A Conservative MP has urged the teaching of medieval or earlier English history in schools, saying children know more about Martin Luther King Jr. than they do about the UK’s first kings.
Talking to The Telegraph, MP for Rother Valley Alexander Stafford said that the subject was “greatly neglected in schools, with very little taught at GCSE or A-level” and that most students “don’t have the option to study anything pre-1066.”
But one historian told The Epoch Times that although the reasons behind the subject not being taught are complex, in ideological terms a past that goes back further is “little bit dangerous to those who would prefer to change the world on a basis of an almost year-zero mythology.”…