Monday 22 January 2024
On Monday, a group of our Year 11 History students attended a 'Cold War Study Day', hosted by the University of Manchester at Jodrell Bank Centre in Cheshire.
The day consisted of a film about the history of Jodrell Bank and the world-famous Lovell Telescope, two lectures from University of Manchester professors and a primary sources workshop. All of these activities were focussed on how significant the Lovell Telescope and Jodrell Bank site were during the Cold War, which played out across the twentieth century with the USA and the then USSR competing to build advanced space technology.
The Jodrell Bank site was vital to monitoring and covering the activities of both superpowers, and the information the student learned on Monday will be extremely useful in their 'Superpower Relations and Cold War' GCSE exams in a few months.