Yet how much of the history curriculum covers these core parts of our social history?
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But the history curriculum in English schools seems to have sacrificed a sense of the narrative history of the "common people".
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"It is also a concern that secondary schools are squeezing history out of the curriculum or into general humanities courses, " he said.
The Educational Resource Kit on the Archaeological site of Jerash was produced for the historical site which is most visited by school children in Jordan and is in line with the History and Citizenship Curriculum on Jerash of the Ministry of Education.
Mr Gove also hit back at critics of his new history curriculum to be introduced in England's schools in September 2014.
Our approach to the history curriculum has been supported by some of the country's most eminent historians, including Prof David Abulafia, Prof Niall Ferguson, Dr David Starkey, Antony Beevor and Dr Amanda Foreman.
The government said it was looking at history teaching as part of the national curriculum review.
Introducing more recent events into the history curriculum would be likely to require the displacement of studying other eras.
"If you just look at, for example, the history curriculum, it's all about sorts of skills... essentially constructing historical narratives, explanations, " he says.
That is why we are looking at history teaching as part of the national curriculum review to ensure that pupils are engaged and inspired by the subject.
Hence, there is a need to teach the (whole) history of science rigorously and vigorously in the general curriculum.
Rebecca Sullivan, chief executive of the Historical Association, said it welcomed the review for reasserting the importance and centrality of history to "any broad and balanced curriculum".
History text book author, Sean Lang, last week called for a modern history curriculum that was not so skewed towards the first half of the 20th century.
On the curriculum is English, maths, history, geography, combined sciences and French with the option of taking International GCSEs.
The authors say the curriculum needs to include the Muslim contribution to world history in order "to counter the types of historical narrative that are available on the internet" which encourage radicalisation among young Muslims and anti-Muslim prejudice among young white Britons.
If the parent who complained about A Study in Scarlet had asked that it be taught as part of an interdisciplinary curriculum that points out where Conan Doyle exaggerated for dramatic effect while acknowledging the realities of early Mormon history, I might have been sympathetic.
The conference backed a motion attacking the curriculum for presenting a simplistic, culturally narrow, "kings and queens" version of subjects such as history.
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