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Re: Calls to make black, asian and minority ethnic history compulsory
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Originally Posted by Chris
A well-rounded understanding of our history lies not the reciting of names and dates, but in attempts to understand how ordinary people actually put in the grunt work to build and maintain and grow Britain to the place it is today. If we achieve that, then people of all backgrounds should be properly represented.
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I remember, and people of my age probably will too, a programme we used to watch at school called "How we used to live", which IIRC detailed the lives of different classes of normal people in the Victorian era.
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