Gateway Chronicle 2021

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The Gateway Chronicle
A Word from the
Editors
In 2021, when history is popular as ever, we felt
it was more important than ever to give a voice
to those histories that are forgotten or simply not
covered in standard history curriculums. This need
for minority voices to be heard became all the more
apparent after the summer of 2020, which helped
bring new light onto so much of both our history
in Britain and around the world. However, we did
not want the sole focus of this magazine to be about
retelling British history, as this is covered in all
history curriculums. We wanted this to be a journey
through histories not well known throughout time.
To capture this sense of history throughout the
world we divided the magazine into continents.
With articles from Australasia on the Aboriginal
Australians and the origins of the Haka; Africa and
medicine in Kemet in 3000 BC to the ending of
Apartheid; and to Britain itself with a look at mental
health, midwives and medieval anti-semitism.
There are also articles from America, which look at
key figures such as Martin Luther King and Arthur
Ashe; and to Asia and the Amristar massacre. We
were pleased that the articles reflected such a wide
range of the school with articles from the first form
right the way through to teachers.
We would absolutely like to thank everybody that
contributed to the magazine in the writing of their
articles. Moreover, we would like to extend a huge
thank you to Freddie Houlahan and Ciaran Cook
for their work as design editors. We thank them
for their work on presentation and for managing to
turn a collection of articles into a magazine (not a
chance we could have done this from without them).
We would also like to say a thank you to all the
History Department, especially those that contributed
articles and for urging so many students to
take part. In particular we would like to thank Mrs
Gregory for all her support and encouragement in
putting the magazine together.
We hope you really enjoy the magazine and the
chance to learn about some history that is not
typically taught on a history curriculum!
Sam McDonald & Joe Scragg