Well I have to admit Drawbridge that History was my fav subject. Perhaps I went to a good school, one which actually got some pupils interested in the subject, but in "O" level (and thats old style GCE O level, not the modern gcse, where 50% is a pass mark) I got not only a grade 1, but also a distinction. In our "O" level class we got 13 grade 1 passes and 5 at distinction level. I don't think they do things like that nowadays. We had an absolutely brill teacher, His name was Mr Levi, and, yes you've guessed it, he was a nationalised jew. He was the sort of teacher who, when teaching about deprivation in some ages/countries, was not ashamed to stand on his desk and pull up his trouser legs to show us the effects of a poor diet and rickets. Say no more.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."