Book of Centuries

A Book of Centuries is simply a notebook in which to record historical events. Rather than spreading a timeline along a wall, the timeline is kept inside the notebook. Each century is spread over two pages: one is lined and numbered for recording historical events and the names of famous people; the other is blank to allow the student to illustrate events and people from that century.

Charlotte Mason had students begin keeping a Book of Centuries when they were 10 years old, and continue it throughout the course of their education. Eventually the notebook would become a beautiful keepsake to cherish when they were older.

Gertrude M. Bernau was trained under Charlotte Mason at the House of Education in 1894, and became the principal of a PNEU school for girls in London in 1906. She wrote that a Book of Centuries “should bear witness to a liberal and generous diet of History…”

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