People’s memories of school are unreliable and I’m seeing a few comments about how we were “only” taught a couple of things in school.

Here is the current UK history lesson curriculum, summarized

key stage 1

changes within living memory – where appropriate, these should be used to reveal aspects of change in national life

events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally for example, the Great Fire of London, the first aeroplane flight or events commemorated through festivals or anniversaries

the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements, some should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods for example, Elizabeth I and Queen Victoria, Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong, William Caxton and Tim Berners-Lee, Pieter Bruegel the Elder and LS Lowry, Rosa Parks and Emily Davison, Mary Seacole and/or Florence Nightingale and Edith Cavell

key stage 2

iron age

Romans

anglo-saxons / Scots

Vikings

Edward the confessor

a local history study of an event after 1066, but can include influence from before e.g. the impact of greco-Roman culture on the medieval period

early civilization (usually egypt)

ancient Greece

ancient non-european culture (usally Islam, Benin or Mayan)

key stage 3

British history in the following epochs:

years 1066 thru 1509

1509 thru 1745

1745 thru 1901

1901 thru modern day

plus at least one non-european study and it’s interconnections to world history