ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the extent of the differences between the sexes and of variations within each sex with regard to the interest shown towards history in grammar schools. The four items of political and constitutional history produced a combined response signifying popularity for both boys and girls, and the pattern of response was similar for the two sexes. Both preferred political to constitutional history and both expressed keen interest in the lives of great rulers and statesmen. Social history was popular with the girls and fairly popular with the boys. Sex differences were shown more clearly in the 'religious' and 'economic' aspects of history. 'The everyday life of ordinary people in other times', though more popular with girls than with boys, has more than twice as many boys voting for it as against it. The emphasis throughout the results is on the broad similarity of the attitudes of the two sexes.
