“It was claimed that the move by Sussex University risked jeopardising the nation’s understanding of the subject and ‘entrenching the ignorance of the present’. Under plans, research and in-depth teaching into periods such as the Tudors, the Middle-Ages, Norman Britain, the Viking invasion and the Anglo-Saxons will be scrapped, along with the Civil Wars …” (more)
[Graeme Paton, Daily Telegraph, 11 February]