# History of Britain on the History Channel

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 3, 2000, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-of-britain-on-the-history-channel/39510 "2000-11-03T03:16:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-of-britain-on-the-history-channel/39510/21 "2000-11-08T22:01:01Z")

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Simon Schama is online _now_ to take questions at the BCC website.

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**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-of-britain-on-the-history-channel/39510/22 "2000-11-08T22:04:59Z")

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Y’know, I may just have meant BBC

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**Author:** ![tourbot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@tourbot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tourbot)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-of-britain-on-the-history-channel/39510/23 "2000-11-08T22:23:49Z")

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> \*Originally posted by CKDextHavn \*  
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> Presumably, there’s still about 350 years of history left from the late 1500s, since history came to an end in 1918.
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This may be a stupid question, but why do you say history came to an end in 1918? I’ve seen that idea presented in other places, but I’ve never heard it explained.

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**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2000, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-of-britain-on-the-history-channel/39510/24 "2000-11-08T23:00:08Z")

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I suspect CKDextHavn may be referring to a great work of British history entitled "1066 and All That! by Sellars & Yeatman. It’s a lovely funny little book (intentionally funny, I mean) and basically they reckon that history is what you can remember. Hence 1066, some later stuff with surfeits of lampreys, Roundheads, Royalists, chopped-off heads etc., till about 1918, and that’s that. So it’s roughly a bit of fun re. how much anyone remembers years after the school exams. If I’m wrong about CKDextHavn, apologies, but it’s tempting to go on about the book.

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