Photek wrote:This may be slightly OT but I’ve been reading that the troubles, the good Friday agreement and Northern Ireland’s History isn’t taught in English schools, I’d this is true, it’s easier to understand why so many haven’t got a clue what they are talking about.
From what I remember, my school curriculum on history would have covered the Romans in Britain and the Tudors primarily in primary school, then a focus on the Peasants' Revolt and a shift to 20th century politics (Bolshevik Revolution, causes and impacts of the First World War, causes of impacts of the Second World War) in secondary school. I assume the latter stages were laid out that way (this was at GCSE level) as a hangover from explaining pre-90s Cold War politics.
I don't think Britain's Empire was even really mentioned and Northern Ireland certainly didn't come up.