ABSTRACT
It could be argued that no single subject in the current curriculum in England and Wales has stronger links with citizenship and values education than History. History's subject matter is the study of human society and citizenry in the past, and it is inevitable that students and children will learn lessons and be provoked into thought about human behaviour from its study. The lessons learned may not always be desirable ones, and they may indeed be learned on false premise or misinterpretation. But any student of History will have his or her understanding of humanity extended by time spent thinking, reading and writing about the past. Indeed the term ‘the Humanities’, of which area of learning History is an integral part, indicates in the most simple terms the connection described above.
