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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Year 7 use oral traditions to make claims about the rise and fall of the Inka empire
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Planning a more diverse and coherent Year 7 curriculum
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Triumphs Show: Diversifying the curriculum at A-level
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Walter Tull: Sport, War and Challenging Adversity
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Inventing race? Using primary sources to investigate the origins of racial thinking in the past
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Putting black into the Union Jack: weaving Black history into the Year 7 to 9 curriculum
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Decolonise, don’t diversify: enabling a paradigm shift in the KS3 history curriculum
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Cunning Plan 183: Teaching a broader Britain, 1625–1714
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Diversifying the curriculum: one department’s holistic approach
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In pursuit of shared histories: uncovering Islamic history in the secondary classroom
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Move Me On 183: sees no reason to include Black or Asian British history
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CARGO Classroom: digital resources for diverse histories
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No more ‘doing’ diversity
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Widening the early modern world to create a more connected KS3 curriculum
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Thinking beyond boundaries
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How should women’s history be included at Key Stage 3?
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Triumphs Show 173: Teaching Black Tudors
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Polychronicon 173: From American Indians to Native Americans
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New, Novice or Nervous? 173: including BME history in the curriculum
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Identity in history: why it matters and must be addressed!
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