Class C4 atCoal Hill School was taught byBarbara Wright in1963; she taughthistory. It was the smallest of the history venues, and close enough toIan Chesterton'slab next door to smell the stench.

In one session, Barbara taught about theCorn Laws. (PROSE:Nothing at the End of the Lane^[+]Loading...["Nothing at the End of the Lane (short story)"]) One of Barbara's students,Susan Foreman, did poorly as she frequently disagreed with the textbook. (PROSE:The Rag & Bone Man's Story^[+]Loading...["The Rag & Bone Man's Story (short story)"]) Barbara told her motherJoan that Susan had very strange gaps in her knowledge of history; Joan thought that she was being deliberately difficult, but Barbara always disagreed. (PROSE:A Long Night^[+]Loading...["A Long Night (short story)"]) She was top in one history test aboutRenaissanceItaly, though. (PROSE:Time and Relative^[+]Loading...["Time and Relative (novel)"]) One day when she brought with her theBlessing Star, she came top in an unexpected history test. (PROSE:The Rag & Bone Man's Story^[+]Loading...["The Rag & Bone Man's Story (short story)"])

InNovember, Susan handed in a paper regardingdecimal currency. She later asked to borrowThe French Revolution, a book on theFrench Revolution. Barbara found this curious, and shared this information with her colleague Ian, thescience teacher ofClass C3. (TV:"An Unearthly Child"^[+]Part ofAn Unearthly Child,Loading...{"namedep":"An Unearthly Child (1)","1":"An Unearthly Child (TV story)"},PROSE:Nothing at the End of the Lane^[+]Loading...["Nothing at the End of the Lane (short story)"])

They didn't teach aboutWorld War II at Coal Hill, (PROSE:Tell Me You Love Me^[+]Loading...["Tell Me You Love Me (short story)"]) nor did they teach about the fall of theAztecs, on which Barbara had done her dissertation. (PROSE:Nothing at the End of the Lane^[+]Loading...["Nothing at the End of the Lane (short story)"]) Barbara also did not teach about theIndian Mutiny, but theFirst Doctor speculated that if she had, she would have found that Susan knew a great deal more about it than her fellow students. (PROSE:The Duke's Folly^[+]Loading...["The Duke's Folly (short story)"])