Back in Time for School review – alarmingly relevant lessons in empire

The format that time-travels to mealtimes gone by enters the classroom to show how education has changed since the Victorian eraIt is 1897 and at a school in Coventry the coal burners have been lit, the inkwells filled, and the portrait of Queen Victoria straightened. The classrooms are all worn, wooden desks, wildly inaccurate world maps, and pupils in caps and corsets. Everything looks as cosy as a period drama, except this is a geography lesson. And the subject is the empire. Teacher Sue taps