Joe Skeaping
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher of History |
| Location | Brighton, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | In his 'Defence of Poesy', Sir Philip Sidney claimed that art was vital because it corrected the flaws in nature. 'Her world is brazen', he wrote. Sidney intended to criticise the study of History, because of its failure to impart virtuous moral lessons, but to me his words are a vindication. Like no other subject, History requires us to engage with the world as it really is, and people as they really are. If studying the past does not force us to challenge our own assumptions, habits and beliefs, we're not doing it properly. |
| Favorite movies | Hunger, In Bruges, Shutter Island, The Prestige, 300, Taxi Driver, Inglourious Basterds, The Usual Suspects, No Direction Home, The Lives of Others, Despicable Me, Brave, Up |
| Favorite books | A Place of Greater Safety, Wolf Hall, The Hare With Amber Eyes, Middlemarch, The Remains of the Day, The Secret Agent, Tristram Shandy, An Officer and a Spy |