History

Sorry, another O/T thread
This is mostly directed to forummers outside of Britain......

What history did you learn about at school/college?

euro - modern and ancient, Oz, historical materialism and other theories of historical analysis

So, more to do with the study of society, economics, and history rather than a specific era of time?

It really depends on if it's part of the compulsory cirriculum up until year 10.

I cannot remember what the syllabus was for this.

If you took History as an elective into Year 12 then you would be studying varying things.

In Modern History I remember studying the

American Civil War
IndoChina

In Ancient History I remember studying the Etruscans and that is about all I remember.

I mostly learned about how we kicked the living sh!t out of anyone who got in our way during the 19th C. and made excuses about our ineptness during both world wars in the 20th C.

Demelza wrote:So, more to do with the study of society, economics, and history rather than a specific era of time?

no a combo...modern euro, ancient roman and greek, eastern euro, australian as well as theoretical studies...also studied thematics - eg invention of modern notions of family, rise of professional classes

Basil wrote:I mostly learned about how we kicked the living sh!t out of anyone who got in our way during the 19th C. and made excuses about our ineptness during both world wars in the 20th C.

You were never as crap as the French, don't fret yourself.

tac wrote:

Basil wrote:I mostly learned about how we kicked the living sh!t out of anyone who got in our way during the 19th C. and made excuses about our ineptness during both world wars in the 20th C.

You were never as crap as the French, don't fret yourself.

Q: How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?

A: No-one knows, they've never tried.

mind you the last war the english fought without the help of others was when they threw stones at the vikings

horace wrote:mind you the last war the english fought without the help of others was when they threw stones at the vikings

But you've got to admit they handled the Argies pretty easily.

Phurt, it was the Ghurkas that did the Argies.

Invader Zim wrote:Phurt, it was the Ghurkas that did the Argies.

Personally, I have more trouble with cocktail onions . . .

boom tish

Indian- ancient, medieval and modern.

Own reading, a carpload of books. First world war junkie, me.

But everything I needed to know in history I learnt from the Flashman series.

furriner wrote:Indian- ancient, medieval and modern.

Own reading, a carpload of books. First world war junkie, me.

But everything I needed to know in history I learnt from the Flashman series.

There is no such thing as ancient or medieval Indian history.

it is called current history

We did the Magna Carta and all that stuff.
Then all the social and economic stuff of Britain in the 19th Century.
Later on we did the Tudors and Stuarts and Europe from Bismarck to Starlin.

All very fasinating.

furriner wrote:But everything I needed to know in history I learnt from the Flashman series.

That's when England won everything, mostly.

At school we did Australian history both pre and post Europeans as well as some really ancient stuff. For the HSC, I did modern history which included Meiji Japan, British India, Causes of WWI, Germany between the Wars and causes of WWII.

Ancient Australian history.
I just can't imagine.

Is that pre-Skippy?

Aboriginal history goes back pretty far. Historical sources are a little hard to find however.

No, I know the Aboriginals are pretty old.........but, like you said, I doubt there's very little record.

JGK wrote:At school we did Australian history both pre and post Europeans as well as some really ancient stuff. For the HSC, I did modern history which included Meiji Japan, British India, Causes of WWI, Germany between the Wars and causes of WWII.

I specilaized in Aussie history between the waas . . .


. . . Wee Waa and Pallamallawaa.

My history teacher fought in Burma during the 2nd world war and had one fugly face - he always told us he'd been slashed by a jap with a bayonet.

We reckoned that was just an excuse for his fuglyness