria Nielson, Campaign Director, Hungry for History, and we are hoping that the presentation will look something like this!

We also received a letter of congratulation from Dan Snow, the Historian, Writer and Broadcaster. The vast majority of Year 9 submitted entries and listed below are our students’ defining moments in history so you can see the fantastic array of choices and views: Formation of the Jewish State of Israel Fall of the Berlin Wall Soviet-Afghan War Coronation of Emperor Meiji Indian Independence Rwandan Genocide The Falklands War The Reign of Queen Victoria Operation Barbarossa The Holocaust The Industrial Revolution The Apollo 11 Moon Landing Women’s suffrage in the United States The year 1861 – specifically the abolition of serfdom in Russia and the subsequent slow rise of socialism The Abolition of Slavery Bengal Famine 1943 D-Day Battle of Jutland The Korean War

Japanese Modernisation during the Russo- Japanese war of 1904 Invasion of Iraq 2003 12 April 1961 – First Man in Space The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945 The Cuban Missile Crises First V2 ballistic missile launched against London, signalling the true start of the rocket age 9/11 and increase in worldwide, radical terrorist attacks Alan Turing breaking the enigma code The Birth of Communism 1844 1879 Edison’s invention of the light bulb Wright Brothers make the first powered flight Stalin’s regime The Transfer of British Sovereignty over Hong Kong 1997 Civil Rights Act (1964)

To read more about this competition and to see the eminent judging panel please visit http://www.timeline200.com/