{"id":7205,"date":"2018-03-26T06:40:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T06:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2018-03-26T11:36:19","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T11:36:19","slug":"the-wall-a-curriculum-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2018\/03\/26\/the-wall-a-curriculum-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wall \u2013 a curriculum matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to school, the only wall we really learned about was Hadrian's. \u00a0It was, we were taught, a barrier to protect the edge of the Roman empire from those outwith it; that is, the bad guys to the north with aggressive intent. \u00a0The word\u00a0<em>barbarian<\/em> was probably used.<\/p>\n<p>But, according to Rory Stewart in <em>The Marches<\/em>,\u00a0that is no longer the right answer according to the satraps who order history curriculum matters in Scotland. \u00a0They have decreed (it's a MacFatwa) that the wall was only a base for patrols and for the army to stop small-scale raids, slow down big raids, stop smuggling, and keep the troops busy building and repairing it. \u00a0\"There is no debate\", they pronounce in their rigid, ideological revisionist history.<\/p>\n<p>Woe betide, then, the clever Scots student who writes a brilliant essay full of wit and wisdom arguing, on the balance of possibilities, the opposite view. \u00a0Zero marks will be forthcoming, and maybe worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I went to school, the only wall we really learned about was Hadrian's. \u00a0It was, we were taught, a barrier to protect the edge of the Roman empire from those outwith it; that is, the bad guys to the...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}