History Education in the News
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From Channel 4 News: A Twitter account is reporting the events of World War II as it happened, minute by minute, for the next six years.
The Twitter account @RealTimeWWII is tweeting the events of World War II over the next 6 years as and when it happened in real time, 72 years ago.
The brain child of 24-year-old Alwyn Collinson, @RealTimeWWII has accumulated a staggering 73,000-plus followers and is being translated into Russian, Portuguese and Spanish.
"It's to give that feeling of 'this might be happening right now, to me'," Mr Collinson told Channel 4 News. "It's about us avoiding the trap of hindsight, because at the time, it wasn’t like that and there was incredible fear and uncertainty.
"It's easy to forget that, because we know what's going to happen - that the good guys win."
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On December 5th EUROCLIO was present at the launch of Eurypedia-The European Encyclopedia on National Education Systems, a new online resource for understanding education systems in Europe and learning about recent reforms. Aiming at providing the most accurate picture of the education system organisation in Europe, Eurypedia contains more than 5000 articles and covers, 38 school and university systems within the 33 countries participating in the EU's Lifelong Learning Programme (all 27 EU Member States as well as Croatia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey). Eurypedia is a wiki-based tool and its articles are drafted and published directly by the Eurydice National Units, in collaboration with their respective education Ministries and/or national experts. EUROCLIO is very happy to have to ability to use Eurypedia in the future. Eurypedia is available online 
Eurydice is pleased to announce that it has officially launched 
