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Selective History

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History is selective. What history books tell us about the past is not everything that happened, but what historians have [blank] . They cannot put in everything: choices have to be made. Choices must similarly be made about which aspects of the school curriculum for England and Wales was first discussed at the end of the 1980s, the history curriculum was the subject of considerable public and media [blank] . Politicians argued about it; people wrote letters to the press about it, the Prime Minister of the time, Management Thatcher, [blank] in the debate.

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History is selective. What history books tell us about the past is not everything that happened, but what historians have selected . They cannot put in everything: choices have to be made. Choices must similarly be made about which aspects of the school curriculum for England and Wales was first discussed at the end of the 1980s, the history curriculum was the subject of considerable public and media interest . Politicians argued about it; people wrote letters to the press about it, the Prime Minister of the time, Management Thatcher, intervened in the debate.
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