Renowned teacher of History and Head of Government and Politics at Fettes College, David McDowell talks fascinatingly about Fettes and the First World War.

David McDowell has been researching the history of Fettes College for many years. He published his first Fettes book, Carrying On in 2012. Last year, Duty and Sacrifice, a detailed study of Fettes in WW1 was published.

David McDowell joined the Fettes College staff in 2005. He was educated at Belfast Royal Academy and at Merton College at the University of Oxford.

As well as teaching David delivers the Remembrance week Chapel talks, in which current students learn about their predecessors who served and fell in war, he also organises the history department’s popular Sixth Form trips to Europe.