JournalKenneth WebbSeptember 15, 2020from the author who speaks, Warsaw, Perspective, A Thousand Dimensions, History+Geography=Perspective

Journal | History, Geography Together … Perspective

JournalKenneth WebbSeptember 15, 2020from the author who speaks, Warsaw, Perspective, A Thousand Dimensions, History+Geography=Perspective

SEPTEMBER ARRIVED and the hint of Autumn and Winter in the Northern Hemisphere and the most welcome hint of Spring and Summer in the Southern Hemisphere. And now November is upon us.

Thank you, all of you, who follow this website globally. As many will know, my favourite subject is history. Closely allied to this is Geography. In every country in every generation we wonder why educational policy follows a particular line, and often completely at variance with common-sense and practical reality.

At school I was given the choice. History or Geography.

Yet if ever two subjects should dovetail, then it was those. Fifty years on I am catching up, because the website analytics give me a beautiful global map in varying shades depending on the number of followers or visitors to the website there are. And that is not ‘big brother.’

On the contrary, if I then click onto Nigeria, I very quickly see all the provinces and regions. If I click on Canada, a country close to my heart, ‘oh so that’s where Edmonton is! If I click on Germany, that which is my fondest, ah, I found it! Schleswig-Holstein.

Ah! There is Warsaw! That incredible city and people that thrilled me as a boy in the 1950s, the defiance, the heroism, the terrifying injustice of it all, both from west and east.

If only I had been allowed to learn history and geography side by side. Goodness! What a world view I’d have had through my entire life.

So too, in the United Kingdom. I’m ashamed to admit that for decades I thought Aberdeen was on the west coast!

Perspective

The wider our perspective in all things the more likely will we be to withstand the onslaught of fake news, of idiotic conspiracy theories, and enable us to be better, more informed, world-citizens.

A Thousand Dimensions

This page is popular, so I continue the scheduling articles to republish in advance. This means that I can see them all, but visitors cannot. But have no fear. Your ‘favourites’ are still all in place and will appear afresh, not unlike the carriages of the train rushing by, in the weeks and months ahead.

In the meantime, my thanks to you all. Your support is greatly appreciated, and I cannot emphasise enough just how enriching it is, to take a really close view of your respective countries, their geographies and histories.

So may I close with an especial wave to my friends in Brisbane, Poland, Brazil, Canada and Nigeria. You are all teaching me much!

Kenneth Webb

Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.

He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.

Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.

In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.