Does anyone else remember the Jackdaw series of history folders at school? This would be around the seventies. Essentially they were a series of folders on particular topics in history containing several of what, if I remember rightly, were termed broadsheets of general text about the topic, plus a whole bunch of facsimile documents from the era in question.
I vividly remember school having the 1066, Romans and Domesday book ones, and there's a part of me pretty sure (and this is why I'm remembering it now) that I read about the Battle of Towton from one.
What's maddening is I can't find a list of the UK titles online (the US ones appear to be still in print, but the US isn't a complete list - see for example Richard III and the English Civil War in the picture above, which aren't on the US list).
Yes absolutely.. I could usually be found with my nose in one!
ReplyDeleteYep. In fact my one on Waterloo during a recent clearout.
ReplyDeleteMy Peninsular War one lists 115 titles plus 24 Canadian ones
ReplyDeleteOoo. Would there be any chance of a scan or photo of that list? Many thanks.
ReplyDeleteAnother here, I had the Battle of Britain one from the IWM. It had a massive map of 1940s Britain and counters for the various British and German squadrons, so you could play at being a RAF fighter controller. I played with it forever... sadly missed. :-(
ReplyDeleteMe too.... loved them... I seem to remember that for a lid my age at the time they were quite expensive (in comparative terms)...
ReplyDeleteThey sound like very useful teaching/learning resources, and, typically for anything that even remotely approaches worthwhileness, got themselves discontinued....
ReplyDeleteHave 1 st edition 1965 Trafalgar any ideas on value
Delete1st edition was in 1963. The cover is white and has stitching to the edges rather than the tape that was used afterwards.
DeleteFull Uk list :Jackdaw At The Tower
ReplyDeleteKennedy
1 Trafalgar
2 Plague
3 Magna Carta
4 Columbus
5 Armada
6 Gunpowder
7 Shaftesbury
8 Mayflower
9 Shakespeare
10 Joan of Arc
11 Crimean War
12 Slave Trade
13 Watt
14 American Revolution
15 15/45
16 Vote
17 Peterloo
18 Waterloo
19 South Sea Bubble
20 Cook
21 Charles I
22 Indian
23 Wolfe
24 Richard III
25 Henry VIII
26 Queen Mary
27 Cromwell
28 -
29 Charles II
30 Marlborough
31 Churchill
32 Agincourt
33 Civil War
34 Monmouth Rebellion
35 Trade Unions
36 Peasants Revolt
37 Sarajevo
38 1066
39 Domesday Book
40 Westminster Abbey
41 Hadrians Wall
42 Russian Revolution
43 Great Exhibition
44 Spanish Inquesition
45 Merchant
46 Caxton
47 Development of Writing
48 Gordon Riots
49 Women In Revolt
50 Black Death
51 Mexico
52 Clive
53 Elizabeth I
54 Shakespeare Theatre
55 Wolsey
56 More
57 Fall of the Bastille
58 French Revolution Terror
59 Paris
60 Hampton Court
61 Easter Rising
62 Tower
63 Elizabeth Fry
64 Coming of War
65 Battle of Britain
66 Britain War
67 St Paul’s
68 Anglo Boer War
69 Luther
70 Money
71 Napoleon
72 Peninsula War
73 Moscow
74 Garibaldi
75 Christmas
76 Volcanoes
77 Motor Industry
78 Rubber
79 Dairy
80 Man and Towns
81 Port of London
82 Newton
83 Galaxies
84 Pasteur
85 Darwin
86 Faraday
87 Harvey
88 Police
89 Alfred
90 (Weather)
91 Villas of Rome
92 (Fossils)
93 (Flight)
94 (Maps)
95 Dickens
96 Wool
97 Clippers
98 Becket
99 Pepys
100 United Nations
101 Cricket
102 (Athletics)
103 (Highland Games)
104 Soccer
105 General Strike
106 American Civil War
107 Navigation
108 Atlantic
109 Ned
110 Massacre at Glencoe
111 Somme
112 Shelley
113 Lenin
114 Wordsworth
115 Khartoum
116 Brontes
117
118 Keats
119 Gladstone
120 Henry VIII & 6 wives
121 Rugby
122 Livingstone
123 Scott & the Antarctic
124 Tutankhamen
125 Budget
126
127 Disraeli
128 Everest
129 Desert War
130 Dunkirk
131 Queen Victoria
132 Francis Drake
133 Vikings
134 The City
135
136
137 Lewis Carroll
138
139 Prince Regent
140 China
141 (Oil)
142 (Arabs)
143 (Islam)
144
145 (Indians of North America)
146
147 French Revolution
148 Elizabeth II
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