Has history become more important to you as you get older?

I hated history at school and took every step I could to drop it asap! Just a litany of battle after battle, killing after killing, cruelty after cruelty. No thank you. Nothing to inspire; everything to abhor.

I wanted to hear about how people lived: what they wore, what they ate, where they lived, what they spoke etc. etc. But this all seemed to be off the curriculum. Bad teaching I know, but it put me off for life.

There were no “living history” groups when we were at school, but now, children (and adults) can go and sit in an Iron Age roundhouse with a fire in the middle and smoke going up through a hole in the roof, see Viking villages, or what it was like to live in a workhouse, or a miners terrace (even go down a mine), see people working scythe blades and cutlery at water driven grindstones. People up and down the country are trying to bring history to life in all sorts of ways.

NotSpaghetti - I think it was written in the late 1950s, so I'm not surprised it hasn't stood the test of time. A timely reminder how things have changed since we were kids, even history!

So true Chardy!