SBP editorial: Government needs to step in to defend teaching of history

The great British historian Arnold Toynbee, who impressed the world by studying 26 civilisations, once said history was simply “one damn fact after another”.

He was right at the literal level, but wrong on a broader philosophical level.

It is hard to think of a discipline more vital to understanding our world than history. Every geographical entity, every family, every institution, every organisation, every person has a history. Buried within those histories are ...