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Originally Posted by West Ender
My granddaughter, who is 8, is studying WW2 in History at school. Two weeks ago her class went to a WW2 museum in Stockport where there is a classic air-raid shelter. The children had to dress as evacuees and carried gas-mask cases (Laura's was a cut-down shoe box covered with brown paper and a string threaded). The kids all know Churchill was Prime Minister and George VI was king. They know a little about Nazi Germany, they know who Hitler was and they also know about bombing, rationing and the Blackout.
When I was at Primary School the History I learned about was the Romans and the Tudors. At Grammar School it was back to the Romans again then, for O level, 1794 to 1914. When Laura's mum started at High School her first History was - the Falklands War and it had only been over about 4 years!
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When I was at school, from the third form onwards, you had to choose between History or geography, I didn't like the history teacher
now who was this fellow Churchill again