History in the Making?

[Aperitif]

I have a meagre knowledge of history - I can't even remember what the title of this thread is, but I might have absorbed a little more if my attention was caught by something like the chap below leading my imagination!
I notice there are other parts as well...take time and enjoy this brilliant delivery.
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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWFq-v7TKdQ[/media]

 

[Aperitif]

Mr Darcy was my teacher. He would drone on and on and on...then suddenly start a sentence "The early tudors looked upon King..." and then he'd point. And say, "who did they look upon, Smith, Jones etc" I could never bloody well answer and it was awful.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I quite liked history, but then, we did things like Bannockburn, WW2 and, of all things, the history of the Wild West (of the U.S., not Scotland).

Our teacher had a strange booming voice and always drank tea with honey in it, which we all though was decidedly odd

 

[subaqua]

history in secondary school when i went was awful. I dropped it as soon as i could.

it wasn't about the romans or normans not even about the tudors or the stuarts etc what did we study for 2 terms. a body that was found in a peat bog somewhere. I just switched off. and coasted for the year.

sad really cos the teacher who taught it dave Kelly was one of the best teachers in the school. he was my teacher for politics, british constitution and sociology - Easy A levels taken to fill timetable with enough lessons to let me stay in 6th form - that i really enjoyed and got a GCSE in after 12 months.


I learnt most of ny history from the library in town. Local history was very inmportant as the town was a "claytown". I now ride my MTB along some of the old tramways and in the old claypits when i go back home. daughter loves it as i can tell her the local history of the town her grandad lives in.


horrible histories is great too. I love that.

 

[beanzontoast]

My history teacher's first words to us at the start of every lesson were to sit down and be quiet. Things went downhill from there...

 

[ThePainInSpain]

What a fantastic bloke, my type of humour.

Unfortunately I suspect that some miserable twot wil declare it non PC.

 

[asterix]

What a fantastic bloke, my type of humour.

Unfortunately I suspect that some miserable twot wil declare it non PC.

I have already lodged a complaint.

 

[Dayvo]

Excellent link, Ap!

'History is written by the winners, thus explaining the empty pages in French history books...!' Funny as!

 

[XmisterIS]

When I was at school, the teachers were particularly skilful at extracting every single drop of excitement, dynamism, humanness and liveliness from History. They presented us with the dry and dusty remains ...

 

[Fnaar]

Excellent stuff...

 

[Night Train]

I love history.

Everything is history (unless you are into fortune telling) and there is so much to learn even in the changes of opinion and theories and the causes.

I taught History of Furniture last year and it was great fun.

 

[tyred]

Love history. I find the past more interesting than the present day.

 

[User169]

I like the American voice at the end of the vid - "Wait until he gets onto Americans"! Excellent stuff.

 

[User482]

I watched Civilisation on the Beeb last night - which has been remastered in HD. I thought it was outstanding.

 

[tyred]

I love history and I read a lot of history, but I didn't like the way it was taught at school - it became the driest, dullest of subjects and it involved learning huge lists of facts and dates and spouting them out again in essays and exams. I didn't even make it to O level (as it was then).

I would have to agree. I don't know what the British system demands but for Irish leaving cert history, you need to write 5 essays of around 3 pages in length in a three hour exam. When studying for it, you have the choice of topics which are always asked in the exam (WW1, WW2, Irish Land question and home rule, Tsarist Russia, Nazi Germany, Ireland under DeValera) but are always asked in a cunning way that makes the essays difficult to write or gamble on the topics which aren't asked as often (Spanish civil war, Britain or France between the wars, Stalin, the cold war, the rise of Irish Unionism, etc) but when they do come up, it will be a simple "give an account" type essay.