We have spent most of our time learning exam technique in history. This is of course very important because of the League Tables. We have many lessons on this subject, “you will begin question one ‘From the source, I can infer that…’. For question four your conclusion will start ‘I believe that the statement is to some extent correct because…and incorrect because…'”
In my history lesson no one bar myself could name who was P.M. before Maggie Thatcher (I got stuck at Edward Heath) but we can all do Russian and American leaders till the end of the Ninteenth Century.
British History is forgotten. We did an exercise on the Blitz once but it was only to show how photos could be doctored and then it only lasted 10 or 15 minutes. The Battle of Britain and D-day are not all that is forgotten so is Rorke’s Drift, Trafalgar, Waterloo, The Boer war, Dunkirk, The Spanish Armarda, Agincourt and Crecy. Too many of my peers perhaps only two of those names would ring a bell. It is Disgraceful but they have not taught me any of that and now I only have 2 History lessons left before I am finished for good. I took History for two (possibly three) more years than it is made compulsory by the government.
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