TGT returns on Monday 2nd November - know someone who’d enjoy it?
Hello! TGT is taking a half-term break, with slides back for Monday 2nd November. Thanks for reading and sharing them with your students this half-term. In...
TGT - 23rd October 2026 - Pfeilstorch
I love absolutely everything about this story! For starters, the picture is undeniably comedic. The arrow is nearly the size of the bird! And yet not only...
TGT - 22nd October 2026 - Franz Liszt
I think it can be hard for young people today to understand what was so ground-breaking that made people go so crazy for The Beatles that their reaction was...
TGT - 21st October 2026 - Feargal Sharkey
For sure, the link to October 21st is tenuous, but Feargal has an August birthday so I needed to find something tenuous, because what a fascinating and...
TGT - 20th October 2026 - Sydney Opera House
Returning to our occasional series on World Landmarks and tourism. The Sydney Opera House is simply iconic and I would guess many young people recognise the...
TGT - 19th October 2026 - Philip Pullman
Happy 80th Birthday to author Philip Pullman. There’s a bit in The Subtle Knife, Pullman’s second book of His Dark Materials trilogy, that once had me...
TGT - 16th October 2026 - Bodhana Sivanandan, Youngest Ever Female Chess Grandmaster
I love slides about the awesome feats of young people. Especially contemporary young people! One of our goals at TGT is try, where possible, to highlight...
TGT - 15th October 2026 - FM-2030
FM-2030 (born Fereydoon M. Esfandiary) lived an utterly fascinating life. Living in at least 20 countries, he spoke 5 languages and represented his father’s...
TGT - 14th October 2026 - Winnie-The-Pooh is 100
We have done a slide on A.A. Milne before for TGT and it’s not a happy tale. Alan wrote Winnie-the-Pooh and The House At Pooh Corner for his son, the real...
TGT - 13th October 2026 - Margaret Hamilton
The picture of the diminutive Margaret Hamilton, who’s death was announced last week, standing next to the print out of the code that took Apollo 11 to the...
TGT - 12th October 2026 - Charles Macintosh Sell His First Raincoat
I've always loved the fact that ‘Mac’ being a synonym for raincoat came from chemist Charles Macintosh’s invention of a way to water-proof fabric and his...
TGT - 9th October 2026 - Brian Blessed
Hard to ignore a big, round-number Birthday for a British Cultural icon such as Brian Blessed, and he becomes just the third person to appear more than once...
TGT - 8th October 2026 - The First Pacemaker thanks to an Insistent Wife
It’s easy to pull an anniversary off of Wikipedia and make a simple ‘On This Day’ type list. On this day the first internal pacemaker was fitted in Sweden....
TGT - 7th October 2026 - Watergate, The First '-gate'
As promised last week after ‘Crashgate’ - why are scandals, conspiracies and cover-ups still given the '-gate’ suffix more than 50 years after Watergate?...
TGT - 6th October 2026 - Lonnie Johnson
There’s so much to admire in Lonnie Johnson’s story, taking apart toys and electronics to find out how they worked from an early age. He was nicknamed ‘The...
TGT - 5th October 2026 - James Bond & The Beatles
Of course neither James Bond nor The Beatles ‘began’ on 5th October 1962. The Beatles had formed years earlier, with Lennon & McCartney first meeting in...
TGT - 2nd October 2026 - Alfred Lewis' Warning and The Nottingham Cheese Riots
Variations on Alfred Henry Lewis’ warning have been said many times. But hunger really will drive civil unrest. The Nottingham Cheese Riots sound funny -...
TGT - 1st October 2026 - George Weah
It would be an incredible life to rise from the Liberian 4th division to become the most feared striker in Europe and win the Ballon D’or - a vote for the...
TGT - 30th September 2026 - The Largest Plane In The World Needs The Largest Building
There’s so much to discuss in this story. The engineering is amazing. Pan Am’s confidence in Boeing to order 25 planes before one had even been built showed...
TGT - 29th September 2026 - The Mother of the Forest
When Chris was researching Friday’s TGT on The Sequoia National Park and the largest tree in the world, he came across a story about the second largest Giant...