"Black Adder" and its ilk are definitely not suitable for schools according to UK Education Secretary Michael Gove.
Professorial historians agree with this main thrust saying that there is plenty of other much more suitable material available for dissemination in schools.
However Cambridge historian Professor Richard Evans also attacked Mr Gove's interpretation of the war, saying he was 'peddling his own political myths'.
'You also have to remember that only 40 per cent of adult men had the vote in Britain.
'The war was a very complex set of circumstances and it is wrong of Mr Gove to reduce it to patriotic tub-thumping that we should support the soldiers.