National Curriculum For History

EDM number 680 in 1994-95, proposed by Roy Beggs on 27/02/1995.

That this House deplores the fact that the following significant aspects of British history are not prescribed in the national curriculum for history, namely stone age, bronze age and iron age (Celtic) Britain, Boadicea, conversion of Anglo-Saxons by Roman and Celtic christians, Alfred the Great, Anglo-Saxon/Viking kings, Richard the Lionheart and the Crusades, Simon de Montfort and the origins of Parliament, Agincourt, Joan of Arc, Battle of Bosworth, Wars of the Roses, Mary Queen of Scots, Gunpowder Plot, King James's Bible, Pilgrim Fathers, Great Plague, Great Fire of London, Newton, Marlborough, Blenheim, Act of Settlement, American colonies, Treaty of Utrecht, growth of Empire, Jacobites, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Clive of India, General Wolfe and Quebec, Wilberforce and slavery, American Revolution, Napoleonic Wars (Nelson and Trafalgar, Wellington and Waterloo), Queen Victoria, Crimean War, Florence Nightingale, Livingstone, Gordon, Zulu/Boer Wars, Berlin Congress, political leaders, Roman Empire, Crusades, Reformation, French Revolution, Russian Revolution, the development of British democracy since 1900, e.g. extension of the franchise, parliamentary reform, change in the political party system, distinguishing features of British democracy, changing role of the state, e.g. welfare state, Ireland within the United Kingdom, Act of Union (1801), famine, home rule movement, partition, Northern Ireland and the career of Winston Churchill; and calls upon the Secretary of State for Education to further review and amend the national curriculum history to give greater emphasis to the above and to rectify the exclusion of any reference to Northern Ireland in the national history curriculum.

This motion has been signed by a total of 29 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.