British historians, how is the American Revolution taught in your history classes?

by Knightmare000

As a 27 year old American, I'm curious to hear historical point of views from the "other side". I'm sure there were British war heroes, important dates, key victories, etc etc, that we (Americans) never were taught or heard about in schools.

myWorkAccount840

I'm just going to go and grab some information from a couple of English exam boards, being somewhat familiar with the English education system. It might provide some insight into what is being asked, but hey, if it gets deleted, it gets deleted.

The OCR is an English GCSE exam board.

Their History GCSE(PDF link) contains three "Components". Component 3, Section A contains a choice of 3 areas of study. One of these areas is "The Making of America 1789-1900".

You may take it from this that the whole of pre-20th-century US History is covered as 1/3 of a 2-year course, as an optional topic, during English school years 10 and 11.

For A-level History, we'll switch exam boards to the AQA, because why not? Here is the AQA A-level History specification(not a PDF).

In the History A-level, students must be taught a combination of British/non-British depth/breadth subjects (one British depth or breadth topic, and one non-British topic of the other type).
One option for depth study is "2G The Birth of the USA, 1760–1801"(subject breakdown link, still not a PDF).

Probably more insightful as a breakdown of the available options rather than the specifics of how they're taught, but maybe it'll be useful. Or more likely deleted.

Georgy_K_Zhukov

Just a quick reminder for everyone, as there have been a few posts made in good faith that were nevertheless removed. We aren't going to be relaxing the anecdotes rule for this question (If you want that, then I suggest posting in /r/AskReddit "[Serious] British people: What did you learn about the American Revolution in history class?"). If you are looking to answer this question, we would expect that you can provide actual evidence of what the curriculum is or the course material being taught. For those looking for more information on the Personal Anecdotes rule, keep in mind that while they're sometimes quite interesting, they're unverifiable, impossible to cross-reference, and not of much use without more context. This discussion thread explains the reasoning behind this rule in much more depth.