Does anyone study anythng apart from Hitler in History at school these days?
It was all I ever got to study in history between the ages 13 and 16. Going on what I learned in school the world began with the Treaty of Versailles and history ended with the death of Hitler. Russia, Japan and Norway played no part in the Second World War and no battles were fought in North Africa or the Pacific. If I had kept studying history at school until I was 18 I only had the option of studing the same things in greater depth so I did not take A-level history. It is a great shame that teenagers today are taught such a narrow focus for history. The ancient Egyptians, the Roman Empire, Medieval Europe, the slave trade, the Victorian era, the French Revolution, the Spanish Civil War, the American Civil War, the Space Race, the Tudors, the Russian Front, the siege of Stalingrad… so much interesting history. I work as a tour guide in a castle these days – I love to tell kids about the medieval period because they are normally starved of information about kings, castles, monks and
