Yet how much of the history curriculum covers these core parts of our social history?
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Introducing more recent events into the history curriculum would be likely to require the displacement of studying other eras.
Mr Gove also hit back at critics of his new history curriculum to be introduced in England's schools in September 2014.
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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"If you just look at, for example, the history curriculum, it's all about sorts of skills... essentially constructing historical narratives, explanations, " he says.
Proposed changes to the history curriculum have divided opinion and historians.
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.
Proposed changes to the history curriculum have been under debate - with accusations that a traditional "kings and queens" approach will not be appropriate in a modern, multicultural classroom.
He withdrew a move for the event to be included on the local history curriculum after the education minister agreed to set up a meeting to discuss the idea further.
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.
He appointed the historian Simon Schama to advise on history in the curriculum review which is currently taking place.
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.
"It is also a concern that secondary schools are squeezing history out of the curriculum or into general humanities courses, " he said.
Mr Roberts is so concerned about the diminishing role for history in the school curriculum that he is holding a national conference to discuss the issue in the autumn.
He has been trying to create a standard curriculum for Spanish history throughout Spain, even among Catalans and Basques.
However, because college and career readiness overwhelmingly focuses on complex texts outside of literature, these standards also ensure students are being prepared to read, write, and research across the curriculum, including in history and science.
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The government said it was looking at history teaching as part of the national curriculum review.
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.
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".
On the curriculum is English, maths, history, geography, combined sciences and French with the option of taking International GCSEs.
Each community organises the schooling for its own children, setting a separate curriculum for subjects as contentious as history and as universal as mathematics.
Hence, there is a need to teach the (whole) history of science rigorously and vigorously in the general curriculum.
The QCA's subject officer for history, Jerome Freeman, said that in the curriculum for 11 to 14 year olds and at GCSE and A-level there were options for looking at the politics of the recent past.
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.
Prof David Abulafia of Cambridge University has dismissed suggestions that the draft curriculum is "jingoistic" because it focuses heavily on British history as "absurd".
But Education Secretary Michael Gove has made no secret of his desire for a much-reduced national curriculum and his preference for a return to more traditional subjects such as history.
Previously, he was Assistant Chief Executive with the Qualifications, Curriculum and Assessment Authority for Wales (ACCAC) and prior to that, history officer with the Authority.
But the government says it is already a compulsory National Curriculum subject and the English Baccalaureate is to encourage more students to take up geography and history in addition to RE - not instead of it.
These discussions made possible to map the needs and perspectives for the implementation of the national curriculum guidelines for the Education on ethnic-racial relations, and on African and African-Brazilian History and Culture in the basic educational system of Brazil.
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.
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