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[The Beard]

"Queen Caroline was responsible for starting Handel".(you have to be a certain age to get the "joke")
I thought it was funny, but the teacher thought it was puerile.

Now I know you're a crank

 

[The Beard]

we never did ww2 stuff but it wasnt really history back then.

history teacher was a nutter though no one crossed him, he would write a load of stuff on black board and we had to copy it word for word, home work was learn it off by heart before next lesson, next lesson we had to write it all out again from memory no one dared not learn it. i cant remember any of it now though :shrug:

Our history teacher was a raving leftie who taught us that the Hitler was nasty (true) and that Stalin was a cuddly bunny rabbit (not true) and the Leninists, Stalinists and Trotskyites were only interested in the welfare of the proletariat. His first name was Eric and he had bright red hair and beard, so was known as Eric the Red.

But, I have to say that it was his passion for the subject that really got me interested in history. When I left school I studied it further and found out more about recent history, which seeing I still had relatives who remembered most of the 20th Century, appealed more than the Kings and Queens of England going back to the Dark Ages.