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Foreword
Welcome to the reinvented, revamped, remade version of Timeline magazine, a HABS History Department publication encouraging historical and academic interest throughout the whole school. It has been a pleasure to promote Timeline to the school and to read, judge, and compile all the submissions we had. There have been previous editions of Timeline, of course. However, in my year- and presumably so in others- there was very little awareness or enthusiasm for Timeline at that time. I decided to ask Dr StJohn if I could revive the magazine and recreate it, this time advertising it thoroughly to the school and encouraging as many submissions as possible. He accepted, and I began designing posters and assemblies to raise awareness, begin writing to the school and distributing information on Timeline through emails, designing the structure of the magazine itself, and reading and judging the various entries (apart from those submitted by Year 13s, which I asked Dr StJohn to do to avoid a conflict of interest). It is with great pride that I am now writing this Foreword at the head of a finished product.
I hope that people will read through the magazine and be inspired to write more- if you are reading this, then whilst I have your attention, I want to say a few things. I genuinely believe that writing for these school competitions and magazines has real, meaningful benefits. They build up your CV, improve your reputation amongst departments, give you practice in essaywriting and submitting to further competitions, and allow you to pursue an interest. Most of all, it takes so little time in the grand scheme of things just to write about something you’re passionate about and submit it. If you’re in Years 7-10 you have absolutely no excuse for not doing so- as someone who has experienced these years and what comes belong, I promise you that you have the time. Even in Years 11-13, however, you can find time to write for these competitions and magazines and they do help. I promise.
This magazine doesn’t have unlimited space, so in some cases only extracts of people’s submissions are attached. Please write to them or myself if you’d like to read the full versionmy contact is lev905@habsboys.org.uk. Please also contact stjohn_i@habsboys.org.uk for more information.
Enjoy Timeline and next year, if you haven’t, be sure to submit! Thank you for reading.
