It must have done. You can't blame comprehensives though, I was fortunate enough to be born to parents who could afford to put me through grammar school - still clueless on the Canute reference however. The curriculum didn't cover it, was mostly focussed on European recent history - 19th and 20th C.
Being able to draw a map of the major Ruhr and Rhine coal mining areas hasn't really helped much in life.
Not offended in any way. I'm glad I went through the system when I did and more so that my parents chose to go grammar for me - I'd have sunk without a trace in a comprehensive environment. I needed a rigorous boot up chuff to keep me awake then, I wouldn't have got that in the comprehensive world.
Fascinating how values and acceptable behaviour change.
I have my own blind-spots too, though.
Never could get a handle on the Victorian period !
Maybe that's because they never talked about it.
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