i have basically just done history and all we learn of is the 2 world wars, the politics leading to the 2nd world war, the history of medicine (that was so boring ), the russian revolution and a little on vietnam
in primary we learned about things like the egyptians and the romans but it was so broad that it was hardly a teaching basis

i learned nothing of the british empire except through my own discoveries thanks to my love of the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornell... i doubt many people do realise that britain had a huge empire that effected the world immensly, when people my age think of an empire they think of either some ancient empire such as the romans, or the current american 'empire'

maybe we should be teaching about our histories so that young people get a sense of what it is (or was) to be 'British'