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Northern Ireland-Healing History?

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Historian Priya Atwal concludes her examination of how national history is told across the globe with the story of Northern Ireland. Teaching during deep divisions to post conflict

Historian Priya Atwal concludes her examination of how national history is told across the globe with the story of Northern Ireland. History itself, violent, sectarian & present frequently surrounded the classroom with its pupils educated in a segregated school system in a divided society. But beginning in the 1970's a new kind of history teaching began to promise a transformation in the ways history could detoxify partisan narratives.
Producer: Mark Burman

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Fri 31 Jan 2020 13:45

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