Yes, very much so. And it must be difficult for history teachers because they must be aware what they are doing. (Mind you, many of my scottish history teachers were quite devout scottish nationalists, so they really enjoyed teaching their particular version of scottish history where the English were consistantly painted as barbaric homicidal thugs who constantly came up here to oppress us.)

Its always been true hasn't it - they who control the past, control the present.