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Education: History

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Linda Carty
Thursday 8th July 2010

(13 years, 10 months ago)

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Lord Hill of Oareford Portrait Lord Hill of Oareford
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I agree with that point. Getting the best people to teach history at all levels in schools is an extremely important task.

Lord Addington Portrait Lord Addington
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My Lords, will the Minister accept that fashion in academic pursuits is very prevalent, and that we should not panic too much when a new fashion comes in and we do not like the hemline?

Lord Hill of Oareford Portrait Lord Hill of Oareford
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I agree with my noble friend. I would not describe myself as remotely fashionable in any respect. So far as concerns history, there are core elements, for example to do with chronology and the sequence of events, that one can divorce from fashion, but I agree that we should resist the blandishments of changing hemlines.

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