Diversity resources and links for secondary history
Articles, podcasts, films, webinar recordings and links
Published: 22nd October 2021
Diversity resources and links for secondary history
Categories
Diversity: general | Race and ethnicity | Empire and decolonisation | Transatlantic slavery | Non-European | Migration and immigration | Women's history | Working-class history | LGBTQI+ | Disability & accessibility | Gypsy, Roma & Traveller history | Teaching controversial issues | Inclusion and SEND
Please note that this is a starter list of resources and links, not a comprehensive set covering all possible aspects of diversity. We will be seeking to fill gaps where possible and will continue to add new resources as these become available.
Diversity: general
- Teaching History 183: Missing stories
- Planning a more diverse and coherent Year 7 curriculum
- Inclusive approaches to teaching Elizabeth I at GCSE
- Equality, diversity and inclusion at GCSE
- Decolonise, don’t diversify: enabling a paradigm shift in the Key Stage 3 history curriculum
- Diversifying the curriculum: one department’s holistic approach
- David Olusoga's Medlicott Lecture: understanding the diverse history of the societies we live in
- The role of representation in A-level curriculum planning
- Cunning Plan for building difference into GCSE curriculum design
- Cunning Plan to teach a broader Britain, 1625–1714
- No more ‘doing’ diversity: how one department used Year 8 input to reform curricular thinking about content choice
- CARGO Classroom: digital resources for diverse histories (external resource)
- Teaching History 175: Listening to Diverse Voices
- Thinking beyond boundaries
- Widening the early modern world to create a more connected KS3
- Widening horizons within, and beyond, the taught curriculum - filmed keynote from London History Forum
- Identity in history: why it matters and must be addressed
- Beyond tokenism: diverse history post-14
- Unpacking the suitcase and finding history: doing justice to the teaching of diverse histories in the classroom
- Podcast series: Diversity in early modern Britain
- Developing Year 8 students' conceptual thinking about diversity in Victorian society
- E-CPD: Dimensions of Diversity
- Exploring pupils' difficulties when arguing about a diverse past
- Exploring diversity at GCSE
Race and ethnicity
- Teaching History 183: Race - edition of Teaching History journal focusing on race and ethnicity
- Secondary Education & Social Change in Britain since 1945 (KS3 resource packs) - lesson sequence on Race & ethnicity
- Podcast series: Confronting Controversial History: Race - part of a series discussing the challenges of teaching topics that might be considered controversial
- Year 9 decide why we should care about the Windrush scandal
- Tracing the popular memory of Rosa Parks with Year 9
- Teaching Britain's 'civil rights' history
- Lengthening Year 9’s narrative of the American civil rights movement
- Inventing race? Year 8 use early modern primary sources to investigate the complex origins of racial thinking in the past
- Putting black into the Union Jack: weaving Black history into the Year 7 to 9 curriculum
- Move Me On: Trainee sees no reason to include Black or Asian British history in his lessons
- Black Germany during the ‘golden twenties’: diversifying the curriculum at A-level
- Film: Writing Black histories, telling Black stories
- CARGO Classroom: digital resources for diverse histories (external resource)
- West Indian Soldier: Learning resources from the National Army Museum (external resource)
- Tackling racism: a continuing dialogue
- Beyond Slavery: Considering pupils’ responses to a new starting point for Black history at Key Stage 3
- Identity in history: why it matters and must be addressed
- Film: Inequalities in the teaching and practice of history in the UK
- RHS report on race, ethnicity and equality in UK history
- Using Black Tudors as a window into Tudor England
- New, Novice or Nervous: How can I include more BME history in the curriculum?
- Hidden histories and heroism: post-16 course on multicultural Britain since 1945
- Walter Tull: Sport, War & Challenging Adversity
Empire and decolonisation
- Podcast series: Confronting Controversial History: Empire - part of a series discussing the challenges of teaching topics that might be considered controversial
- Lenses, mirrors and bridges: one department’s holistic approach to diversifying and decolonising local history
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... the British Empire and the age of revolutions in the global South?
- Britain’s forgotten colony? Why Hong Kong deserves a place in the story of empire
- Decolonising sources: using ‘weapons of the weak’ to help Year 9 pupils critically evaluate colonial sources
- Navigating the ‘imperial history wars’ when planning and teaching about the British Empire
- Decolonise, don’t diversify: enabling a paradigm shift in the Key Stage 3 history curriculum
- What have historians been arguing about... decolonisation and the British Empire?
- Representations of Empire: Learning through objects
Transatlantic slavery
- Transatlantic slavery – shaping the question, lengthening the narrative, broadening the meaning
- Beyond Slavery
- Podcasts: Britain and Transatlantic Slavery - includes PDF 'Working principles for the teaching of Britain and transatlantic slavery'
- Teacher Fellowship Programme: Britain and Transatlantic Slavery
Non-European
- A knowledge-rich approach to introducing China’s history to Year 9
- Embracing scholarship to guide Year 7 on an exploration of the Silk Roads
- Cunning Plan for studying medieval Ghana and Aksum
- Year 7 challenge stereotypes about the Mexica
- The underdevelopment of Africa: broadening and deepening narratives of Benin for Year 8
- Britain’s forgotten colony? Why Hong Kong deserves a place in the story of empire
- The role of representation in A-level curriculum planning
- Cunning Plan for teaching Samurai Japan in Key Stage 3
- Telling difficult stories about the creation of Bangladesh
- In pursuit of shared histories: uncovering Islamic history in the secondary classroom
- What have historians been arguing about: Africa in the precolonial period
- Africa and the excitement of sources with Year 7
- Representations of Empire: Learning through objects
Migration and immigration
- Podcast series: Confronting Controversial History: Migration - part of a series discussing the challenges of teaching topics that might be considered controversial
- What have historians been arguing about: Anti-alienism in Britain c.1880–1925
- What have historians been arguing about: immigration in French history
- What have historians been arguing about: migration and empire
- Film: Choosing the Migration unit for GCSE
- AQA Thematic Study on Migration (GCSE) / OCR Migration
- Cunning Plan for using the England's Immigrants database
- Cunning Plan: exploring the migration experience
Women's history
- Telling rich stories about women’s lives in the American West at GCSE
- Inclusive approaches to teaching Elizabeth I at GCSE
- Tracing the popular memory of Rosa Parks with Year 9
- Cunning Plan: Does women’s suffrage deserve a more prominent place in Australia’s national narrative?
- Comparing International Women’s Day protests with Year 10 students
- How representing women can convey a more complex narrative of the Russian Revolution to Year 9
- Medieval political history through the stories of powerful women
- How should women's history be included at KS3?
- Podcast: Women and gender in the French Wars
- Challenging students' perceptions of women in history
- The place of women in history curricula
- Cunning Plan to teach a broader Britain, 1625–1714
- The Heroine Project Presents: Dorothy Lawrence films
- Podcast series: The Women's Movement
Class & social mobility; working-class histories
- Secondary Education & Social Change in Britain since 1945 (KS3 resource packs) - lesson sequence on Class & social mobility
- What did ‘class’ mean to a Chartist? Teaching Year 8 pupils to take seriously the ideas of ordinary people from the past
LGBTQ+
- Secondary Education & Social Change in Britain since 1945 (KS3 resource packs) - lesson sequence on Gender & sexuality
- Teaching trans histories: Who was Paul Downing and what can his life tell us about trans history?
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... Modern British LGBTQ+ history
- What Have Historians Been Arguing About... gender and sexuality
- Triumphs Show: Recovering the queer history of Weimar Germany in GCSE history
- Podcast series: British LGBTQ+ history
- Podcast: The historical medicalisation of homosexuality and transvestism
Disability and accessibility
- Disability history resources
- Hidden in plain sight: the history of people with disabilities
- Hidden in plain sight: resources for teaching the history of people with disability (Yorkclio site - York and area history teachers online)
- Teaching a history of mental health to improve thematic understanding in a packed curriculum (Yorkclio)
- Teaching History 173: Opening Doors - edition focusing on accessibility and diversity
Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history
- Teaching Gypsy, Roma and Traveller history
- ‘We are invisible!’ - Ensuring Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children do not feel unseen in the history classroom
- Do Gypsy, Roma and Traveller children see themselves in your history classroom?
Teaching controversial and sensitive issues
- Podcast series: Confronting Controversial History - a podcast series discussing the challenges of teaching topics that might be considered controversial
- Confronting conflicts: history teachers’ reactions to spontaneous controversial remarks
- New, Novice or Nervous: Tackling difficult historical issues in the classroom
- No reconciliation without truth: historical thinking and art education in Canada’s era of societal reckoning
- T.E.A.C.H Online - Teaching Emotive and Controversial History - includes the 1857 Indian Rebellion, Israel/Palestine, the Crusades, Pocahontas and Rose Blanche
- The T.E.A.C.H. Report
We also have a number of articles and resources for teaching about the Holocaust and other genocides.