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11 February 2012 Last updated at 19:42 ET The Queen's Diamond Jubilee festivities this summer marks one of a number of noble commemorations this year, says historian David Cannadine. Just a few days ago, the sixth of February saw the anniversary of the d
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Your book The Right Kind of History examines the teaching of history in English schools in the 20th century. How would you summarise what you found? It was interesting to notice that a lot of the arguments that are made now about the teaching of history
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Although governments cannot help but tinker with the National Curriculum, it is not the main problem and the solution does not lie in redesigning it yet again. I would urge the Secretary of State for Education to focus his attentions elsewhere.
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Author Adrian Sykes, with his publisher David Campbell, of Everyman's Library, is to donate a copy of his history book Made in Britain to all 448 London state secondary schools. The gift is being made in response to the London Evening Standard's campaign
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The war in 1914 gave them a chance, Cannadine wrote, "to demonstrate conclusively that they were not the redundant reactionaries of radical propaganda, but the patriotic class of knightly crusaders and chivalric heroes, who would defend the national hono
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A war novel by Ford Madox Ford is among books doing well out of ITV's hit series, as publishers cash in on Downton Abbey's success in America.The second series of Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes' period drama set in a stately home in Edwardian England is
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It's become fashionable to knock the history curriculum for being too episodic and for pupils not learning enough about how the past interconnects, but the real problem is that there is not enough time to teach everything
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The second series of Downton Abbey, Julian Fellowes' period drama set in a stately home in Edwardian England is on course to become a huge hit in America. On Sunday, 4.2 million people in the US turned on to watch the first in the 10 hour series c
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In 1934, Stalin told Soviet historians to change the way they taught history in schools. He disapproved of their textbooks, which did not offer the triumphant cavalcade of national heroes he considered appropriate. In 2010, Vladimir Putin's government in
About David Cannadine
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David Nicholas Cannadine (born 1950) is a British historian, known for a number of books including The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy and Ornamentalism; and as a commentator and broadcaster on British public life, especially the British monarchy. He also serves as the general editor of the Penguin History of Europe series. Full Article
