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Message: <blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6198624" data-attributes="member: 22424">Okay, bearing in mind that, like a great many things, the Scottish system is a little different from the rest of the UK...Your elementary education would be roughly equivalent to our Primary schools. There, history consists of the Tudors and Stuarts, and the Ancient Egyptians. I have no idea why those particular topics were chosen - probably nice costumes for the one, and pointy buildings for the other.At high school, the first couple of years were a bit scattered - I remember bits of Scottish history (notably Bannockburn), bits on the 2nd World War, and some stuff on Vikings. Oh, and some stuff on British history from Waterloo to the Great Exhibition (1815 to 1851).After that, I did the O-Grade, as part of the last class to do that particular qualification (and, indeed, History and Geography were the last subjects to change over to the new Standard Grade). We did "Life in Scotland 1760 - 1820", which was mostly about farming, and the changes in farming due to new techniques. We did Russia in their reigns of Peter and Catherine the Great, which was thankfully much more interesting. And we did a lot on the First World War.Finally, I did the so-called "Alternate" Higher (again, this was the last class before they moved to the "Revised" Higher, and again this was the last subject to change over - and no, I have no idea why). Here we did history from the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution (strictly, it was supposed to be 1689 - 1789, but the course was stretched to cover two 'landmark' events). This last was hugely European in emphasis - we did lots on Louis XIV, lots on the French philosophes, and so forth, but very very little on the American War of Independence.It was only in that very last class that we touched on the Revolution, and by that point we wouldn't have talked about "good guys" and "bad guys". However, it was pretty clearly understood that Britain was in the wrong on that one.</blockquote>

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