In 1962 a review of Days of Glory appeared in a Scottish Educational Journal. Interestingly, even by then the books were felt to be rather old fashioned.
Junior New View Histories. Books 1-4 (Books 3 and 4 in course of preparation) by Rowland W Purton. For Primary Schools: Book 1. Days of Glory; Book 2. Days of Adventure (Collins). 6 s each.
Junior New View Histories.
Book 1 Days of Glory.
Book 2 Days of Adventure.
By R. W. Purton.
Collins.
Intended as class texts, these books follow a theory of history teaching that is under severe attack. Book 1 is a series of unconnected biopraphies, chronologically ordered, thin in material, Young children will merely confuse the personages without learning their importance. Book 2 continues the biographies under the heading "Heroes and Heroines" the first is Caradoc and the last Tensing and briefly examines "Life in the Middle Ages" and "Homes Through the Ages". All in all, an old-fashioned approach.
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