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How is the history of King Henry VIII taught in schools in England these days, I wonder.
Thursday, 23-Oct-14 15:42:34 UTC from web-
@hawloween It isn't.
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@hawloween My friend takes History in sixth form and their entire first half of the course is on Henry VIII
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@ceruleanspark It's not? Huh. He's pretty much the reason divorce is a common thing so that's actually pretty shocking.
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@hawloween Divorced, beheaded, died / Divorced, beheaded, survived / I'm Henry VIII, I had six wives / Some might say I ruined their lives~
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@thelastgherkin I might have heard/seen that one before, is familiar.
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@zeldatra We don't really get much specific history instruction unless we choose to study it in higher education. Otherwise it's a very vague set of lessons about the various eras and wars with no real investigation.
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@ceruleanspark Oh, that's way different from how we do it here.
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@hawloween It's from a great kids show called Horrible Histories. http://pny.lv/5ds9
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@zeldatra It's probably why British patriotism is basically non-existent. There's a lot of amazing british inventors, leaders generals and philanthropists we literally never touch on.
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@ceruleanspark So British history class is boring?
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@matthew I enjoyed it. Chose to take it for two extra years.
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@thelastgherkin Well I can stop watching this show on Netflix. (Not that I was counting it as learning anything).
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@ceruleanspark I took a British Literature class last year and a lot of my history lessons the last two years focused on Great Britain. It's a shame you don't talk about it more because there's a lot of interesting stuff.
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@thelastgherkin @hawloween There is also this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4OS17lqHiE
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@vcgriffin I think Henery the Eighth posits the opposite scenario, with the lead singer being the eighth old man?
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@matthew Its not boring its just you dont get to study 'British history' in any real depth. A bit of Tudors and Stuart's, but lots of Egypt, Rome, Bit of Ancient Greece. Even if you doHistory at GCSE its mainly the cold war (well not even that just the Cuban Missile Crisis).
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@thelastgherkin Its an invertion yes.
There not many history songs. -
@vcgriffin My favourite history song is Exordium et Terminus by Zager and Evans.
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