October is Black History Month. At the HA we support Black History, diverse histories and the history of all marginalised, minority and discriminated groups all year round. After all, diverse history is all our history.

To support those who are interested in using October as a way to focus on Black History or to find out more about it, we have gathered some of our relevant resources and materials here.

We will also be updating our offer over the next few months with some new stories and articles. These include a new articles on one of Britain’s first mixed-race Police officers, the history of Civil Rights in the US and new podcasts on ancient civilizations.

Primary

• Teaching black British history through local archives (Primary History article) 
• Scheme of Work: Sarah Forbes Bonetta
• Significant anniversaries: Windrush 75 (Primary History article)
• Recorded Webinar: Peopling London, 47AD–1960 
• For more, see our page of Resources for Diversity in primary history, particularly the section on Race and ethnicity.

Secondary

• Lecture recording: Writing Black histories, telling Black stories 
• Putting black into the Union Jack: weaving Black history into the Year 7 to 9 curriculum (Teaching History article) 
• Cunning Plan 173: using Black Tudors as a window into Tudor England (Teaching History feature)
• Beyond slavery (Teaching History article)
• How can we find out about the experiences of Black Britons in the 1960s? – open access
• Understanding the local context of the civil rights movement in the United Kingdom through exploration of similarity and difference – open access 
• Britain and Transatlantic Slavery: Teacher Fellowship Programme outcome resources – open access 
• For more, see our page of Diversity resources for Secondary history, particularly the section on Race and ethnicity.

Historian - general audience

• Medlicott Lecture 2022 by David Olusoga 
• Lecture recording: Writing Black histories, telling Black stories
• Lecture recording: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution 
• See also podcasts below

Podcasts

(All podcasts are accessible to all HA members)

• An introduction to 20th century African and Caribbean British history 
• An introduction to 19th century African and Caribbean British history 
• African and Caribbean British history: Georgian period
• African and Caribbean British history: Stuart period
• African and Caribbean British history: Tudor period
• African and Caribbean British political activists 
• Ancient Egypt: The Old Kingdom, 2700-2200BC
• The Mali Empire, 1226-1670
• Ancient Nubia and the Kushite civilisations, 2500BC-400AD 
• The Songhay Empire 1450-1591
• The Kingdom of Kongo 1400-1709
• The Kingdom of Benin 1500-1750
• The Kingdoms and Empires of Oyo and Dahomey 1608-1800
• Booker T. Washington
• Steve Biko and the Soweto Revolt (uprising)