One question that a Social Science teacher often faces at the hands of students is that of the ‘relevance’ of History –kings, treaties, pacts, timelines, dates, etc, etc, etc. For them it is a seemingly irrelevant, never ending cauldron of facts and figures. And how can one best answer about the relevance of something that is eternally pertinent, for one can’t live the present or step into the future without knowing about the past.