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Not wishing to diminish the headline, but I think your average Brit probably has a pretty poor understanding of British History that falls outside of the ‘WW2’ years.

Ultimately we know what we’re taught, and unless it’s changed significantly in the last 15 years then you’re basically taught about the Cold War and Vietnam, some random WW2 things and that’s about it?

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tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
And 1066. I can’t remember what actually happened then but the year is burned into my brain.

Lots of henry VIII and of course the gunpowder plot every year in November.

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- TheMongoose@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  And 1066. I can’t remember what actually happened then but the year is burned into my brain.
  
  Rings a bell. I think England beat Germany in the World Cup…
  
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DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m from NI and I learned about the Norman conquest of England, post-WW1 Germany, and the Irish war of independence + the following civil war.

I loved history at school and I still love it now!

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OmegaMouse@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
This made me wonder what is taught in schools now, and it seems pretty interesting actually: KS1+2, KS3+4

Definitely a lot more varied than I remember.

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Mchugho@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
We were never taught about the cold war or Vietnam at my school.

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jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m still amazed my history GCSE, in the 90s, didn’t cover the empire at all. You can’t understand world history without the British Empire, let alone Britain’s. It was agricultural and industrial revolutions. In complete isolation from the world, bar one mention of shipments of guano. Utter rubbish.

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