Good ‘citizen historians’ understand the world we live in and can interact with it discerningly.
To paraphrase from https://sallythorne.com/
- What should a history curriculum in our area look like if it is to reflect Britain’s diverse past and fulfil other demands?
- What do we need to do together to get there?
- How can we take some big steps to get there by working together as YorkClio?
- How can we keep getting better at this as a network in a relatively less diverse area?
Here are some prompt questions we have developed to help conversations in departments about the curriculum: diverse-curriculum-prompt-qs
Here are some ideas for discussion about diversifying our teacher talk: Diverse teacher talk
Please do make suggestions to help us improve what comes next…
Resources
This Word doc has a set of principles and lots of weblinks to resources for teaching BAME, gypsy and traveller, women’s, LGBTQ+, disability histories: whose-histories-diversity-in-history-lessons-2021
It’s also important to keep an eye on the ever-expanding HA material and back catalogue of Teaching History.
Here are more links:
Across periods:
- African Kingdoms – a one-stop website for teachers re West African history
- BBC Teach Class Clips on Migration – David Olusoga
- Black British History BBC clips – David Olusoga
- Black British history definition – David Olusoga
- Black History month key figures resource
- Black History is also rural
- Africans in Hull and East Yorkshire website
- Disability history from YorkClio
- Football Makes History – ever growing set of representative stories and resources
- History of Britain’s Gypsies, Roma and Travellers
- History of mental health from YorkClio
- History of Women in 6 objects
- LGBT+ histories from the British Library
- Meanwhile Elsewhere
- Migration Museum (includes film clips) – https://www.migrationmuseum.org/education/
- National Archives portal for more representative history
- Oxford Univ resources (able students) via Resources for Schools from Oxford University
- Reaching Higher YouTube films from Josh Preye-Garry ‘How we Got Here‘
- Roma Oral History Learning Resource
- Runnymede Trust site – www.ourmigrationstory.org.uk
- Historians and Statues articles from summer 2020
- Women in War from YorkClio
Ancient, medieval and early modern:
- African women in Roman York and here
- Emma of Normandy Great Lives
- Silk Roads in the Middle Ages using example of Mali
- Black presence in Britain up to Tudor Times: http://www.blackhistory4schools.com/tudors/
- England’s Immigrants 1330-1550: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/englands-immigrants-1330-1550/
- Black Tudors – activities, lessons and resources made by a group of history teachers working with historian Miranda Kaufman: G-Drive link here
- John Blanke and his times from HRP
- Global Tudors – NPG Teachers’ Guide
- Disability history: Tudor fools and Lady Eleanor Davies – Slot-ins
- Women and the English Civil Wars: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/women-english-civil-wars/
- www.tideproject.uk ‘Travel, Transculturality and Identity in England, 1550-1700’ – a research project which is producing resources for school teachers. Some of them are already posted here
Industrial and modern Britain:
- Slave trade and abolition: http://www.blackhistory4schools.com/slavetrade/
- BBC Teach Class Clips – Britain’s forgotten slave owners
- Transatlantic slavery – International slavery museum
- Colonial heritage of National Trust properties
- English Heritage booklet: Slavery and the English Country House
- Black people in Britain 18th and 19thC: http://www.blackhistory4schools.com/1750-1900/
- Cartoon presentation of the slave revolts that led to Haiti
- Black abolitionists in Britain: mapped
- The Abolition Project
- Dido Belle Lindsay in context: TH article
- Benjamin Lay and Olaudah Equiano: slot-ins
- Yorkshire buildings associated with slave owners
- Africans in Hull and East Yorkshire – black servants
- George III’s marvellous medicine and The Retreat Hospital: Slot-ins
- Changing perceptions via the West India Regiments: https://www.bl.uk/west-india-regiment
- BBC Class Clips: Protest Movements
- Were all women victims in the 19thC sequence
- Black history 20thC: http://www.blackhistory4schools.com/20century/
- Asians in Britain: https://www.bl.uk/asians-in-britain
- Caribbean History: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/caribbean-history-photographs/
- Forgotten Indian inventor: Indian inventor who dazzled London
- Votes for Women: https://www.bl.uk/votes-for-women
- Indian Suffagettes: http://www.lse.ac.uk/News/
- Lady Eleanor Davies, mary anning, Anne Lister, Josephine Butler, Memorial to WW1 women of the British Empire, Flora Sandes, Maria Botchkareva: slot-ins
- BBC Class Clips: Women of WW1
- BBC Class Clips: Black people and colonial troops in WW1
- Walter Tull: story told by the Chair of the PFA
- WW1 Disability: Slot-in
- WW1 key terms with space for EAL notes: WW1 KO EAL GRT resources
- WW1: Travellers who served their country
- Polish people in the UK
- BBC Clips: 20thC women’s movement in UK
- British woman WW2 Paris: Madeleine Blaess and a slot-in is here
- The Windrush Generation: www.windrushday.org.uk
- Empire Windrush 1948: podcast
- Experience of post-war immigration to UK: Bound for Britain
- Windrush stories: British Library
- ‘Chapeltown News’, Leeds 1970s digitised newspaper
- South Africa: http://www.blackhistory4schools.com/southafrica/
- Bristol Bus Boycott: Protesting Discrimination and Bristol Bus Boycott home learning resource
- BBC podcast: Kavita Puri hears the stories of pioneering Asians who came to Britain from the 1950s onwards.
- David Oluwale drowning: rememberoluwale.org and Meanwhile Nearby – The Murder of David Oluwale
- Harvey Milk: Slot-in
- Capitol Crawl 1990: Slot-in
AND follow: Diverse histories – @diversehistory – BAME / diverse history Research & learning resources (for different age groups)
ALSO: Jen Thornton, a history teacher in the NW, has put this list together to help her students start to think more deeply and take action against racism.
Teacher knowledge:
- Teaching Diversity in and through the National Curriculum – report
- First South Asian settlers in Britain article
- British Victorian Muslims article
- British Library articles on race, empire and colonial troops WW1
- Facing History and Ourselves – examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism.
- Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic educators resources
- Thoughts on teaching about Black Tudors
- Teaching Black and local history
- Kennetta Perry – history of BM in Britain article
- UCL’s Equiano Centre – archived website and links
- History Workshop Online (HWO) – history from below.
- www.younghistoriansproject.org – young people encouraging the development of young historians of African and Caribbean heritage in Britain.
- Dan Lyndon-Cohen’s articles and blog are here.– also lots of useful weblinks.
- Links to more articles on topics absent from the curriculum
- Blogpost re being ambitious with LGBTQ+ history
- Blogpost re rethinking teaching of transatlantic slavery
- Gypsy, Roma and Traveller History and Culture
- Persecution of Romani people under Nazi rule
- Knowledge of roma slovak learners
- ‘Last acceptable form of racism’ Traveller report
- Language phrases to help relate to Roma children: basic words and phrases
- LGBT campaigns for rights – the Stonewall rebellion
- Website from a HoD with thinking, reading, resources – Another History is Possible
- Thoughts on disability and routine representation in the curriculum
Books:
- Queer City by Peter Ackroyd
- Black Poppies: Britain’s Black Community and the Great War by Stephen Bourne
- Mother Country: Britain’s Black Community on the Home Front 1939-1945 by Stephen Bourne
- Gypsies: an English History by David Cressy
- Staying Power by Peter Fryer
- A Fistful of Shells by Toby Green
- Slaves Who Abolished Slavery by Richard Hart
- Black Tudors by Miranda Kaufmann
- Medieval Women by Henrietta Leyser
- Doing Justice to History by Abdul Mohamud and Robin Whitburn
- Madness: a brief history by Roy Porter
- Disability in the Industrial Revolution by David Turner
- Chocolate, women and empire by Emma Robertson
- Hitler’s Black Victims by Clarence Lusane
- Black and British by David Olusoga
- The World’s War by David Olusoga
- African Europeans by Olivete Otele
- The Black Count by Tom Reiss
- Sugar in the Blood by Andrea Stuart
- Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- Asians in Britain by Rosina Visram
- James Walvin – everything! – start with Slavery in Small Things
- Citizenship, Nation and Empire by Peter Yeandle
Textbooks and online collections:
- https://footballmakeshistory.eu/
- Hodder KS3 book ‘Understanding History’ has a range of enquiries, covering the past of a range of people and places, with diversity of examples and images.
- Hodder KS3 ‘From Prejudice to Pride: a history of the LGBTQ+ movement’
- Hodder KS3 ‘Black History Matters’
Important history teacher voices:
- Sharon Aninakwa: @Sharon_Shaz
- Kerry Apps: @kerrykitsch / kerry Apps.com
- Hannah Cusworth: @hannahcusworth
- Nick Dennis: http://www.nickdennis.com/blog/
- Emily Folorunsho: @MissFolorunsho
- Claire Holliss: https://freshalarums.wordpress.com/
- Paula Lobo: blogs at lobworth.com
- Abdul Mohamud and Robin Whitburn: https://justice2history.org/
- Zaiba Patel: @Zaiba__
- Kate Smee: @kate_smee
- Sally Thorne: @MrsThorne
- Jason Todd: @JJtodd1966
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