British imperialism certainly hadn't been whitewashed from our great history, the last time I was taught it in the early eighties.
I don't really know how it's being taught today. I do know a young relative of mine was studying World War II last year, which involved lots of indepth study and research about our war dead.
I did have to study art history for five years. Three of which years it was taught to me by a particularly hard line feminist, whose main idea regarding the history of art was that all men were evil bar stewards. We had quite a lively debate lasting a few years, the two of us. In the end I came out of the battle with my victor's colours flying.
What I didn't like about the way we were taught history is that there are just so many gaps. One minute your learning about Stone Age man, then it jumps to the English Civil War, the term after that it's the pre-WW I Balkans.
I wanted chronology. Start at the begining and work nicely through to whenever history end, which in the early eighties was 1945.
I'm still pretty much in the dark when it comes to the Dark Ages.
