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Start the Week: Michael Gove on teaching history

Michael Gove on teaching history

30/12/2013

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Michael Gove on teaching history

Andrew Marr discusses the teaching of history with the Education Minister Michael Gove.

Andrew Marr talks to the education minister Michael Gove and historians Margaret MacMillan and Tom Holland.

Andrew Marr discusses the teaching of history with the Government's Education Secretary Michael Gove. The new history curriculum for schools has been hotly contested and the Minister explains his views on whether facts and dates trump historical analysis. He's joined by Margaret MacMillan who will present a real-time countdown to the outbreak of WWI in the coming year, the academic and tv historian Simon Schama, and Tom Holland who has recently translated Herodotus, considered to be 'the Father of History'.

Producer: Katy Hickman.

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