ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the development of teaching about archaeology and prehistory within schools in England and uses the English Heritage Education Service as a contemporary example of the support offered to those teaching these subjects. At the outset it must be noted that the curriculum within which the teaching of archaeology and prehistory takes place has been written, since its first appearance in the mid-nineteenth century, by those predominantly interested only in documentary history (Stone 1991, pp. 63-108). The result has been an overall lack of success in introducing archaeology and prehistory into the curriculum (Alexander 1989).
