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Eight bright, funny history students in the north of England in the mid 1980s are pursuing sex, sport and a place at university. Their headmaster is obsessed with results, and enlists Irwin, a shrewd young temporary teacher to coach the boys with an exam-busting bag of tricks. The boys are torn by their loyalty to the hugely eccentric, poetry-spouting English master Hector and the regular diet of nourishing facts dispensed by Mrs. Lintott, their history mistress. As the boys prepare for the daunting exams, staff room rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence provoke questions about history, |
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