GETTY The new course has been described as an attempt to re-write history

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The course, entitled 'Migration to Britain c.1000 to c.2010', includes a text by Marxist writer Peter Fryer, who said: "There were Africans in Britain before the English came."



The course, set to launch in September, will focus on the diversity of Britain's population through the ages, highlighting a group of African soldiers who briefly occupied a section of Hadrian's Wall in the third century, before the arrival of Anglo-Saxons.

GETTY The course highlights African soldiers who temporarily occupied a section of Hadrian's Wall

Critics, however, say that history is being 're-written' in an attempt to be politically correct.



Historian Sir Roy Strong said: "The only Africans who came here were a few with the Romans who came and then left!



"This stands history on its head, projecting back on to the past something that isn’t true.



"I find it disturbing that our children should be taught something that is clearly designed to feed into contemporary problems rather than tell our island’s story properly."

GETTY The GCSE course will be taught to students from this September

This seems to be aimed more at indoctrination than education Professor Alan Smithers of Buckingham University

Professor Alan Smithers of Buckingham University said the course was "indoctrination."



He said: "This seems to be aimed more at indoctrination than education.



"It is dangerous because a cohesive society depends on an authentic shared view of history."