Diversity in the past
The materials in this section are all focused on the choices that teachers have to make about the substantive content of their curriculum. The diversity that all students encounter within the past – the range of specific individuals and groups of people about whom they learn – and the ways in which different topics are treated within the curriculum are known to impact on the extent to which young people engage with school history and on the connections that they see between past and present. The resources in this section illustrate different ways in which teachers have increased the diversity of their curriculum – paying more attention, for example, to women other than monarchs in the early modern period; examining the work of Black British civil rights campaigners; or questioning the stereotype of the English ‘Tommy’ in examining who fought for Britain on the Western Front. Teachers will need to develop their own subject knowledge if they are to teach more diverse pasts and many of these resources help to provide some of that new knowledge or show where it can be found.
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How diverse is your history curriculum?
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Lengthening Year 9’s narrative of the American civil rights movement
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Cunning Plan... for studying medieval Ghana and Aksum
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What Have Historians Been Arguing About... immigration in French history
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Triumphs Show: Recovering the queer history of Weimar Germany in GCSE history
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Disability history resources
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Year 7 challenge stereotypes about the Mexica
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Move Me On 192: analytical focus with diverse histories
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What Have Historians Been Arguing About... gender and sexuality
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‘But they just sit there’: using objects as material culture with Year 8
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Cunning Plan 191: diving deep into ‘history from below’ with Year 8
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Decolonising sources: helping Year 9 pupils critically evaluate colonial sources
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Inclusive approaches to teaching Elizabeth I at GCSE
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Ensuring Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children do not feel unseen in the history classroom
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Telling difficult stories about the creation of Bangladesh
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Reimagining the ‘Aba Riots’
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Do Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children see themselves in your history classroom?
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Cunning Plan 186: teaching Samurai Japan in Key Stage 3
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Teaching Britain’s ‘civil rights’ history
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Illuminating the possibilities of the past
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