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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8620256" data-attributes="member: 18">I dunno, Paul, I must have got some pretty different history lessons, and we covered a ton of world history aged 10-14 - even stuff like the pre-Colombian Aztecs.The only section time which seemed to be &quot;glorious British empire&quot; was at primary school (up to age 10), when we covered a lot of British kings and bloody Isambard Kingdom Brunel in frankly wildly excessive detail.At GCSE level it was basically WW1 and WW2 (including the context to both) and not much else, but we were taught it was &quot;Britain would definitely have lost/surrendered unless America kept pumping us with supplies&quot; and that WW2 was almost entirely the fault of the Allied side of WW1 being total dicks to Germany after WW1.One thing that I note is that the history I was taught - and that friends were taught - was never &quot;beginning to end&quot;, i.e. never linear. There was never a suggestion that we would be taught &quot;all of history&quot; or something. Rather it jumped around and covered various periods and events in detail (there may have been some overview but it was very light).We were also talk strong critical thinking re: sources.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8620256, member: 18"] I dunno, Paul, I must have got some pretty different history lessons, and we covered a ton of world history aged 10-14 - even stuff like the pre-Colombian Aztecs. The only section time which seemed to be "glorious British empire" was at primary school (up to age 10), when we covered a lot of British kings and bloody Isambard Kingdom Brunel in frankly wildly excessive detail. At GCSE level it was basically WW1 and WW2 (including the context to both) and not much else, but we were taught it was "Britain would definitely have lost/surrendered unless America kept pumping us with supplies" and that WW2 was almost entirely the fault of the Allied side of WW1 being total dicks to Germany after WW1. One thing that I note is that the history I was taught - and that friends were taught - was never "beginning to end", i.e. never linear. There was never a suggestion that we would be taught "all of history" or something. Rather it jumped around and covered various periods and events in detail (there may have been some overview but it was very light). We were also talk strong critical thinking re: sources. [/QUOTE]

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