I do have to say - much of what I learned about history as a child I got from reading Geoffrey Trease books.

Our local library had a great section of biographies written for kids, that I devoured. Geoffrey Trease taught me a bit too

Oh yes, agony, and Rosemary Sutcliff. Henry Treece for Vikings...
Happy memories.

The best history lessons I had were in TAFE (college) where I did fashion design. We did the entire history of dress & clothing since caveman. It was obviously not based on events but the use of fabrics, why and how they were available, and the influences on fashion in particular times. I absolutely loved it! Not your standard history, but history none-the-less

All of my schooling was done in the southern US in the 90s and 00s. When I was younger I remember that history was taught as a part of 'social studies' which seemed to be anything that wasn't science, math, or English. I seem to remember it being more geography-based than history-based, but I do know we learned a good bit about pre-history and also some important American milestones. We talked about the pilgrims an awful lot, I think.

In junior high, seventh grade was Louisiana History and we learned absolutely nothing about anywhere else unless it had bearing on our state (France, Canada, Spain, and so on). It pretty well covered everything from Native Americans up until about the time of Huey P. Long. The strongest memory I have from the whole class (beyond my very cute, young, curly-haired teacher) was having to learn all 64 parishes and where they were on a map. He would also set up little games that combined trashcan basketball and trivia. Overall a pretty good year for history for me. Eight grade was US History and that entire year was so miserable that I don't remember much. It was entirely US-centric.

In high school I moved into a smaller, private school. Ninth grade was World Geography which was expanded to include some important history for each continent. The 'social studies' classes for tenth grade were Civics and Free Enterprise, and the government focus in Civics was also entirely American. Eleventh grade was US History again and was taught chronologically all the way up until about the 1980s, though there was a heavy focus on the Great Depression and WWII. There was no senior history class but I had a free hour and couldn't drive, so I elected to take an independent study World History class. Learned more that year about non-US history than I had learned in all my schooling up to that point.

I received my education in Belgium (Flanders), late 70s and 80s. Before the age of 12 not a lot of history was given. I remember there was a course that involved a mish-mash of history, geography, science and economics. The few things I remember was learning about the 'battle of the Golden Spurs' (1302), the independence of Belgium and the fact that Flanders was dominated by the French speaking part of Belgium until about the 1960s. I vaguely remember learning about a couple of historically important figures. The only one I recall is Gandhi.

The first year in highschool gave a general course in history in which we were taught divisions of historical periods: stone age - bronze age - iron age - ancient times (ended 476 CE, fall Western Roman Empire) - medieval times (476 - 1453, fall Eastern Roman Empire or 1492, discovery America) - newer times (1453/1492 - 1789 French Revolution) - newest times (1789 - 1945 end WWII) and modern times (1945 on).

In the second till sixth year of highschool we chronologically saw the periods mentioned above starting with ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome the second year, then (quickly and largely ignored) the middle ages, Renaissance, discovery of America, Reformation and counter-reformation (especially concerning the consequences it had for Flanders, the 'statue storm' and the governorship of the Duke of Alba), enlightenment, French revolution, industrial revolution, rise of nationalism, rise of socialism, German unification, WWI, interbellum and WWII.

Although history education (in my days) wasn't bad, it was only given one hour a week, which was not nearly enough in my opinion (I admit being biassed because I loved history and hated math and science). I found the history education I had superficial and lacking in non-European history.

From my mid-twenties I started filling in the gaps through self-education. 80% of my history knowledge I taught myself through reading and watching some excellent BBC documentaries. There are still a few gaps though, especially in USA history, which I discover all too often when doing some of the history quizzes here.

That is very little indeed! As far as I remember, from age 13-16 we had three 40 or 45 minute lessons a week.