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Over the past few weeks politicians and academics have engaged in fierce debate about how the First World War should be remembered and how history itself is being taught in our schools. The most recent furore began on the 30th December 2013 when the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Start the Week’ hosted by Andrew Marr discussed this very question. The …

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 …