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"In recent years, many of us have gone from reading books to quickly digesting lots of information online through short headlines. But when you learn things in fragments, you lose nuance and context about why things happen as they do."

some of you may learn something. watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wooGL__-OvA

spend alot of freetime just reading about ancient wars life etc, never took it at school as for gcses the selected subjects were the wild west and medicine

comment by Taki Minamino (U20650)
posted 1 minute ago
spend alot of freetime just reading about ancient wars life etc, never took it at school as for gcses the selected subjects were the wild west and medicine
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without a decent grounding in history, civilisations and development of political theory you are in no real position to understand what is going on in our world right now and the direction that is likely to be taken

watch the kissinger video above as a start

They should teach the historiography course every history degree student goes through at A level

I dont get why they teach the basics of it at 6th form without giving it a name and signifying its importance

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comment by NPEEE (U22521)
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comment by Blarmy (U14547)
posted 2 minutes ago
They should teach the historiography course every history degree student goes through at A level

I dont get why they teach the basics of it at 6th form without giving it a name and signifying its importance
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I still don't care historiography, even now, and I think most people would be put off by the idea of two years studying the history of writing history,
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I wouldnt advertise it lol. Just slip it in and make it 10% of the lessons

No one told me I would be studying the 124,000 different schools of thought on the Vietnam War before i signed up to the module

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comment by NPEEE (U22521)
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comment by NPEEE (U22521)
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comment by Blarmy (U14547)
posted 2 minutes ago
They should teach the historiography course every history degree student goes through at A level

I dont get why they teach the basics of it at 6th form without giving it a name and signifying its importance
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I still don't care historiography, even now, and I think most people would be put off by the idea of two years studying the history of writing history,
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I wouldnt advertise it lol. Just slip it in and make it 10% of the lessons
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Lol.

I am not sure what course you were on back in A-level - I think we were OCR - but I think we did a whole AS paper on sources. French Revolution.
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Source evaluation is covered yeah but theres nothing in first year historiography that 16-17 yr olds couldnt also handle. Teach it earlier

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comment by Just Shoot (U10408)
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comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted 17 minutes ago
comment by Thorgen Kloppinson - Son of the Soil (U1282)
posted 4 minutes ago
History of England starts in 1066 when the Normans conquered, colonised the Island and established the monarchy.

Prior to that there was just disorganised, warring villages of hunters and gatherers.
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just not true

britain stopped being a hunter gatherer society around 5,000 BCE

the Old English kingdoms of Wessex, Sussex, Mercia, etc, were well run and organised, and were raking in coin

hence the reason why the Normans valued the country so much to invade
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That the second time he's peddled this nonsense.🤦‍♂️
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Makes as much sense as saying American history started in 1776.

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comment by Just Shoot (U10408)
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comment by son of quebec (U8127)
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comment by Just Shoot (U10408)
posted 12 seconds ago
comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted 17 minutes ago
comment by Thorgen Kloppinson - Son of the Soil (U1282)
posted 4 minutes ago
History of England starts in 1066 when the Normans conquered, colonised the Island and established the monarchy.

Prior to that there was just disorganised, warring villages of hunters and gatherers.
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just not true

britain stopped being a hunter gatherer society around 5,000 BCE

the Old English kingdoms of Wessex, Sussex, Mercia, etc, were well run and organised, and were raking in coin

hence the reason why the Normans valued the country so much to invade
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That the second time he's peddled this nonsense.🤦‍♂️
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Makes as much sense as saying American history started in 1776.
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Not really. The USA didn't start until 1776.
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Yeah okay. The USA isn't America. There 2 continents that make up America.
Semantics won't change that.
Oh and was there no history in the colonies pre 1776?
Why twist things to buttress the ex president's inane comments?

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comment by NPEEE (U22521)
posted 32 minutes ago
Might just be me, but I have zero desire to move back into a daily schedule of one hour commuting each way, and living in a confined apartment in the centre of a busy city.
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Definitely not just you. My commute would be about an hour each way give or take, and I’ve absolutely no interest in going back to it anything more than once a week.

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The outside of the courthouse for the chauvin trial looks like guantanamo bay, crazy stuff

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comment by Just Shoot (U10408)
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comment by son of quebec (U8127)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Just Shoot (U10408)
posted 14 seconds ago
comment by son of quebec (U8127)
posted 38 seconds ago
comment by Just Shoot (U10408)
posted 12 seconds ago
comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted 17 minutes ago
comment by Thorgen Kloppinson - Son of the Soil (U1282)
posted 4 minutes ago
History of England starts in 1066 when the Normans conquered, colonised the Island and established the monarchy.

Prior to that there was just disorganised, warring villages of hunters and gatherers.
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just not true

britain stopped being a hunter gatherer society around 5,000 BCE

the Old English kingdoms of Wessex, Sussex, Mercia, etc, were well run and organised, and were raking in coin

hence the reason why the Normans valued the country so much to invade
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That the second time he's peddled this nonsense.🤦‍♂️
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Makes as much sense as saying American history started in 1776.
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Not really. The USA didn't start until 1776.
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Yeah okay. The USA isn't America. There 2 continents that make up America.
Semantics won't change that.
Oh and was there no history in the colonies pre 1776?
Why twist things to buttress the ex president's inane comments?
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Because you are dealing in semantics and I am deal in pragmatics... that thing people do at a high level of understanding. 👍
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Good one.

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comment by NPEEE (U22521)
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comment by Blarmy (U14547)
posted 9 seconds ago
comment by NPEEE (U22521)
posted 32 seconds ago
comment by Blarmy (U14547)
posted 2 minutes ago
They should teach the historiography course every history degree student goes through at A level

I dont get why they teach the basics of it at 6th form without giving it a name and signifying its importance
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I still don't care historiography, even now, and I think most people would be put off by the idea of two years studying the history of writing history,
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I wouldnt advertise it lol. Just slip it in and make it 10% of the lessons
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Lol.

I am not sure what course you were on back in A-level - I think we were OCR - but I think we did a whole AS paper on sources. French Revolution.
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Source evaluation is covered yeah but theres nothing in first year historiography that 16-17 yr olds couldnt also handle. Teach it earlier
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We did one historiography module in third year at Warwick and I slept through most of it.
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Oh really, historiography was taught to us as part of onboarding in first year. Tutor seminars were dedicated to it

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comment by NPEEE (U22521)
posted 32 minutes ago
Might just be me, but I have zero desire to move back into a daily schedule of one hour commuting each way, and living in a confined apartment in the centre of a busy city.
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Definitely not just you. My commute would be about an hour each way give or take, and I’ve absolutely no interest in going back to it anything more than once a week.
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100% it is individual choice, I like my commute, gets me in the mood for work/home, currently its only 25 minutes but I have had 1hour +.

Again individual choice, but I like being in zone 2, long since lost the romantic ideal of living in the suburbs/countryside, the isolation and cliqueness is definitely not for me.