> Ah, that explains why I didn't know that bit. School
> history stopped part-way through the Stuarts.
and then:
> Really? Maybe that's the "except the Brits" definition
> of "Europe", then. We tend to start with the Romans,
> skip most of the "Dark Ages", then start memorising
> dates from 1066 onwards. You stop when you specialise
> (and drop History) at about 13 or so. People who
> actually do History qualifications often seem to end
> up with WW2 as a specialist period, for some reason,
> and hence have a gap of several centuries in their
> knowledge. Personally I filled in a few gaps by
> reading fiction set in the Napoleonic period and
> getting interested in the "Dark Ages", but that was
> nothing to do with Eddication.
So you studied history from 1066 to half-way through the Stuarts? Ignoring the English Civil War, the Restoration, the Glorious Revolution and the rise and fall of the British Empire? That's like us studying pre-Columbian tribal archeology and then moving on to Colonial America. Kind of misses much of the relevant stuff.
Jeff
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