Brits of Internet! American here! When you’re learning about the very long history of your nation, what’s the general tone or feeling when discussing colonial America and the war for independence?

As a primary school teacher (kindergarten) who teaches history etc., we don’t actually teach or cover this.

Once, I asked my two British friends (21yo) if they knew what Boston Tea Party was – they had no idea

No one really thinks that deep into it honestly. But sometimes someone does make a joke like “I can’t believe they left us” or something along those lines…

We didn’t cover it at all, not even at Standard Grade or Higher (I’m in Scotland). We focused first of all on general topics like the Romans, Vikings, and Normans, then later we studied more social history. So there was a lot about the industrial revolution, factories, child labour, mining, the sort of issues that kind of shaped the area where I grew up (mostly ex-mining towns). Then we studied the first and second world wars, and that was it for high school. First I really studied it in any depth was in legal theory at university and that was more the philosophy behind the original US constitution and stuff like the philosophy behind whether there was a right to revolution, rather than the actual dates and battles etc.

We didn’t really learn about it. There’s so much history that we only learned about select areas. So I did the roman empire, colonial Britain and Black segregation in America. We only really get to do about 4 years on history at 1 to 2 hours a week. It’s pretty tough to fit it all in.