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“… the ever-increasing fascination with 20th-century dictators and the Holocaust at A-level leaves new undergraduates unprepared for broader historical study…”
The Not So IndependentLondon, July 20, 1999


 

 

HISTORY STUDENTS IGNORANT OF PAST

TOO MANY A-level history students arrive at university with almost no knowledge of the subject before the 20th century, historians said yesterday.

A survey by the magazine History Today reveals that university history departments are alarmed by the lack of general historical background. […]square

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