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Christopher Culpin

Christopher Culpin Christopher Culpin is Director of the British Schools History Project at Trinity and All Saints College, Leeds, UK.
Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, Christopher Culpin began his career as High School History teacher and was head of History at a High School in Suffolk. Since 1997, he has been the director of the Schools History Project. He has been involved in educational reform since the late 80's, when the first National Curriculum for the UK was developed.

Culpin has authored several books, including Making History, Collins Educational, 1984; Collins Living History: a series of 12 books for the National Curriculum at Key Stage 3 (ages 11-14), 1991-1995; Modern Europe, a textbook for 17-18 year olds, with Dr. Ruth Henig, published by Longmans in 1997; Crime and Punishment Through Time, Collins, 1997; South Africa 1948 to the Present Day, pub. John Murray, 2000. He has also worked on school television programmes for the BBC and has written teaching materials for the National Trust.

As the director of the Schools History Project, he has worked specifically with how to improve the teaching of history to young people between the ages of 13 to 16. He tries to bridge the gap between academic history and history for students in schools. He has done extensive work on local History and is currently touring England and Wales with a stage-show for 16 year olds called "Hitler on Trial".

Desmond Morton

Desmond Morton Professor Desmond Morton is the director of the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada.
Born in Calgary in 1937, Desmond Morton was educated in schools in Canada and Japan, and graduated from the Collège Militaire Royal de St-Jean, the Royal Military College in Kingston (B.A. 1959), Oxford University (M.A., 1966), and the London School of Economics, (Ph.D. 1968).

Professor Morton is the author of over 30 books on Canadian political, military and industrial relations history, including A Short History of Canada (rev.ed. 1997), with Jack Granatstein, 1995), Victory 1945: Canadians from War to Peace, Une histoire militaire du Canada/A Military History of Canada (rev. ed. 1994), When Your Number's Up: Canadian Soldiers in the First World War (1993), and Working People: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Labour Movement (rev. ed. 1991). He has also written numerous academic articles and contributes to the Toronto Star, the Ottawa Citizen, the Montreal Gazette, the CBC and Radio-Canada.

He is on the board of Canada's National History Society and on the editorial board of The Beaver. He was appointed a fellow to the Royal Society of Canada in 1985 and was named an Officer in the Order of Canada on July 1, 1996.