This discussion of World War I social issues is irresistible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh!_How_I_Hate_to_Get_Up_in_the_Morning
-Durova P.S. Shameless plug for an article I wrote. The audio file is a featured sound. On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>wrote: > 2009/3/25 Phil Nash <[email protected]>: > > Thomas Dalton wrote: > >>> 2009/3/25 Phil Nash <[email protected]>: > >>>> I don't see much of a problem with this, as a comparison implies > >>>> some sort of value-judgement. > >>> > >>> UK primary school history does tend to focus on people a lot, rather > >>> than details of historical events. > > > > Probably more recent than my 1950s primary school history, which IIRC, > was > > more about dates and events rather than people, and my 1960s history > > education was more about politics than anything else. Social history > might > > just as well have been a foreign language when I was taught. Let's just > say > > it didn't relate to my experience of life, and thus failed to light my > fire. > > Indeed, history education has changed a lot since then! When I was in > primary school (10+ years ago) we hardly learned any dates, it was all > about what life was like during that period. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
