h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Not being a reader of the Dail Mail, I didn't understand what that comment was intended to signify.

TRiG: Josaphine Tay. Great quote! I am so stealing that for the updated version of the entry.

I am going to have a serious fiddle I think. I do find myself going into hyper serious ,ode when I write for the guide these days, which is why I do it so rarely, but trying to break myself of this habit, will be good for me.

That and wrestling the prose into shorter sentences. Without my usual trick of simply ignoring the rules of grammar and hanging subordinate clauses out there on their own.

Gnormon: History as a form of knowledge. Well, yes, obviously, anything you learn will by definition be a form of knowledge, but as I understand it this is the term used in the history teaching business to distinguish the practice of teaching names, dates and the grand narrative of triumphant Britain (or rather, England) from the idea that the period/ events you teach are secondary to teaching the concepts which underlie history as a discipline.

I'd rather not, then, change the title.

The Daily Mail comment is supposed to thumb the nose at the sort of people who say that this new emphasis is a scandal because now children cannot list the conquests Britain, sorry, England, made abroad in order and with dates and the like. It is a bit snide though, so I will remove it.

Anyway. Thanks to all for comments! Very useful. I shall be baaaaaaaack.

If the phrase "History as a Form of Knowledge" is an official title for this form of teaching, then keep the title but explain it in the first paragraph.

Will do!