History in Britain

While i went to school in Scotland, it strikes me as very odd that the history we were taught was the Tudors, the killing of Native Americans, Mary Queen of Scots and the 1st and 2 World Wars. What about the other great moments in history. What about the English Civil War? What about the dissolution of Scotland's autonomy and the wars between England? American kids may have a much shorter history than our own, but they are taught about their own history and battles, they are taught about their independence. This pisses me off quite bit. So much time was spent faffing about learning the old rhyme "divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived", and yet we missed so much of our other, most political and conflictual history.

So here is the civil war in England:


"The English Civil War (1641–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists. The first (1642–46) and second (1648–49) civil wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third war (1649–51) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament.

The Civil War ended with the Parliamentary victory at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651.

The Civil War led to the trial and execution of Charles I, the exile of his son, Charles II, and replacement of English monarchy with first, the Commonwealth of England (1649–53), and then with a Protectorate (1653–59), under Oliver Cromwell's personal rule. The monopoly of the Church of England on Christian worship in England ended with the victors consolidating the established Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. Constitutionally, the wars established the precedent that an English monarch cannot govern without Parliament's consent, although this concept was legally established only with the Glorious Revolution later in the century."

Also, a great bit of British television called 'The Devil's Whore' based on these times. Watch it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBOSvgi5YVo <---- here