That period in British History got the emerging Industrial Revolution, Agricultural Revolution and not much stuff going on outside England. I can still get very boring about crop rotations, spinning jennies and the Luddites.
We were supposed to get European History to balance that out but our teacher for that kept having nervous breakdowns so we go the RE and English teachers covering for her. My French Revolution knowledge is still messy as a result. But even if she'd been well we wouldn't have got much on something that didn't affect us.
Genreally American History didn't get covered at all. I don't think even the 1812 thing got covered even as an irrelevant side-show but as I said, that part of History O Level coverage was a personell based mess at my school. We did do the Concert of Europe and Metternich, but what I've picked up about what went on over on the other side of the Pond has been by osmosis, asking questions or going to Washington and the White House.
You said earlier in the post replies about the Bad Breakup Analogy. There is something to that. Only America got replaced by a load of other countries and an Empire covering a quarter of the globe. We dind't do much on the second family either, but it was there taking up what attention and space there was for non English and European history in the timetable.
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We were supposed to get European History to balance that out but our teacher for that kept having nervous breakdowns so we go the RE and English teachers covering for her. My French Revolution knowledge is still messy as a result. But even if she'd been well we wouldn't have got much on something that didn't affect us.
Genreally American History didn't get covered at all. I don't think even the 1812 thing got covered even as an irrelevant side-show but as I said, that part of History O Level coverage was a personell based mess at my school. We did do the Concert of Europe and Metternich, but what I've picked up about what went on over on the other side of the Pond has been by osmosis, asking questions or going to Washington and the White House.
You said earlier in the post replies about the Bad Breakup Analogy. There is something to that. Only America got replaced by a load of other countries and an Empire covering a quarter of the globe. We dind't do much on the second family either, but it was there taking up what attention and space there was for non English and European history in the timetable.