fandomhigh | British History, Monday

Jon looked good today. Well, he could probably use a haircut again, but he was as healthy as he ever got. He was, however, scowling and doing a bad job of hiding it.

He waited for everyone to arrive, then stood at the front of the class with his arms crossed. "Right. Well, welcome to the first day of British History on American Independence Day. Probably the most amusing part about it. I have no idea why the moose decided I should teach about the history of my terribly imperialist, monarchist, capitalist country, but here we are." He threw up his hands.

"We're going to do our best to learn about the people British history tries to erase or elide. Not a single straight, white, cis man or monarch; you can learn enough about them on your own." He paused. "Well, today is introductions, so I suppose if any of you is a straight white cis man, we'll learn about you. But not other than that. So, let's go around and introduce yourselves. Who you are, where you're from, how much you do or don't know about Britain.

"I'll go first. My name is Jonathan Sims, I'm from Bournemouth via Oxford and London, and I lived in England all my life until I moved here." He nodded at the student in front to continue.

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Anti-imperialistic capitalism!

Amaya Blackstone

Josephine Jones

Connor Temple

Hopefully breathe a sigh of relief at the nature of the class.

Introduce yourself! Name, where you're from, what you know about the UK. Maybe why you signed up.

"Amaya Blackstone," Amaya offered, with a nod of her head and small pound of her fist into her palm with this next part, which she felt was almost as important as her name, "local blacksmith. I'm not from anywhere around here, but if you go far back enough in this kind of history, you'll stumble onto something mighty similar to where I am from. Most of what I know about that neck of the world has to do with all the weapons and battle stuff--I've been studying that sort of thing ever since I wound up here, really. I like the weapons and the battle stuff. But I figured it wouldn't hurt to take a peek at what might lie beyond that."

And that was it. That was definitely the only reason she'd taken this class, what other reason could there have possibly have been, how dare you.

"I don't know that we'll be doing much with weapons and battle things, but I hope you'll let me know if there's something specific you want to know," Jon said.

“I’m Josephine Jones, Jo,” Jo said with a small smile, “I’m from South West England, 1953 but I don’t really know a lot about my country’s history,” she admitted, “especially recent history,” she added.

"I'll make sure to cover something recent," Jon promised. "And hopefully some things you don't know from the past."

From what little he was aware of past English education, he didn't think it'd be hard with the sorts of things he'd be covering.

"I'm Connor Temple" Connor said when it was his turn. "London native and it was around 2012 or so back home before I ended up here. And as far as what I know and why I'm here... I admittedly was focused more on ancient history and science than political and cultural history given my line of work. And it seems I somehow got signed up for the class without knowing it so, no offence or anything mate," he said with a slight nod towards Jon.

"No offence taken," Jon said, nodding back. Especially as he'd been more or less shoved into this class himself.

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Best class for today. XD

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