My children have certainly learned far more in school about Hitler, Stalin and Henry VIII than about how our society was shaped by the agricultural depression or the phenomenal growth of English cities in the 19th Century.

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And one of the remarkable features, I think, of Welsh life in the last 25 years has been the remarkable growth in Welsh medium language education and primarily, of course, in the English speaking parts of Wales.

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It is also likely that the development of tools to support greater multi-lingual and multi-script use of the Internet will lead to further rapid growth in digital heritage in parts of the world that are currently disadvantaged by the predominant use of English on the Internet.

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If current growth rates continue, it says, the number of Internet users accessing the Internet in languages other than English (predominantly, in Chinese) will overtake English language users by 2015.

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The trust said additional money for the project has come from a range of sources including Stoke-on-Trent City Council, English Heritage, the government's Regional Growth Fund, the Heritage Lottery Fund and private donations.

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