There is no reason why highly sophisticated, intellectually challenging, creative and enjoyable ways to teach history to young children should not continue when a National Curriculum for History is based upon a country's Grand Narrative, know that knowledge, that can require knowledge of ‘facts' such as key dates, the names of rulers, significant events, major figures, accounts & stories, movements, developments, turning points, discoveries, values and beliefs. All of these possess iconic significance in the creation of a national sense of identity...