Very true, although I understand from one of my colleagues that even teaching of (documented) history is now fragmented in the extreme, with some kids not even being sure whether the Romans come before the Victorians, everything is so compartmentalised and there's no linear narrative.

It's not helped by continual oversimplification in the popular press. The Daily Mail still hasn't quite got used to the idea that before the Romans came people in this country weren't still living in caves and communicating in grunts.