by James Delingpole, Breitbart:

Billy Bragg, the ineffably tiresome, millionaire Socialist singer songwriter thinks more left-wing history should be taught in schools. So does the ineffably tiresome, millionaire Socialist film director Mike Leigh…

The ‘kings, queens and generals’ history that we teach our kids in school glosses over the strong tradition of dissent in this country. Peterloo is just one example of Britain’s secret history. It should be known and celebrated by all. https://t.co/Duceqe1uVG

— Billy Bragg (@billybragg) 16 August 2018

But the bit about the Peterloo massacre not being taught just isn’t true.

I don’t recognise the ‘Kings, Queens and Generals’ history teaching referenced here. History teachers I know cover Peterloo, dissent/protest – including Suffragettes, anti-Slavery movement, Chartists, civil rights etc. Respect for evidence please – no teacher bashing

— Dale Banham (@dale_banham) 16 August 2018

Nor is the nonsense about the ‘Kings, Queens and Generals’ being the dominant theme. If anything, the opposite is true. Old-fashioned narrative history celebrating the achievements of great men (and the occasional woman: hail to thee, Boudicca, Gloriana, Victoria…) has long since been supplanted by stuff pouring scorn on Western Civilisation and encouraging schoolchildren (white, English-speaking Christian ones, at any rate) to feel little but guilt and shame about their cultural heritage.

America suffers from the same problem, as New York governor Andrew Cuomo just helpfully reminded us when he said: “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.”

No real conservative thinks this way. But almost everyone on the left does, as Harry Crocker notes here:

The Left now asserts that Robert E. Lee’s soldiers in gray were proto-Nazis; that Ulysses S. Grant’s soldiers in blue were genocidal Indian-killers; that America’s women still struggle against a colonial, patriarchal legacy of plantation owners in powdered wigs who kept their wives in comfortable confinement and their slaves as exploitable chattel; and that President Trump, far from being “a very stable genius,” which should be pretty obvious to everyone by now, is actually a moronic, unstable, but very clever agent of Vladimir Putin who quotes Mussolini in his sleep.

When it comes to American history (and sometimes Trump) how often have we seen putative “conservatives” falling over themselves to agree with the Left: furling Confederate flags and toppling Confederate statues as embarrassments; conceding that, yes, men like George Armstrong Custer were arrogant, bigoted, idiots from whose sins we should repent; and accepting a redefinition, never before known in human history, not just of marriage but of what it means to be a (now indefinable) man or a woman.

Indeed, anti-patriotism seems to be the prerequisite if you want to get on as a modern historian. Once I had to go on a BBC debate programme, where I was up against an Islamist who hated Britain, found nothing to recommend in our history and wanted us to become part of the Caliphate. Sitting next to me was a female historian who I’d hoped would take my side. But no, she too was keener to denigrate Britain’s past than to celebrate it.

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