gryf
2007-08-21 06:02:12
I suggest that history should be romanticised again. Coming out of high school, I learned little if anything about history. The fact that every teacher with a BA or MA wanted to provide their own shibboleth turned me off. I had only one decent teacher for history, and I can’t recall anything useful from it because it was taught at the slowest common denominator.
I am now an amateur history nut, thanks to a latent love for the subject and the opportunity to research a romantic subject like the highland scots of the 1500s. That got me into researching the renaissance, the wars of religion, and from there bronze age history and finally the civil war. But it started with a subject shrouded in romantic appeal.
