The trouble with Mrs Seacole

| | imported blog post Monday January 07, 2013 15:25 by Eugene Byrne

According to various reports (here’s one), Education Secretary Michael Gove wants to remove Mary Seacole from the National Curriculum. So far, so predictable. Like most other Tories, Gove believes that school history lessons should be about Kings and Queens and the British Empire and probably the speeches of Winston Churchill and other great men (and [...]