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Monica Ali with a personal take on why she believes the history of the British Empire must be taught in our schools.
She recalls a conversation with her father where he told her that at primary school he'd been taught about the Black Hole of Calcutta and how the British gave India railways. At secondary school - post Independence and Partition, her Dad's history curriculum changed dramatically...it ceased to cast a rosy glow over British rule.
When she was at school, Monica was taught nothing about Empire.
And with her children, the subject barely got a look-in.
"Post Brexit, when the fantasy of a small nation decoupled from the world has never been greater", she writes, "it is time to put the British Empire firmly into the school curriculum".
Producer: Adele Armstrong.
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Monica Ali with a personal take on why she believes the history of the British Empire must be taught in our schools.
She recalls a conversation with her father where he told her that at primary school he'd been taught about the Black Hole of Calcutta and how the British gave India railways. At secondary school - post Independence and Partition, her Dad's history curriculum changed dramatically...it ceased to cast a rosy glow over British rule.
When she was at school, Monica was taught nothing about Empire.
And with her children, the subject barely got a look-in.
"Post Brexit, when the fantasy of a small nation decoupled from the world has never been greater", she writes, "it is time to put the British Empire firmly into the school curriculum".
Producer: Adele Armstrong.

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