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?
A persuasive message from David Olusoga about why we should be doing this.
Here are some prompt questions we have developed to help conversations in departments about the curriculum: Wider history checklist 2021
Here are some ideas for discussion about diversifying our teacher talk: Diverse teacher talk
The HA has collated resources into different sections to support more diverse history.
And the Runnymede Trust has lots of links and resources for teachers – here is a specific example.
For support with wider issues about understanding and teaching about racism you could start here.
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 (examples: disability, race, GRT)
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
- Black history beyond London – great Twitter thread of examples
- 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
- GRT History resources
- 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
- York Migration Case Study – note: this is really interesting and useful, but already out of date (eg there is now a synagogue again in York and since 2011 gypsy and traveller people have been counted on censuses).
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
- Nottingham legacies of slavery
- 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
- 18thC astronomy: John Goodricke
- Yorkshire buildings associated with slave owners
- Africans in Hull and East Yorkshire – black servants
- Black Lives of 18th and 19thC York
- 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
- Explained sequence on Anne Lister from Jacob Halford
- 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/
- Sophia Duleep Singh: story resource
- Lady Eleanor Davies, mary anning, Anne Lister, Josephine Butler, Memorial to WW1 women of the British Empire, Flora Sandes, Maria Botchkareva: slot-ins
- Zitkála-Šá: Trailblazing American Indian Composer
- 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
- WW1: German born residents of York
- 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
- Cutting edge astronomy: Jocelyn Bell-Burnell
- 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.
And here is an awareness film from York Travellers Trust
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
- George Padmore Institute -explore the lives and struggles of Britain’s black communities of Caribbean, African and Asian descentKennetta 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
- Teaching the TAST
- 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
- Useful twitter thread with ideas and resources for teaching disability
- The Yemeni Project – lots of stories and sources re Yemeni people in Britain esp related to port cities
- Economic injustice knowledge and resources
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
- The Company Quartet by William Dalrymple
- Staying Power by Peter Fryer
- A Fistful of Shells by Toby Green
- Slaves Who Abolished Slavery by Richard Hart
- The Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks
- 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
- Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
- Sugar in the Blood by Andrea Stuart
- Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
- Disability and the Tudors by Phillipa Vincent-Connelly
- 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
- Dan Lyndon: @danlyndon
- Abdul Mohamud and Robin Whitburn: https://justice2history.org/
- Zaiba Patel: @Zaiba__
- Joshua Preye Garry: @JoshPreyeGarry
- Kate Smee: @kate_smee
- Sally Thorne: @MrsThorne
- Jason Todd: @JJtodd1966
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