Posted: Dec 18, 2014 7:00 am
There's no subject in any school that politicians try to interfere with more than history. You don't get any politicians campaigning to make trigonometry more prominent in maths class, or that art class should talk more about cubism. Even science escapes relatively unscathed, with the exception of a few controversial (to some) issues. But history is so mixed up with national identity that anything approaching an accurate representation of events is overruled. Personally, I think every country should make it a rule that the history syllabus is decided by an expert from a different country.
I thought ours was a bit insular, which is probably the same as what they do in the USA. So we learned about the Romans, the Norman invasion, the Spanish Armada, the War of the Roses, the gunpowder plot, the various kings and queens and corresponding eras, the industrial revolution, WW1&2, and quite a bit about social history of each time period. In primary school, we also did the cool stuff like the Egyptians and Aztec, but the vast majority of it was purely events on the one island. Actually, almost exclusively England. Certainly nothing about the UK's actions around the world, colonialism, slavery, etc, except to maybe provide context for something else, or in passing.
I thought ours was a bit insular, which is probably the same as what they do in the USA. So we learned about the Romans, the Norman invasion, the Spanish Armada, the War of the Roses, the gunpowder plot, the various kings and queens and corresponding eras, the industrial revolution, WW1&2, and quite a bit about social history of each time period. In primary school, we also did the cool stuff like the Egyptians and Aztec, but the vast majority of it was purely events on the one island. Actually, almost exclusively England. Certainly nothing about the UK's actions around the world, colonialism, slavery, etc, except to maybe provide context for something else, or in passing.