Historiographical essay on the study of the problem of historical education in the 20<sup>th</sup> century in Russian and English pedagogy
This article represents the results of the comparative study devoted to the development of historical school education in Russia and England in the chronological framework - from the beginning of the 20<sup>th</sup> century to the present times. It is seen as a means of shaping citizenship, patriotism, democratization and modernization of social development processes and their specific manifestations in each country. During this period, historical school education was influenced by the global economic, technological, political and socio-cultural processes. Reliance on the traditions and flexible adaptation to the world trends in the field of education allow the school to maintain a reputation of the effective system for transmitting social and cultural experiences to the younger generations. The research results are important for identifying the patterns of the pedagogical process development, creative use of pedagogical and methodological foreign and Russian experience for the understanding of the urgent tasks of modern historical education.