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What should they know of England? History and citizenship
This article argues that the traditional efforts to invest moral meaning in narratives of the national past are evident both in the government-sanctioned version of British history and the critiques of it by academic historians. These historians demonstrate that the official version of the British p...
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| description | This article argues that the traditional efforts to invest moral meaning in narratives of the national past are evident both in the government-sanctioned version of British history and the critiques of it by academic historians. These historians demonstrate that the official version of the British past glosses over past wrongs, but do not sufficiently challenge the notion that histories of a nation need be geopolitically focused or morally instructive. |
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| spelling | rr-article-193830172022-03-24T00:00:00Z What should they know of England? History and citizenship Marcus Collins (1252578) Citizenship Test Great Britain History Education Immigration Migration This article argues that the traditional efforts to invest moral meaning in narratives of the national past are evident both in the government-sanctioned version of British history and the critiques of it by academic historians. These historians demonstrate that the official version of the British past glosses over past wrongs, but do not sufficiently challenge the notion that histories of a nation need be geopolitically focused or morally instructive. 2022-03-24T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/19383017.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/What_should_they_know_of_England_History_and_citizenship/19383017 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
| spellingShingle | Citizenship Test Great Britain History Education Immigration Migration Marcus Collins What should they know of England? History and citizenship |
| title | What should they know of England? History and citizenship |
| title_full | What should they know of England? History and citizenship |
| title_fullStr | What should they know of England? History and citizenship |
| title_full_unstemmed | What should they know of England? History and citizenship |
| title_short | What should they know of England? History and citizenship |
| title_sort | what should they know of england? history and citizenship |
| topic | Citizenship Test Great Britain History Education Immigration Migration |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/19383017.v1 |