> when I asked my British university class what they had learned at school about colonisation, “Nothing really!” was the chorused reply. I am not surprised. F

> when I asked my British university class what they had learned at school about colonisation, “Nothing really!” was the chorused reply. I am not surprised. For what it is worth, during my UK education I never really got taught any "general" history. There was no high-level history of the country, no general sequence of world events, no lists of kings and queens or which prime minister was in power when and so on. History classes would instead pick some arbitrary time and location and then "deep dive" into that single subject for the entire school year - e.g. we covered the Russian revolution and only the Russian revolution for one entire school year. Other years it was The Normans, another it was the Great Depression. History class seemed to be less about the actual history (i.e. facts), and more about the approach taken to scrutinise the sources for reliability/credibility and come up with your own judgement based on what you have available.