well, lest any of you also doubt my assertion in post # 69 that Winston Churchill has already been banned from the textbooks in the UK - I can bak it up - (read my post #69 fo the reasons why he’s banned - and the real reason O’bumbles, almost the first day he walked into the Oval Office, had teh bust of Churchill packed off back to England)
When the banning of Churchill form the textbooks happened, I was in correspondance with his grandson, the HOnorable Nicholas Soames, MP - He wrote me:
“Dear M....,
Thank you very much for the extremely generous and welcome support you sent me about my grandfather.
It is always a source of immense satisfaction that so many of your fellow countrymen cherish his memory and I can assure you that we, his family, are deeply grateful.
Thank you again very much.
With warm best wishes.
Nicholas Soames
House of Commons
London
http://instructivist.blogspot.com/2007/07/dumb-and-dumber.html
The Education Secretary Michael Gove (a Scot), has ensured that recent changes to the national teaching has re-included Churchill and other legendary figures like Nightingale, Nelson etc.
Gove and the Tory-led coalition are trying to put back as many traditional elements of history/teaching as they can. Which is a good step.