Some think we focus too much on the Tudors, others argue that we know too little about empire, but one prominent historian claims that our schools should not focus too much on Britain at all.
“A lot less English history would be a great boon for our syllabus,” Simon Sebag Montefiore, 57, author of Jerusalem: The Biography and The World: A Family History of Humanity, said.
“Much of the debate in Britain, both in the syllabus and in the debate itself, is incredibly parochial, little Englander,” he said.
