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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Hidden in plain sight: the history of people with disabilities
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Cunning Plan 173: using Black Tudors as a window into Tudor England
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‘Its ultimate pattern was greater than its parts’
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Triumphs Show 170: making a place for fieldwork in history lessons
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Defying the ‘constrictive grip of typologies’
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Triumphs Show 167: Keeping the 1960s complicated
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Cunning Plan 167: teaching the industrial revolution
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Why are you wearing a watch? Complicating narratives of economic and social progress
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Beyond tokenism: diverse history post-14
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'Victims of history': Challenging students’ perceptions of women in history
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Helping Year 9s explore multiple narratives through the history of a house
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Triumphs Show 156: Fresh perspectives on the First World War
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Getting medieval (and global) at Key Stage 3
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Year 7 explore the story of a London street
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Do we need another hero? Rorke's Drift
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Designing an enquiry in a challenging setting
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Triumphs Show 148.1: collaborating to commemorate Olaudah Equiano
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Where are we? The place of women in history curricula
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Hidden histories and heroism: post-14 course on multi-cultural Britain since 1945
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How my interest in what I don't teach has informed my teaching and enriched my students' learning
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