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Petition update, 01 February 2008

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Without an understanding of our past we cannot build an understanding or our nation and of the different communities within it. History is central to any notion of Britishness or British identity. Yet the teaching of history has been squeezed both in primary and in secondary schools, and the overwhelming majority of pupils give up history altogether at 14. Increasing numbers of schools stop teaching history at 13. The latest changes to the curriculum announced by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority will result in even more serious erosion of history teaching. History matters every bit as much as English or Maths - people die and kill for reasons drawn from history - and it will only be saved from marginalisation if it, like them, is made compulsory for all pupils to 16.

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• Simon Hall
• Daniel Power
• Linda Young
• Adam Burns
• Margaret Harvey
• Paul Oldfield
• Ann Braham
• Daniel JR Grey
• Lora Gibson
• Professor Stephen W. Baskerville
• Martin Doherty
• Lorna Lloyd
• Paul Crofts
• Paul Chilton
• Gustav P. Stipp
• Prof R.C.Richardson
• Cassie Specterman
• Dr Elizabeth Gemmill
• John A Chartres
• Dr Bryony Randall
• Peter Bruce Freshwater
• Karine Varley
• Rana Mitter
• Katharine Mitchell
• James McDermott
• Catherine Clinton
• Arthur Percival
• Tamar Kutner-Shirley
• Dr Tracey Sowerby
• Dr Gayle Davis
• Matthew Crowther
• Veronica Speiser
• Dr. Michael Rowe
• Nils De Groef
• Dafydd Humphreys
• John Miller
• Dan Moorhouse
• Giles Falconer
• Sean Ryan
• Tina McQuillan
• Debbie Berryman
• Nicholas Henshall
• Professor David Boucher
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• Dan Todman
• Adrian Lyttelton
• Angelina Osborne
• Gareth Mann
• dan lyndon
• Sana Choudhry
• Haley Gendall
• Derek Bos
• Roy John Huggins
• Kevin Passmore
• Professor Matthew Strickland
• Dr. Geraldine O'Neill
• Richard Fitzsimmons
• Ed Waller
• Nicola Foote
• Laurence Hicks
• Robert Bearman
• Jim Bolton
• David Hepworth
• Mairi Macdonald
• Ceit Maher
• Dr Rosalind Winter
• Dawn Molenkamp
• Anne Lawley
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• H Caldwell
• Tony Fox
• Andrew Cambers
• Jenny Macleod
• Carl Fazackerley
• Marian Jones
• Joanna Royle
• Camilla Russell
• Kathryn Tumilty
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• Hester Prendergast
• Victoria Cooper
• Jane Moore
• May Lee
• Rana Rashid
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• Matt
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• Bill Aird
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• David Souden
• Helen Yarrow
• Christopher Peers
• Maria Whiting
• Miss Shermaine Mitchell
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• Guy Halsall
• Prof P. J. Marshall
• Neil McDonald
• john bassett
• Carol Dean
• Ifnaz Akhtar
• Coralie Steel
• Dr. Neville Wylie
• nicholas pronay
• Dr Paul Warmington
• Vibe Maria Martens
• Claire Hackett
• Justin Colson
• Professor Nicholas Atkin
• Tony McDonald
• Kirsten Fenton
• Rory Lalwan
• geoffrey scott
• S. H. Rigby
• Joanna Story
• Jim Fox
• Mark Pottle
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• David Pollock
• Bill Sheils
• Shaun McDaid
• Roland Pietsch
• Christopher Haigh
• Malcolm Gaskill
• Terry Walsh
• Melissa Bailey
• Joyce Steele
• Chris Wigley
• Nicholas Smith
• James Mayo
• John Reilly
• Anthony wohl
• James Smith
• Daniel Penman
• Jane Pearson
• Kathie Simpson
• Marie Therese Flanagan
• Jane Caplan
• Peter Calvert
• Jade Cawthorne
• Hannah King
• Muriel E. Chamberlain
• Pamela Robinson
• Martin Roberts
• Liam Joseph O'Reilly
• Roger Knight
• Ralph Houlbrooke
• Leah Rhys
• Louise Mound
• R Kennedy
• Nicholas Bennett
• Carol A. Farr
• Katie Hamnett
• Dr. Eleanor Quinton
• Stephen Thompson
• Michele Cohen
• Leonard Schwarz
• Jane A Mills
• Anne Stott
• Janice Turner
• Dr. Gary Day
• Cindy Lee
• James Dixon
• J. C. D. Clark
• Yvonne Kay
• christopher garratt
• Maya Davis
• prof. michelle brown
• James Horn
• Isabel Rivers
• Professor Anne Janowitz
• Elaine Josephs
• Mark Glancy
• Rosemary Sweet
• Jacob Butterly
• Jenny Smart
• Nicole Verat-Pant
• Christina von Hodenberg
• margaret Reynolds
• Rosamund Allen
• Marian HOBSON JEANNERET
• Donald Sassoon
• Andrew Thompson
• Mary Abbott
• Prof. Nigel Goose
• Prof. W. Daniel Wilson
• Dr Jenny Stratford
• brian place
• Lydia Syson
• Tehmina Goskar
• Mark Passmore
• Colin Jones
• Antonia Syson
• Lucy Gaster
• Maggie Smith
• Caroline Elam
• Dr. Francoise Boucek
• Phillipp Schofield
• polly botsford
• Elaine Chalus
• Julia Parker
• Xavier F. Salomon
• annie watkins
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• Stuart Frost
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• (Professor) Keith Cameron
• Andrew Burnett
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• Dianne Shepherd
• Martin Spafford
• Richard Saull
• Keith A. Waters
• Nigel Ramsay
• Nicolas Kinloch
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• Ed Lowe
• Andrea J Chee, BA (Hons) History
• Alan Sharp
• David Williams
• Deirdre Palk
• Dr Virginia Davis
• Dr Katherine Watson
• Professor Janet Hunter
• james morris
• Alice Austin
• dr william philpott
• Professor Paul Weindling
• Christina Picton Phillipps
• IAN BROWN
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• Peter Speiser
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• Joanne Bailey
• Dr Diana Spencer
• Dr Christophe Dupin
• Louise Malkin
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• Kathleen Thompson
• Andrew Smith
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• Christopher J. Knüsel
• Alexander Rumble
• Anne Thompson
• Christopher Webb
• Ian Medlam
• kate swinton
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• Rohan McWilliam
• Jonathan Riley-Smith
• David Colclough
• Andrew Dawson
• Prof Andrew Thorpe
• Katherine Crick
• Juliette Fritsch
• Jocelyn Latarche
• Dominic Giles
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• patriciaherrmann
• margaret pelling
• Jonathan Davis
• Graeme White
• KATIE MOLLOY
• Heather Durham
• mike vale
• Emilia Jamroziak
• Celia Short
• Steven Link
• John Brew
• D Gee
• William Gallois
• Inga Ashworth
• Roger Bartlett
• Robert Colls
• Dr Sally Warwick-Haller
• Professor Patricia Rubin
• JacMcDowell
• Felicity Jones
• Amanda Richardson
• graham p malpas
• Pilar Rose-Alcorta, MA (Lit) MA (Ling)
• James Rose
• helen crabtree
• Eleanor Thompson
• G Y Shin
• Martin D W Jones
• Dr. Drew Gray
• Catherine Smith
• Emma Jones
• Sarah Smith
• Martin Alexander Ruehl
• Ceri Blunden
• Angela Vaughan
• Claire Rowan
• Anthony Rowles
• Laura Williams
• Professor Charles J. Esdaile
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• graham pearman
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• John Orbell
• Clarissa Campbell Orr
• Christine Weightman
• Frances Maggs
• Susan Moore, BA, MRes
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• Michael Mulryan
• John D Lingard
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• Kay Devonshire
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• Lynette Carter
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• susannah whitaker
• Hilary Forrest
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• Prof Nick Higham
• Joseph Bergin
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• Peter Kirby
• Stuart Jones
• Sasha Handley
• Natalie Zacek
• Michael Nield
• Marcus Brittain
• Tim Franks
• Stephanie Renno
• Alex Pascall O.B.E
• Michael Moriarty
• Lowri Jones
• Mr. Clifford J Pereira
• patricia Sinclair
• tim Feast
• David Cesarani
• Shompa Lahiri
• Bettany Hughes
• Peter Cottrell
• Hilary Young
• Emily March
• richard humphrey
• Jean Garton Keller
• Barry Cave
• Mavis Duning
• Mair W. Molyneux
• John Anthony Molyneux
• John Coleman
• William Greaves Stocker
• Kathryn Piquette
• Glenn Burgess
• David Crouch
• Charles W A Prior
• Rod Ambler
• Peter Grieder
• Alison Price-Moir
• Philip Morgan
• Greg Bankoff
• Lez Christmas
• Dr Julian Haseldine
• Dr. R. Gerald Hughes
• Douglas A. Reid
• Michael Turner
• Professor Janet Burton, FRHistS
• Dr Helen Fenwick
• Holly-Ann Hickson
• Michael R Jones
• Thomas Stones
• Robert Lacey
• Professor Robin Pearson
• R.E. Rchardson
• Rhodri Hayward
• Alan Coates
• Chris Bosson
• Frances Hanson
• Michael Nicholson
• amy postgate
• Heidi Lovell
• Rebecca Williams
• Kenneth Fincham
• shelley morris
• Sam Wilson
• Heidi Fitzpatrick
• Solomon Roberts
• Sarah Gooch
• June Matthews
• ben burt
• Julia Matthew
• Richard Brackenbury
• Nicola Jervis
• mark taylor
• Alexandra Owen
• margaret lord
• Julian Perfect
• Dr David Hussey
• Anna Hassell
• Alison Brown
• Lucy Prior
• chris arculus
• Heather Weller
• jackie Holmes
• Simon Beck
• Nigel Hiller
• Rachael Bryson
• Katie Jennings
• Margaret Geddes
• Tim Akhurst
• Robert Martyn
• Mark Marande
• Joanne Tite
• Trish Miles
• Matthew Roberts
• Hayley Shortt
• EMMA LAIRD
• I O Owen
• Sarah Murphy
• Nicola Drew
• Duncan Henson-Webb
• David Musgrove
• Richard Walters
• Mike Gavin
• Carolan Smith
• Aidan Wightman
• Maria Waite
• James Burgon
• Susan Yates
• Derek N Jones
• Lesley Johnson
• Chris Noonan
• George Williams, B.A. (Hons). - Who controls the past controls the future.
• Dr Neil Gregor
• Leonie Hicks
• Janice Hayter
• Jade Fowler
• Gemma Thomson
• Peter Bartlett
• Boglarka Szabo
• Lucy Adamson
• Joanna Nash
• Joanna Grant
• Elena Stevanoska
• Roy Band
• Alexander James O'Neill
• James Lewis
• victoria downham
• Alan Bell
• Keith Simpson
• Chris Walsh
• Hayley Yelland
• Julie Richards
• Sam Mallinson
• Hilary Sheffield
• Dean Lightfoot
• Lindsey Morgan
• Piers Hart
• Louise Jones
• Stuart Leather
• Pamela Cross
• brian varney
• PETER HOWARD

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