How Henry VIII lost the Battle of the Bulge, and Ofsted went to war
An entertaining opinion piece from The Times Online:
Ofsted’s Chief Inspector of Schools, David Bell, says not only that the history curriculum places far too much emphasis on the Tudors and the Second World War, but also that students are unable to remember key dates or major events. If the end of term answer paper that just happened to blow into my hands on a capricious Christmas Eve gust is anything to go by, he is not wrong.
1. It was Richard III who got the Tudors started, by losing the Battle of Britain. The poor sod never stood a chance against the House of Lancaster once it had invented the four-engine bomber. Also, his Scandinavian allies let him down fatally by staying neutral so’s they could make ball bearings for both sides. His last words were: “A Norse! A Norse! My kingdom for a Norse!”
