| Topic: | Re:Re:Correction | |
| Posted by: | Beryl Wall | |
| Date/Time: | 25/06/20 00:52:00 |
| I truly think our history teaching has to be more broad. So, when I said that it should not focus, as it does, so heavily on the Tudors, on WW1 and on WW2, I was not in any way suggesting that any of those did not exist. I’m not sure I understand why anyone would draw such a conclusion. I was drawing attention (I thought) to the narrowness of our teaching of history. I would like it to include our time in India and the role of the Honourable East India Company - interesting on many levels, though not all in a good way. I would also like it to include our role in the slave trade and in abolishing it. I would also like our history lessons to debunk the myth that the Pilgrim (Founding) Fathers sailed to America escaping religious persecution. Quite the reverse. They could not tolerate religious freedoms of any kind and so chose to sail to the Americas. There is so much more than the Tudors, WW1 and WW2. We could be wiser. |