The prominence of the school history debates over the last year has brought to my mind echoes of voices I have encountered in my research on interwar British education. Recent scholarship on the history of history teaching in British schools over the twentieth century has brought a lot of the hyperbole surrounding this topic in public discussion into perspective. I …
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Simon Abernethy examines a curious solution to the rise in interwar traffic accidents. … I saw a letter the other day from an indignant gentleman who said he walked where he liked. He intimated that this was a free country and he had every right to walk where he liked. If he walks off the pavement in Oxford Street he …
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