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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rachel Hall

UK schools should teach all four nations’ histories, says David Olusoga

David Olusoga in the UK parliamentary archives in the first episode of his new series Union with David Olusoga.
David Olusoga in the UK parliamentary archives in the first episode of his new series Union with David Olusoga. Photograph: BBC

Schools in the UK need to teach the history of all four nations, the historian David Olusoga has said, warning that ambivalence and indifference risk pulling apart the union.

The fact that A-level pupils in England do not learn much about the history of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and vice versa means that Britons struggle to understand key contemporary political issues in the other nations, for example the Scottish independence movement or sectarianism in Northern Ireland, Olusoga said.

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