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Article: Is There History Beyond Hitler?(Brief Article)
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- History Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 1999
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Peter Furtado reports on the anxieties voiced at a recent Historical Association conference.
The over-concentration on Hitler and the other twentieth-century dictators in secondary schools is now worrying the Historical Association (HA). It has recently asked the government to ensure that the traditional breadth of the subject is maintained in the current review of A-Levels. But despite the future during the summer about the axing of Anglo-Saxon history (an option taken up by very few students, but restored to the A-Level syllabus after an intervention by David Blunkett, secretary of state for education), the government is insisting on a sharp reduction in the ...