Marks will be awarded for examining the bias of sources, their roots and effects - no marks will be awarded for examining the bias of the syllabus

In A-Level history 

we learned about Mussolini

the failed journalist who was 

so short he demanded to be

photographed from the ground up

Italy, we learned 

was barely a country and 

had never had a stable government

It had fought unsuccessfully on both sides

in World War One

Il Duce had embarked on a comically misguided

attempt to drain some marshes 

and we learned about how his imperialist army

nearly lost to the Abyssinians 

who were mostly fighting with spears

And even though we knew how it ended

it was still quite funny

because we’d learned that Fascists were stupid

and weak, and only weak, stupid people voted for them

For us, there was nothing to worry about