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History
I'm putting together thoughts for an article on history, but I might as well have a few extra facts to back up my thesis.
Data from people outside the UK would be particularly helpful (though UK is also good).
The history I remember from school is roughly: Norman conquest, Elizabethan era, the Victorians. We got some of the Greeks and Romans in classical studies. My boys certainly did WW2 in addition and one did Stalinist Russia.
So, what key historic events were you taught in school?
What peices of history have you read since for your own interest? And why? (I can count the Ottoman Empire and a moderate chunk of Islamic stuff, the war between Canada and the USA, medieval warfare, a bit of Egyptology and various other snippets. Each of those had a reason at the time for me to read about it, but I won't mention the reasons yet.)
I have predictions as to what Americans and Australians will have been taught, but I'd like to see how close I am.
Also, what languages did you have the options of learning and what options do the current generation of children have in your country (I'm assuming there may have been shifts recently) Which languages did you chose to learn and why?
Data from people outside the UK would be particularly helpful (though UK is also good).
The history I remember from school is roughly: Norman conquest, Elizabethan era, the Victorians. We got some of the Greeks and Romans in classical studies. My boys certainly did WW2 in addition and one did Stalinist Russia.
So, what key historic events were you taught in school?
What peices of history have you read since for your own interest? And why? (I can count the Ottoman Empire and a moderate chunk of Islamic stuff, the war between Canada and the USA, medieval warfare, a bit of Egyptology and various other snippets. Each of those had a reason at the time for me to read about it, but I won't mention the reasons yet.)
I have predictions as to what Americans and Australians will have been taught, but I'd like to see how close I am.
Also, what languages did you have the options of learning and what options do the current generation of children have in your country (I'm assuming there may have been shifts recently) Which languages did you chose to learn and why?
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The history I remember doing pre-GCSE: the Romans in Britain, the Spanish armada, the industrial revolution, a bit about suffragettes. I'm sure there was other stuff, but I don't remember it.
My GCSE Modern History course was called 'the history of conflict in the twentieth century' and covered: the League of Nations, causes of WWI, the end of WWI, the interwar years in Britain and the founding of the Welfare State, the rise of Hitler, causes of WWII, the use of atomic weaponry in WWII, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Cold War, the Vietnam War.
At unversity I did bits and pieces of history associated with my theology degree: the intertestamental period including the Hellenization of the Hebrew world, and first-century Israel including the historical Jesus.
Languages taught in my school: French, German and Spanish. I was assigned German to start with and took up Spanish at GCSE. I continued German at sixth form. At university I had the option of learning Biblical Greek and/or ancient Hebrew, and chose to learn Hebrew.