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...
TGT - 28th September 2026 - F1 Crashgate Scandal
Some have called it the greatest cheating scandal in sport, especially when you consider the potential dangers involved to drivers, spectators and track...
TGT - 25th September 2026 - Sequoia National Park
Today is the anniversary of the founding of one of the most famous National Parks in the world - Sequoia National Park - which protects the world’s largest...
TGT - 24th September 2026 - The Only Tilcayo Tiger Cat
A rather lovely story from the news last week. A Bolivian scientist noticed that the 10-year-old tiger cat in a sanctuary didn’t have the markings any known...
TGT - 23rd September 2026 - Ray Charles
Ray Charles’ story is remarkable, certainly worthy of a biopic. Born into extreme poverty, he was taught piano by a café owner who used to look after Ray and...
TGT - 22nd September 2026 - The Voyager Gold Discs
A third day in a row of space stuff and a return to the Voyager probes mentioned on Friday. The comparison of Galileo and Voyager was too interesting not to...
TGT - 21st September 2026 - Galileo Crashed Into Jupiter
Galileo Galilei discovered four of Jupiter’s moons in 1610. Nearly 400 years later, NASA named the probe they sent to study Jupiter’s moons after the Italian...
TGT - 18th September 2026 - Voyager 1 picture of Earth & Moon
Earthrise taken by Bill Anders from Apollo 8 in orbit around the Moon in 1968 is probably a more famous, higher resolution and certainly more influential...
TGT - 17th September 2026 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
A fantastic find by Chris. I’d never heard of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, but the more I read the more amazed I was by his life. The fact that rather lovely...
TGT - 16th September 2026 - Julia Donaldson
Julia Donaldson developed her rhyming skills writing songs about the places she and her friends went busking around Europe. Then as a song-writer for...
TGT - 15th September 2026 - Oliver Stone, Tommy Lee Jones and JFK
A TGT that wasn’t obvious when I started looking for potential subjects, but it was an interesting note that Stone & Jones shared a date of birth, then that...
TGT - 14th September 2026 - Handel's Messiah
On more than one occasion during my teaching career I’ve encountered a sarcastic chant of “Hallelujah” from students for one reason or another. I always...
TGT - 11th September 2026 - September 11th Boatlift
We like to keep things fairly light, positive and optimistic on TGT. We avoid negative news stories and mostly remember people on the anniversary of their...
TGT - 10th September 2026 - Inaugral Speedway World Championship
Speedway is undoubtedly exciting. Watching powerful motorbikes race without brakes cannot help but be exhilarating. This story of Wembley stadium, more...
TGT - 9th September 2026 - Otis Redding
Essential Cultural Capital on Wednesday. You could discuss the opportunities for singing in choirs your students have as a starting point for a singing...
TGT - 8th September 2026 - Star Trek
Star Trek was first broadcast 60 years ago on Tuesday. At the height of the Cold War and the civil rights struggle, Gene Roddenberry envisaged a future where...
TGT - 7th September 2026 - The Last Thylacine
Humans have been responsible for the extinction of countless species, some more famously than others. Sometimes the result of human action is identified in...