how do the British school textbooks deal with the embarrassing failure of losing their most precious American colonies in 1770s?
My class didn't really cover it in great detail in school. Which I suspect would be the norm in most schools unless you take the subject further in college and university. Instead we covered British history by era (romans, saxons, vikings, normans, tudors, victorians), and modern history (the great war / world war I, world war II: war harder, the korean and vietnam wars, the cold war, the gulf war)... they put a great deal of emphasis on the two world wars. Its rightly taught as something which every generation should know about, so its never forgotten. I don't think they teach much about Ireland / Northern Ireland and the troubles in catholic English schools, which is interesting. Not that I think they particularly shy away from embarrasing moments in British history and our atrocities or anything. Some students covered British embarrassments like Palestine, and things like our involvement in India, the Zulu war, Boer war, and all manner of other stuff.
I stand by my words yesterday, but I apologise for the flowery language and acknowledge most women are probly cool btw
