The lacunae in my old school history books

[Malcolm Pryce]

Thanks for these responses. David thanks for the link, and Magda many thanks for that long and thoughtful post. I must admit, I hadn't seen the attack on the Welfare state in the broader historical context. Interesting. Now I'm going to ponder that other hole in history that puzzled me even at school. How we seemed to leapfrog from those images of the German folk taking their million Mark notes home in wheelbarrows in the 20s, economic basket case with six million unemployed in the early 30s, and then, barely a few years later, mighty world power with Panzer divisions stretching from Spain to Statlingrad. As economic recoveries go, that was pretty quick. I remember the 4 o'clock bell ringing and my dopey old history teacher shutting his copy of Tragedy and Hope with the words, 'OK, children that's enough about the Illuminati bankers for this week. Don't forget your homework on Montagu Norman'. No, actually, come to think of it, I think I was away when we did that.