Schools history guide attacked for denigrating Churchill
History lessons for 13-year-olds blacken the name of Winston Churchill and promote the Kama Sutra, it is claimed.
Leading historians accused curriculum chiefs of adopting an "anti-British" stance and misquoting the revered former Prime Minister.
They said new teaching packs on the British Empire were grossly unsuitable for their intended audience of 13 and 14-year-olds since they directed pupils to a sexually-explicit internet edition of the Kama Sutra.
They claimed the link, and a separate reference to tantric sex, was being included to meet misguided and politically-correct doctrines to teach history from different perspectives including "gender and sexuality".
The new lessons, unveiled by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, are intended to give secondary school pupils an insight into the influence of British rule on the Indian subcontinent.
But the History Curriculum Association pressure group said a laudable attempt to teach pupils more about the British Empire had seriously backfired....
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Leading historians accused curriculum chiefs of adopting an "anti-British" stance and misquoting the revered former Prime Minister.
They said new teaching packs on the British Empire were grossly unsuitable for their intended audience of 13 and 14-year-olds since they directed pupils to a sexually-explicit internet edition of the Kama Sutra.
They claimed the link, and a separate reference to tantric sex, was being included to meet misguided and politically-correct doctrines to teach history from different perspectives including "gender and sexuality".
The new lessons, unveiled by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, are intended to give secondary school pupils an insight into the influence of British rule on the Indian subcontinent.
But the History Curriculum Association pressure group said a laudable attempt to teach pupils more about the British Empire had seriously backfired....